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Saved by the Bell gets a gory parody

So, Miles Fisher is a singer and actor who is drop dead gorgeous and could be Tom Cruise's long-lost son. Look!

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Anyway, he's currently in Final Destination 5, and he recorded a song "New Romance" for the soundtrack. The song is pretty decent for a actor/singer who's kinda new to the scene. It's kind of Maroon 5-sounding.

Anyway, what's really important here is the brilliant video that parodies the ridiculously elaborate death scenes that Final Destination is famous for, by transposing it to a Saved By The Bell set!

That's right. The set, the costumes, the hair... the attention to detail for all the Saved By The Bell references is pretty impressive. And it's funny watching each of the student come to their unfortunate, but hilarious, demises.

They even recreate the infamous "I'm So Excited" scene by Jesse Spano.

Watch the video to see if anyone survives!

Is Justin Timberlake the new Madonna of acting?

Kathleen and I were chatting the other day about Justin Timberlake. We both agree that he needs to stop pursuing acting and just get back to the recording studio already. 

But, that doesn't seem to be on his radar. He is all about the acting. He's got quite the impressive filmography going on now. With a few hits and a lot of misses. And yet, he keeps on trying. 

It boggles my mind that a) he is so determined/delusional to be taken seriously as an actor and b) that people in the industry are taking him seriously, giving him shot after shot, from bit player to leading man.

Gawker put it best - he's not a good actor. But, he's not a bad actor, either. And one of his biggest hindrances is the simple fact that he's Justin Timberlake. As Kathleen put it, he's too big a celebrity to allow for the necessary suspension of disbelief that is required for watching movies (thanks Film Studies minor!)

So, this got me thinking that this is the same problem Madonna had whenever she tried her hand at acting. She's been in a bunch of movies, but the biggest criticism was that she just isn't a believable actress simply because she is Madonna. And the films where she was good in - Evita, Body of Evidence, Dick Tracy - she was successful because she was basically playing a version of herself.

Which is another detraction for JT's acting career. In The Social Network and Friends With Benefits, he's bascially playing a version of himself. And when he tries to veer away from that public image, as in The Southland Tales and The Love Guru, he's pointed out as the weakest link.

So, I think Justin needs to snap out of this acting phase already. If he's to learn anything from Madonna, it's that anything else they do will pale in comparison to their contributions to music. Well, except for when they work together.

Until then, he's just going to keep thinking we love him and that we're feeding his ego. Like this:

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Take That join the X-Men

I must begin by saying X-Men: First Class is an excellent movie. It's got the brains and smart writing that made the first two films in the series memorable and is a much more worthy prequel than X-Men Origins: Wolverine was. I love Hugh Jackman and all, but the film co-starred will.i.am for cryin' in the sink.

Now, I also am digging Take That's new sound they've adopted since they reunited. The single "Love Love", off the soundtrack for the X-Men flick, sound very much like Muse meets The Killers. Britpop at it's finest!

OK Go unveil the greatest song you'll ever hear

Morgan Spurlock, the documentarian behind Super Size Me, has a new flick about product placement and advertising on the horizon called POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold. It looks pretty interesting and hilarious. Check out the trailer here.

But, as if anticipation for this film couldn't get any bigger, he's enlisted one of my favourite bands, OK Go, to write the movie's theme song.

So, here we have "The Greatest Song I Ever Heard", a standard OK Go anthem that you can't help but sing along with by the end.

While the song does share the film's bravado, the song isn't actually talking about itself. Damian Kulash and Tim Nordwind say the song is referencing Bob Dylan's plugged-in performance at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, and mid-60s Beatles songs.

The nostaligic good feeling soon turn bittersweet by the songs extro, where Damian repeats "We solved all our problems with bigger problems." So true.

Take a listen!

That time when Arcade Fire and Spike Jonze made a movie

Remember Arcade Fire's brilliant video for "The Suburbs", directed by Spike Jonze? I'm sure I'm not the only one who found the cryptic storyline fascinating. 

Well, it seems that the video was actually a bit of a preview for a short film that Jonze and the band worked on together. The film is set to premiere at SXSW this week, and a trailer has just been released.

It looks like all the same footage from the video, but with dialogue that will help make sense of the music video's vague storyline. I can't wait to see the whole thing.

Lil Wayne has been Incepted

Lil Wayne's released the lead single from his upcoming album Tha Carter IV, called "6' 7'"

Clearly, Weezy loved the movie Inception, because the video is one big fat homage to the amazing film.

Of course, what's running around in Lil Wayne's head is visions of hot girls, drinks, a CGI pug (did no one have a real dog?) and his protegé, Cory Gunz, who spits out a nearly incoherant verse toward the end.

The video would have looked better if he had more of a budget, which is a shame. 

As for the song, I have no idea what it's about. All I know is that Weezy's new voice is annoying. I guess it's better than his use of Auto-Tune?