10 Terrible Films That The Wrong Person Got Blamed For

5. Jean-Pierre Jeunet - Alien: Resurrection

Who Else Was To Blame: Joss Whedon.

This Alien film managed to pull the amazing double trick of both ripping off (oh shock, a character we thought was human is actually an android) and ruining the logic of (wait, that's a... human alien?) the original. It was so dumb it retroactively made everyone warm a little to Alien 3 (a film director David Fincher has always distanced himself from to avoid inclusion on this list).

Much of the blame falls on the film's director Jean-Pierre Jeunet, whose clearly held a lot of influence on the film - Brad Dourif playing chicken with a Xenomorph is right up Jeunet's street - but the real fault is shared between the screenwriter, who envisioned a lot of the goofier scenes, and 20th Century Fox, who enforced bringing back Ripley as a clone. That Fox had a hand in it is no surprise - it was the studio's involvement that neutered the initially promising Alien 3. What is somewhat shocking is that it was Joss Whedon who wrote the script.

That's right, Avengers mastermind and geek God Whedon was behind Alien: Resurrection. It's a sickening moment whenever his name pops up when we're watching the film. Which isn't that often.