While I can't judge the quality of the print they viewed, reacting thusly to the VFX, props, sets, etc. is a fairly pathetic reaction.So, after all of these years the original cut of Star Wars has finally been screened for an audience, and the verdict? "Looks terrible."
‘Star Wars’ “Looks Terrible” in Screening of Long Lost Original 1977 Version
The years have not been kind to the oft-romanticized original print of the sci-fi classic, which lacks all of George Lucas' post-release tweaks and polishes and looks "like a completely different film."www.hollywoodreporter.com
My view of the despecialized version of the 1977 film I recently saw is that it is nothing short of sublime. I felt as I did when I was a kid watching the film for the first half-dozen times, almost fifty years ago. And with very few exceptions the original version is preferable to the new versions. A recurring complaint I have is that the transitions to and from the new scenes wreck the flow of the original musical soundtrack, but that is far from the only one. The quality of the CGI is wanting to say the least, and with the glaring contrast between inadequate CGI and brilliantly executed model work in the final space battle, that's its own kind of bad experience.
