It’s been a while since Hollywood last coughed up a good science-fiction dramatization. Throughout the history of Sci-Fi, screenwriters have come up with some crazy ideas about extraterrestrials, some more plausible than others. We’re here to talk about the latter.

Since this is a weekend narrative, let’s all relax our beat-up neurons and let imagination hop in the driver’s seat for a minute. To help with that, I’ve prepared a list of 8 mindless alien concepts that the Sci-Fi film industry has been littered with over the years. Hopefully now that we’ve seen there are no green men on Pluto, maybe we can finally lay to rest some of these crippled ideas: