Robot Jox (1990)

After World War III, the world is scarce of valuable natural resources, so naturally humanity decides the best thing to do is to hold international tournaments where they burn up incredible amounts of gas and oil by having giant robots from each country fight each other for whatever's left. Makes perfect sense. It's got giant robots, an insanely stupid sci-fi plot and really bad speicial effects. ACHILLES!!

Nothing But Trouble (1991)

This 1991 box office bomb was written and directed by Dan Ackroyd, someone most people acknowledge should have known better. The movie, starring Dan Ackroyd, Chevy Chase, John Candy, Demi Moore, Peter Ackroyd, Daniel Baldwin and Dan Ackroyd is the story of a businessman and his friends who get trapped in a small southern backwoods town by a bizarre demon judge with lots of wacky high jinks ensuing. Yeah, there's a lot to hate about the movie, but if you can turn off your brain, it's an hour and a half of stupid fun with several of the 80s best and brightest comedians.

Hudson Hawk (1991)

Sometimes a movie's place in history can be completely ruined by really bad marketing and Hudson Hawk was a perfect example. It was marketed as a serious action flick along the lines of Die Hard, and when people came into the theaters expecting Die Hard and got a completely goofy, surreal and over the top action comedy, they were a little pissed. Okay, a lot pissed. But that wasn't entirely the movie's fault-- Hudson Hawk is what it is, and it's unlike most other things you've ever seen. It's part '30s slapstick, part action movie spoof, part musical and part silly satire on conspiracy theories and secret societies. So, I'm not sure how they should have marketed it honestly. But they did it wrong anyway.

Point Break (1991)

Point Break was actually a mild box office success, but it wasn't a great movie. Well, it was a good movie, but it was a bad movie. I think any movie that tries to take itself seriously with Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze as cop versus robber turned buddies while they're going from one extreme sport to the other isn't high art. But it's so bad that it's actually moving. And EXXXXXXTREME!!!!

Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992)

Buddy cop movies used to be a dime a dozen and they finally hit rock bottom with Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot.. okay, actually they hit rock bottom with Cop and a Half, but Stop! was pretty close. But Sylvester Stallone and Estelle Getty is just too great to watch just once, even if it is pretty dumb for the most part.

Cool World (1992)

Cool World was marketed as an adult version of Roger Rabbit, but it wasn't that really... it had live action humans in a cartoon world, but it was more than Roger Rabbit while at the same time being far less than Roger Rabbit. The animation was sort of sloppy, the dialogue was a little bit stupid, but seeing Gabriel Byrne and Brad Pitt fighting over and being seduced by the super slutty toon, Holli Wood, voiced by Kim Basinger was plenty of low-budget, skanky fun.

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1993)

Cowgirls is based on a Tom Robbins novel, which should tell you already that it's going to be weird as all hell. But it's got Uma Thurman as a cowgirl born with enormous hitchhiking thumbs, Lorraine Bracco, Keanu Reeves, Sean Young, Pat Morita as "The Chink" and John Hurt as a wealthy androgyn named The Countess who claims his biggest handicap was being born a male Russian countess in a white, Baptist family in Mississippi and his stable of dirty lesbian cowgirls who never wash their junk. Ever.

Showgirls (1995)

Showgirls is often listed as one of the worst movies ever made and was a pretty big box office bomb, but sold like hotcakes once it hit video, proving that the almost NC-17 story of a drifter turned Vegas showgirl was the guilty pleasure of more than a few people. They just felt more comfortable watching former Saved By The Bell alum Elisabeth Berkley getting naked in the comfort of their own home, probably while they railed against it in public as being "another example of Hollywood smut".

Oh yeah... and the following scene is NSFW.

Waterworld (1995) and The Postman (1997)

It only feels right to lump these two back to back Kevin Costner mega budget, mega flop sci-fi post-apocalyptic epics together since they both could have been set in the same universe or along the same timeline. Waterworld got a ton of bad press for costing a whopping $175 million, an amount that most people thought was $175 poorly spent and when The Postman came out in 1997, the general reaction was "Oh Jesus, not again."

But look beyond the hype and they were pretty decent movies. Long, but good. If only Kevin Costner had handed over the lead roles to someone else, they could have been truly epic works of science fiction. But alas, Costner can't act his way out of a wet paper bag and they were relegated to the realm of shitty overly pretentious science fiction.

Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)

There certainly are worse movies on this list than Long Kiss Goodnight, but it's definitely no work of high art. It's really more of an original comic book in movie form and one I feel is often underrated. The plot is sort of generic spy with amnesia type stuff, but every single scene is a gem in itself. Go to the bathroom in the middle, or at any point and you're bound to miss some fantastic Geena Davis / Samuel L. Jackson action sequence or some brilliant one liner. The bit about the lap dog that's been licking his own asshole for three hours is some of the funniest shit ever written on paper and then committed to film. And you sort of have to add 1995's Cutthroat Island to this entry, since the two movies are in many ways very similar Geena Davis girls-kick-ass action flicks, only one she's a modern assassin, the other she's a pirate.

The movie came back into the spotlight briefly after 9/11 through conspiracy theorists who liked to say that the movie's conclusion, where the CIA stages a massive terrorist attack to justify a budget increase, was Hollywood predicting a massive 9/11/2001 government coverup.

Starship Troopers (1997)

Silly dialogue? Check. A plot that doesn't seem to hold together very well? Check. Plays like a cheap teen date movie, but it's something no self-respecting cool teenager would be caught dead seeing with their date? Check. Only barely had anything to do with the Heinlein novel it was based on? Check. But beyond that, it had some really awesome humans vs giant insects battle scenes, Denise Richardson as a smoking hot space pilot, Neal Patrick Harris as an kick-ass military psychic and some funny, witty satire of the modern 24/7 news infotainment culture. Oh, and random gratuitous boobies, something that since the early 80s has been a lost art of the cinema.

Can't Hardly Wait (1998)

The late 90s saw a glut of really stupid shoveled out teen movies that were pretty much all these same-- a group of high schoolers, each their own stereotypical high school "role" goes to a big party, some people hook up and get drunk or whatever the hell. It all culminated in 2001's Not Another Teen Movie, which you could watch and save yourself hours and hours of actually watching any 90s teen movies, but Can't Hardly Wait is actually the rare one that's pretty good, mainly due to a young Seth Green as a guy who wants so hard to be black that he's hilariously pathetic.

Wild Wild West (1999)

Based on the 1960s sci-fi western of the same name, some were excited about a movie version of the show, but it didn't live up to anyone's standards, even Robert Conrad, who panned the film every chance he got, even showing up at the 20th annual Razzies to pick up 3 of the movie's 5 worst movie awards. But a Western with steampunk science fiction technology, up to and including a giant mechanical spider? That's movie gold, no matter how stupid the script is.

Equilibrium (2002)

Most people know more about Gun-Kata, the made-up martial art that was featured in Equilibrium than about the movie itself, which makes sense, considering that Equilibrium often feels like a movie that exists solely for the purpose of showing off the stupidly awesome but completely impractical fighting style. It's as if someone sat down after finishing off a 3 foot bong, came up with the idea of Gun-Kata and decided to make a movie around it with not much other thought. The premise isn't that original, the writing is often not that original and much of the acting, other than Christian Bale, is stilted, but the fight scenes are legendary.

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)

The cool backstory to Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is that as director Kerry Conran's debut movie, he spent four years making a black and white trailer using a blue screen and his Apple IIci that impressed Hollywood so much that they gave him a big pile of cash to make his dream a reality. The sad part of the story is that the movie bombed, coming about $13 million short of the budget and he hasn't worked since, so that's where pursuing your dream gets you.

In my opinion, the problem with Sky Captain was not enough Angelina Jolie, and that's not because she's hot, but because she had the most interesting and engaging character in the whole movie and she was alive for only a few minutes. It was sort of like the hype around Star Wars Episode I, where you got all excited about Darth Maul, only to learn that most of the people that played extras at the pod races had more screen time.

Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (2006)

Yes really... this list just wouldn't be a list without the tangy zip of a Troma film. It was either this or Tromeo and Juliet or Sgt. Kabukiman, but Poultrygeist was Troma at its very best. A musical that's a parody of Poltergeist, Night of the Living Dead as well as a satire on the fast food industry, done in the completely outlandish golden era B-movie Troma style, it's low budget gory zombie chicken cinema in its purest form done with mainly volunteers on a budget of $450k. If you like Troma films, you'll love Poultrygeist, if you've never seen a Troma film, this is a great one to start on to see if you'll want a second helping.

Snakes on a Plane (2006)

People have always made cheesy, vapid movies for the purpose of turning a quick buck, but until Snakes on a Plane, movies were rarely conscious of trying to become an instant B-movie cult classic. Fueled by both marketers and Internet word of mouth buzz based on the stupid, yet accurate name, Snakes on a Plane ended up with a huge amount of hype that it didn't quite live up to, finding itself in an uncanny valley between "so bad it's awesome" and "so bad it's bad". But if you can fast forward through the dumbass setup scenes and go straight to snakes attacking every single person on the plane in the most painful places possible, you have yourself a pretty decent movie to watch while you're stoned out of your gourd.

Postal (2007)

Uwe Boll is the modern master of the incredibly bad movie that takes itself too seriously and several of his masterpieces would be right at home on this list-- BloodRayne 1 and 2, Alone in the Dark and House of the Dead. But when you combine the "je ne sais quoi" of Uwe Boll with the way over the line guns blazing lunacy of Running With Scissors' Postal video game, add Dave Foley, Verne Troyner and a whole host of gags that try so hard to be politically incorrect that it's borders between pathetic and brilliant, you've got the makings of a classic. Cartoon Islamic terrorists, using a live cat for a gun silencer and a guy running around in a giant plush scrotum outfit? What's not to like?

Tokyo Gore Police (2008)

I really could have populated most of this list with recent Japanese splattercore flicks, but this is one of the best of the worst. Like many of its Japanese splattercore brethren, TGP is filled with enough blood, gore, dismemberment, disembowelment andecapitation to make Saw look like an episode of Sesame Street, but it's so incredibly ludicrously over the top and weirdly, uniquely Japanese, with bizarre characters, obviously fake rubber limbs and heads and other crazy Japanese-ness that it's impossible to really take it seriously as a horror film. It's just pure insanity and shock for the sake of insanity and shock with not a whole lot of other socially redeeming qualities.

In TGP, a mad scientist has created a virus that mutates humans into monstrous creatures called Engineers, a group of freaks that sprout bizarre flesh weapons from their injuries, which makes for some of the most awesome fight scenes ever. Come for the shower of blood, stay for the leg stumps turned into blood rockets and vaginas turned into crocodiles. You could also try Machine Girl or the upcoming Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl if you like stupid crazy over the top Japanese splatter films.

Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)

Fun fact: Director Darren Lynn Bousman originally refused to even consider Paris Hilton in his movie, but while she was in prison, she was smuggled the script and studied the role of rich girl drug addict Amber Sweet and came back and nailed the part. Well, as well as she could, anyway. Repo! is a post-Snakes on a Plane example of a movie being made consciously as a contemporary cult classic. Goofy sci-fi, post-apocalypse drug addicts, blood and gore--- that doubles as a rock opera-- it's pretty obvious that this was, from its conception, a work of B-movie art. It's not fantastic, but it's mindless fun with some pretty decent musical numbers thrown in.