Predator is thriving while Alien is flopping, and the reasons are obvious

The Predator and Alien franchises have always been linked. They’re both about human beings fighting fearsome extraterrestrials. Both had their heydays in the ’80s and ’90s before going on long hiatuses. And of course there were the Alien vs. Predator movies, which kept people talking about them during fallow periods, for better or worse.