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[–] thebustinater@lemmy.zip 6 points 13 hours ago

Eiza González, Three Body Problem

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 15 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

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.world 2 points 1 hour 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.

[–] psion1369@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 points 13 hours ago

Henry Rollins would be a better philosopher.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Not "Scientist", but Mark Wahlberg as a science teacher in The Happening and as an inventor in Transformers 4.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 17 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

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.website 10 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

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.com 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours 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

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 18 points 19 hours ago

Okay but that's more of a failure of character writing than a failure of casting.

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Glasses and nerd clothing and we're good to go.

[–] portuga@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

Some kind of shell bracelet I think is also mandatory

[–] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Ludacris in every Fast and Furious

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 14 hours ago

Well, not 1, 3 or 4

The one that instantly sprung to mind was Denise Richards as nuclear physicist Dr. Christmas Jones in The World Is Not Enough.

[–] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 10 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

That guy they got to play Stephen Hawking in ST:TNG

[–] halloween_spookster@lemmy.world 11 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] nomy@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 hour ago

Dude couldn't act at all, sounded downright robotic.

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Machinist@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours 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.

[–] thedruid@lemmy.world 8 points 17 hours ago

I worked with a few PhDs in the past. PhDs do not equal common sense.

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Ben Carson, though RFK makes Ben’s stupid appointment look inspired.

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[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Newsteinleo@midwest.social 2 points 14 hours ago

Too real man... To real

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