I purchased this item because some reviewers said the original version is included as a special feature. It was not. This item only contains the updated Star Wars.

I could never really downgrade the story here but I can nick off a point for this "deluxe" version. I don't mind if the production company wants to take editing floor material and reinsert it into the film. After all, everybody already knows who's who and what's going to happen. Extra shots can add backstory or context and they do that here, to some extent. The problem is that the original movie was done with traditional film but someone decided to add new digital material with CGI. Now you have a huge difference in film quality and every time "enhanced" footage is added, it looks completely fake and totally unlifelike. To be fair, there are sequences that have been added from old footage, sequences that add to character development and overall plot. They don't in any way alter anything major but they fit in smoothly and I welcome them. But digitally inserting characters and creatures into an analog feature is an amateur manoeuvre for which the consumer should not foot the bill.

What more can I say? Other than feeling like I've paid to see this movie a hundred times, it still takes me back to my first viewing - sitting in the very front row of a packed theater on my birthday in 1977.

It is great to see it, finally, in digital format on my flatscreen HD TV, as it does bring back those amazing memories. The opening scene of the Star Destroyer slowly lumbering across the top half of the screen as it chases Princess Leia's doomed ship... somehow. some way, it still gives me a thrill.

So, plunked down the $20, and, I have to admit, it still makes me smile like am awestruck boy in 1977.

The movie it great. The updated version is so bad and cringy that I've only watched this once in like a year and just can't get myself to watch it again. I thought I had read that the digital streaming versions were the theatricals. Wrong.

Once upon a time in a city far far away I took my young son to the theater to see this modest little film . He loved it so that I wanted to replicate that night for his 44th birthday last August. I remember back then how the lines went around the theater but he was so patient, waiting in line, no complaints just waiting for the big reveal. And the movie? WOW !! he was hooked forever after on Star Wars. However he fondly remembered the Original version without all the hyped up special effects that they added later for the anniversary edition. I was very happy to get this for him. We show summer movies every other weekend outside on the 2 story wall of our garage. We invited all the family and many neighbors and everyone had a WONDERFUL time!!

In 1977, on a cold, rainy night in Inverness, Scotland a wee farm-girl saw a film called Star Wars. After that night everything was different. The original Star Wars (A New Hope) literally changed my life. At that point in my life I was living on a dirt poor farm and my whole life consisted of that little farm.

I remember my parents telling me we were going to see it and I was not particularly excited though I did notice the boys in my family who were going were actually jumping for joy.

I can tell you the instant I saw the first scene I knew it was something beyond special. I sat there in the cinema for two hours just so strongly spellbound that I froze in my seat. When the film ended I sat there trying to grasp what had just happened. To say my universe blossomed after that night would be the biggest understatement of my life.

After the film my interest in the universe around me exploded so much sometimes I would get overwhelmed trying to get a grasp on it. I can say with no reservation, this film was directly responsible for me going to University and thus my success in life. I can also say after the birth of my children it was one of the most paramount events in my life.

Our little farm became so tiny that I would get frustrated and begged my mum to take me to the library so I could study astronomy, physics, geology, religion, history, film, and the list goes on and on. I felt that this amazing door opened and the world transformed into this plaything for me to explore and understand.

I ended up getting two Master degrees and for my first one my thesis was on Star Wars. I felt it was a way to honour something that without I probably would not have been interested in going to school at all.

I know I gush and gush but there is just something magical about this film (and its sequels) that just tickles this special place in my psyche. It was the first full length film that I watched with all three of my children. Needless to say our house became a vessel to hold all of their Star Wars toys. I remember watching the looks on their faces as they watched and could see that same spellbound child that existed in 1977 in Inverness. I still tear up thinking about these two great influences in my life coming together and becoming something bigger than itself.

I know most of you have seen the film many times but take some time to watch it again and for goodness sake may the force be with you!