Does anybody else hate the Jabba scene in the special editions?

I hate that scene, for a different reason: It kills the suspense in the flight from Tattooine!

Lucas was right to cut it in the first place. Without that scene, all three protagonists are hauling ass away from Tattooine for reasons the others don't fully understand, and because they go directly from meeting each other at the bar to scarpering, it seems like they escaped both Vader and Jabba by chance, and not a moment too soon! If Han had time to stop and hold a pointless argument with Jabba, which is useless in plot terms because we've already been informed that Jabba is after him for unpaid debts, that suspense and sense of adventure is totally lost.

I think EVERYONE does. He looks awful.

It’s not a bad scene but to go back and use a CGI makes it feel out of place for a movie made in the 70s.

I agree 100%!

Yeah it's a terrible scene for all the reasons mentioned.

Plus it ruins the Greedo encounter as originally that scene made it seem like Jabba already had bounty hunters coming for Solo and so he really needed that money as he didn't know when he might encounter another. Now due to this scene, Greedo was just some goon Jabba sent to fetch him while they waited outside. And as mentioned, makes Greedo's attempt to kill Han really stupid.

Yeah it was useless. Put all the Biggs scenes back in. Those are the ones we needed.

There wasn’t one special edition change that improved these movies. Not one.

Yes.