After watching this for the first time since I was a child, I have more appreciation for Episode IV, but there are still some glaring issues and it being 2020 means I have no idea how close what I saw this time is to what I saw two decades ago and to what the theaters saw in 1977. Speaking only for the version of the film that I saw this time, the acting was perfect, the story was strong, and the effects were pretty good. The acting and story are the only parts that I know haven't changed, so I'll address them first. While I'm sill not a fan of Ford or Fisher, Ford was great here and Fisher was fine. Hamill is the easy standout for his first big role. Hamill and Guinness had great chemistry and I really wish we would have gotten more of them later in the movie than we did in the first 30 minutes. This leads into my biggest issue. Those first 30 minutes were so drawn out and uneventful. Honestly, multiple times in the first 30 minutes, I fell asleep and when I woke up they were doing the same thing. We don't need the sand people scene to be that long and while I love the world building, we don't need that much time in Mos Eisley and the fight scene in the cantina makes no sense and is never explained. The best thing about the film is the world building, but it really needed to be spread out more and not condensed into a couple very lengthy scenes. The last thing I want to bring up is the effects, which are the most murky. I loved the re-addition of the Jabba scene and I thought it looked pretty good. Really, all the CGI looks pretty good; it's not 2020 CGI, but it looks pretty good. The laser blasts look pretty bad and they don't really line up with the origin or trajectory they should, but it's forgivable for a 1977 film. My issue is that I don't know what effects are from what version. Lucas has eddited and redone so many things in this movie that I don't know how many of these effects deserve a break because they are 1977 effects and which deserve harsher judgement. All I can really do at this point is judge the version I saw this time and the effects that are clearly form 77 aren't terrible or bad enough to be distracting and the clearly updated CGI did kind of look like PS1 graphics, but they looked okay.. Did I like A New Hope better over two decades later? Absolutely, but it's certainly not a perfect film.