Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start.
Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start.
50 Cent as a computer scientist.
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Nick Cage in anything
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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.
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I thought he was great and very believable as a dork in Peggy Sue Got Married.
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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.
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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.
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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. 🤣
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I completely forgot about beer cans that told you how cold they were!
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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...
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I don't think she was cast because of her ability to accurately portray a scientist...
Scientits on the other hand... 😏
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I don't know, I just remember that from a youtube vid. 🤷 It could have been cinemasins or some other movie review channel.
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James Bond: The World is Not Enough. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0143145/
She played Dr. Christmas Jones and is still the least believable part of any James Bond movie
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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.
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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."
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Dolph Lundgren in Expendables shows some unusual skills in chemical science.
And yes, I know that Dolph Lundgren studied chemistry IRL
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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.
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Dolph Lundgren can smell crime!
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We show it.
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RFK jr?
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Too real man... To real
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Will Smith in anything Sci-Fi 👎 Scarlett Johansson in anything Sci-Fi 👎
Jessica Alba was great in Dark Angel but nothing since then
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Alba was fantastic in Sin City
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You keep ScarJo's name outta your fucking mouth!
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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.
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Jessica Alba went on to make a few hundred millions selling soap, so shes got that going for her.
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Which is nice.
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I maintain that Men in Black (the first one) is a masterpiece. Otherwise... yeah.
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Under The Skin was a great sci-fi film with Scarlett Johansson leading
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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). will smith pulled a "ROCK,johson" to become the lead.
wasnt she in the original fantasitc 4 movies? Jessen ackles worked with her, and he said she was btch in the set(it was interview) im guesisng thats why she isnt in anything anymore.
they tried to make chris hensworth all sciency sound, in thors ragnorok, when they were referring to the "spatial phenomenon, he doesnt fit that role at all.
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The one that instantly sprung to mind was Denise Richards as nuclear physicist Dr. Christmas Jones in The World Is Not Enough.
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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
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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.
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Rocky 4, but yes
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I would have thought you'd pick the more obvious example of Dexter Holland, from the Offspring, who has a PhD in molecular biology. Apparently the line "Gotta keep 'em separated" from Come Out and Play was inspired by two chemicals that he had to keep separated.
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Brian May from Queen has a PhD in astrophysics. He quit his PhD when Queen started seeing success. Went back and finished in like 2007 IIRC.
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I guess I should have read a little further down before throwing his name in the pile.
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I would also drop this dude, because he's pretty fly (for a white guy); https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexter_Holland
Yeah ok not an educator or a particularly famous name in the sphere, but a PhD don't come for free
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There's tonnes of metalheads in science. It's great. Gives me folks to go to gigs with.
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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
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That was the full-length Amazon ad, right?
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isnt that movie just a giant amazon ad.
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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.
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I worked with a few PhDs in the past. PhDs do not equal common sense.
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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.
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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.
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Mark Wahlberg in The Happening.
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He also played as an inventor in one of the transformers movies.
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I believe he's a slightly removed HS teacher.
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Charlie Sheen as an astronomer in The Arrival.
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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
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Okay but that's more of a failure of character writing than a failure of casting.
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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.
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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
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To be fair, it’s all he’s got going on. His life is in ruins.
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I love that movie so much
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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Ben Browder, he has a bachelor's degree in Psychology.
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Channing Tatum as a NASA scientist in "fly me to the moon" was just painful.
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Matt Damon in any of his space movies.
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Thank you!
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Naw, he did a great job as Mark Watney.
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How about Elysium?
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Samuel L Jackson has been a scientist a couple times and none of them made sense.
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Hold on to your butts.
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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.
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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
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Don't think you can beat oceanographer Debbie Gibson in Megashark v Giant Octopus.
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Easy. Christopher Judge in Mega Shark Versus Mecha Shark.
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I see your Christopher Judge and raise you Tiffany in Mega Pirahna.
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I will not have you disparage the great Christopher Judge in front of me, boy.
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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??
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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.
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He became a rogue scholar, huh? A dark path that leads only to evil scientist.
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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).
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He wasn’t the scientist.
He was the businessman, his lover was the scientist until the cartel murdered him
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Lmao, that aside, I was thinking about how he'd make a convincing scientist in films.
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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.
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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
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It's one of those where you just watch the pitch meeting of it instead of the movie
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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.
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Entire cast of tbbt, incl. Hawking.
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Not "Scientist", but Mark Wahlberg as a science teacher in The Happening and as an inventor in Transformers 4.
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Eiza González, Three Body Problem
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I do literally know a few scientists that are this hot, though.
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Ludacris in every Fast and Furious
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Well, not 1, 3 or 4
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Anna Kendrick as an astronaut scientist in Stowaway
Charlie Day in Pacific Rim
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Eh Charlie day is funny as fuck and Pacific Rim is fucking giant robots punching giant monsters, the fuck you need believable scientist in there, my god.
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You're not wrong, I'm just answering the question lol
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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.
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Henry Rollins would be a better philosopher.
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Henry Rollins is a philosopher.
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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.
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In Don't Look Up, DiCaprio's character is shown getting into flame wars on the internet, and that struck me as something that a professional astronomer would be above.
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Bruh, academic publishing is basically being a professional at flame wars.
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I assumed that they did that in their publications and letters to editors, not the YouTube comment sections. I guess I'm wrong (forgot about Avi Leob).
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Glasses and nerd clothing and we're good to go.
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Some kind of shell bracelet I think is also mandatory
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This is Keanu in Chain Reaction all day long and all night. See also Keanu in The Watcher for least convincing serial killer.
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Tim Curry as Dr. Frank-N-Furter.
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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.
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Racism and sexism on display with this post and comments. cmon, be better.
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nic cageism is a serious blight on society
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That too lol
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Did you just have that in the chamber expecting different comments? The overwhelming number of comments here are white, male actors. In fact, so far, only 3 women have even been mentioned.
You look like a fool.
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I do not. But thanks for the being civil.
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Steven Seagal playing Wesley McClaren, a doctor and former government research immunologist in this masterpiece:
Imagine trying to rent a mediocre Gibson movie and accidentally getting a shitty Seagal movie instead!
You didn't like it? I thought it was really good.
I hated all the white washing Mel does though....
I need my money back for the rental plus $100k for having you do that to me! Lmao!
I wonder if space ice had reviewed it
To be fair, he's just as unbelievable playing anyone with an average IQ.
you take that back or he will snatch every motherfucking punani
Omg, I forgot.
He's doing some some serious science in that one for about 1:30 minutes. A rare cerebral moment in his filmography: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pueLyUlJFTc&t=4023
You forgor?
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!