Only deleted footage I've ever seen that should've been left in was in "Army of Darkness", where a couple of scenes with really important plot-points were removed because there wasn't any action or comedy and the distributors wanted the movie under 90 minutes. They actually preferred a wacky film with a plot that made no damn sense over a slighty-less-wacky film with a reasonable story.
Anyway, I got the new Star Wars DVD's mainly because Lucas has said he'll never re-release the originals and because if I wait any longer, he'll likely just screw 'em up even worse (1, 2).
Haven't watched 'em yet. I was rather surprised my boxed set didn't come with the obligatory booklet of coupons and hideously tacky trinkets, like I got with my LOTR DVD's. Mebbe I just got a bad box.
Actually got to see a movie yesterday, as we got a sitter for Maggie. Since I've now gotta budget my movie-watching more wisely than before and I've grown very tired of the lack of creativity and story in the latest computer-enhanced-action-superhero-whatever movies, Shelly and I saw "Hero". Cool film.
We actually had one of the set artists talk about the film afterwards. He must have insulted everyone from woman to homosexuals to other directors (Ang Lee especially)...