20 Movies That Weren't Worth The Wait

17. Alien vs. Predator

The very concept of Alien vs. Predator started out as a 1989 comic book series before expanding into video games and companion novels, and the first true seed of a movie adaptation came in Predator 2, where a Xenomorph's skull was briefly seen in the Predator's trophy room.

Yet getting all the parties with a stake in Alien and Predator on the same page was a hugely arduous process, and so Alien vs. Predator wasn't finally released until 2004.

But AvP was hobbled right from the jump by its restrictive PG-13 content rating - a basically sacrilegious, cynical choice considering that both respective IPs have historically been R-rated and gory.

Beyond this, the script contradicted large swaths of established lore, trained way too much of a focus on its human characters, and simply failed to deliver much of a thrilling clash between the two titular entities.

And yet despite being R-rated, 2007's sequel Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem was somehow even worse. 

We can only hope that current Predator steward Dan Trachtenberg might one day take a pop at AvP, because he's probably one of the few filmmakers working right now who could actually pull it off.