50 Cent as a computer scientist.
Steven Seagal playing Wesley McClaren, a doctor and former government research immunologist in this masterpiece:
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Imagine trying to rent a mediocre Gibson movie and accidentally getting a shitty Seagal movie instead!
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To be fair, he's just as unbelievable playing anyone with an average IQ.
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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.
He was great in "The Rock".
He was awesome in Face Off. Never knew he could pull off such a great John Travolta. I almost thought they just switched the roles between the two actors. Though John Travolta's Nick Cage was kinda weird.
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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.
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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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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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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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.
Will Smith in anything Sci-Fi 👎 Scarlett Johansson in anything Sci-Fi 👎
Jessica Alba was great in Dark Angel but nothing since then
Alba was fantastic in Sin City
You keep ScarJo's name outta your fucking mouth!
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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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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Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic Park?
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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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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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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
Okay but that's more of a failure of character writing than a failure of casting.
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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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Charlie Sheen as an astronomer in The Arrival.
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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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.
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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