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This may be my favorite fan edit. Not for its inventiveness or originality... but because it elevates one of my very favorite films from the "incredible" category to the "perfect" category. I love the director's cut of this film. I can't go back to the theatrical cut. I lose too many amazing things. But the bloody mustache on the Mona Lisa is that all suspense and tension is gutted by the scenes added in with Newt's family the reveal of an alien creature before the titular "ALIENS" show up to kill most of the marines. Also, JUST seeing Hadley's Hope as a ghost town makes the whole experience much more unnerving. Let us get scared about what we don't know. Let use our imagination on what to expect. There are just too many answered questions for any real fear to build up.

This is edit is a great execution of adding peanut butter to chocolate. The director's cut keeps all its missing gems... and the theatrical suspense and intensity is retained. This IS my go-to version of Aliens. Perfect. Visual and sound quality is superb. And the cuts necessary to make the transition work here is entirely seamless. I really don't have much to add. This edit is pure perfection. Thank you, good sir.