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Dream Warrior  (2003)
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A Man Called Rage
Tagline(s):After the Apocalypse... Humanity Will Rise Again.
Nomination Year: 2025
SYNOPSIS: 

A meteor has crashed into the Earth, destroying human civilization by causing the doors to fall off all the cars and giving some people mutant super powers. Unfortunately, in Lance Henrickson's post-apocalyptic city-state, being a mutant is punishable by death. Our hero is a mutant. He is captured. He escapes. He is chased. His car goes over a huge cliff and doesn't explode. He nearly dies anyway. He is saved by other mutants.

The other mutants go back to Lanceville, where they live in secret. One outs herself. She is captured and scheduled for execution. Our hero returns and rescues her. The mutants flee. Lance has a baby. A Magical Negro prophesies that the baby will save humanity. Our hero goes back to rescue the baby. He gets the baby. He escapes. He is captured by White Goth Tina Turner and forced to fight in the Thunderdumb.

He beats one of Lance's Lackeys. He then has to fight the Magical Negro. They team up, rescue the baby, and escape the Thunderdumb while White Goth Tina Turner whines ineffectually. Meanwhile, the mutants split up so that the ones with no character development can get killed. The hero, the Magical Negro, and the surviving mutants meet up and escape. Lance finds them. There is a final battle, complete with shockingly obvious revelations, dramatic sacrifices, and trite prophecies. The Magical Negro assures us that the prophecies have been fulfilled, civilization will be reborn, and the hero will wander off in search of the sequel.

Greg Pearson
Smithee Award Nominations
Worst Special Effect
Asteroid Causes the Stockfootageocalypse!
It starts with a dumb CGI rock in space. It ends (the world) with stock footage and a stupid voiceover narration.
Directors
Director Claim to Fame
Zachary Weintraub Directed Amazons and Gladiators. Grew up on a film set, not that you could tell. 
Cast
Actor Character Claim to Fame
Daniel Goddard Rage Australian-born; TV's "Beastmaster"; Python in Lightspeed; but probably best known as Cane Ashby and Caleb Atkinson on thousands of episodes of "The Young and the Restless." 
Lance Henriksen Parish Bishop in Alien(s), Frank Black on "Millennium," Ace Hanlon in The Quick and the Dead...he was in The Terminator, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and in a lot of Bad Movies, too! (Like the Piranha, Pumpkinhead, and Black Ops debacles.) 
Sherilyn Fenn Sterling The titular Boxing Helena; Audrey Horne on "Twin Peaks"; Curley's Wife in Of Mice and Men; Karen Street on "S.W.A.T." (the 2017 reboot). 
Isaac Hayes Zo Famous R&B artist, but a fair actor in his own right, composer/singer of the Shaft theme; "Chef" on "South Park"; Zook in Reindeer Games; and Hammer in I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
Matthew Porretta Caleb AKA "Matt Porretta," was Dan Rubin on "Bevery Hills 90210" and Will Scarlett in Robin Hood: Men in Tights. But even cooler, he's the voice of Alan Wake in the video games. 
Richard Norton Archer Martial Artist from Australia who is in a lot of action movies like Mad Max: Fury Road, Under a Red Moon, and Rage. With and without Honor. 
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