10 Terrible Movies That Should Have Stayed In Development Hell

3. Alien vs. Predator

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From the moment a Xenomorph skull was glimpsed in the background of Predator 2's climax, fans waited patiently for the inevitable crossover, with the Aliens and Predators facing in various other media during the interim.

Alien vs. Predator was first approved by the studio in 1991, but it would be over a decade until they iconic extraterrestrials were brought to the big screen as part of the same movie. Not exactly one for holding back his opinions, James Cameron thought that the crossover would kill the validity of both franchises and even used the phrase 'milking it', which turned out to be pretty spot on.

Director and king of the mediocre genre movie Paul W.S. Anderson had been working on the story for eight years, but you definitely didn't get that impression watching what was at that point the worst movie that either species had been appeared in.

That unwanted honor ultimately fell to sequel Requiem, which was so awful that it made Anderson's movie look like it belonged in the pantheon of what Ridley Scott, John McTiernan and Cameron himself had brought to Alien and Predator by comparison.

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