GundarkHunter

Re: ANH, I was 6, and we were late getting to the theatre because my Mom had a meeting, so we missed the shootout aboard Princess Leia's ship. My 3 year old sister fell asleep en route and cried when she found out she missed the Jawas.

Re: ESB, I remember a lineup that went halfway around the block to get in, and my mind being blown by the end revelation of Luke's parentage, as well as being on a massive adrenaline rush after the flight through the asteroid field.

Re: ROTJ, I read the novelization first and was profoundly disappointed by the film. It just wasn't as exciting as the other two, and given that I had seen them the previous fall on a double feature, my memory was pretty solid.

Here is my general position on revisionism: if a change is made to fix something that shouldn't have been there in the first place, or that has been made visible by (a) the higher resolution of Blu-Ray or (b) the lack of generational loss that would have covered up certain special effects secrets (read: wires), I have no problem with that. If something is altered for politically correct purposes or to "protect the children *hand-wringing*", I do have a problem with that. Finally, if a film is altered simply because the director/producer/whatever says "this is the way I always wanted it, but I was hampered by the technology," I call BS.

Ultimately, if the creative minds see fit to alter it, they can, but the with the exception of the first type of revisionism, the original versions should be available in some form. For example, I think Disney should have made the excised scenes in the Pastoral Symphony segment of Fantasia available as a supplement, or through seamless branching. They also could still make them available through BD-Live. Both FFC and Spielberg made the original versions of Apocalypse Now and E.T. respectively available alongside the revised versions; this should be the status quo.