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Trouble with the Aliens Special Edition (or "Director's Cut", whatever) is the early introduction to the doomed colonists changes the angle of the opening reel - if we first see the throb of actual life around the complex, rather than slowly discover evidence that something bad has happened here, but to how many people? (as in the original cut) then the whole feel of the marines' investigation seems rather more predictable.
I always found these scenes in the ghostly complex very effective before the whole backstory of the colonists was inserted.
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