But now must unblock.
While skimming the satellite programming guide, I found this “gem”.
I paid to see this fetid pile when it was new. An excellent example of how much Chevy Chase can suck. I hadn’t thought about this stinker until I saw it in the guide. Even when asked to name the worst movies I’ve ever seen. That’s how bad it it. It makes Ed Wood movies look like Citizen Kane.
I have to say that Permanent Midnight was one of the worst films I’ve rented in my life.
And the clue was right on the box: Ben Stiller. 
A favorite pastime of mine is to ask people who I know have seen it what happens in Star Wars: Attack of the Clones.
No one can remember.
Aside from griping about how bad the “sand” dialogue was, no one can ever remember what the plot was, any key lines, any characters that hadn’t already been introduced.
Common responses from non-fans:
“That’s the one with the annoying lizard, right? No, that’s the first one. Um, is he still in the second one?”
“The guy with the red and black makeup? Wasn’t he in the second one? …he and the lizard guy were in the same movie? Then what the hell happened in the second one?”
“Wasn’t Natalie Portman wearing that ripped white outfit? Yeah.”
Common responses from fans:
“Yoda fights!”
“We meet Count Dooku. …What do you mean, ‘what does he do?’”
Does anyone remember what happened in Attack of the Clones? Because I sure don’t.
I remember Clones better than Menace.
In the future there will be a Mystery Science Theater 6000 and “Pod racing, Joel” will replace “Rock climbing” as the cringe-inducing phrase.
Last night my husband and I watched a tape of Alien vs. Predator. Afterward, we discussed the various Alien movies. Neither of us could recall any major plot details from Alien 3, except that we hated it. Yet we remembered 1, 2, and 4 quite vividly.
Pod-racing was Phantom Menace.
I left out the “that’s the main thing I remember from Meance” line.
My bad.
I remember most of it. That’s far more then I can say for Menace. Clones is a decent movie, and a friggen masterpiece compared to Menace.
Not really bad movies, but I can remember very little of:
*Thunderball(I think because the underwater scenes keep making me fall asleep)
*The English Patient(I remember the scene where William Dafoe loses a finger, but the rest of the movie is the guy dying…and dying…and dying. WILL YOU DIE ALREADY?!)
Seriously? I could probably give you a good majority of the scenes…
-Padme is flying back to Coruscant, her ship is sabotaged upon landing and blows up, but she was in a decoy ship and is fine
-Obi Wan and Annakin are assigned to protect her
-Annakin has the hots for her
-She doesn’t want the protection to be too smothering, so they barely sense the evil robotic worms that have been inserted into her bedchamber by a probe of some sort
-Annakin chops them in half
-Obi Wan leaps out the window and grabs the probe
-The probe gets shot by a suspicious female bounty hunter
-Annakin catches him in a speeder
-A chase scene ensues
…etc
A few genuine Good Things about AoTC:
-Jango Fett, both in and out of armor, particularly his fight with Obi Wan
-The sound effect of the sonic missiles
-The look of the Kaminoans… probably the most convincing and beautiful alien race Lucas ever created
-The aforementioned scene of Obi Wan jumping out the window… just a really well done shot
-The big arena battle with jedi vs. droids in huge numbers
-Followed by the big battle scenes of clones vs. droids
-Followed by the big fight of Annakin and Obi Wan vs. Dooku
-Followed by Yoda vs. Dooku
Not that I think AoTC is a great movie or anything, but, really, it’s not THAT bad, and neither is TPM.
Of course, requoting you and adding some emphasis:
maybe you just hang around with a generally higher class of people than me 
Emphasis corrected:
See, when you list all those things, I remember having watched them. (Vaguely.) The speeder chase was the one through Coruscant, right? That was actually pretty cool.
But no one – and I mean no one – can come up with any of it! The best I’ve gotten is one friend who remembered Kamino, with the cloning factory and the rain.
Maybe it is the class of my companions (:P), but I think it’s hilarious that it’s such a widespread phenomenon.
Well, you and your compadres are college students, right? And everyone knows that college students spend all their time smoking The Demon Weed, Marihuana. Maybe that has something to do with it?
The OP’s mention of Chevy Chase in Modern Problems is going to be tough to top. Truly a horrible movie in almost every way. Chevy is lucky it didn’t tank his career.
My nomination for horrible movie starring a-list talent is the peurile Gone Fishin’ starring Danny Glover and Joe Pesci.
A Dangerous Game
Star Wars: Phantom Menace
Bad Lieutenant
MarHUAna? What makes you think…
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…um, what were we talking about again?
Garden State. I had to look up the title cause I had done my best to forget all about it. It’s so emotastic I almost left in the middle, but there was nothing else to do. But I really, really, really wish I hadn’t seen that cold sober. It was HORRIBLE!!! Augh!
Loose Screws–a Canadian teen-sex romp strarring no one I’ve heard of before or xince.
I’ve blocked one so well I can’t even remember the title. It was the only movie I’ve ever walked out on. I was the only person in the Theater and about 45 minuutes into the movie I just couldn’t take anymore and left.
IIRC, it was sometime around 1990 (early 90’s maybe?) and the movie featured bulbous headed aliens (little people or kids in costumes with mechanized prosthetics?) and was campy in nature. Very low budget and possibly the worst movie I have ever seen. I believe it was advertised as a comedy.
Does this ring a bell for anyone? I think it has “Aliens” in the title, but searching the imdb I find nothing that shakes a branch… I’d definitely remember it if I saw it.