10 Once-Great Movie Franchises That Just Need To Die
3. Alien
Ridley Scott's Alien, and James Cameron's follow-up Aliens, are truly remarkable films. One is a claustrophobic, nightmarish encounter with a lone alien species aboard a spacecraft, while the other is an action-packed all out war with an army of the beings.
The sequels that followed however were truly terrifying (and not in the good way). Alien 3 can be passed off as a failed experiment but it's successor, Alien: Ressurection is a huge downward spiral. Everything that is good about the first two films goes completely out of the window and the franchise is turned into a feeling like a cheap SyFy channel original you might see on TV at 3am. Sigourney Weaver after being such a highlight in the first two films gives an embarrassing performance and let's not talk about the awful, AWFUL 1990's CGI aliens.
In 2012, original director Ridley Scott attempted to bring the franchise back to its roots with Prometheus and its sequel Alien: Covenant. Those 'roots' turned out to be a confusing, boring set of films which seemed more interested in telling the story of Michael Fassbender's android rather than the Xenomorph itself. That's not even to mention the way the franchise was dragged through the mud completely with a certain crossover with another alien villain...