50 Cent as a computer scientist.
Not “Scientist”, but Mark Wahlberg as a science teacher in The Happening and as an inventor in Transformers 4.
Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start.
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Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 42 minutes ago
pH3ra@lemmy.ml 45 minutes ago
Ludacris in every Fast and Furious
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 23 minutes ago
Well, not 1, 3 or 4
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Glasses and nerd clothing and we’re good to go.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
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
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Okay but that’s more of a failure of character writing than a failure of casting.
notso@feddit.org 22 hours ago
Steven Seagal playing Wesley McClaren, a doctor and former government research immunologist in this masterpiece:
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Imagine trying to rent a mediocre Gibson movie and accidentally getting a shitty Seagal movie instead!
beejboytyson@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
You didn’t like it? I thought it was really good.
I hated all the white washing Mel does though…
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I wonder if space ice had reviewed it
blackbrook@mander.xyz 13 hours ago
To be fair, he’s just as unbelievable playing anyone with an average IQ.
pyre@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
you take that back or he will snatch every motherfucking punani
fossilesque@mander.xyz 22 hours ago
Omg, I forgot.
notso@feddit.org 20 hours ago
He’s doing some some serious science in that one for about 1:30 minutes. A rare cerebral moment in his filmography: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pueLyUlJFTc&t=4023
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
The one that instantly sprung to mind was Denise Richards as nuclear physicist Dr. Christmas Jones in The World Is Not Enough.
GraniteM@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
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.
Machinist@lemmy.world 12 minutes ago
After increasingly cussing the TV as the level of stupid rose higher and higher, we made it to the part where magic purple witch spray was used. I paused the TV and my girl and I just looked at each other, we were done.
Also, who the fuck writes in a fucking basement in New Orleans? Not motherfucking Anne Rice. So stupid.
We’re finishing up the second season of Interview with a Vampire. Other than a bad Southern accent in the first season, it’s excellent and super queer. Highly recommend.
thedruid@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I worked with a few PhDs in the past. PhDs do not equal common sense.
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I’ve known some incredibly stupid doctors though. They’re extremely good at their field but anything outside that? Horrific!
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
Ben Carson, though RFK makes Ben’s stupid appointment look inspired.
thagoat@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
Nick Cage in anything
fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 day ago
hunnybubny@discuss.tchncs.de 20 hours ago
Fuck right off. He is great in The Pig. He is great in Dream Scenario.
He is MAGNIFICENT in Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
loudwhisper@infosec.pub 20 hours ago
The weather man? I think he fit very well. Same for Lord of War. I know they are both 20 years old, but still.
cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
blackbrook@mander.xyz 13 hours ago
RFK jr?
Newsteinleo@midwest.social 41 minutes ago
Too real man… To real
Redderthanmisty@lemmygrad.ml 4 hours ago
Ryan Gosling in the upcoming Project Hail Mary
I’m sure it’ll be fine, but that casting choice wouldn’t have been my first pick.
thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 7 hours ago
That guy they got to play Stephen Hawking in ST:TNG
halloween_spookster@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
You mean Stephen Hawking?
Slovene@feddit.nl 1 day ago
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.
Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
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.
Cruxifux@feddit.nl 20 hours ago
HAHAHAHAHA oh my god that’s so fucking funny.
tgirlschierke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 hours ago
I want to mock Bond girl names but I’m not sure I can come up with anything more ridiculous than Goldfinger’s Pussy Galore.
TheRealKuni@piefed.social 23 hours ago
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. 🤣
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
I completely forgot about beer cans that told you how cold they were!
stevethegeek@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Are you thinking her Bond movie, The World is Not Enough? I don’t think she was cast because of her ability to accurately portray a scientist…
Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 23 hours ago
I don’t think she was cast because of her ability to accurately portray a scientist…
Scientits on the other hand… 😏
Slovene@feddit.nl 20 hours ago
I don’t know, I just remember that from a youtube vid. 🤷 It could have been cinemasins or some other movie review channel.
creaturefromthebeigelagoon@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
James Bond: The World is Not Enough. www.imdb.com/title/tt0143145/
She played Dr. Christmas Jones and is still the least believable part of any James Bond movie
hitmyspot@aussie.zone 1 day ago
But was still a fun character and it was a ludicrous but fun movie. At that time, they were leaning into the cheesez rather than trying for gritty, in the Daniel Craig era.
huf@hexbear.net 1 day ago
the world is not enough, a pierce brosnan bond movie:
“Posing as a Russian scientist Bond meets American nuclear physicist Dr. Christmas Jones cooperating with Russian armed forces in overseeing the dismantling of the site.”Slovene@feddit.nl 20 hours ago
Aahhh, remember when Russia was seen as an enemy of the US of A? Pepperidge Farm remembers … 🥲
kameecoding@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
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.
fargeol@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Dolph Lundgren in Expendables shows some unusual skills in chemical science.
And yes, I know that Dolph Lundgren studied chemistry IRL
Jack_Burton@lemmy.ca 22 hours ago
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.
Captain_Buddha@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Dolph Lundgren can smell crime!
1hitsong@lemmy.ml 20 hours ago
We show it.
wet_bones@lemmy.4d2.org 5 hours ago
Tim Curry as Dr. Frank-N-Furter.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Will Smith in anything Sci-Fi 👎 Scarlett Johansson in anything Sci-Fi 👎
Jessica Alba was great in Dark Angel but nothing since then
TachyonTele@piefed.social 1 day ago
Alba was fantastic in Sin City
Slovene@feddit.nl 1 day ago
You keep ScarJo’s name outta your fucking mouth!
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 hours ago
i recently saw post about alan tudyk indicating he was cast aside because will smith had to be lead of irobot, and they saw ALan was the better actor for that movie, he seems kind of pissed about it(this came out at the same time that resident alien was cancelled)
tetris11@lemmy.ml 36 minutes ago
Oh I liked Jensen Acjles in Dark Angel, he brought charm and comedic wit to it. Yeah apparently there was some tension but nothing major, just usual work stress
hitmyspot@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Independence day was great when it was released. Men in black, too.
Lucy was interesting. Ghost in the machine wasnt as good as the (amazing) original, but was still good.
A7thStone@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Ghost in the Shell was horrible. She played the Major as a completely different character than the original. Scarlett Johansen plays a really good seductive spy, but that’s all she plays. Major Kusanagi was ace.
WR5@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Do you mean ghost in the shell for Scarlett Johansson?
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 hours ago
I maintain that Men in Black (the first one) is a masterpiece. Otherwise… yeah.
rainwall@piefed.social 20 hours ago
Jessica Alba went on to make a few hundred millions selling soap, so shes got that goin for her.
Slovene@feddit.nl 20 hours ago
Which is nice.
AngryishHumanoid@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
What?! I, Robot was great!
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 17 hours ago
There were good parts in that movie, but Will Smith wasn’t one of them.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 19 hours ago
I need you to get on the nearest bus and not ask where the destination is
Flyberius@hexbear.net 19 hours ago
Under The Skin was a great sci-fi film with Scarlett Johansson leading
Kolanaki@pawb.social 15 hours ago
Samuel L Jackson has been a scientist a couple times and none of them made sense.
Nycto@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Hold on to your butts.
perishthethought@piefed.social 1 day ago
Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic Park?
cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
smeg@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Jeff Goldblum is the worst example, he’s always a scientist!
Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
It’s the glasses. They make him a nerd apparently.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
The Fly!
jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
Matt Damon in any of his space movies.
unknown@piefed.social 18 hours ago
The guy who played John Chriton in Farscape.
He was very suited to the action and comedy stuff in the show, but there's just something kinda gormless about his face that made him mathing out and frantically writing sums on the floor seem more unbelievable than the muppet space opera going on around him.
Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
zaphodb2002@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
Mark Wahlberg in The Happening.
individual@toast.ooo 20 hours ago
Sandra Bullock ; the net
xylol@leminal.space 1 day ago
Ice cube pulled off being a modern social media user in the new war of the worlds themed ad, he didnt even know how to leave the house
Eshrekshion@piefed.social 20 hours ago
Giancarlo Esposito as Gustavo Fring, the Chilean in Breaking Bad. His Spanish was not Chilean at all and there are hardly any African Chileans (especially not in the era during which he was supposedly in Chile).
razorcandy@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Charlie Sheen as an astronomer in The Arrival.
hactar42@lemmy.ml 12 hours ago
Tara Reid as an archaeologist and museum curator in Alone in the Dark. In fact the only good thing about that movie was the soundtrack.
rustyfish@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
George Clooney as
Batmananything other than George Clooney.DearMoogle@lemmy.today 16 hours ago
I recently watched Rise of the Planet of the Apes, so James Franco as the scientist/dad. Like seriously, we’re rebooting such a classic and James Franco is the best we could come up with??
Wolf314159@startrek.website 49 minutes ago
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?