ChainsawAsh said:
If I may be so bold, I don't think the THX 1138 "Director's Cut" is nearly as offensive as the Star Wars and Jedi SE's. It's more on par with the 1997 SE of Empire, which never bothered me all that much. My only major problem with the THX DC is the CG monkey things at the end.
However, I still prefer the pre-DC cut, myself. I've never seen the true "theatrical" cut, though. Has anyone here seen it?
Nope. Existing prints for the Warner studio cut are very hard to come by, most have the excised scenes restored from a re-release i think that came out after the success of star wars?
Other than the original images and color timing, the best thing in my opinion about the original version is the Walter Murch mono mix.
He did not supervise the 5.1 for the bad cgi version.
Same problem with American Graffiti on the odd chance you come across a film print, itis either the intended version or the studio cut the prints are all red or pink.
The thing is even though the DVD's are better quality like the star wars special edition 2004 they don't make a good source to make a fan restored version by the virtue of the different color timing, and DVNR that removed a lot of the grainyness that was intended from the techniscope film.
They did the same horrible thing on the sergio leone spaghetti western trilogy they all but erased the grain structure from a fistful of dollars on the American release, the italian release is pretty much unaffected and came from a different source.