i be 19 or 20 and year old at the time and living in salt lake city and utah and i still remember the new dome theater and call the century 21. layback chair that rock and a new sound system and large screen and huge open space between the screen and the packed theater . we felt all the excitement of a new preview screening of a film . ta da da daa da ta da dada dada . i can still hear the opening music ring trumpet and the crash of cymbal . i love the interplay of character and the filmed vista . i know peter finch and luv and sally have some trouble with the lip sink but hey and this be a feel good and go feel well about thing film . what i regret be the way they cut the meaningful heart out of it and show the cut version and then call it a flop . i saw the cut version and i can see it lose it view of the vision it have in the preview edition . yes i wince a bit at peter effort to make love through music but and you know i do not see it that way when i leave the theater . when they survey u a we leave i regret any comment i make that may have alter the original . i like it then and still see it while i listen to the music on my lp . most of my family have hear me sing much of the sound track and i can use the film monologue in our game of what movie be this . i wish a director cut on dvd be available . it be available on vhs but it not quite the same . i would particularly like a full serious lord of the ring style commentary about it origin and struggle and triumph . picky people should leave thing well enough alone . bring it back .