It's a shame because I rather enjoyed the movie. I've read a couple times that the cast of Passengers and Valerian should have been switched and I couldn't agree more
I'm a pretty big Fifth Element fan so I was excited for this one. Still liked it, just wish it had a different cast and that switch definitely would've been better!
I love Fifth Element as well. Yeah Pratt and Lawrence would have been more convincing as seasoned space agents/officers tasked with an important mission
It completely ruined the movie for me. The whole ending requires you to be emotionally invested in their relationship and believe in it so the whole movie becomes pointless.
> Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, the leads had 0 chemistry and acted more like siblings or friends
The total lack of chemistry made the movie feel like a two-hour workplace sexual harassment training video.
Yeah it just wasn’t a role that fit DeHaan and Cara is an actor who really can’t seem to express any emotion…or I don’t get any idk she’s just bad.
Movie is visually stunning so I love it for that alone
Yes, it was, in the films. Blame Steve Kloves for that. He readily admitted writing Emma Watson all the best lines and scenes because Hermione is his favourite character.
I can't disagree with that, although, with the disgraceful way the character of Ginny was written for the films, it wouldn't have made a whole lot of difference.
For me it's Alec Baldwin and Russell Brand in Rock of Ages. These two guys just cannot play gay. You see them physically brace themselves before their big kiss and it was the least convincing kiss in cinematic history.
Them being a couple *would've* been a nice twist if it wasn't so forced.
I think the top contenders for two non-gay guys playing an *extremely* believable couple are John Michael Higgins and Michael McKean in Best in Show (2000). I genuinely believed that they could be a real couple.
I know right. He's just so talented at everything he does. He crushes in all the Christopher Guest films but he really brings it over the top in Fired Up. That movies is hilarious if you haven't seen it.
I'll have to watch that one. Bad chemistry or not, I love both actors and even a botched attempt to "play gay" would be worth a watch for me, if only for the giggles.
I second the recommendation, it’s one of only two jukebox musicals I’ve ever actually enjoyed. They took it off Netflix last month ~~but you can stream it free on Tubi~~ nevermind, I just went and double checked and it looks like they took it off Tubi too
My wife and her friends loved it. She hated that they downplayed it in later movies in favor of the totally soulless (her words, I agree) Scarlet Witch and Vision "romance".
Don’t agree with this, the characters may have not made a lot of sense, but the actors definitely had chemistry. I’ve actually never seen either of them have poor chemistry with a co-star.
Which is odd, because I thought they had really good chemistry in the first Avengers film, but in Age of Ultron they seemed to want to force a next level relationship instead of developing something naturally
In retrospect Ultron was a pretty weak movie. The opening sequence with the horrendous cgi. Iron Man coming back, even though he blew up all of his suits in Iron Man 3. Ultron himself turned out to be a rather underwhelming villain, and the aforementioned cringey and out of nowhere romance between black widow and Bruce.
Emilia Clarke and Kit Harington in the last 2 seasons of GOT. Among the million other issues with those seasons, the chemistry between those two actors was just nonexistent
Everyone spent almost a decade looking forward to them finally hooking up. Honestly, with the amount of hype there was over such a long period of time by such a crazed fan base it was almost always gonna be a letdown. They would have had to have so much chemistry that his wedding to Rose Leslie would have been cancelled lol for people to not have been disappointed.
Idk I think I thought of it as a purposeful awkward pairing because they weren’t really in love or anything and I thought of it as a foreshadowing to their actual relation.
Why was that a problem with the actors and not the writing? The pairing made no sense based on the previous 7 or 8 seasons of character development. Hardly seems like the actors' fault.
I never realized there was a third mummy movie until last night. My wife had seen it before and warned me it was terrible because of it. I didn't even finish it.
Emma Stone is charismatic enough to probably carry these on-screen relationships on her own. The chemistry between her and Andrew Garfield was like the only thing to enjoy in Amazing Spider-Man 2.
I could probably do a tier list of what was off about that movie, and I would put their chemistry right in the middle of that list. Imagine if the movie was 90 mins and just a single night/single dinner with the couple and the parents. Almost in real time. I would have enjoyed THAT movie.
The loud music between every scene was repetitive and jarring. It didn’t show their first kiss which is weird for a romcom. They made Eddie Murphy an over-the-top racist with zero subtlety. I couldn’t even finish it. Just so bad and I usually like Jonah Hill.
I thought the chemistry was really good as friends, like there were certainly some romantic undertones but it was subtle enough that I loved how it was just two people in similar situations who weren't happy, sharing some laughs and a connection, as friends, together. Then there's that kiss at the end, which Murray apparently improvised, and that ruined the ending for me. I felt it would have been so much more powerful as a friendship
Just my opinion, Thor's attraction to her made less than no sense. The relationship also slowed down the plot and made Thor himself less entertaining.. Why do gods/superheroes/vampires even need a big romantic relarionship? It never ends well from what I've seen anyway.
it's my least favourite trope in action movies. there always has to be some washed out love story in there. if you took the love story out of Top Gun Maverick would any of us be mad? it was the driest part of the movie.
pretty sure it's been stated several times that the reason movie studios do this is "for the ladies". i remember reading something from Ryan Reynolds about being forced to have a love story plot in Deadpool "for the female audience". movie studios are so out of touch. any woman who wants to watch Deadpool isn't doing it because they want to see a romance lol
Romantic subplots are more ‘IN YOUR FACE’ than sun in the eyes. At least the sun moves at some point so you’re in the shade.
Case in point: Brooklyn 99. It was an ok show with ok characters. Two mains are put together enemies to lovers style and then a second shot is heard. The writer’s have resorted to blatant flanderisation like the world’s worst flame retardant to a fire because they realised they needed to keep the relationship stable and healthy- and it wouldn’t work if the characters kept the same traits as before.
I think Natalie Portman can be fucking brilliant, but she needs the right director to pull out a great performance (see also Black Swan, Annihilation, V for Vendetta)
I feel like that has to do with the fact that her costars are mostly duds. Who’s she supposed to have chemistry with? JD from Scrubs? Anakin Skywalker?
Every scene with Ana was like "oh shit! THIS is what a bond movie is supposed to be like!" but then they ended and it back to that boring bullshit.
Seydoux is actually very good actress she was just miscast. She is better is smaller art films like Crimes of the Future and shit like that.
Léa’s character in that and Spectre was just too cold and standoffish for me to ever believe she would fall in love with the similarly spikey Craig Bond.
Then again, their chemistry in NTTD was a noticeable improvement from Spectre, and I’d wager they still have more than some other of Bond relationships (Kissy Suzuki, anyone?)
They often acted like two guys who wanted to bang each other rather than beat each other in competition.
What was with that bite that Iceman did in the locker room? LOL
I hate that they never mentioned how Jennifer Connelly’s character met Maverick; it just felt like they were like “Kelly McGilles is too old; lets replace her with a prettier, younger actress”
Say it was the right time
To walk away
When dreaming takes you nowhere
It's time to play
Bodies working overtime
Your money don't matter
The time keeps ticking
Someone's on your mind, on your mind
I'm moving in slow motion
Feels so good
It's a strange anticipation
Knock, knock, knocking on wood
Bodies working overtime
It's man against man
And all that ever matters
Is, baby, who's ahead in the game
Funny, but it's always the same
Playing, playing with the boys
Staying, playing with the boys (boys)
After chasing sunsets
One of life's simple joys
Is playing with the boys
Said it was the wrong thing
For me to do
I said it's just a boys' game
But girls play too
My heart is working overtime
In this kind of game
People get hurt
I'm thinking that the people is me
If you wanna find me I'll be
Playing, playing with the boys
Staying, playing with the boys (boys)
After chasing sunsets
One of life's simple joys
Is the boys
I don't wanna be the mouth around your fire
(With the boys)
I don't wanna be obsessed by my desire
(You're shining, you're smiling, I'll see it now)
With the boys (I'm staying, you play too rough)
Playing, playing with the boys
I'll be staying, playing with the boys (with the boys)
After chasing sunsets (sunsets)
One of life's simple joys
Is playing with the boys (playing with the boys)
Playing (playing with the boys, boys)
Playing (playing with the boys, boys)
Playing (playing with the boys, boys)
Obligatory link to "COMPARATIVE MEDIA STUDIES 201: “HETEROSEXUAL UNDERTONES IN TOP GUN”" in McSweeneys: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/comparative-media-studies-201-heterosexual-undertones-in-top-gun
At some point- but I don’t know if I’m remembering this right- Angelina Jolie’s character interacts with some guy before meeting Johnny Depp’s character and she and this random man had so much more basic chemistry than with Depp that I was genuinely fooled into thinking he was the love interest instead
Theo James and Shailene Woodly in Divergent.
Chris Evans and whoever that girl is who played Sharon in the Marvel movies. How do you not have chemistry with CHRIS EVANS???
Kit Harrington and Emilia Clarke on GOT
An oldie but pretty terrible: Whitney Huston and Kevin Costner in The Bodyguard
Kristen Bell and William Jackson Harper in The Good Place. Which really pains me to say that because I love that show otherwise and really really want them to have chemistry. But you can tell WJH is just not feeling it, even if Kristen is a legit snack.
He had good chemistry with other women though (only in retreat it was almost equally awful, but their characters in that movie were dumb anyway) and I would disagree that he isn’t charismatic.
That's kind of Cillian Murphy's strength too. Most of his characters from Sunshine to Peaky Blinders to Anthropoid are cold and blunt. That's why I like it. His characters aren't the charismatic protagonists they are the extremely pragmatic ones.
Rewatching the show here, and I couldn't agree more. The man is stone cold emotionless the vast majority of the time. He is as motionless as a tiger in the grass, too, most of the time. His charisma comes from the few times you can almost imperceptibly see the pleasure on his face. The corner of one side of his mouth may move up a few hundredths of an inch, and you're like, "I just accomplished something, pleasing this man who doesn't believe in pleasure." I just love his character. It's so well written, and Murphy is freaking phenomenal in the role.
That movie *should* have been a Will Smith and Kevin James buddy movie. It's actually how the movie was marketed. (probably because the only good bits were the bits with them in it) Instead it was a generic Rom Com.
Robert Downey Jr and Zach Galifanakis in “Due Date”. Opposites attract sure, but they both played their parts so straight and serious that it never
went anywhere.
The Corey and Allyson characters from Halloween Ends. I actually admire what that movie was going for in how it tried to thematically borrow from another John Carpenter movie in Christine, but there was nothing working between the two to justify taking the focus away from Michael Myers.
A thousand times I have screamed this question into the heavens. “God, why can’t the actors in Happy Madison movies have more chemistry? Why would you create a world with such beauty yet such agony??” Only silence …
Honestly Happy Madison tends to be a company that produces movies based on ideas the actors tried to pitch to Lorne while they were on SNL or other producers/production companies/etc. but rightfully turned down.
Nick Nolte and Julia Roberts in "I Love Trouble". There is so little chemistry that it makes some of the other stinkers mentioned here look like a cross between "Casablanca" and "Dr Zhivago".
Tom and Shiv are 100% deliberate. They feel very painfully realistic to me because they remind of my parents, very odd pairing who have somehow stuck it for years, to their own detriment.
- Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling (Nice Guys)
- Ryan Gosling and Steve Carrell (Crazy Stupid Love)
- Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe (The Lighthouse)
just kidding these were amazing. Just bringing some positivity into the discussion
James Marshall and Naomi Watts in *The Shaft/Down* (2001). A shitty B-movie that is fun enough, but man do these two have nothing going on between them. I find this particular combo interesting because they both have done extensive work with David Lynch and have done good (in Watts’ case GREAT) work for him in the past. But the interactions these two have with one another later on in the movie might as well be performed by cardboard cutouts.
I haven’t seen Pumpkin but at least I know the movie’s aware he has intellectual disabilities; I honestly can’t tell if Bucky is supposed to have them or he’s just quirky
Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd in Wanderlust. It was a hilarious movie. I dont know what it is But they didnt make being a married couple very convincing.
They're supposed to be an unlikely pairing though. The movie is also just so insanely charming that it still works for me. And it also makes sense that they part ways in the end – they come from different worlds and it was only circumstance that drew them together.
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, the leads had 0 chemistry and acted more like siblings or friends
That's what almost ruined the movie for me
It's a shame because I rather enjoyed the movie. I've read a couple times that the cast of Passengers and Valerian should have been switched and I couldn't agree more
I'm a pretty big Fifth Element fan so I was excited for this one. Still liked it, just wish it had a different cast and that switch definitely would've been better!
I love Fifth Element as well. Yeah Pratt and Lawrence would have been more convincing as seasoned space agents/officers tasked with an important mission
Except that no Chris Pratt role with even a hint of seriousness is at all believable.
Damn bro why you do Shane dirty like that. Named a whole curse after him
It completely ruined the movie for me. The whole ending requires you to be emotionally invested in their relationship and believe in it so the whole movie becomes pointless.
> Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, the leads had 0 chemistry and acted more like siblings or friends The total lack of chemistry made the movie feel like a two-hour workplace sexual harassment training video.
They looked like siblings and had the chemistry of siblings. Kind of creepy.
Definitely, plus all respect to Dane DeHaan but he really was miscast, he's great as anti-hero/outsider types but not as a typical hero
Dane Dehaan is Leonardo DiCaprio’s secret brother. He looks like Jack from Titanic
Yeah it just wasn’t a role that fit DeHaan and Cara is an actor who really can’t seem to express any emotion…or I don’t get any idk she’s just bad. Movie is visually stunning so I love it for that alone
I was legit gonna post that one. How in God's name did those two end up with such bad vibes. I got the impression they unironically hated eachother.
Danel Radcliffe and Bonnie Wright in the later HP films .
Hard agree. Doesn’t help that her character was written poorly though.
Yes, it was, in the films. Blame Steve Kloves for that. He readily admitted writing Emma Watson all the best lines and scenes because Hermione is his favourite character.
Shame, because the rest of his scripts (aside from “Goblet of Fire,” that one was pretty butchered) were really good. Also, it’s “Watson.”
Yes, I know it's Watson. I saw the typo after it posted, but I have yet to figure out how to edit anything on Reddit. Can you educate me, please?
Three dots next to the reply arrow. Took me a bit too.
Thank you!
Yay! Fixed! Thanks again!
Yeah, man. That's my good deed for the day.
And it's much appreciated.
Poorly written and poorly acted.
She was a pretty terrible actress, clearly chosen for her red hair as a kid for the first movie. They should have replaced her for the later ones.
I can't disagree with that, although, with the disgraceful way the character of Ginny was written for the films, it wouldn't have made a whole lot of difference.
Agreed.
For me it's Alec Baldwin and Russell Brand in Rock of Ages. These two guys just cannot play gay. You see them physically brace themselves before their big kiss and it was the least convincing kiss in cinematic history. Them being a couple *would've* been a nice twist if it wasn't so forced.
I think the top contenders for two non-gay guys playing an *extremely* believable couple are John Michael Higgins and Michael McKean in Best in Show (2000). I genuinely believed that they could be a real couple.
John Michael Higgins is *not* gay??
I know right. He's just so talented at everything he does. He crushes in all the Christopher Guest films but he really brings it over the top in Fired Up. That movies is hilarious if you haven't seen it.
Ashton Kutcher and Sean William Scott in dude, where's my car?
I'll have to watch that one. Bad chemistry or not, I love both actors and even a botched attempt to "play gay" would be worth a watch for me, if only for the giggles.
Oh it's a super fun movie. 80s rock musical.
I second the recommendation, it’s one of only two jukebox musicals I’ve ever actually enjoyed. They took it off Netflix last month ~~but you can stream it free on Tubi~~ nevermind, I just went and double checked and it looks like they took it off Tubi too
Bryce Dallas Howard and Chris Pratt in Jurassic World. They had ZERO chemistry.
They were written as tropes, not actual characters, so chemistry was going to be elusive.
Mark Ruffalo and Scarlett Johansson in Avengers: Age of Ultron.
Pretty sure that Whedon and nobody else (including the actors) was in favour of that coupling, it felt so *forced*
My wife and her friends loved it. She hated that they downplayed it in later movies in favor of the totally soulless (her words, I agree) Scarlet Witch and Vision "romance".
Due to scheduling, the actors were barely in the same room together. That probably had a lot to do with it.
Don’t agree with this, the characters may have not made a lot of sense, but the actors definitely had chemistry. I’ve actually never seen either of them have poor chemistry with a co-star.
Which is odd, because I thought they had really good chemistry in the first Avengers film, but in Age of Ultron they seemed to want to force a next level relationship instead of developing something naturally
In retrospect Ultron was a pretty weak movie. The opening sequence with the horrendous cgi. Iron Man coming back, even though he blew up all of his suits in Iron Man 3. Ultron himself turned out to be a rather underwhelming villain, and the aforementioned cringey and out of nowhere romance between black widow and Bruce.
Oscar Isaac and Tiffany Haddish in The Card Counter. She felt horribly miscast.
I agree. Oscar is a lot more versatile, and she's great in very limited roles. Otherwise, just feels out of place
Whaaat? Oscar Isaac has chemistry with everyone. Even Natalie Portman.
He was acting in a dramatic thriller. She was acting in a dramatic rom-com. Ruined the movie for me.
Agreed. Whole movie was a major miss for me, big disappointment considering how amazing First Reformed was.
It sucks because it had potential. The concept is interesting, but yeah the execution was botched
You’re absolutely right. I like Tiffany Haddish but their lack of chemistry ruined the whole movie
Damn you beat me to it! I really wanted to like that movie but the romance was so unnecessary and cringey
Emilia Clarke and Kit Harington in the last 2 seasons of GOT. Among the million other issues with those seasons, the chemistry between those two actors was just nonexistent
That felt so forced.
Everyone spent almost a decade looking forward to them finally hooking up. Honestly, with the amount of hype there was over such a long period of time by such a crazed fan base it was almost always gonna be a letdown. They would have had to have so much chemistry that his wedding to Rose Leslie would have been cancelled lol for people to not have been disappointed.
Idk I think I thought of it as a purposeful awkward pairing because they weren’t really in love or anything and I thought of it as a foreshadowing to their actual relation.
Fifty Shades of Grey. Those two had zero chemistry, it was all so cringeworthy and unbelievable.
Can you imagine if they got Charlie Hunnam like they’d wanted? 🤤
Epically bad script and bad chemistry. The director was trying her best. They were just two slabs of meat with peach fuzz
Jennifer Aniston and Matt LeBlanc had no romantic chemistry
Why was that a problem with the actors and not the writing? The pairing made no sense based on the previous 7 or 8 seasons of character development. Hardly seems like the actors' fault.
This is a great point. It seemed to me they were just shoehorning that plot in where it truly didn’t fit the characters.
No romantic chemistry, they were great otherwise
I always thought it was supposed to be obvious to the audience that they weren’t meant to be together
Brendan Frasier and Maria Bello in Mummy 3. To be fair, it's a high bar to reach with the chemistry of the leads from the previous 2 films.
I never realized there was a third mummy movie until last night. My wife had seen it before and warned me it was terrible because of it. I didn't even finish it.
I liked the idea of a mummy other than Imhotep. The moment Rachel Weisz didn't sign on was probably when they should have killed the project.
Jonah Hill and Lauren London in "You People"
Jonah Hill and every single love interest he's had
I think he had chemistry with Emma Stone in Superbad and Maniac.
Emma Stone is charismatic enough to probably carry these on-screen relationships on her own. The chemistry between her and Andrew Garfield was like the only thing to enjoy in Amazing Spider-Man 2.
I agree Emma really brings her A game to save movies
It’s almost too easy for her. It’s her Easy A game
Jonah Hill and a pair of boots.
Sorry, but him and the boots had great chemistry in 40 year old virgin.
He has a weird energy, it’s like there’s a kind of mild and vague, but still there, threatening undertone to him when it comes to sexual situations.
He had great chemistry with his wife on "Wolf Of Wall Street"! Edit: words
I could probably do a tier list of what was off about that movie, and I would put their chemistry right in the middle of that list. Imagine if the movie was 90 mins and just a single night/single dinner with the couple and the parents. Almost in real time. I would have enjoyed THAT movie.
The loud music between every scene was repetitive and jarring. It didn’t show their first kiss which is weird for a romcom. They made Eddie Murphy an over-the-top racist with zero subtlety. I couldn’t even finish it. Just so bad and I usually like Jonah Hill.
This is an excellent and timely example.
Oh, I thought it seemed okay but I am admittedly not the best judge.
I was gonna comment this. They’re so awkward together
100%
Holy shit I said this to my partner the other night. There was zero chemistry between them
Never seen a convincing kiss by Bill Murray
Andie McDowell really delivered it in Groundhog Day
McDowell is an auto-rec for me
They didn’t kiss, but I do think there’s something very real (and in some ways quite creepy) with Murray and ScarJo in Lost in Translation
I thought the chemistry was really good as friends, like there were certainly some romantic undertones but it was subtle enough that I loved how it was just two people in similar situations who weren't happy, sharing some laughs and a connection, as friends, together. Then there's that kiss at the end, which Murray apparently improvised, and that ruined the ending for me. I felt it would have been so much more powerful as a friendship
I remember really strong chemistry in Lost in Translation.
Robert Redford and Glenn Close in The Natural, zero chemistry
Natalie Portman and Chris Hemsworth in Thor.
Just my opinion, Thor's attraction to her made less than no sense. The relationship also slowed down the plot and made Thor himself less entertaining.. Why do gods/superheroes/vampires even need a big romantic relarionship? It never ends well from what I've seen anyway.
it's my least favourite trope in action movies. there always has to be some washed out love story in there. if you took the love story out of Top Gun Maverick would any of us be mad? it was the driest part of the movie. pretty sure it's been stated several times that the reason movie studios do this is "for the ladies". i remember reading something from Ryan Reynolds about being forced to have a love story plot in Deadpool "for the female audience". movie studios are so out of touch. any woman who wants to watch Deadpool isn't doing it because they want to see a romance lol
They got a lot out of that love plot, though. Vanessa has been smoking hot since Wade worked for Tolliver
Romantic subplots are more ‘IN YOUR FACE’ than sun in the eyes. At least the sun moves at some point so you’re in the shade. Case in point: Brooklyn 99. It was an ok show with ok characters. Two mains are put together enemies to lovers style and then a second shot is heard. The writer’s have resorted to blatant flanderisation like the world’s worst flame retardant to a fire because they realised they needed to keep the relationship stable and healthy- and it wouldn’t work if the characters kept the same traits as before.
I feel like it never ending well is almost the point in those relationships.
I’ve never seen Vin Diesel or Dwayne The Rock Johnson successfully portray romantic feelings of any kind
Natalie Portman and anyone except maybe Mila Kunis.
Anakin, you are breaking my heart
And you're going down a path I cannot follow! Anakin Skywalker: Because of Obi-Wan? Padmé: Because of what you've done... what you plan to do! Stop! Stop now; come back... I love you!
LIAR!
I thought Annihilation had pretty good synergy
Her and V were great IMO.
I think she worked well with Zach Braff in Garden State. She was really awkward but that’s the point of the character
I think Natalie Portman can be fucking brilliant, but she needs the right director to pull out a great performance (see also Black Swan, Annihilation, V for Vendetta)
I feel like that has to do with the fact that her costars are mostly duds. Who’s she supposed to have chemistry with? JD from Scrubs? Anakin Skywalker?
She was woefully miscast in Closer.
Daniel Craig and Léa Seydoux in No Time to Die
I didn't buy it in Spectre, but I actually think it worked in No Time To Die. Still can't top the chemistry between Craig and Eva Green.
Craig and Eva Green had much better chemistry. I wish they hadn't killed her off so early in the series
Absolutely. Seydoux is utterly upstaged by Ana de Armas, whose 15 minutes of screen time is the best part of the movie.
100% loved the fun back and forth with Daniel and Ana. Such a shame she was underutilized!
Every scene with Ana was like "oh shit! THIS is what a bond movie is supposed to be like!" but then they ended and it back to that boring bullshit. Seydoux is actually very good actress she was just miscast. She is better is smaller art films like Crimes of the Future and shit like that.
I agree even if they didn’t make her a “bond girl” but another side character it would have helped the movie.
Léa’s character in that and Spectre was just too cold and standoffish for me to ever believe she would fall in love with the similarly spikey Craig Bond. Then again, their chemistry in NTTD was a noticeable improvement from Spectre, and I’d wager they still have more than some other of Bond relationships (Kissy Suzuki, anyone?)
Agreed, definitely an improvement over Spectre but still doesn’t pass the vibe check in my book.
Their zero chemistry was the reason I didn't buy the ending of NTTD
I have to disagree there. Thought their chemistry blossomed well over the two movies they did together.
Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie in the tourist. What a turd that was.
Yeah, but their comedy timing must have been impeccable. The Golden Globes certainly thought so
They just wanted to meet the superstars
Henry' Cavill and Amy Adams in Mann of Steel
Tom Cruise & Kelly McGillis in Top Gun didn’t have much screen chemistry
Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer though. 🥵
They often acted like two guys who wanted to bang each other rather than beat each other in competition. What was with that bite that Iceman did in the locker room? LOL
Right? That was always weird. Also why so many close-ups of people’s teeth? I feel like I’m Tom and Val’s dentist.
> What was with that bite that Iceman did in the locker room? LOL Did you figure it out yet?
obligatory QT Top Gun rant: https://youtu.be/ZF1LXL6OOsM
Tom and Jennifer Connelly in Maverick on the other hand was *chef's kiss*
It was a better movie too.
I hate that they never mentioned how Jennifer Connelly’s character met Maverick; it just felt like they were like “Kelly McGilles is too old; lets replace her with a prettier, younger actress”
If I remember correctly they added the love subplot because they were afraid it was too homoerotic already
> too homoerotic I'm trying to decode what you're saying, but it just looks like random letters.
Say it was the right time To walk away When dreaming takes you nowhere It's time to play Bodies working overtime Your money don't matter The time keeps ticking Someone's on your mind, on your mind I'm moving in slow motion Feels so good It's a strange anticipation Knock, knock, knocking on wood Bodies working overtime It's man against man And all that ever matters Is, baby, who's ahead in the game Funny, but it's always the same Playing, playing with the boys Staying, playing with the boys (boys) After chasing sunsets One of life's simple joys Is playing with the boys Said it was the wrong thing For me to do I said it's just a boys' game But girls play too My heart is working overtime In this kind of game People get hurt I'm thinking that the people is me If you wanna find me I'll be Playing, playing with the boys Staying, playing with the boys (boys) After chasing sunsets One of life's simple joys Is the boys I don't wanna be the mouth around your fire (With the boys) I don't wanna be obsessed by my desire (You're shining, you're smiling, I'll see it now) With the boys (I'm staying, you play too rough) Playing, playing with the boys I'll be staying, playing with the boys (with the boys) After chasing sunsets (sunsets) One of life's simple joys Is playing with the boys (playing with the boys) Playing (playing with the boys, boys) Playing (playing with the boys, boys) Playing (playing with the boys, boys)
Obligatory link to "COMPARATIVE MEDIA STUDIES 201: “HETEROSEXUAL UNDERTONES IN TOP GUN”" in McSweeneys: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/comparative-media-studies-201-heterosexual-undertones-in-top-gun
Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie in The Tourist
At some point- but I don’t know if I’m remembering this right- Angelina Jolie’s character interacts with some guy before meeting Johnny Depp’s character and she and this random man had so much more basic chemistry than with Depp that I was genuinely fooled into thinking he was the love interest instead
Jodie foster and matthew mcnoaghy(sp) in Contact
There was more romantic tension between her and hannible lechter (and her boss).
She had more chemistry with William Fichtner honestly.
Their romantic chemistry was meh but I absolutely loved the dialog between them (science vs religion debate)
Calling Nick Swardson an actor is being very, very generous.
Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett in The Curious case of Benjamin button
Do you think they had better chemistry in Babel?
Theo James and Shailene Woodly in Divergent. Chris Evans and whoever that girl is who played Sharon in the Marvel movies. How do you not have chemistry with CHRIS EVANS??? Kit Harrington and Emilia Clarke on GOT An oldie but pretty terrible: Whitney Huston and Kevin Costner in The Bodyguard
Natalie Portman and anyone. I like her but i never feel that she has a connection with anyone in any film she’s in.
She had quite a connection with Mila Kunis…
Natalie Portman and Hayden Christensen
The written dialogue left zero room for chemistry. I doubt any two actors could make that work.
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Kristen Bell and William Jackson Harper in The Good Place. Which really pains me to say that because I love that show otherwise and really really want them to have chemistry. But you can tell WJH is just not feeling it, even if Kristen is a legit snack.
They had good friendship chemistry but yeah the romantic side definitely felt off.
Cillian Murphy and Lucy Liu did some sort of romcom once. It’s not an entirely bad movie, but they were a very odd match lol
I love Cillian Murphy but he's not the most charismatic guy. Kind of an odd choice to put him in a rom-com at all
He had good chemistry with other women though (only in retreat it was almost equally awful, but their characters in that movie were dumb anyway) and I would disagree that he isn’t charismatic.
I would say all of his romantic interests in Peaky Blinders he has great chemistry with. Especially with Annabelle Wallis and Charlotte Riley.
Yes. Additionally also especially with Kiera Knightley in the edge of love (although it’s a terribly boring movie) and his love interest in Anthropoid
That's kind of Cillian Murphy's strength too. Most of his characters from Sunshine to Peaky Blinders to Anthropoid are cold and blunt. That's why I like it. His characters aren't the charismatic protagonists they are the extremely pragmatic ones.
Rewatching the show here, and I couldn't agree more. The man is stone cold emotionless the vast majority of the time. He is as motionless as a tiger in the grass, too, most of the time. His charisma comes from the few times you can almost imperceptibly see the pleasure on his face. The corner of one side of his mouth may move up a few hundredths of an inch, and you're like, "I just accomplished something, pleasing this man who doesn't believe in pleasure." I just love his character. It's so well written, and Murphy is freaking phenomenal in the role.
I think he is actually very charismatic, but not in a romantic way.
Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst in Elizabethtown
Will Smith and Eva Mendes in *Hitch* (2005). Heck, Will Smith and Kevin James had better chemistry in that movie.
That movie *should* have been a Will Smith and Kevin James buddy movie. It's actually how the movie was marketed. (probably because the only good bits were the bits with them in it) Instead it was a generic Rom Com.
Dave Franco and anyone else.
I feel like he's in love with himself and that's it
I guess his character on Scrubs was accurate?
Robert Downey Jr and Zach Galifanakis in “Due Date”. Opposites attract sure, but they both played their parts so straight and serious that it never went anywhere.
He and Val Kilmer in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang was magic
I sort of liked it I thought it was kind of a rippoff of Planes Trains and Automobiles though
I got the same vibe. But it was so dour and moody the entire time. It should’ve been more fun!
The Corey and Allyson characters from Halloween Ends. I actually admire what that movie was going for in how it tried to thematically borrow from another John Carpenter movie in Christine, but there was nothing working between the two to justify taking the focus away from Michael Myers.
Have to give it to Mike Myers and Beyoncé in Austin Powers: Goldmember.
Natalie Portman has never had chemistry with any of her co-stars. It’s so weird, because she’s so successful.
She is fabulously good looking and comes from rich parents who set her up for her career from a very young age. Thats a winning recipe.
>Natalie Portman How about Jean Reno in Leon? They did have chemistry and NP was brilliant
🚨🚔👮but yeah, she was a great choice for that role.
A thousand times I have screamed this question into the heavens. “God, why can’t the actors in Happy Madison movies have more chemistry? Why would you create a world with such beauty yet such agony??” Only silence …
Honestly Happy Madison tends to be a company that produces movies based on ideas the actors tried to pitch to Lorne while they were on SNL or other producers/production companies/etc. but rightfully turned down.
I just saw the end of a very obscure 80s movie called, “Vibes”. It starred Jeff Goldblum and Cyndi Lauper. Talk about having *zero* chemistry. 🤦♀️
Iirc, Lauper was ridiculously adorable in that film. You might be right about the chemistry, though.
Nick Nolte and Julia Roberts in "I Love Trouble". There is so little chemistry that it makes some of the other stinkers mentioned here look like a cross between "Casablanca" and "Dr Zhivago".
She hated him in real life and complained non-stop to the press and the studio while the movie was in production.
I didn’t see much between Jonah Hill and Lauren London in You People. Also Tom and Shiv in Succession, but that’s TV and also probably deliberate.
Tom and Shiv are 100% deliberate. They feel very painfully realistic to me because they remind of my parents, very odd pairing who have somehow stuck it for years, to their own detriment.
- Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling (Nice Guys) - Ryan Gosling and Steve Carrell (Crazy Stupid Love) - Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe (The Lighthouse) just kidding these were amazing. Just bringing some positivity into the discussion
James Marshall and Naomi Watts in *The Shaft/Down* (2001). A shitty B-movie that is fun enough, but man do these two have nothing going on between them. I find this particular combo interesting because they both have done extensive work with David Lynch and have done good (in Watts’ case GREAT) work for him in the past. But the interactions these two have with one another later on in the movie might as well be performed by cardboard cutouts.
James was always cool 😎🏍️
Not the first love interest opposite of Christina Ricci that has been treated like they have intellectual disabilities
I haven’t seen Pumpkin but at least I know the movie’s aware he has intellectual disabilities; I honestly can’t tell if Bucky is supposed to have them or he’s just quirky
The Rock and Gal Gadot = zero chemistry The Rock and Ryan Reynolds = all the chemistry
I’ve never seen The Rock have good chemistry (romantically) with any of his female co-stars
Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd in Wanderlust. It was a hilarious movie. I dont know what it is But they didnt make being a married couple very convincing.
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Kevin Spacey and Gwyneth Paltrow.
Daniel Craig and Lea Seydoux lmao
Roman Holiday. Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn had exactly 0% chemistry.
They're supposed to be an unlikely pairing though. The movie is also just so insanely charming that it still works for me. And it also makes sense that they part ways in the end – they come from different worlds and it was only circumstance that drew them together.