For those getting ready for Nicolas Cage’s version of 1992′s Bad Lieutenant, they should do two things. One: check out our review of the new film before they decide to buy a ticket, and two: check out this amazing video that SNL’s Bill Hader and Mean Magazine put together about a year ago when the remake was first announced.

Hader is currently one of the “Not Ready For Primetime Players” on Saturday Night Live, but he’s also one of the more popular character actors of the past few years. Most will remember him as one of the officers from Superbad, the Shaman in Year One or the park owner in Adventureland. His next big role will be alongside Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in Paul.

Check out the video after the jump, and join us in complaining that Werner Herzog decided to cast Nic Cage in the lead role in Bad Lieutenant rather than going with Hader.

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Channing Tatum as Swayze in Dirty Dancing. Will Arnett as Carrie. Cheech and Chong in Tron. These aren’t crazy casting nightmares, they’re episodes of Cinemash. What is Cinemash? It’s a new digital series by Mean Magazine in which they mash-up some classic films with actors nobody would ever expect to see. Actors like Christopher Mintz-Plasse (McLovin) portraying Denzel Washington’s character from Training Day or Heroes’ Milo Ventimiglia playing the main character in Oldboy.

The series started back in the beginning of July with 500 Days of Summer stars Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt Cinemashing Sid and Nancy. No word on where the idea originally stemmed from, but Mean has done some interesting things with film over the years, including casting SNL’s BIll Hader as the lead in a spoof of Bad Lieutenant.

Some of the Cinemashes miss the mark or try a bit too hard. One of the best, by far, is with the select cast of Reno 911 and The Human Giant portraying the final scene from the surfing crime drama Point Break. The digital series has an exclusive deal with MSN and the Zune, which unfortunately means that we iTunes users don’t get to save the episodes to our iDevices.

Check out the Point Break video after the jump, and stay tuned for a new episode to hit each week.

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