There is a reason why this is the absolute worst film of the 90's

Hardware is a cult classic.

hey I actually think it is better then Terminator and Aliens :D But I guess I know what you mean, not with this movie but with what I experienced with The Dark Knight

You don't get out very much, do you?

Hundreds of movies are made every year. HUNDREDS. And of those, most people only hear of a few dozen of them. Hardware is not even close to being the worst movie of 1990. Not even in the ten worst sci-fi movies of 1990. Unless of course, one is either: 1. over reacting, or 2. hasn't seen many other movies.

Any hype is not perpetrated by the film makers. Your main criticism is that the movie was not a "summer blockbuster"? Are most blockbusters quality movies? Why isn't every other not-a-blockbuster of the 90's just as bad?

The script, and everything else (huh?), is out of pace with the rest of the film? It might not be the best thing either of us has ever seen, but Hardware was tight as a drum. It was a well-thought out exercise where no details nor frames were wasted on extraneous BS. And it was technically very well done. The locations, the sets, the lighting, the photography, the editing... were far beyond typical b-movie standard, even for today. If you don't like it, fine. If you are on a soap box claiming that it destroyed 100 years of film making and cheated the entire population of the US, then I'd say you are being melodramatic, and trying to subject yourself to ridicule.

If this was mass-marketed in the US then that was a pretty dumb move.

There is no way that the mass-populace is going to understand or like this film.

Too visceral, too depressing, too intelligent, too much.

To OP.

You DO realize "Troll 2" was released the same year?

That one makes Hardware look like the Godfather.

This film was super hyped. At every commercial break this film was compares to being better than aliens and better than the terminator. This advertisement misled the american populace. In 1990, people still had faith that hollywood was going to ddeliver summer blockbusters. Then they rolled this baked turkey out and almost completely destoryed the last one hundred years of film making (terminator 2 restored people's faith).