For years, when only the "Special Edition" was available (the one where we go inside the Mother Ship), my Super 8 digest of the film had material from the theatrical cut that was no longer available anywhere else. While I liked some of the changes of the Special Edition (ocean liner in the desert, for example), I hated actually seeing the interior of the ship, as it just didn't live up to what I thought it would have looked like. (And, in spite of all those other people going into the ship, Dreyfus is the only guy we actually see once we got inside.)