50 Cent as a computer scientist.

  • Wolf314159@startrek.websiteEnglish
    327·
    3 days 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
      71·
      2 days 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
        3·
        2 days 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
    282·
    3 days 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
      16·
      3 days 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
        21·
        3 days 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

  • Notso@feddit.orgEnglish
    106·
    4 days ago

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

  • GraniteM@lemmy.worldEnglish
    282·
    3 days 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.

      • nymnympseudonym@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        2 days 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.worldEnglish
      7·
      3 days ago

      I’ve known some incredibly stupid doctors though. They’re extremely good at their field but anything outside that? Horrific!

        • RebekahWSD@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          3 days ago

          I was just thinking of two doctors I met in person but yes, some of them in the news as well!

          The one I remember the most had some really…interesting ideas about food safety and only stopped some of them when I pointed out food safety knowledge has been furthered since her grandmother’s time. Just like. You know. Medicine has.

    • Machinist@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      3 days 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.

  • Zerush@lemmy.mlEnglish
    372·
    4 days 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

  • Slovene@feddit.nlEnglish
    67·
    4 days 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.

  • Fargeol@lemmy.worldEnglish
    505·
    4 days ago

    Dolph Lundgren in Expendables shows some unusual skills in chemical science.

    And yes, I know that Dolph Lundgren studied chemistry IRL

  • kameecoding@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    4 days 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.

  • tetris11@lemmy.mlEnglish
    455·
    4 days ago

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

    Jessica Alba was great in Dark Angel but nothing since then

    • hitmyspot@aussie.zoneEnglish
      211·
      4 days ago

      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.

        • hitmyspot@aussie.zoneEnglish
          2·
          3 days ago

          Haha, yes I did. It got criticism for whitewashing. That’s not on Herz that’s in the producers. She did as fine a job as of expect anyone to do, but it’s a pretty robotic role.

          • ddh@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            2·
            3 days ago

            As a fan of the 1995 Ghost in the Shell I didn’t like my first viewing of this remake but have since realised it was because of my own expectations. Now I watch it as a different film and enjoy it a lot more.

            • hitmyspot@aussie.zoneEnglish
              2·
              3 days ago

              Yes, I find with any remake or reboot, you have to be ready to abandon preconceptions of what you wanted or expected. Fan service is good and bad. There is no point in a remake where it is all the same. Generally, of it’s a ground breaking classic, the remake is bound to disappoint. It can never be as groundbreaking or original, by definition. Subverting expectations can be good but it requires reference to the original, that the original can stand on its own without

      • A7thStone@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 days ago

        Ghost in the Shell was horrible. She played the Major as a completely different character than the original. Scarlett Johansen plays a really good seductive spy, but that’s all she plays. Major Kusanagi was ace.

        • hitmyspot@aussie.zoneEnglish
          2·
          3 days ago

          For me, I found the bits that were most a copy of the anime to be most disconcerting and disappointing. What they did differently was more interesting.

          I did like Major, I didn’t like Dr ouelet but I like Juliette binoche. It was a bit stilted. Michael Pitt was a bit one note and underwhelming but it might also be the concept has dated since the original.

          The actor for Major is currently in foundation, of that’s your jam.

          • A7thStone@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            3 days ago

            I love Foundation. It’s one of the few times I’ve seen something that they’ve diverged so much from the source material yet made an enjoyable story that is still recognizable.

            • hitmyspot@aussie.zoneEnglish
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              3 days ago

              I haven’t read it, which seems to be a bonus. Those that have, hate it as it’s different to their expectations. Same as we’re discussing, different art. I enjoy it but some of it is a bit off, like the acting is stilted and the motivations are contribed. It’s beautiful and interesting and thought provoking though. I just wish they’d settle on a tone and storyline that they could run with

              • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.worldEnglish
                2·
                3 days ago

                I have read the Robot and Foundation books, including the newer prequels (and sequels? Its been a while), and I found the show intensely boring, which is really saying something. Plus a robot fucking kills someone in like episode 4 which is like the literal antithesis to what Asimov wrote.

        • stephen01king@lemmy.zipEnglish
          4·
          3 days ago

          You’re discrediting the great chemistry between Will Smith’s character and Sonny, which means you’re missing out on a good chunk of the movie experience.

          • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.caEnglish
            2·
            3 days ago

            Oh, that chemistry is great, but I don’t think he plays the investigator part well, especially when trying to follow the clues left by Dr Lanning. Will Smith’s style is very off the cuff and anti-authority, and while that works in MIB where there’s the very strict Agent K to play off of, I don’t think he works as the sole driver of a light mystery. Sonny and Spooner’s interactions are fantastic, but they’re usually driven by Sonny giving exposition. Spooner is usually just running from things as they unfold.

            All in all, not a bad performance (there were plenty of objectively worse ones), but I don’t think it does the movie any favours. There are plenty of great things about i, Robot, but Will Smith is not one of them in my opinion.

        • AngryishHumanoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          3 days ago

          Look I don’t particularly like him as a person but it’s hardly a controversial opinion to say he’s a good actor. That was one of his better roles imo.

          • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.caEnglish
            1·
            3 days ago

            I don’t particularly like his acting style, completely outside anything he does as a person. iRobot and Men In Black are some of his better roles, but like Jeff Goldblum or Eddy Murphy, he can only play himself. I don’t think it works in iRobot that well though, but that’s more of a casting choice than bad acting.

            • AngryishHumanoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              3 days ago

              I agree he’s pretty one note but I do think it works for that and Men in Black. He’s a detective in both so yeah, not a lot of range, but it was more subdued from wacky to just sarcastic in I, Robot. I do like sarcastic jerk as a character type which may say something about me.

              • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.caEnglish
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                3 days ago

                Yeah, in MIB he has Agent K to play off of. MIB 3, where he’s the sole driver of the narrative, was a weak entry partly because of this.

                He has plenty of good movies and is an objectively good actor, but I think his style needs to be used well, and i, Robot doesn’t quite hit it. Maybe if Dr. Calvin was a stronger character rather than a worrywort and source of romantic tension, I’d like his performance more.

      • tetris11@lemmy.mlEnglish
        31·
        4 days ago

        I need you to get on the nearest bus and not ask where the destination is

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
      31·
      3 days ago

      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.

      • tetris11@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        Oh I liked Jensen Acjles in Dark Angel, he brought charm and comedic wit to it. Yeah apparently there was some tension but nothing major, just usual work stress

        • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
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          2 days ago

          according to jensen, she was going through a breakup or relationship problems, and was coming on to HIM, im guessing it was sexual tension.