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50 Cent as a computer scientist.
There's a lot of people in this thread proudly sharing how they stereotype and have preconceptions about people that they don't actually know. And them their justification is that everyone should be a two dimensional single issue character archetype with literally no conflict or contradictions. Have you people even met any adults, especially professionals and academics, that aren't your parents or your teachers?
I mean, I guess Mark Wahlberg could be a teacher, but he'd be one of the ones that gets arrested for something after a year or two.
Because he would be dancing around in his underwear with no shirt to his hit with Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch! Lmao! He’s not believable in anything let’s be honest!
Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones. Dude is supposed to be an archeologist but he's too busy breaking & entering into sacred temples while trampling artifacts to get his dirty hands on some golden relic for profit. Smdh
To be fair, it’s all he’s got going on. His life is in ruins.
You're comparing archeology today with the field's rather sorted past rooted in imperialism. They point out this issue in several, if not all, of the movies. This issue also comes up multiple times in the latest game. Nobody is denying that Dr. Jones is an outlier and a rogue amongst his peers. That conflict is like that core of the character's motivation throughout. He's a hero of western imperialism fighting fascist imperialism. We tend to view ALL imperialism in a negative light today (as it should be), but that certainly wasn't the case when we were fighting literal Nazis.
Okay but that's more of a failure of character writing than a failure of casting.
The one that instantly sprung to mind was Denise Richards as nuclear physicist Dr. Christmas Jones in The World Is Not Enough.
RFK jr?
Too real man... To real
Steven Seagal playing Wesley McClaren, a doctor and former government research immunologist in this masterpiece:
Steven Seagal in ANY MOVIE! Horrible actor and he’s even a “master in martial arts” and still is horrible and a laughable actor in movies trying to “showcase” his talent. Haha!
Anyone remember, “Belly of the Beast” hahaha. (BTW he wrote it!) it’s embarrassing!
Imagine trying to rent a mediocre Gibson movie and accidentally getting a shitty Seagal movie instead!
I need my money back for the rental plus $100k for having you do that to me! Lmao!
To be fair, he's just as unbelievable playing anyone with an average IQ.
Alexandra Daddario in the AMC show The Mayfair Witches.
She ostensibly plays a brilliant brain surgeon. She starts experiencing some spooky witch and demon-related goings on.
She meets up with a guy working for a paranormal research group. He tells her in no uncertain terms "Do not leave this magically-protected apartment. You are in great danger." She agrees.
Five minutes later she walks out of the apartment onto the street. She immediately wanders into a New Orleans street party, is handed an open drink from a stranger, drinks it, and whoopsy daisy gets magically roofied into a demon-engineered hallucination of her dead mother.
Brilliant. Brain. Surgeon.
That's bad writing not bad casting.
I worked with a few PhDs in the past. PhDs do not equal common sense.
As a hiring manager in IT for decades, I learned early: do not hire PhDs
They can write a paper about why the program does not work. They are not willing to sit down roll up their sleeves get intimate with a debugger and make the program work.
Eiza González, Three Body Problem
I do literally know a few scientists that are this hot, though.
If you see actors and artists which really are scientists, or simply scientists in the real world, you know that you can't suppose nothing by the aspect or how freaky (s)he is.
Dr.Mayim Bialik (Neuro-biology, neuro science)
Prof.Dr. Ville-Petri Friman (Microbiology, Gitarrist and singer of a Death Metal band)
Prof.Dr, Misha Lemeshko (Quantum physik, director of the Lemeshko group, YouTube scientific channel)
etc,
50 cents a computer scientist?Why not? Computer science is almost pretty absurd in movies
How about Dolph Lundgren. The Russian boxer from Rocky 2 has a MS in Chemical Engineering and Fulbright scholarship from MIT.
Danica McKellar (Winnie Cooper from the Wonder Years) has a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Chicago and had graduated summa cum laude from UCLA for her BS.
Those are my favorites.
Rocky 4, but yes
Nick Cage in anything
Fuck right off. He is great in The Pig. He is great in Dream Scenario.
He is MAGNIFICENT in Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. He is playing Nick Cage after all.
Nick has had a great comeback recently. And I love it.
I thought he was great and very believable as a dork in Peggy Sue Got Married.
Not "Scientist", but Mark Wahlberg as a science teacher in The Happening and as an inventor in Transformers 4.
I haven't seen the movie but I remember someone talking about Denise Richards playing a nuclear physicist as one of the most ridiculous things. Don't know which movie though.
The world is not enough, James Bond. And her name was Christmas Jones so that Bond could make a joke about Christmas coming more than once a year.
She herself refers to how she played a “nuke-ular psychiatrist in a James Bonk movie” in the episode of 30 Rock where she and Tracy are leading a protest of NBC by their fellow idiots. 🤣
Not scientist but Ludacris is like a master fucking hacker in Fast and Furious right, that's very not believable.
it has to be Mark Wahlberg in the Happening I think as the most unbelievable "scientist" casting and then followed up by misunderstood actual genius engineer in Transformers.
That guy they got to play Stephen Hawking in ST:TNG
Dolph Lundgren in Expendables shows some unusual skills in chemical science.
And yes, I know that Dolph Lundgren studied chemistry IRL
He didn't just "study" he has a Master's Degree in Chemical Engineering and received a Fulbright Scholoarship at MIT. Pretty spot-on casting honestly.
