50 Cent as a computer scientist.
Eiza González, Three Body Problem
Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start.
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thebustinater@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
vonxylofon@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I do literally know a few scientists that are this hot, though.
psion1369@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Henry Rollins in Johnny Mnemonic. Dude had to play a super nerdy doctor, basically a wet noodle. Let’s cast a guy with a nine inch neck and could actually water his way through most of the bad guy minions.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Not “Scientist”, but Mark Wahlberg as a science teacher in The Happening and as an inventor in Transformers 4.
pH3ra@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Ludacris in every Fast and Furious
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Well, not 1, 3 or 4
Wolf314159@startrek.website 7 months 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?
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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.
Plurrbear@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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!
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Glasses and nerd clothing and we’re good to go.
portuga@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Some kind of shell bracelet I think is also mandatory
Redderthanmisty@lemmygrad.ml 7 months 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.
wet_bones@lemmy.4d2.org 7 months ago
Tim Curry as Dr. Frank-N-Furter.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 7 months 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
darkpanda@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
To be fair, it’s all he’s got going on. His life is in ruins.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Okay but that’s more of a failure of character writing than a failure of casting.
thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 7 months ago
That guy they got to play Stephen Hawking in ST:TNG
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 7 months 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 7 months 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.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 7 months ago
That’s bad writing not bad casting.
Machinist@lemmy.world 7 months 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 7 months ago
I worked with a few PhDs in the past. PhDs do not equal common sense.
nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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.
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 7 months 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 7 months ago
Ben Carson, though RFK makes Ben’s stupid appointment look inspired.
hactar42@lemmy.ml 8 months 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.
blackbrook@mander.xyz 8 months ago
RFK jr?
Newsteinleo@midwest.social 7 months ago
Too real man… To real
kameecoding@lemmy.world 8 months 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.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 8 months ago
Samuel L Jackson has been a scientist a couple times and none of them made sense.
Nycto@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Hold on to your butts.
DearMoogle@lemmy.today 8 months 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??
Adalast@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Honestly, that one I can’t agree with. While none of them are in scientific fields, James Franco is a rogue scholar who holds 4 MFAs and 2 PhDs. They could have picked MUCH worse and less educated people. He also avidly researches science and technology as he pursues the craft of writing science fiction.
VoterFrog@lemmy.world 7 months ago
He became a rogue scholar, huh? A dark path that leads only to evil scientist.
KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Ice cube in whatever the fuck he’s doing in the war of the world rehash on prime. From the trailer it just looks like ice cube is reacting to chat about mid af cgi videos
kameecoding@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s one of those where you just watch the pitch meeting of it instead of the movie
Hagenman@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s not a statement of actors, but I’ll take any chance to share Kyle Kinane. He had a bit where he basically tears apart all the main actors in The Fast and the Furious franchise and it’s amazing. Hopefully this fits within the thread rules.
jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Matt Damon in any of his space movies.
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 7 months ago
How about Elysium?
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Thank you!
unknown@piefed.social 8 months 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.
DamienGramatacus@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I always though with Farscape, spending time in that universe and interacting with all the mental space shit (plus all the stuff with his brain) made Crighton justifiably unhinged. He plays it fairly straight in the first few episodes.
Adalast@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Ben Browder, he has a bachelor’s degree in Psychology.
Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 8 months ago
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
I love that movie so much
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Wow, I didn’t realize it was Hugh Jackman playing that role until today.
Eshrekshion@piefed.social 8 months ago
[deleted]Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
He wasn’t the scientist.
He was the businessman, his lover was the scientist until the cartel murdered him
fossilesque@mander.xyz 8 months ago
Lmao, that aside, I was thinking about how he’d make a convincing scientist in films.
individual@toast.ooo 8 months ago
Sandra Bullock ; the net
fossilesque@mander.xyz 8 months ago
I haven’t seen that, but I could see her working in science for sure. I know folks that remind me of her.
zaphodb2002@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Mark Wahlberg in The Happening.
wildcardology@lemmy.world 8 months ago
He also played as an inventor in one of the transformers movies.
scytale@piefed.zip 8 months ago
beejboytyson@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I believe he’s a slightly retarded HS teacher.
unknown@piefed.social 8 months ago
Krysten Ritter in Orphan Black: Echos. They gave her glasses and a blazer and it was not convincing.
I've met computer nerds who look like 50, but I haven't seen the media the image is from so maybe his acting sucked, idk.
TheMadBeagle@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
I had similar thoughts about 50 cent. Haven’t seen the media, but it’s just a looks think I wotk with people who look like he does in that picture
notso@feddit.org 8 months ago
Steven Seagal playing Wesley McClaren, a doctor and former government research immunologist in this masterpiece:
Plurrbear@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Steven Seagal in ANY MOVIE! Horrible actor and he’s even a “master in martial arts” and still is horrible and laughable actor in movies trying to “showcase” his talent. Haha!
Anyone remember, “Belly of the Beast” hahaha. (BTW he wrote it!) it’s embarrassing!
rustyfish@lemmy.world 8 months ago
George Clooney as
Batmananything other than George Clooney.Moonweedbaddegrasse@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Don’t think you can beat oceanographer Debbie Gibson in Megashark v Giant Octopus.
Zerush@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Some more
theguardian.com/…/secret-scientists-natalieportma…