Awesome Videos

If it wasn’t strange enough to see Bruce Lee reincarnated via CGI, it’s even more odd that his uncanny doppelgänger is appearing in a promo for Johnnie Walker Blue – since clean-living Bruce never drank. Still, it’s worth watching.

(NSFW: Language, Gore) Distractify put together this compilation of some of the cheesiest, bloodiest, most melodramatic, most over-the-top death scenes in the history of moviemaking. Oh, and you missed a few.

SIGGRAPH 2013’s Computer Animation Festival honors some of the best CGI in recent years, from indies like R’ha to big budget stunners like the one in Cyberpunk 2077. List of videos here. The song is Disintegration by Monarchy.

Like hockey players, baseball pros are not that easy to recognize when they’re in plain clothes. Especially if they haven’t been in the league for a long time. That doesn’t make this prank less funny though.

YouTuber ICEnJAM makes prank calls to establishments using soundbites from video game characters. The linked video features Skyrim’s Septimus Signus asking librarians for a copy of The Elder Scrolls. Indeed!

Jason Lewis films the Performance Picture Vehicles crew as they setup and perform a car roll over stunt for an unnamed film. Skip to 8:50 for the stunt. The amount of work and risk they put in for a few seconds of video is amazing.

The music video for dance DJ Duke Dumont’s Need U (100%) is about a man who somehow ends up with a cassette tape player inside his belly. It doesn’t bother with the how or why; and neither should we.

You’ll have to give up the next 10 minutes of your life to watch this, but you’ll quickly be hypnotized by the colorful dominoes falling over to break the previous record for most dominoes ever in a spiral – and that’s just the start.

A hilarious parody of classic Schoolhouse Rock cartoons, courtesy of Jimmy Kimmel. But instead of being idealistic, we’re schooled in how today’s world really works, and the future today’s young people can look forward to.

(NSFW: Language) A PPCLI paratrooper jumps from a plane and finds himself in a very precarious situation. There’s just no avoiding the plethora of trees the wind pushes him into. Fortunately, his luck holds out at the last second.

A sea otter plays hide and seek with an Australian cattle dog. The otter panicked at first, but then it realized that the dog wasn’t really out to harm him. So he began trolling the canine. Watch what he does at the end.

Footage of one of the last known uncontacted tribes on the planet in the Brazilian forest. A zoom lens provides a glimpse without disturbing them, while we learn about the threat the “civilized” world poses to them.

Master prop maker Tony Swatton couldn’t get his hands on any adamantium, but he still managed to build a deadly replica of Wolverine’s claws. The 12″ blades are made from steel and have aluminum handles.

(NSFW: Language) Everyone loves a good deal, but we also have our limits. The UCB Midnight Show pokes fun at the super sized offerings of some American food chains. Be wary, be wary, of the deals of Domuary.

Bo Burnham has been making quite a name for himself over on Vine, and lately he’s been trying his hand at magic in his short video clips. He hasn’t quite gotten the hang of the whole sleight of hand thing yet though.

The latest episode of BeatDownBoogie’s hardcore take on the Mushroom Kingdom features a barrel-flinging ape with mean martial arts skills, and a suprisingly heartwrenching story to tell. Previous episodes here and here.

Placebos and the placebo effect are some of the most intriguing puzzles of humanity. Evolutionary psychologist Nicholas Humphrey talks about a possible reason for why placebos even work at all.

Some say this tale of Bobcat meets Hyundai is “the Most Ridiculous Road Accident in the History of Mankind.” That’s pretty overstated in our opinion but we were definitely still scratching our heads for a while after seeing the crash.

YouTuber Hinamitetu spends far too much of his time building robots which perform gymnastic feats. But we have to say we’re impressed by this ‘bot and it’s ability to not only pull off a quadruple backflip, but to nail the landing.

A monologue from Craig Ferguson from a few years ago as he pontificates on why being old and experienced is no longer desirable. You can just replace that Jonas Brothers sound bite with Justin Bieber or One Direction.

Using only a bass guitar – and lots of tinkering, musician Ran Mussman managed to put together this brief, but impressive medley of Queens of the Stone Age tunes without using any other musical instruments.

A man watches his buddy chat up a woman while listening to a broadcast of a ball game. Then things gradually go weird. Then everyone goes nuts. We’re not sure who the craziest one is though: the players or the audience.

YouTuber Sqorck presents an eerie parody of Pixar’s iconic animated logo concocted by fellow Redditors. They should just run with it and make a feature-length parody, such as A Bugged Life, Finding Edward and uhm, Monsters.