50 Cent as a computer scientist.
RFK jr?
Too real man… To real
Steven Seagal playing Wesley McClaren, a doctor and former government research immunologist in this masterpiece:
To be fair, he’s just as unbelievable playing anyone with an average IQ.
Omg, I forgot.
You forgor?
I forgor. :(
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Rut-roh
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
As a microbiologist, I can confirm much of my job has been staring at and gently fingering chemistry glassware diagrams.
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.
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
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.
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.
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. 🤣
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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?
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.
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!
George Clooney as
Batmananything other than George Clooney.I dunno; I thought he was pretty convincing. I mean, the man had a Bat Card and everything.
That guy they got to play Stephen Hawking in ST:TNG
You mean Stephen Hawking?
Yes
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
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.
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
