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January 12, 2016 1:13 PM

Jason Statham gets a charlie horse. The talented Ross Marquand (previously) does nano-impressions of A-list actors in mundane moments.
posted by gottabefunky (44 comments total)

Haha, he's good!
posted by Foci for Analysis at 1:16 PM on January 12, 2016

Aaron's Michael Caine is on point.
posted by leotrotsky at 1:24 PM on January 12, 2016 [1 favorite]

This kinda freaks me out.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 1:25 PM on January 12, 2016 [1 favorite]

The Harrison Ford one is uncanny particularly for the facial expression.
posted by tocts at 1:28 PM on January 12, 2016 [5 favorites]

Macro-entertaining.
posted by Edgewise at 1:29 PM on January 12, 2016 [3 favorites]

Makes me wonder how far he could go with any one of those before it starts to break down.
posted by Greg_Ace at 1:31 PM on January 12, 2016 [8 favorites]

Surprisingly good.
posted by bongo_x at 1:31 PM on January 12, 2016 [2 favorites]

Some of those were very good. A lot of them bore no resemblance to any reality though.
posted by roomthreeseventeen at 1:34 PM on January 12, 2016 [1 favorite]

"Aaron Paul recognizes a smell"

I LOLed.
posted by srboisvert at 1:41 PM on January 12, 2016 [2 favorites]

This is hilarious.
posted by brundlefly at 1:42 PM on January 12, 2016 [2 favorites]

This was a delight. Thanks for posting!
posted by blurker at 1:42 PM on January 12, 2016

john c reilly is the best one for my money
posted by dismas at 1:44 PM on January 12, 2016 [11 favorites]

Justin Timberlake had me grinning.
posted by Fizz at 1:51 PM on January 12, 2016 [1 favorite]

That was strangely compelling - thanks!
posted by mumimor at 1:51 PM on January 12, 2016 [1 favorite]

Fun.
posted by inconsequentialist at 1:52 PM on January 12, 2016 [1 favorite]

Related. Older but still very good.
posted by Pyrogenesis at 1:54 PM on January 12, 2016 [2 favorites]

The impressions are amazing but honestly I think the moments he chose to imitate are where the true genius is.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 1:55 PM on January 12, 2016 [25 favorites]

I watched this with the sound off at first. The facial expressions are really good, although I'd've been interested to try a version without the ID cards to see if I could pick up on who it was. How much did I recognize because I was prompted?
posted by curious nu at 1:56 PM on January 12, 2016 [3 favorites]

Clint Eastwood eating some food that is off.
Jack Nicholson being scratched under the chin.
Cuba Gooding Jr. watches a tennis match.
Robert De Niro smelling his own BO.
Will Ferrel burns his finger.
Owen Wilson suddenly remembering something.
posted by Kabanos at 2:46 PM on January 12, 2016 [7 favorites]

John C. Reilly was hilarious for how split-second and understated the "joke" was, but hot damn that Kevin Spacey was good.
posted by Navelgazer at 2:46 PM on January 12, 2016 [5 favorites]

In the nanosecond between the title card and the impression I was thinking, "Does John C. Reilly really have distinct enough vocal mannerisms to do a recognizable impression?" and then he just hit it out of the park with a spot-on, instantly recognizable imitation.

His Brad Pitt could use a little work. 16 out of 17 isn't bad.
posted by The Gooch at 2:53 PM on January 12, 2016 [3 favorites]

That was far more entertaining than I expected!
posted by OHenryPacey at 3:25 PM on January 12, 2016

I thought his Brad Pitt was great. I had looked away missed the card and still knew instantly who it was.
posted by Hairy Lobster at 4:56 PM on January 12, 2016 [4 favorites]

Will Ferrel burns his finger.

[wide eyed] Sweet mother of ... AaaaAAAhhh! I had no idea something could hurt so much!
posted by zippy at 5:33 PM on January 12, 2016 [4 favorites]

[Turns askance, eyes narrowing to slits, jaw clenched]
Did I buy these cold cuts on the 5th or the 6th?
posted by condour75 at 6:04 PM on January 12, 2016 [3 favorites]

I can't figure out if I'm supposed to think "over 3000 lines of pure C code" is a lot or not. I'm impressed that it's done with so little. I'm maybe a little more verbose than some but I sure have a lot of projects with more than 3000 lines of code that don't do much.
posted by RustyBrooks at 7:21 PM on January 12, 2016 [8 favorites]

I had to look up who Aaron Paul is, and Christopher Walken was slightly disappointing, but otherwise hilarious. I think I'm grinning even harder on the second watch.
posted by threecheesetrees at 7:27 PM on January 12, 2016 [1 favorite]

Owen Wilson suddenly remembering something.

"wow!"
posted by Solon and Thanks at 8:05 PM on January 12, 2016 [4 favorites]

C’mon, the Brad Pitt was great. Don’t know who Aaron Paul is. Didn’t look it up.
posted by bongo_x at 8:07 PM on January 12, 2016

They were all spot-on hillarious, but the Liam Neison one genuinely made me crack up the most.
posted by littlesq at 8:30 PM on January 12, 2016

3000 lines of C code? Which impression is that? Rustybrooks the dark souls thread is that way. :)
posted by Verg at 9:11 PM on January 12, 2016 [1 favorite]

So much of it is in the hands.
posted by gottabefunky at 11:15 PM on January 12, 2016 [1 favorite]

I got distracted by the expression "loses a sneeze." In 30 years of life and several English-speaking countries, I somehow missed that one.

But seriously, I'll be passing this around.
posted by wakannai at 2:54 AM on January 13, 2016 [1 favorite]

Those were awesome! Harrison Ford was so perfect....I was skeptical, but wow. And while many do Matthew McConaughey, "naw, you're all right" was spot on and made me LOL (not least because he resisted the temptation to add two more "all rights" to it).
posted by biscotti at 2:59 AM on January 13, 2016

google Aaron Paul.
posted by condour75 at 5:52 AM on January 13, 2016 [5 favorites]

I've watched this 10 times this morning. Most of them are really amazing: Clooney, Gandolfini, John C. Reilly. I just couldn't see the Liam Neeson one as Liam Neeson, though. Is that one of those things where the closer the accent is to your own the less accurate it seems?
posted by distorte at 7:09 AM on January 13, 2016

To be fair it seemed more like an impression of Liam Neeson as the guy from the Taken films in a wisely-trimmed customer service call scene from one of the sequels.
posted by cortex at 7:40 AM on January 13, 2016 [2 favorites]

I feel like the Christian Bale one isn't getting enough love. It's brilliantly subtle and right on, at the same time.
posted by eugenen at 8:15 AM on January 13, 2016 [2 favorites]

As I was watching this again just now, it occurred to me that many of these situations are things that could have appeared in films as something else, if that makes sense. Stuff where both what is said and the mannerism would be the same. So if he wanted to do it this way, he could have looked for bits that he could study and then repurpose. But maybe not. I don't want to diminish how good many of these are.

It's just kind of amazing to me how a few of them are pared down to almost nothing -- maybe three words and very few gestures and expressions. And not the flashy things like McConaughey's "alright" -- most didn't rely upon characteristic phrases. And yet they are so evocative of the actor. It's weird. I think Harrison Ford is a good example of this.

"...and Christopher Walken was slightly disappointing, but otherwise hilarious."

What I liked about it was that he did it low-key and didn't use the stuff that everybody picks up on in Walken's speech and manner. Everybody does Walken and it's fun, but at this point I'd really like to see some very, very good impressions that don't rely upon hitting so strongly on Walken's tics.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 8:27 AM on January 13, 2016 [1 favorite]

I can't figure out if I'm supposed to think "over 3000 lines of pure C code" is a lot or not. I'm impressed that it's done with so little. I'm maybe a little more verbose than some but I sure have a lot of projects with more than 3000 lines of code that don't do much.

oh man I need a video impression of Christopher Walken getting ganked in DS by the same backstabbing bot for a third time in a row
posted by FatherDagon at 8:57 AM on January 13, 2016 [4 favorites]

"Oh, c'mon, that's just—a bonfire, I'm just trying to get to, y'know, it's—it's frustrating... "
posted by cortex at 9:01 AM on January 13, 2016 [2 favorites]

I would subscribe to a channel where he does a different celebrity getting brain freeze every day.
posted by zippy at 11:49 AM on January 13, 2016 [1 favorite]

They've just posted another bunch: More Dead-On Celebrity Impressions by Ross Marquand.
posted by paleyellowwithorange at 1:18 AM on January 21, 2016

GRAVITY!
posted by Room 641-A at 3:31 AM on January 21, 2016