CP3S said:

Anchorhead said:

danny_boy said:

But in doing so our ability just to enjoy a film for a film's sake has diminished.

Not all of us.

Story is the only thing that's ever mattered to me.

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Regarding film grain & dirt; It doesn't bother me in the least. In fact, I never give it any thought.

Completely agree with this. I guess it is easy for some people to get caught up in our presentation obsessed culture, but that alone just doesn't do it for me.

Of course, I am one of those who complain about how bad the GOUT looks and would really love to see the OOT on proper blu-ray release someday before I get too old to care. So clearly presentation isn't meaningless to me, but definitely secondary to story. Which is why I'd rather just stick with my crummy second hand GOUT (sounds gross) than waste money on the BDs.

These deleted scenes are great, but a perfect example of Mr. Cutting Edge Technology Lucas being several years behind the times. Just about every other crappy film in existence had a DVD release with deleted scenes on it. This sort of thing should have been on the '04 box set, if it had been living up to the standards of most other major DVD sets of the time.

Try 18 years behind the times. These should have been on the 1993 Definitive Collection Laserdisc set. There were plenty of LD's on the market with deleted scenes included at the time, mostly from Criterion.