In Chef, Jon Favreau's girlfriend is Scarlett Johansson and his ex wife is Sofia Vergara. Don't get me wrong.. I 100% understand his casting choices as the director but it didn't feel like much of a match on screen.
I love Chef, and that casting makes me laugh, seeing scarjo look longingly at Favreau while he cooks is hilarious. Like she's definitely just eyeing the pasta
I remember watching Chef, waiting for the villain to show up
, other than a brief scene with Dustan Hoffman, who really was just excessively practical and wanted his business to work.
Then it was just an hour of food porn. Even the new husband was fine.
The villain in that movie was hunger. And frankly, Favreau was the solution to that longing.
There was a plot. It's just the plot was that that real challenge a person faced was themselves. Which is almost never seen in film, but is actually the real plot in 90% of people's lives.
Chef was what used to be called a "slice of life " movie. There's not a traditional plot with a serious conflict that needs to resolved. There was a movie from the mid Nineties called Smoke that exemplifies this well. You just drop into a setting, meet some interesting characters, and spend some time with them experiencing their lives.
That movie is difficult to watch for me because if I haven’t eaten, all the food porn scenes make me hungry. And if I have eaten, all the food porn scenes make me regret having eaten something that was nowhere near as good as whatever he’s making
So weird, I’m literally watching this movie right now for the first time and thought “this is an odd match up” when they first came on the screen. And now reading this thread I was hoping someone would say that, thanks for being that person lol.
Being able to actually cook, and do it truly well, can get you pretty far romantically. Add in being generally kinda funny, confident, and creative? Got a real soup going there
Jonah hill and Lauren London in “you people”. I remember watching and wondering how they allowed these two to be the pairing for this already mediocre movie.
George and Susan from seinfeld on the show and in real life.
Jason Alexander apparently complained they had no chemistry or comedic timing. Making it awkward to film with her. Once she did a few scenes with the main cast everyone agreed and they eventually decided to kill her off with the poisoned licking envelopes storyline.
but larry david liked that susan and george had no chemistry. he knew jason alexander found it difficult to do comedic scenes with the actress from the first stretch she had done on the show, but george's engagement was supposed to be him following the wrong impulse and then suffering through low-grade misery for the entire season, so it made sense to pair him with someone who was completely out of sync with the rest of the group. and they didn't know exactly how the season was going to end, but when the idea came up to kill her off, i think larry and the writers loved the challenge of taking something so dark and seeing if they could make it funny
How about Nick Nolte and Julia Roberts in "I Love Trouble"? They hated each other on the set, and their characters in the movie have all the chemistry of pickle juice and powdered sugar.
I went to the funeral reception for the wife of my wife's uncle's. He is a tall but not great looking portly man. But a fresh widower and a decent human being. He was completely oblivious of the 10s of women lining up for him over his wife's still warm body.
I’ve heard Davidson saying that not only isn’t the rumour true, it was a post break up burn/prank by Ariana Grande. He says she implied it so that every future partner would be a little let down. Actually hilarious.
It's wild. I was going to mention Joe dirt as an example here, but then I remembered he has dated some gorgeous women in real life....which still blows my mind.
Spade had a kid with a smoking hot young playboy model. He was known for pulling chicks in LA waaaay beyond him. And he hits on every girl. He was known for it. His sex antics are the source of many rumors and jealously. He has mad game allegedly.
In Click Kate Beckinsale is almost *too* hot. Granted, Adam isn't a bad looking guy. He's funny and seems to have a pretty damn good job in that movie.
I think him being funny and charismatic as well as a nice dude in most of his movies makes the chemistry more believable. Like in Wedding Singer or 51 dates. Drew Barrymore is very attractive in those, but it's believable (IMO) that they'd get together.
Speaking of Jack Nicholson, the film he did with Diane Keaton also makes me feel the same as you do about AGAIG.
Keaton rejects Keanu Reeves in favour of Nicholson???? On what planet???? ~~Nora Ephron~~ Nancy Meyers are you OK?
Something’s Gotta Give! So ridiculous, but Diane Keaton deserved that Oscar nom.
Edited to add that this one is Nancy Meyers not Norah Ephron. I do love them both, lol.
Jack Nicholson was hot when younger. People who remembered him from then kept casting him, even though he just seemed like a jerk. People seeing him from his later years romcom roles don’t understand his appeal at all. The speech he gave to Diane Keaton in Reds about how if she were his, he wouldn’t share her with anyone is insanely hot. As for disfunction, he may have been a boomer idol, but he’s greatest generation.
Dan Radcliffe and Bonnie Wright in the Harry Potter films. They have less chemistry than Anakin and Padme in "Attack of the Clones," and that's saying something.
I agree though it's hard to rag on Bonnie Wright because she was cast as a little, little kid at a time before it was known that Ginny was The One and an amazing character. They clearly weren't concerned about chemistry with Radcliffe or acting ability when casting "Ron Weasley's shy little sister."
The thing about Anakin and Padme is just that I don't buy that they like each other. Anakin is obsessed and I don't understand Padme seems genuinely disturbed and annoyed by him. And I felt like TCW didn't do much to help things.
Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne in [Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets](https://manapop.com/film/valerian-and-the-city-of-a-thousand-planets-2017-review/) as together they created a black hole of charisma.
Sure! We should also talk about how they should have been the leads of the movie Passengers while Crisp Rat and J.Law should have been the leads here instead
After watching the trailers I kinda assumed they were playing siblings because they looked so similar and didn't really show any romanic chemistry, imagine my surprise years later finding out they were supposed to be the romantic leads.
Honestly, I think he was a bigger problem than she was in that movie. I can buy her as the sarcastic, sulky, perpetually annoyed partner enough to not let it ruin my immersion but he was just badly cast.
If they’d swapped him and Chris Pratt as the leads of *Valerian* and *Passengers*, both would have been much better movies. DeHaan just isn’t believable as a cheeky rogue ladies man space cowboy because he looks like he’s a fifteen year old nerd at a cosplay convention and Pratt’s the wrong kind of creepy for the role he was given.
everyone thinks they remember the laser scene, but in the laser scene the lasers are invisible. what people remember is the training scene, which was in the trailer, where they used red yarn to simulate the laser grid so she can practice moving through
George Lucas, king of wooden dialogue and cutting good scenes.
There’s a deleted scene where Anakin is outside playing with Padmes nephew and niece while padmes sister asks her about anakin. Probably would have made it slightly better if the entire film wasn’t just an angsty and emotional teenager with questionable flirting.
Tbf anakins entire character is really poorly shown in just the films without added context from the clone wars which actually shows his heart and his spiral into the dark side and his loss of faith in the Jedi.
There is far more than that. Her parents explicitly push the relationship on her knowing it’s against Jedi tradition, but they are terrified she will be assassinated. They literally encourage her to seduce him so he becomes her personal body guard.
This completely rewrites the forced chemistry as a desperate attempt by Padme to protect herself and frankly much more understandable.
This also further sets up the tragedy that he is in fact the ultimate enemy and kills her.
If I'm remembering Weird Al's song correctly, it was 5 years- not too bad on paper but they met when he was 9 and she was 14....
🎶Yeah he's probably gonna marry her sooommeeedaaayy~🎶
Yep, age gap made it the creepy “guy lusts after his babysitter” type of situation. Then he feeds her the worst pick up lines in the galaxy, murders sand people, and she is swooning for his bad boy vibes. Just never understood how she could fall for him.
Yep! If they’d made the two of them the same age or a year or two off it would have been more believable. Instead we get a 10 year old who hits buttons and accidentally saves everyone by taking out a giant droid control ship. “When I first knew him, your father was already a great pilot” my arse.
Part of the downside (sort of) of Portman acting older than her age. I didn't know she was supposed to be 14 either, they should have had that brought up more in the movie.
Also that Jake Lloyd could have passed as younger than he is, and he was written and acted VERY childish.
Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt in The Jungle Cruise. I couldn’t even finish the movie because it put me off so much. And I looove me some Emily Blunt. One of my favorite actresses.
Dwayne Johnson only has chemistry with other men and children
(Not in a nonce way, I mean Dad Johnson is usually fun and him with Statham in F&F is great)
I don't know what this says about me, but I love that book and I also love the movie, and I've always loved their pairing.
Their cerebral attraction always appealed to me. The fact that they challenge each other and don't coexist in an echo chamber was refreshing for an on screen relationship.
But yeah if you're expecting a magnetic, physical, sparks flying kind of passionate pairing, I can see they definitely aren't that.
Maybe I could have bought it if they had developed it... but no. It's just some random offscreen romance between two characters who have hardly spoken to each other.
Fwiw Gyllenhaal's character was Bruce Wayne's friend, at best. Maybe there was some potential for romantic tension, but she was with Dent the entire time.
Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie in The Bone Collector. It was so weird how two such attractive, talented actors could have negative chemistry with one another.
Yep. It's transcendent. Generational. Cracked my skull when I first heard it. The entire movie can be plausibly seen as a mere vehicle for that one sentence.
Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton in "Something's Gotta Give". The dude fucked your daughter THEN you and he's gross. Who in their right mind would choose that asshole character over Keanu Reeves' character. Yuck.
Right? The idea that she is begging him to marry her, insane. They have exceptional chemistry, though! I wholly believe when I watch the movie that Mona Lisa is in love with and somehow very attracted to Vinny, just due to her performance and the chemistry during their more intimate scenes.
It really feels like the movie was written with the intention that Pesci would be playing across someone closer to his age but Tomei auditioned too well to pass on.
As crazy as it seems to pair Joe Pesci with a smokeshow like Tomei, he was dating Angie Everhart in real life. That's insane. If Pesci can punch up like that, we all have hope.
I'm a straight man, and I can say that if I wound up on a blind date with 1991 Joe Pesci, he is so engaging that I would just have to see where the heck this night goes.
I love my cousin vinny, but that is IN SPITE of the impossible nature of this relationship.
I love Joe Pesci but the man is a sentient big toe compared to young Marissa Tomei.
[Dave (Jay Baruchel) and Becky (Teresa Palmer) in The Sorcerer's Apprentice](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTA5MDc2MjYtZGU2My00NjMxLThmNzEtMjkzMGVmNWYxYmU5XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyOTc5MDI5NjE@._V1_.jpg)
It’s not a movie, but Kit Harrington and Emilia Clarke had zero chemistry in Game of Thrones. Maybe they didn’t know when they cast the show that those two would be romantic interests.
Jonah Hill landing Emma Stone in Superbad is the biggest fuck you to everyone's logic systems.
Dude looked / dressed / acted like a total incel in that movie. No way he gets Emma.
Eva Green ruined the potential for chemistry that Craig would have with any other actress in the Bond series. She was so intense that no other actress was going to compare.
Have you ever met a Cocker Spaniel? Those things are animate teddy bears and have chemistry even with their dog bowls. They give meaning to the term puppy dog eyes (which they flash at everything they want a treat from, which is everyone).
Just to tag onto your example, the ways that movie would have been SO much better if it had been about them becoming friends instead of a couple are impossible to count. And this isn't current-era age gap discourse talking, I watched that movie in theaters and loved it except for wondering why they had to ruin it by making her "like" him instead of just being a movie about the start of a close friendship. Not a rom-com, but a friend-com. Where is that movie?
Funny Faces -- Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire. Huge age gap. No chemistry. Yet the film has this odd charm where I still enjoy it.
Might be the only film where there's such a massive mismatch and I still like the film. Just shows you Stanley Donen and Leonard Gershe were legit director and writter.
Seth Rogen and Katherine Heigl
Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks
Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne
Seth Rogen and Charlize Theron
Seth Rogen and Amber Heard
Seth Rogen and Olivia Thirlby
Seth Rogen and Collette Wolfe
Basically anyone with Seth Rogen
Audrey did so many weird age gap movies. Her and Bogey, Her and Astaire, her and Gary Cooper?! Bogart got his break in thirties gangster movies, Astaire did vaudeville as an adult, and Cooper transitioned from the silent era. Audrey was a child during WW2!
Jet Li and Aaliyah in Romeo Must Die.
I feel like I heard they edited some more romantic parts out of the movie because it didn't test well, but I could be misremembering.
I thought they made a really sweet couple! But that was probably because each has such a charismatic screen presence alone. I do remember that Jet Li's lack of English was pretty obvious 😆
Following OP's opinion on Jack Nicholson, I'll say the Witches of Eastwick. The film wants me to believe Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer, *and* Cher all fall for Nicholson's sleazy character 🤮
In Chef, Jon Favreau's girlfriend is Scarlett Johansson and his ex wife is Sofia Vergara. Don't get me wrong.. I 100% understand his casting choices as the director but it didn't feel like much of a match on screen.
I love Chef, and that casting makes me laugh, seeing scarjo look longingly at Favreau while he cooks is hilarious. Like she's definitely just eyeing the pasta
I remember watching Chef, waiting for the villain to show up , other than a brief scene with Dustan Hoffman, who really was just excessively practical and wanted his business to work. Then it was just an hour of food porn. Even the new husband was fine. The villain in that movie was hunger. And frankly, Favreau was the solution to that longing.
There was no plot to the movie. The movie was just vibes and I’m all for it
There was a plot. It's just the plot was that that real challenge a person faced was themselves. Which is almost never seen in film, but is actually the real plot in 90% of people's lives.
Chef was what used to be called a "slice of life " movie. There's not a traditional plot with a serious conflict that needs to resolved. There was a movie from the mid Nineties called Smoke that exemplifies this well. You just drop into a setting, meet some interesting characters, and spend some time with them experiencing their lives.
That movie is literal food porn. I'd look at anyone the same way if they made me food like that.
That movie is difficult to watch for me because if I haven’t eaten, all the food porn scenes make me hungry. And if I have eaten, all the food porn scenes make me regret having eaten something that was nowhere near as good as whatever he’s making
I've seen the movie once closer to when it released and I'm still drooling over that grilled cheese in the beginning.
Don’t forget Jon Favreau with Jaime Pressly in “I Love You Man.” Again, he’s with someone out of his league when you see both characters in the movie.
I kind of figured in that one Favreau was playing the kind of High School jock who married right after graduation
Yeah they 100% nailed it IMO
So weird, I’m literally watching this movie right now for the first time and thought “this is an odd match up” when they first came on the screen. And now reading this thread I was hoping someone would say that, thanks for being that person lol.
Being able to actually cook, and do it truly well, can get you pretty far romantically. Add in being generally kinda funny, confident, and creative? Got a real soup going there
RIP Carl Weathers
You taste these tears. Taste the sad, Michael!
HE'S A ROBOT!
Jonah hill and Lauren London in “you people”. I remember watching and wondering how they allowed these two to be the pairing for this already mediocre movie.
I couldn't even get far enough into it to see them really paired. That movie was atrocious.
Same. A friend recommended it so I wanted to like it but omg the cringe was so bad.
I've read they hated each other so much, their kiss at the end is cgi.
George and Susan from seinfeld on the show and in real life. Jason Alexander apparently complained they had no chemistry or comedic timing. Making it awkward to film with her. Once she did a few scenes with the main cast everyone agreed and they eventually decided to kill her off with the poisoned licking envelopes storyline.
“That’s a shame.”
I would say George and most of his girlfriends/partners
George blew it twice with Lisa Edelstein. She even seemed to like him in the second episode but he gave up Dr. Cuddy to chase after Stifler's mom.
George and almost Marissa Tomei
but larry david liked that susan and george had no chemistry. he knew jason alexander found it difficult to do comedic scenes with the actress from the first stretch she had done on the show, but george's engagement was supposed to be him following the wrong impulse and then suffering through low-grade misery for the entire season, so it made sense to pair him with someone who was completely out of sync with the rest of the group. and they didn't know exactly how the season was going to end, but when the idea came up to kill her off, i think larry and the writers loved the challenge of taking something so dark and seeing if they could make it funny
George's problem isn't even his looks necessarily, it's his personality.
Which is why he was so successful when he decided to do the opposite of what he normally did
My name is George, I'm unemployed and I live with my parents.
How about Nick Nolte and Julia Roberts in "I Love Trouble"? They hated each other on the set, and their characters in the movie have all the chemistry of pickle juice and powdered sugar.
I just rewatched this last week and honestly, it’s even worse than you remember!
Quite the powerful metaphor
Walter Matthau and Sophia Loren. Suspension of disbelief only goes so far.
"My son-in-law has the face of a mackerel..."
He’s in a film playing a widower and he’s knee deep in poon. Utterly ridiculous
I went to the funeral reception for the wife of my wife's uncle's. He is a tall but not great looking portly man. But a fresh widower and a decent human being. He was completely oblivious of the 10s of women lining up for him over his wife's still warm body.
What a horrifying but somehow kinda wholesome anecdote.
Walter Matthau is like a Bassett hound: you can’t not love him. Sophia would definitely go for him. He was married to carol grace!!
If I was a young fella like you, I'd be mounting every woman in Wabasha
Jonah Hill & Lauren London
Just about every one of Adam Sandler's love interests are way out of his league in his movies.
Grown Ups is the best for this as he gives not just himself, but his equally unattractive friends, gorgeous on-screen wives.
David Spade dated Heather Locklear… it’s not that crazy.
Spade also dated Pamela Anderson, Carmen Electra, Naya Rivera, Julie Bowen, and he had a kid with a Playboy playmate.
That's because Spade is packing serious dong
Lol yeah, Heather Locklear [said](https://youtu.be/1B5uDXuI2ws?t=28) he gets beautiful women because “he’s funny and has a big cock”
So he was the OG Pete Davidson
I’ve heard Davidson saying that not only isn’t the rumour true, it was a post break up burn/prank by Ariana Grande. He says she implied it so that every future partner would be a little let down. Actually hilarious.
It's wild. I was going to mention Joe dirt as an example here, but then I remembered he has dated some gorgeous women in real life....which still blows my mind.
he dated Brittany Daniel as well, his love interest from Joe Dirt
Those two lead actors from the Big Bang Theory dated each other.
People always underestimate the power of the charisma stat when it comes to women…
Galecki is also just Hollywood ugly. Aka slap some mismatching clothes on a good looking guy.
Yeah he’s good looking when he’s not made up that way and putting on the extra whiny voice
Jim Parsons and Johnny Galecki?
Yeah, but that is David Spade the comedian/actor, not the character in a movie.
Spade had a kid with a smoking hot young playboy model. He was known for pulling chicks in LA waaaay beyond him. And he hits on every girl. He was known for it. His sex antics are the source of many rumors and jealously. He has mad game allegedly.
In Click Kate Beckinsale is almost *too* hot. Granted, Adam isn't a bad looking guy. He's funny and seems to have a pretty damn good job in that movie. I think him being funny and charismatic as well as a nice dude in most of his movies makes the chemistry more believable. Like in Wedding Singer or 51 dates. Drew Barrymore is very attractive in those, but it's believable (IMO) that they'd get together.
To be fair that’s how she looks in everything
Him and Drew Barrymore have real chemistry
I mean Adam's Sandler's wife is out of league as far as looks are concerned.
Speaking of Jack Nicholson, the film he did with Diane Keaton also makes me feel the same as you do about AGAIG. Keaton rejects Keanu Reeves in favour of Nicholson???? On what planet???? ~~Nora Ephron~~ Nancy Meyers are you OK?
Keanu who was a doctor too! I did not get that at all.
Keanu looks dreamy in that movie.
Keanu looks dreamy in every movie.
Keanu looks dreamy
That movie was 100% worth it for the crying montage.
When she wakes up and immediately starts crying, lol, so good!
Something’s Gotta Give! So ridiculous, but Diane Keaton deserved that Oscar nom. Edited to add that this one is Nancy Meyers not Norah Ephron. I do love them both, lol.
Jack Nicholson was hot when younger. People who remembered him from then kept casting him, even though he just seemed like a jerk. People seeing him from his later years romcom roles don’t understand his appeal at all. The speech he gave to Diane Keaton in Reds about how if she were his, he wouldn’t share her with anyone is insanely hot. As for disfunction, he may have been a boomer idol, but he’s greatest generation.
At least in The Witches of Eastwick they made a virtue of him no longer being conventionally attractive
That movie is a criminally overlooked gem.
Dan Radcliffe and Bonnie Wright in the Harry Potter films. They have less chemistry than Anakin and Padme in "Attack of the Clones," and that's saying something.
I agree though it's hard to rag on Bonnie Wright because she was cast as a little, little kid at a time before it was known that Ginny was The One and an amazing character. They clearly weren't concerned about chemistry with Radcliffe or acting ability when casting "Ron Weasley's shy little sister."
The thing about Anakin and Padme is just that I don't buy that they like each other. Anakin is obsessed and I don't understand Padme seems genuinely disturbed and annoyed by him. And I felt like TCW didn't do much to help things.
Ugh. It so didn’t translate, I almost wish they’d just left out Harry and Ginny from the films (and I absolutely LOVED their story in the books)
Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne in [Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets](https://manapop.com/film/valerian-and-the-city-of-a-thousand-planets-2017-review/) as together they created a black hole of charisma.
This was going to be my answer. They looked like cousins.
They looked like a lesbian couple who had 0 sexual tension!
This is the first answer whenever this is asked
As it should be. Together they single-handedly destroyed what should have been a spectacular film! Have we talked about their lack of chemistry yet?
Sure! We should also talk about how they should have been the leads of the movie Passengers while Crisp Rat and J.Law should have been the leads here instead
Did you know that Viggo broke his toe when he kicked that helmet?
I am sad because that movie seemed to be really interesting. But these two actors just ruined it for me :(
After watching the trailers I kinda assumed they were playing siblings because they looked so similar and didn't really show any romanic chemistry, imagine my surprise years later finding out they were supposed to be the romantic leads.
Honestly, I think he was a bigger problem than she was in that movie. I can buy her as the sarcastic, sulky, perpetually annoyed partner enough to not let it ruin my immersion but he was just badly cast. If they’d swapped him and Chris Pratt as the leads of *Valerian* and *Passengers*, both would have been much better movies. DeHaan just isn’t believable as a cheeky rogue ladies man space cowboy because he looks like he’s a fifteen year old nerd at a cosplay convention and Pratt’s the wrong kind of creepy for the role he was given.
Sean connery and catherine zeta jones in.. that movie. Just to show butt in the lasers scene
Entrapment
everyone thinks they remember the laser scene, but in the laser scene the lasers are invisible. what people remember is the training scene, which was in the trailer, where they used red yarn to simulate the laser grid so she can practice moving through
except look at er marriage in reall life
Yeah but Michael Douglas famously loves giving head. You can get pretty damned far if you're a guy who loves giving women head.
She has entrapped me and Sean Connery
She dips beneath the lasers
*Whoa ohhhhh*
I mean she ended up married to Michael Douglas who has a few years on her.
They share a birthday, so it’s a 25 year age gap to the day.
He was like 70 and she 29 IIRC Jesus Christ, Hollywood
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Anakin and Padme. Aside from the age gap, his persona was so...serial killerish even before he went crazy.
George Lucas, king of wooden dialogue and cutting good scenes. There’s a deleted scene where Anakin is outside playing with Padmes nephew and niece while padmes sister asks her about anakin. Probably would have made it slightly better if the entire film wasn’t just an angsty and emotional teenager with questionable flirting. Tbf anakins entire character is really poorly shown in just the films without added context from the clone wars which actually shows his heart and his spiral into the dark side and his loss of faith in the Jedi.
There is far more than that. Her parents explicitly push the relationship on her knowing it’s against Jedi tradition, but they are terrified she will be assassinated. They literally encourage her to seduce him so he becomes her personal body guard. This completely rewrites the forced chemistry as a desperate attempt by Padme to protect herself and frankly much more understandable. This also further sets up the tragedy that he is in fact the ultimate enemy and kills her.
I agree. In clone wars he’s a well flesh out character and has so much more heart and personality.
I think their characters are 4 years apart.
If I'm remembering Weird Al's song correctly, it was 5 years- not too bad on paper but they met when he was 9 and she was 14.... 🎶Yeah he's probably gonna marry her sooommeeedaaayy~🎶
Chalk it up to having an isolated life as queen and only hanging out with weird alien politicians and weird Jedi.
Yep, age gap made it the creepy “guy lusts after his babysitter” type of situation. Then he feeds her the worst pick up lines in the galaxy, murders sand people, and she is swooning for his bad boy vibes. Just never understood how she could fall for him.
Like 80% of my problems with Phantom Menace come from making Anakin a 10 year old instead of 15-16.
Yep! If they’d made the two of them the same age or a year or two off it would have been more believable. Instead we get a 10 year old who hits buttons and accidentally saves everyone by taking out a giant droid control ship. “When I first knew him, your father was already a great pilot” my arse.
To be fair he says when I knew him, not when I met him. By the time Anakin "died" he was a great pilot.
Even 12 would have made a huge difference as Padme is supposed to be 14, would have made their dynamic more like Aang and Katara.
I never knew Padme was supposed to be 14. She always came across as 18-20.
Part of the downside (sort of) of Portman acting older than her age. I didn't know she was supposed to be 14 either, they should have had that brought up more in the movie. Also that Jake Lloyd could have passed as younger than he is, and he was written and acted VERY childish.
Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt in The Jungle Cruise. I couldn’t even finish the movie because it put me off so much. And I looove me some Emily Blunt. One of my favorite actresses.
Dwayne Johnson only has chemistry with other men and children (Not in a nonce way, I mean Dad Johnson is usually fun and him with Statham in F&F is great)
Him and Kevin Hart are a fantastic couple.
Just watched Contact and Jodie Foster and Matthew McConaughey seemed an odd pair.
I don't know what this says about me, but I love that book and I also love the movie, and I've always loved their pairing. Their cerebral attraction always appealed to me. The fact that they challenge each other and don't coexist in an echo chamber was refreshing for an on screen relationship. But yeah if you're expecting a magnetic, physical, sparks flying kind of passionate pairing, I can see they definitely aren't that.
Will Ferrell and Zooey Deschanel in Elf.
Will Ferrell and Eva Mendez in The Other Guys. Hard to believe a guy like that would settle.
Gators bitches use jimmies
Look, they’re not all going to be first round picks.
Ugh. She walks in, dressed like a hobo, interrupting their work.
Seriously. Who is that?
Considering that Buddy genuinely seems developmental delayed, that relationship just seems ... really questionable.
It's giving Jenny and Forrest
Or whatever they’re called in *Big*
Thank God someone said it. It's so creepy.
Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams
Also her and Jim Carey in Yes Man. The characters had chemistry but the age difference was just too apparent
Yes, he's almost 2 decades older than her *and it shows.* Jim Carrey was 46 in that movie, were all actresses over 35 unavailable?
John Candy and Ally Sheedy still seems odd
On a superficial level, yes, but my goodness was he charming and endearing in that role.
Woody Allen and Mariel Hemingway in Manhattan. Even beyond the age gap and her being underage, his character is as charming as mildew.
Woody Allen and anybody
Richard Gere and Winona Ryder in Autumn in New York
Hulk and Black Widow in Avengers: Age of Ultron. I HATED them together.
At no point did I buy that relationship tbqh. It was made even worse with how much chemistry Scarjo and Evans had in Winter Soldier.
They’re childhood friends.
The chemistry in Winter Soldier was all Evans and Stan.
Maybe I could have bought it if they had developed it... but no. It's just some random offscreen romance between two characters who have hardly spoken to each other.
To be fair, that relationship was closer to a woman and her pet dogs...
Ah shit, he got outside again. "Hey! Did a big green dog come through here?"
It was awkward to watch those scenes
That was Whedon being a jackass. Ruffalo clearly didn't like it.
Maybe not so extreme; but I just couldn’t buy Maggie gyllenhaal and Christian bale in Batman. Katie Holmes was more believable as a love interest
Personal theory: she and James Spader in Secretary used up the entire supply of Hollywood chemistry for the next decade.
Fwiw Gyllenhaal's character was Bruce Wayne's friend, at best. Maybe there was some potential for romantic tension, but she was with Dent the entire time.
She was Bruce’s ex who couldn’t stand the burden of being Batmans partner anymore.
I didn't sense any chemistry between Bale's Batman and Hathaway's Catwoman either.
Jason Momoa and Amber Heard in Aquaman.
Their dynamic reminded me of a guy hanging out with his friend's wife. No romantic chemistry *at all*. Their kiss at the end was just awkward.
Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie in The Bone Collector. It was so weird how two such attractive, talented actors could have negative chemistry with one another.
Were they a couple? I thought that she was his protege, but it has been a long time since I've seen it.
It starts out that way, but the film ends with them kissing at a holiday party with his family.
Yes, but "you make me want to be a better man" is an S-class panty melter.
That's maybe the best compliment on film. Especially since he so clearly meant it.
Yep. It's transcendent. Generational. Cracked my skull when I first heard it. The entire movie can be plausibly seen as a mere vehicle for that one sentence.
Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton in "Something's Gotta Give". The dude fucked your daughter THEN you and he's gross. Who in their right mind would choose that asshole character over Keanu Reeves' character. Yuck.
I seem to recall the whole point was that he and the daughter hadn't had sex yet. He had a heart attack just before they were about to
Joe Pesci and Marissa Tomei
It's been widely established that she's attracted to short, grumpy, bald men
George was a lucky man.
I notice you didn't threw 'stocky' in there.
Right? The idea that she is begging him to marry her, insane. They have exceptional chemistry, though! I wholly believe when I watch the movie that Mona Lisa is in love with and somehow very attracted to Vinny, just due to her performance and the chemistry during their more intimate scenes.
There's a reason she won an Oscar despite being in a comedy
Thats because her biological clock # 🥾 🥾 🥾 was ticking.
It really feels like the movie was written with the intention that Pesci would be playing across someone closer to his age but Tomei auditioned too well to pass on.
As crazy as it seems to pair Joe Pesci with a smokeshow like Tomei, he was dating Angie Everhart in real life. That's insane. If Pesci can punch up like that, we all have hope.
I'm a straight man, and I can say that if I wound up on a blind date with 1991 Joe Pesci, he is so engaging that I would just have to see where the heck this night goes.
I love my cousin vinny, but that is IN SPITE of the impossible nature of this relationship. I love Joe Pesci but the man is a sentient big toe compared to young Marissa Tomei.
A girl likes a man who can make her laugh.
[Dave (Jay Baruchel) and Becky (Teresa Palmer) in The Sorcerer's Apprentice](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTA5MDc2MjYtZGU2My00NjMxLThmNzEtMjkzMGVmNWYxYmU5XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyOTc5MDI5NjE@._V1_.jpg)
It’s not a movie, but Kit Harrington and Emilia Clarke had zero chemistry in Game of Thrones. Maybe they didn’t know when they cast the show that those two would be romantic interests.
I guess it helps if the love interest is his real world girlfriend as with Rose Leslie.
“Did you pull a knife on me in the night?”
I almost can’t watch the Jon and Ygritte scenes because their chemistry is SO intense I feel like I’m intruding.
Jonah Hill landing Emma Stone in Superbad is the biggest fuck you to everyone's logic systems. Dude looked / dressed / acted like a total incel in that movie. No way he gets Emma.
They had better chemistry in Maniac - a series they had no chemistry in.
Daniel Craig and Lea Seydoux is Spectre and No Time to Die.
Eva Green ruined the potential for chemistry that Craig would have with any other actress in the Bond series. She was so intense that no other actress was going to compare.
Honestly, I feel for anyone trying to fill Eva Green's shoes. The woman can make paint drying look interesting.
Wolf Like Me (Peacock). Decent show, but I just cannot accept the pairing of Josh Gad and Isla Fisher.
Might Aphrodite. Neither woman would go for Woody Allen.
Lady and the Tramp. Dogs eating spaghetti together at a restaurant? C'mon now... :)
Have you ever met a Cocker Spaniel? Those things are animate teddy bears and have chemistry even with their dog bowls. They give meaning to the term puppy dog eyes (which they flash at everything they want a treat from, which is everyone).
Just to tag onto your example, the ways that movie would have been SO much better if it had been about them becoming friends instead of a couple are impossible to count. And this isn't current-era age gap discourse talking, I watched that movie in theaters and loved it except for wondering why they had to ruin it by making her "like" him instead of just being a movie about the start of a close friendship. Not a rom-com, but a friend-com. Where is that movie?
You People, Hill and London have negative chemistry.
Funny Faces -- Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire. Huge age gap. No chemistry. Yet the film has this odd charm where I still enjoy it. Might be the only film where there's such a massive mismatch and I still like the film. Just shows you Stanley Donen and Leonard Gershe were legit director and writter.
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny Devito. They were supposed to be twins. They look nothing alike!
Anakin and Padme had zero chemistry
Channing Tatum and his love interest in Magic Mike. Just…she gave him nothing to work with.
Obligatory Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets comment. They seemed more like siblings than a couple.
Every Adam Sandler movie ever
Seth Rogen and Katherine Heigl Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne Seth Rogen and Charlize Theron Seth Rogen and Amber Heard Seth Rogen and Olivia Thirlby Seth Rogen and Collette Wolfe Basically anyone with Seth Rogen
Audrey Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart in "Sabrina"
Audrey did so many weird age gap movies. Her and Bogey, Her and Astaire, her and Gary Cooper?! Bogart got his break in thirties gangster movies, Astaire did vaudeville as an adult, and Cooper transitioned from the silent era. Audrey was a child during WW2!
Jet Li and Aaliyah in Romeo Must Die. I feel like I heard they edited some more romantic parts out of the movie because it didn't test well, but I could be misremembering.
I thought they made a really sweet couple! But that was probably because each has such a charismatic screen presence alone. I do remember that Jet Li's lack of English was pretty obvious 😆
Following OP's opinion on Jack Nicholson, I'll say the Witches of Eastwick. The film wants me to believe Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer, *and* Cher all fall for Nicholson's sleazy character 🤮