The Nerd said:

CatBus said:

You're not getting agreement here. Ultimately it's subjective, but the original, while cheap looking, serves its purpose as a quick establishing shot. The revised versions are far too distracting from that purpose with their unnecessary and silly animations.

Just to make sure, I mean the shot that show the speeder going from front to back screen. Up to the part with the the SE droid dropping the pipe. The pipe dropping droid and one is a big no-no, but the improved speeder shot is an improvement.

Yeah, I know the shot you mean. The screenshots you provide actually have the silly little scurring animals etc in them--but they are not as distracting in your screenshot because they are not moving. In motion, the revised shot is definitely worse IMO. Parts of the shot are improved, I agree (I don't necessarily like all of the speeder changes either, but I'll throw a bone here), but taken as a whole, the shot was better in '77. Again, this is all a matter of opinion, but I truly and strongly prefer the original version of this shot.

Ben Burt added a noise in the '93 laserdisc mix. All the SE mixes also have an added noise. As far as I know there was no sound before that, as most scenes with stormtrooper armor had all their sound done in post because the armor made too much noise.

There's definitely a sound that coincides with the trooper hitting his head on the 77 stereo/surround mix, as those are the only ones I really listen to. The sound isn't really that different from the footstep noises though, so it may well be a well-timed footstep I'm hearing instead of a head bonk. Either way, I don't see the need to add a different sound there. Why should an armored head hitting a hard door sound much different than an armored foot hitting a hard floor?