I hated the CGI chase scenes even more than the monkeys. They are poorly done, repetitive of other, older footage (shades of Jabba's deleted scene repeating lines from the previous Greedo scene) and wreck the look and feel of the movie. That THX was made as an attempt to make a futuristic-looking movie using only existing locations and available light makes this "special edition" all the worse.

And the re-editing is just bizarre. Certain scenes are re-ordered to confusing effect, alternate takes are substituted frequently, and in general, the GLDC favors faster cutting between actors in a dialogue scene. One of my biggest pet peeves is how the "faces around the room" scene (when Duvall suspects others know his secret) is sped up to make room for other cuts.

The original THX did not at all feel like an American movie. The style of the movie (particularly the editing) reminded me a lot of Antonioni. The GLDC was a poor attempt to infuse a lot of kinetic energy into a movie that was designed for slow burns and oppressive atmosphere.