Since we started posting videos under our Fan Film Friday banner, some of them have been selected because they were well done and some have been because they were funny. But no matter what, they have always been entertaining. That’s just what today’s video is.

Fans of Lost have been known to take to the Internets with a plethora of fan films and bizarre edits as a show of honor to their favorite confusing sci-fi series. With that said, not many people would probably consider Lost and Miley Cyrus in the same sentence. That is, until now.

YouTube user xSoppySofax has made quite a few Lost-themed fan films, but “Hurley in the U.S.A.” may be the funniest. After the jump, check out how the user took footage of everybody’s favorite lottery winner-turned-castaway and edited it to become Miley Cyrus’ “Party in the U.S.A.” music video. Funny? Yes. Disturbing? Maybe.

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We’ve been known to be kind of hard on James Cameron’s Avatar, given how much money and praise it’s gotten over the past two months. Given that, there are some die-hards still out there that believe that “Pandora” is the greatest place in existence, and wish it was real. Leave it to the internet to find a way to make that humorous.

Many people have become aware of the lives of LARPers over the past few years. Some even got to see a few films, including Role Models and the little-known Darkon. It’s basically acting out a scenario that most people play using dice and boards, such as Masquerade or Dungeons and Dragons. This time, the focus is set on Pandora and the Na’vi.

After the jump, check out what a group of Hometree Wisconsin pulled together using toilet paper, wigs, and tons of blue face paint. This is all your fault, James Cameron.

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He has been the face behind 20,000,000 units in video games sales. He was a simple scientist who fought his way through the disaster at Black Mesa and went on to become the face of the resistance against the Combine empire.

He was recently voted by the readers of Gamespot.com the Greatest Video Game Hero of All Time (even beating out Mario in the finals). He is Gordon Freeman of Half-Life and he has been able to do all of this without ever opening his mouth.

One of the key characteristics of Gordon Freeman, aside from being the “Free Man” as the aliens in Half-Life like to refer to him, is that he is also the “Every Man”. He was not a war hero. He wasn’t a super-powered being. He was a person doing his job when a terrible accident occurred and set the events of his life in to motion to lead him to a path of greatness.

Without ever being given a voice, players were given the chance to fill in the blank spots in dialogue during the game with what they felt would be their own responses.

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‘Tis the Season, kids! Which is why we’ve decided to pick this fresh new web video for Fan Film Friday. Though the name insinuates that these are all made by fans, today’s clip kind of walks the line between “pro” and “amateur,” seeing as how it was done by CBS.

For those who are a fan of the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, they more than likely tune in for three names: Neil. Patrick. Harris. The man has won the hearts of nerds everywhere with Dr. Horrible’s Sing-A-Long Blog, and gets us to laugh just about every week as the irreverent best friend Barney on the situation comedy.

Some sly editors over at CBS decided to help promote the show, as well as a special airing of Frosty the Snowman by doing a mash-up of the two, combining NPH’s dialogue from the show with clips from the TV movie. Hence, “Frosty the Inappropriate Snowman.”

Check out the clip after the jump. Be sure to catch Frosty The Snowman on CBS, Friday December 18, at 8PM/7PM Central, and How I Met Your Mother every Monday at 8PM/7PM Central.

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We here at The Flickcast are fans of just about all films, but some of us around the office still get tickled when we hear the titular line in a film thrown out. Many comedy series have spoofed this concept, such as Upright Citizens Brigade with “I’m sick of all these Star Wars!” or Family Guy with “That’s why they call me Superman 4: The Quest For Peace” but nobody has ever gone to the length’s of this week’s Fan Film Friday Creator.

The cool cats over at VideoGum put together a pretty impressive compilation of just about every film that uses the title in dialogue. From Fried Green Tomatoes to Minority Report, this compilation has it all. It makes you wonder if the writers are being clever with that line, or actually really lazy.

Check out the full video after the jump, and if there’s a line or two that you can think of that was omitted, the creator of the video, Gabe, is welcoming all suggestions and comments, so shoot him an e-mail. Enjoy!

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Those who had the dedication to sit through nearly 4 hours of film in the theater when Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s Grindhouse hit cinemas worldwide are tough. Not for the four-hour film stint, but because they managed to sit through Death Proof without tearing out their eyes.

Thankfully, we all had a selection of great, fake trailers in between the films to keep us entertained. Trailers directed by names like Eli Roth, Rob Zombie, and Edgar Wright, which are all still rumored to be in the works as real films. We all know that Rodriguez’s Machete is being planned, and almost ready to start.

After seeing those trailers, it was only a matter of time before the YouTube generation got their hands on some fun footage, and made it look like a Grindhouse film. What better film than something as depressing and cheap-looking as Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler.

Check out the masterpiece after the jump. Also, be sure to check out all of our other Fan Film Friday links while you’re at it.

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We have successfully avoided most Star Wars fan films here on Fan Film Friday for one reason: they’re all pretty bad. If you’ve seen one dude using After Effects to add in a lightsaber, you’ve seen them all. We’ve recently come across this little fan film, Makazie One, about a bad ass stormtrooper, that may be worth the watch.

Granted, there are plenty of continuity loopholes in the film, such as the fact that the stormtroopers are fighting an army of Boba Fett’s, even though there was only one Boba, and that there are a few different troopers who get unmasked in the story, none of which are clones.

Minor geek issues aside, the film is pretty well done, considering what it has to compete with. There is an interesting war movie overtone to the film in aesthetics, which makes for something new in the Star Wars universe.

Check out the full film after the jump, and be warned, it can be long at moments.

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We have been a bit hard around here on 2012, the new Roland Emmerich film about the end of the world, but given the director’s track record and the fact that the trailer doesn’t look like anything we haven’t seen dozens of times before on the big screen, we think we probably have just cause.

It looks like we aren’t the only people making fun of it, as a new fan film has popped up online using the first five minutes of the film. The edit proves that this film can become two things without it’s overblown special effects: quite pointless and outrageously funny.

For those interested in the film itself, it stars a cornucopia of celebrities from John Cusack to Woody Harrelson and Amanda Peet and is about a prophecy where the world comes to an end in December of 2012. Roland Emmerich is also the director that brought us gems like 10,000 BC and The Day After Tomorrow.

Check out the fan film after the jump. Catch 2012 in theaters everywhere this November.

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Now, before you huge Indiana Jones fans attack and inform me that Raiders of the Lost Ark was actually made in 1981, NOT 1954, hear me out. This is a fan film (hence why it’s posted as a Fan Film Friday) of an essential alternate universe, where the film was actually shot in 1954, with Charlton Heston portraying the iconic Dr. Henry “Indiana” Jones.

Much like the fan film’s predecessor, Ghost Busters (1954), this fake trailer (what the author calls a “pre-make”) takes scenes from the original film, and matches it up with classic adventure scenes, almost making it look like the exact same film, only shot in 1954. The concept is pretty innovative, and the mastermind behind it all even gave us a shot-for-shot comparison of this trailer and the scenes from the original Raiders to give us an idea.

Check out the video after the jump, and for those Marvel Zombies fans, check out the creator’s take on what if the 1960s Marvel cartoons starred the heroes’ zombie counterparts instead.

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People today live in the fast, go get ‘em world where we sometimes can’t be bothered by hours upon hours of a series we want to catch up on. Luckily, the great folks at “the internet” bring us such great gems like Every Week on Entourage that can sum up an entire season or series of a show in a matter of minutes.

The same idea has now been applied to the critically acclaimed series Mad Men, about people working together in a 1960s Manhattan ad agency. The video shows off the diversity of the show, including the authenticity of the dated writing, the use of smoking indoors, and the mysterious past of the main protagonist.

Check out the fan film below, and check out Don Draper and his gang of Mad Men every Sunday night at 10:00 p.m. (ET/PT) on AMC. Be warned, the fan film, though only a minute long, has a few spoilers if you haven’t seen the show. Watch with caution.

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