I'd always have loved to see Alien 3 with every single scrap of footage put back into the film. I know from reading online comments by the DVD producer of the Alien Quadrilogy set that there he was limited by what footage he could find at Fox. I know that from the comments on the DVD set, there had been a much longer version screened that was almost over-the-top violent. Couple that with all the workprint footage that never made it to the assembly cut, and the rumored scenes that might have been shot (Ripley fighting the alien in the "basement" and it refusing to kill her, the chestburster going from Newt to Ripley in the EEV), and you could have had a very interesting alternate cut.

Man, this is an old topic.