50 Cent as a computer scientist.

  • Notso@feddit.orgEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Steven Seagal playing Wesley McClaren, a doctor and former government research immunologist in this masterpiece:

  • Zerush@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    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

    Novadays the rule is, if a scientific don’t gain an Nobel Price before he is 40, he never will gain one.

    • Adalast@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      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.

  • GraniteM@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 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.

  • Slovene@feddit.nlEnglish
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    9 months 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.

  • tetris11@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Will Smith in anything Sci-Fi 👎 Scarlett Johansson in anything Sci-Fi 👎

    Jessica Alba was great in Dark Angel but nothing since then

  • Wolf314159@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    9 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.worldEnglish
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      8 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.worldEnglish
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        8 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!

  • Lemminary@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 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

    • Wolf314159@startrek.websiteEnglish
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      9 months ago

      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.

      • dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        9 months ago

        i know many white centrists who are not at all against western imperialism. id argue most white american centrists (and all right wingers) are in favor of western imperialism

    • barnaclebutt@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      No, you are very wrong. Tim Curry could be anything wanted to be, and I believe a transvestite scientist is definitely within the realm of possibilities.

  • psion1369@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 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.

    • hunnybubny@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      9 months 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. He is playing Nick Cage after all.

      Nick has had a great comeback recently. And I love it.

  • kameecoding@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 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.