bilditup1 said:

Trooperman said:

Cold, digital clarity does not help you focus on the content- it draws attention to its perfectness.

- they represent an alternative and in some way much more authentic experience of viewing the films, at least if you're trying to approximate how it was experienced originally, which straight pristine video of course doesn't really allow you to do.

I actually disagree with both of you. The original theater experience was with pristine sharp clean prints, often in 70mm, and often with stereo or surround sound. That's how I remember seeing SW in the theater in 1977. The dirty look came months or years later, when the prints had gotten so worn out they looked like PG and PSB.

For me, Harmy's is the closest to the theater experience I remember, and the filmic look doesn't have anything to do with being dirty and scratchy. The PG and PSB are valuable as research material, since they are actual films from the year the movies were released, respectively. I'm still a bit surprised that people actually enjoy watching them, but that's a cool bonus.