Nomination Year: 2005

SYNOPSIS: A starship identical to the one used by the genocidal aliens in Star Portal arrives in a distant star system. Aboard are nine astronauts (including Alan Rachins, playing an Arab, and Ming Na), who have been sent to set up a colony (they have frozen embryos and so forth). However, when they awake from cold sleep at their destination, they learn that Earth has been destroyed by a nuclear war in their absence and they are the last survivors of humanity. They don't take the news very well and pretty soon people are turning up dead.

Smithee Award Nominations

Deus Ex Machina

Countdown to the Countdown of the End of Simulation as We Know It The severed robot head can radio-control its limbs, and sets off the ship's self-destruct sequence. Two characters sacrifice themselves so that the other two can live even though everybody acknowledges that it would be trivially easy to save all four, the countdown turns out to be just the countdown to the real countdown, it was all just a simulation, and Nostradomus was wrong. Finally, we end with an SFX shot so bad that I literally had to rewind and watch it again just to figure out what it was supposed to be.

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Crummiest Ending

Countdown to the Countdown of the End of Simulation as We Know It The severed robot head can radio-control its limbs, and sets off the ship's self-destruct sequence. Two characters sacrifice themselves so that the other two can live even though everybody acknowledges that it would be trivially easy to save all four, the countdown turns out to be just the countdown to the real countdown, it was all just a simulation, and Nostradomus was wrong. Finally, we end with an SFX shot so bad that I literally had to rewind and watch it again just to figure out what it was supposed to be.

Sorry, this clip has not yet been made available!

Directors

Director	Claim to Fame
Rick Jacobson	Was the key grip on Time Burst: The Final Alliance, which is proof (of sorts) that there is a ladder in Bad Movies, and that it can be climbed, because he helmed Ash vs. The Evil Dead and many TV episodes of not-bad shows.

Cast

Actor	Character	Claim to Fame
Steven Bauer	<Not Yet in Database>	Married to Melanie Griffith until 1987
Brenda Bakke	<Not Yet in Database>	was also in L.A. Confidential as "Lana Turner"
Ming-Na Wen	<Not Yet in Database>	An Asian beauty sometimes credited as "Ming Na" or "Ming-Na" (which translates as "enlightenment"), you would know her as the voice of Disney's Mulan. Also was Dr. Deb Chen on "ER" and Melinda May on "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." Hawks her own line of skin-care products.
Alan Rachins	<Not Yet in Database>	"Douglas Brackman, Jr." from L.A. Law
Marcus Aurelius	<Not Yet in Database>	No, not the original holder of this name. The bit actor, like the hanging mailman in Addams Family Reunion, Pragmatic Policeman in Blade, and Hinkle in Black Thunder.

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