The Star Wars original trilogy may be classics, but some elements simply haven't aged all that well. That isn't meant as a criticism, of course; even George Lucas implicitly acknowledged the dated special effects when he kept trying to "improve" them with the Star Wars Special Editions. "When Michelangelo made the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, he looked at it and said: Im going to redo this part," Lucas insisted when recently defending the Special Editions. As someone who grew up with the original, unaltered versions, I have to admit I rather wish he hadn't made some of those changes.

Oddly enough, though, Lucas tinkered with a lot of things that I don't really feel needed it. As hard as it is to admit, the elements that have aged badly include actual plot points and scenes, meaning they're not really easy to "fix." I wouldn't want them to be "fixed,...