7. Starship Troopers
Like much of director Paul Verhoeven's work (think Showgirls, always think Showgirls), Starship Troopers initially falls into the cliche so-bad-it's-good category, a film so audacious and ill-conceived that you can't help but enjoy it. After that, though, down the line it becomes something a little more special, still-so-bad-it's-good but also something more akin to a campy, kitsch classic. This fate has befallen most of the director's pre-2000 work (Total Recall, Basic Instinct), ensuring that Verhoeven's oeuvre is primarily made up of quintessential cult cuts - Robocop, Total Recall, Basic Instinct, Showgirls, and Starship Troopers might be the cultest (?) run of films ever.A true blood-and-guts affair, Troopers sees humans battle a giant alien super-race for survival in a futuristic, bellicose universe. The film is as fun as that sounds, with Verhoeven adding some undercurrents of Big Brother-style state surveillance for good measure. As an end note, the film's at-the-time incredible special effects were nominated for an Oscar, which means that, technically, Starship Troopers has more Academy Award nominations than most of the films on this list.