# Bad movies you've blocked from your memory **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 6, 2005, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-youve-blocked-from-your-memory/320432 "2005-09-06T23:05:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2005, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-youve-blocked-from-your-memory/320432/21 "2005-09-07T11:00:43Z")
Batman and Robin. I saw it in the theatre. Yes, I was the one who gave them money for it. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![DrMemory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DrMemory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrMemory)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2005, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-youve-blocked-from-your-memory/320432/22 "2005-09-07T11:39:07Z")
If you’re thinking of Chevy, you’ve probly forgotton: Memoirs of an Invisible Man and/or **Cops and Robbersons** and/or MOST everything Mr. chase has been in. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2005, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-youve-blocked-from-your-memory/320432/23 "2005-09-07T12:20:17Z")
Ha! You think that by opening this thread you can make me remember the most horrible movie I’ve ever seen? Got news for you. I’ve got that sucker sealed and vaulted and thrown away the key. No way anyone will ever get me to haul that decrepit load of night soil to the surface of my conscious mind again. No way will I ever remember “Breaking the Waves.” AAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!! ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2005, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-youve-blocked-from-your-memory/320432/24 "2005-09-07T12:50:00Z")
> [@devilsknew](#): > > 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. It wasn’t Mars Attacks, was it? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2005, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-youve-blocked-from-your-memory/320432/25 "2005-09-07T12:54:58Z")
> [@](#): > > 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. How about **Spaced Invaders** : > **[Spaced Invaders (1990) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100666/)** > > Spaced Invaders: Directed by Patrick Read Johnson. With Douglas Barr, Royal Dano, Ariana Richards, J.J. Anderson. Dimwitted Martians drop into a little Illinois town on the day that the local radio station happens to rebroadcast Orson Welles 1938... ---
**Author:** ![Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crowbar_of_Irony_3)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2005, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-youve-blocked-from-your-memory/320432/26 "2005-09-07T12:57:59Z")
_House of Flying Daggers_ I don’t care how many critics have voiced acclaim for this movie. The director was too involved with the scenery than the story. There was a two or three minutes scene where all they do is to ride from one part of the forest to another part of forest, something like an ultra-realisitc 64-bit horizontal platform game, while sad music plays in the background. The fighting wasn’t extraordinary. The love story blah. The plot twist blah. The artistic touches which had inspired _Hero_ was a mess of colours and sickly wishy-washyness. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2005, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-youve-blocked-from-your-memory/320432/27 "2005-09-07T14:16:48Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > How about **Spaced Invaders** : > > [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100666/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100666/) That actually is a really good kids movie. I loved it. " ‘Prepare to die Earth scum, prepare to die Earth scum.’ I’m going to make sure they write that on your tombstone!" ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Goob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@Mr.Goob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Goob)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2005, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-youve-blocked-from-your-memory/320432/28 "2005-09-07T17:49:32Z")
Valley of the Dolls or whatever the name of the horrible movie Roger Ebert wrote. I knew it was going to be bad, but I really want those two hours of my life back. ---
**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2005, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-youve-blocked-from-your-memory/320432/29 "2005-09-07T18:47:44Z")
**Steel Magnolias** I’ve seen worse movies (maybe) but we rented this during a big family gathering. All during the movie there were comments about what a great movie it was and I kept wondering just what I was missing. Then at the end my son who was on the floor looked up and said “What a lousy movie”. I sighed a grateful “Amen”. ---
**Author:** ![sciguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@sciguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciguy)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2005, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-youve-blocked-from-your-memory/320432/30 "2005-09-07T18:54:44Z")
People keep telling me there were sequels to the Highlander movie. I just have to shake my head in dismay at these poor, deluded souls. What part of “there can be only one” did they miss? ---
**Author:** ![MentalGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/439d5e/32.png) [@MentalGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MentalGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2005, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-youve-blocked-from-your-memory/320432/31 "2005-09-07T19:20:50Z")
I haven’t tried purposefully to block certain movies from my memory, but some are just so boring that I never think about them. When I saw the title of the thread I tried to think of some movie I had seen that I had not thought of in a long time. The only thing I could think of was some movie I had seen in high school that had Chevy Chase in it. I seemed to remember him snorting some coke. I clicked on the link and there it was. Seems this is a truly forgettable movie. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2005, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-youve-blocked-from-your-memory/320432/32 "2005-09-07T19:25:55Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > How about **Spaced Invaders** : > > [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100666/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100666/) Ah yes, that’s it. **Push you down** , it may be a kid’s movie, granted. However, I’m not convinced it’s a good movie of any type. YMMV. ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2005, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-youve-blocked-from-your-memory/320432/33 "2005-09-07T20:28:34Z")
**Purple Butterfly** would qualify. The only thing I remember about it is that they managed to make Ziyi Zhang look homely. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2005, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-youve-blocked-from-your-memory/320432/34 "2005-09-07T20:38:08Z")
> [@HPL](#): > > 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?!) Well, there’s the scene where the Indian guy gets blown up by a landmine. It’s memorable because he is one of the only two sympathetic characters in a neverending movie. **devilsknew** , I’m going to guess “Spaced Invaders”. I seem to recall my parents seeing it in the theater and liking it. Which baffled me at the time and still does. -Joe, doesn’t remember ‘Very Bad Things’ ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2005, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-youve-blocked-from-your-memory/320432/35 "2005-09-07T20:46:55Z")
> [@pinkfreud](#): > > Last night my husband and I watched a tape of _Alien vs. Predator_ I liked that the movie’s advertising slogan was, “whoever wins, we lose.” “Yeah, right”, I said to myself, “especially the audience.” ---
**Author:** ![marque\_elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@marque\_elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marque_elf)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2005, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-youve-blocked-from-your-memory/320432/36 "2005-09-07T20:55:32Z")
I’ve only walked out on one movie in my life that I also paid admission for. The Movie was **I Am Curious: Yellow**. Murky black and white photography, poorly lit scenes, unreadable sub-titles, inaudible dialogue even if one spoke Swedish. Supposedly it was the first movie ever shown in the US in major theatre houses with a sex scene in it. After 45 minutes or so of it I realized that I didn’t care. I wasn’t willing to suffer any more for voyeurism and left along with a good 3/4 of the audience. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2005, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-youve-blocked-from-your-memory/320432/37 "2005-09-07T21:35:14Z")
A female friend of mine in college back in the 80’s took me to see this movie with Tom Hanks and Sally Field, I think it was called “Stand Up”. He was a stand-up comic, she was a dissatisfied housewife who wanted to be one. All I can remember about it was the “aaaarea rug” guy. It’s the only movie I ever seriously considered walking out of, and the only reason I didn’t was because I kept thinking “It can’t get any worse than this…” which was invariably followed by “OK, I guess it can.” ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2005, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-youve-blocked-from-your-memory/320432/38 "2005-09-07T21:54:20Z")
> [@Spectre of Pithecanthropus](#): > > I liked that the movie’s advertising slogan was, “whoever wins, we lose.” > > “Yeah, right”, I said to myself, “especially the audience.” It wasn’t that bad. At least it was short and fast-paced, and somewhat entertaining, even if i didn’t care about anyone in the film. It was a damn sight more tolerable then the Vagina monolouges that I wad forced to endure earlier that evening. ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2005, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-youve-blocked-from-your-memory/320432/39 "2005-09-07T23:23:15Z")
Nurse Betty. A comedy that opens with a man being scalped. At least they didn’t play the scene for laughs. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2005, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-youve-blocked-from-your-memory/320432/40 "2005-09-07T23:31:46Z")
> [@Rysto](#): > > At least they didn’t play the scene for laughs. This can be said of any movie starring Scunchy McSqueezeface. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-youve-blocked-from-your-memory/320432.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-movies-youve-blocked-from-your-memory/320432.md?page=3)