I, for one, feel the “new” effects added for the special edition already looks dated, but the original effects dont.
Never saw that, but I cringed at the description when it came out. And poor Gale Gordon! Couldn’t they leave an old man in peace?
I said the original ***Star Wars ***movies! Not the ones that have been tampered with.
I’ll have to watch it again because the first time I saw it, I was astonished by the quality of the effects in such an old movie, especially the monster in force-field or whatever it was.
As I indicated, the effects were very good for their time but would be done much more realistically today.
I recall at the time that “the black Shakespearean actor James Earl Jones” voiced Darth Vader but declined screen credit for it.
This changed REAL fast after the second half of May 1977!
What I meant was: even though it was already a very old movie when I saw it in the early 90s, I still thought that the effects were excellent. I found them as good or even better than those in some more recent movies.
Rex Reed wrote an article for “Playboy” after the film he was in, “Myra Breckinridge” but before in was released. It certainly read he knew what a disaster it was. Primarily by young director Michael Sarne given carte blanche who proceeded to waste all kinds of time and money “thinking” and filming useless scenes. John Huston was hired to play Uncle Buck but Sarne blasted him as a useless old hack foisted on him so Huston was in a foul, barely responsive mood (which disappointed a film critic like Reed who had look forward to getting to know Huston better). Raquel Welch was desperate to break out of her cheesecake image so she had a contract without any control by her. So whenever Sarne wanted her to do anything she didn’t want, she would lock herself in her dressing room for hours. 77 year old Mae West was doing her first film in 27 years and clashed with Welch over costumes.
What, someone above said there was no real Sci-Fi film genre before Star Wars? 
Does no-one remember Teenagers From Outer Space, 1959? 
Turning out better than expected is a lot rarer than the reverse.
American Graffiti is another example of a film where the cast thought they were making a quick-and-dirty drive-in movie that no one would remember.
Oh, I’m aware it existed. I compared its reputation within major film studios to an embarrassing, syphilitic bastard sex-offender relative kept locked in a soundproofed padded cell in a sub-basement for the sake of the family’s reputation and social standing. Or something along those lines.
You know, like Teenagers From Outer Space.
Bruce Campbell said “The movies that are the easiest to make are the hardest to watch.”