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To hell with that ugliness, go all-out and look for a torrent of Star Wars Despecialized Editions. As good as you can get the originals, these days.
by pkroll 7y ago
To hell with that ugliness, go all-out and look for a torrent of Star Wars Despecialized Editions. As good as you can get the originals, these days.
- karatestomp 7y agoTeam Negative 1's scan & restorations of 35mm prints are my favorites. Empire's not done yet, but the other two are.
- gsich 7y agoThere is some Despecial version for Empire. But in comparison Empire is also the least modified.
- Seenso 7y ago> To hell with that ugliness, go all-out and look for a torrent of Star Wars Despecialized Editions. As good as you can get the originals, these days. The true original is the one my parents taped off of TV when I was a kid, commercials and all.
- smhenderson 7y agoOh, I agree, but it's still a nice blast from the past watching it this way. I was 10 when this came on TV and I still remember the thrill of watching it. I was five when it came out in theaters. I had an older brother who got to go see it there and he kept telling me how awesome it was but I had to wait five years to see it! So this is more of a "oh yeah, that's what TV used to look like" moment than an actual "I want to watch the original Star Wars" again... I have a friend at work who actually scored a pristine, never opened VHS copy and of course we ripped that sucker open and watched the day he got it. And we go back once in a while and watch it again, sometimes running it along side the new ones so we can spot and discuss the differences. Fun stuff on a Saturday night!