Hmm.  Very interesting, especially the coffee pot.  The 'similar' select tool in 3dsmax seems very well executed, and looks to work accurately by what you are showing us in the video.

Cinema4D's selection tools are some of the most robust and powerful selection tools I've used in any software so far, but making those sort of cloned selections would require something like the Magic Select plugin.

http://nitro4d.com/blog/freebie/magic-select/

I would have modelled this object much the same way you have here to start out, but lacking that same kind of duplicate selection ability, it would be too time consuming to completely follow your tutorial to the end.  Instead, I would have selected a portion of the cylinder which repeats itself, then make all my surface changes to only that one area of the model, and use the radial cloner to create the whole object.  Not sure which workflow would be faster (yours or mine), but they both seem to work well in the end.