zombie84 said:

Both great. I wonder if there is something similar to Graffiti and Raiders; I know its only a couple shots, but someone must have made a page about them.

The first one I linked to is pretty much complete, it have some errors in it but it gets the important message out.

It would be nice to have a little comparison of the subtle visual changes done to Graffiti and Raiders. Haven't seen one done yet as they are so few.

captainsolo said:

Wasn't the the re-release cut of THX the original film? I could understand why the theatrical was never released (although I would want to see it like Touch of Evil).

Yes, that is correct.

I think part of what Chainsaw Ash meant is, if you're going to be extra picky, we don't have any true reference shots to see what was actually restored for the original cuts vs original releases. American Graffiti apparently got a new and slightly altered end credits along with a new Dolby mix in '78 that shouldn't have been there in Lucas original '73 cut if the studio had not interfered, same thing with THX 1138, these days it's hard to know exactly what that cut looked like in '71. At least for Graffiti we know what scenes got restored in '78.

The old home video versions are Lucas' "restored original cuts", but the original theatrical releases should be preserved anyway IMO. One of the nice things about preservations of different cuts, is that you can study the films history. At this point we only have a "Lucas gone cgi-crazy version of both films", I wonder what he will change when Graffiti soon goes blu-ray.