Let's be honest, we are not living in the salad days of Aliens or Predators. For example, 2010's Predators was serviceable, but it didn't have nearly enough governors.

The much anticipated 2013 video game Aliens: Colonial Marines -- which was touted as a spiritual sequel to James Cameron's Aliens -- disappointed fans when they discovered it was a tureen o' turds. In that game, the enemies' artificial intelligence was so execrably pooptacular that the player's space marine could jog through entire stages unmolested by Aliens.

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For extra joy, listen to this while you watch the above on loop for three minutes.

And then there was Prometheus, a film that proved $130 million, world-class actors, and phantasmagoric set design are all for naught if your script resembles an episode of Lost in Space written by an infinite amount of orangutans trapped in a doorless room with a single typewriter and an infinite amount of fermented papaya.