7. Alien 3 (1992)

Hoo boy, this is a pretty bad movie, though it is the source of the iconic Alien meme. Alien 3 was directed by David Fincher, which is such a bummer since he makes some great movies (Se7en, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Zodiac, Gone Girl—it’s an impressive filmography), but even he can’t save it. And even he hates it. The threequel already had the cards stacked against it, having to come after the fantastic Aliens, which offered a completely unexpected sequel to the original film—and then it was bad to boot.

Alien 3 starts off in an absolutely baffling manner, with Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) crash-landing on a prison planet and both her lover (Hicks) and her sort-of adopted daughter (Newt) dying off-camera. And it doesn’t get better from there—it’s bleak, cruel, and badly written, and clearly suffered from being needlessly rewritten to death. It at least looks pretty good, but deciding to end it with Ripley sacrificing herself after fighting for so long is just depressing.
— Alyssa Mercante