In this edition of Weekly Wednesdays, our mid-week catch-up with the ever-accelerating cycle of online list-making, we take a look at some of the best movie-themed lists of the past seven days that we don’t have the time or energy to delve into completely (because, as Ben Affleck explains to Jay and Silent Bob below, one of the Internet’s two purposes is to serve as a forum for movie buffs).

With Internet movie mania in mind, here are Listicles’ Top 12 Movie Lists of the Week:

• A Comprehensive List of Memorable Movie Stoners: David Madison at Unreality brings us this terrific list (which, incidentally, includes the dynamic duo from the above video) that includes such archetypal screen stoners as Cheech and Chong, Thurgood from Half Baked, Harold and Kumar, and Slater from Dazed and Confused. As far as missing entries, we recently wrote about a different movie-drug listicle that offers some obvious names left out of Madison’s list. And what about the entire cast of Super Troopers?

• 10 Greatest Chick Flicks: This impressive list from AMC’s Future of Classic blog not only features a selection of some (but not all!) of the best recent chick flicks, but also honors the genre’s predecessors in Classical Hollywood melodramas from Douglas Sirk and Howard Hawks. Strangely absent: my personal favorite, The Cider House Rules, gets a big snub. Also, can’t we come up with a better number 1 than Pretty Woman, please?

• 5 Freaky Frankenstein Flicks: File this one under the “Lists with confusing titles” tab; it’s actually a list of the worst and most ridiculous movies based on Mary Shelley’s novel, not the scariest. With that level of obscurity in mind, though, it’s really a terribly entertaining list, especially because it’s in video format, enjoy:

• A Collection of the Best Movie Hookers: This one didn’t have to be offensive, but boy-howdy is it ever! Each screen sex worker gets a “Bangability” rating out of 10, and the dominant criterion seems to be sex appeal rather than the quality of the acting. That said, Unreality picks some great performances, like Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver, Kim Basinger in LA Confidential and Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany’s.

• The American Film Institute’s 10 Best Movies of 2008: This annual list from one of the more authoritative voices on American cinema is pretty surprise-free, except perhaps for bucking the men-only trend by including Wendy and Lucy and Frozen River, kudos there AFI. Otherwise it’s the typical mix of middlebrow blockbusters (Iron Man, Wall-E, The Dark Knight) and mainstream liberalism (Milk, Frost/Nixon, The Wrestler).

• 15 Nominees for Worst Movie Dialogue Ever: Entertainment Weekly brings us this great list that features some of the all-time stupidest sayings ever spoken onscreen. Happily they include a horrible punchline from Storm in the first X-Men movie, and Meryl Streep’s “A dingo ate my baby” from A Cry in the Dark. One gripe: they include a line from David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, which trades so heavily on kitsch and clichés that the silly dialog was undoubtedly intended.

• 8 Most Pleasantly Surprising Movies of 2008: A nice little below the radar list from Unreality’s Sub-Zero, some of these films have been unfairly overshadowed by the award show hype built around end-of-year releases. They’re not gems, sure, but enjoyable movies like Wanted and Ghost Town shouldn’t be forgotten just yet.

• 21 Unnecessary Film Sequels That Are Good Anyway: I don’t know, Aliens seems like a pretty necessary sequel if you ask me (same goes for Dawn of the Dead). There are some great calls though: Babe: Pig in the City seemed an odd sequel choice but came off really well, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, of course, was awesome, and Gremlins 2 was completely unnecessary until you saw how great it turned out:

• 10 of the Baddest Fictional Movie Weapons: Another typically obscure and specific entry from Unreality celebrates the inventive weapon design of movieland. Stars Wars‘ light saber is an onvious must, as are Star Trek’s phasers and the Ghostbusters‘ proton packs, but what about the wacky super-gun being peddled by Gary Oldman’s arms dealer in The Fifth Element?

• 4 Best Moments from the Worst Videogame Movies: AMC’s SciFi Scanner blog provides this list combining videogame and movie nerd-dom. Doom certainly earned its spot here, as did Street Fighter, but why is that scene with the slicing lasers from the first Resident Evil movie not represented? Was the movie too good, really?

• 20 Awesome Aliens in Movies: There are some obvious classics here (Alien, Predator, E.T., Jabba the Hut), but also more obscure selections like Jim Carey’s red Wiploc in Earth Girls Are Easy or Edgar in Men in Black. Missing favorite: someone from the all-male race represented on Earth by Gary Shandling in What Planet Are You From?.

• 10 Worst Science Fiction Remakes: This list from i09.com is pretty spot on, covering Tim Burton’s misguided Planet of the Apes, the most recent Time Machine remake, I Am Legend and the Turkish version of Star Wars (necessitated after the original was banned). That one ends thusly (as does this list):