10 Franchises That Should've Quit After Two Films
1. Alien
Ridley Scott's Alien is a perfect science fiction horror, James Cameron's Aliens is an incredible sci-fi action film but David Fincher's Alien 3 is a forgettable mess.
Fincher dropping the ball with the franchise only marked the beginning of a slow and agonising death for the Xenomorph series which has arguably not recovered from this failure since. While Sigourney Weaver's final entry in the series Alien Resurrection was a slight improvement on Alien 3 it would only get worse from there on out.
Crossing over the Alien series with the Predator franchise proved to be a disaster for both intellectual properties with critics ultimately giving Alien vs. Predator 21% on Rotten Tomatoes and its sequel Alien vs. Predator: Requiem a pathetic 12%.
Ridley Scott's prequel films may have restored some interest in the franchise with some thought-provoking concepts explored but nothing has touched the original two masterpieces from Scott and Cameron.
THE OFFENDING SEQUEL(S) ROTTEN TOMATOES SCORE: Alien 3 - 43%, Alien Resurrection - 55%, Alien vs. Predator - 21%, Alien vs. Predator: Requiem - 12%, Prometheus - 73%, Alien: Covenant - 66%