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Chemistry Gone Terribly Awry
ednbarby:
As per Katherine's suggestion in another thread, and I quote:
--- Quote ---Back to chemistry for a sec. I don't want to go too OT, but Barb, you should start a thread about who in your studies you've found most lacks it. My vote would be Nick Nolte and Julia Roberts in that movie whose name I can't recall but it's something in first person. I love Nick Nolte and I'm fine with Julia, but together they made me cringe so much I could hardly look at the screen.
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So how 'bout it, everybody? Who have you all found in your movie travels was supposed to have chemistry but didn't? I'll name the ones that come painfully to mind to me:
1. Hugh Grant and Andie MacDowall in "Four Weddings and a Funeral" (loved his chemistry with Kristin Scott Thomas, though)
2. Hugh Grant and Emma Thompson in "Sense and Sensibility" (I see a pattern emerging, here ;))
3. Ralph Fiennes and J-Lo in "Maid in Manhattan" (oh, the PAIN!)
4. Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman in "Eyes Wide Shut"
5. William Hurt and Geena Davis in "The Accidental Tourist"
6. Jodie Foster and Richard Gere in "Sommersby"
7. Jude Law and Nicole Kidman in "Cold Mountain"
I know which Julia Roberts/Nick Nolte movie you're talking about, Katherine. I never saw it, apparently thankfully, and I can't recall the name, either. I remember hearing it was painful to watch the two of them together.
slayers_creek_oth:
--- Quote from: ednbarby on May 22, 2006, 12:47:26 pm ---I know which Julia Roberts/Nick Nolte movie you're talking about, Katherine. I never saw it, apparently thankfully, and I can't recall the name, either. I remember hearing it was painful to watch the two of them together.
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It was I Love Trouble and I definetely agree there...
1. Hugh Grant and Andie MacDowall in "Four Weddings and a Funeral" (loved his chemistry with Kristin Scott Thomas, though)
I don't remember that one so thats obviously not a good sign...
2. Hugh Grant and Emma Thompson in "Sense and Sensibility" (I see a pattern emerging, here )
Don't remember this one either...LOL
3. Ralph Fiennes and J-Lo in "Maid in Manhattan" (oh, the PAIN!)
Couldnt' agree more!
4. Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman in "Eyes Wide Shut"
Two of my least favorite actors - so naturally...
5. William Hurt and Geena Davis in "The Accidental Tourist"
Never saw it!
6. Jodie Foster and Richard Gere in "Sommersby"
I don't know....I like them together in this....but thats just me...
7. Jude Law and Nicole Kidman in "Cold Mountain"
Again I don't like Nicole and Jude has never really impressed me so I agree here too...
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: ednbarby on May 22, 2006, 12:47:26 pm ---I know which Julia Roberts/Nick Nolte movie you're talking about, Katherine. I never saw it, apparently thankfully, and I can't recall the name, either. I remember hearing it was painful to watch the two of them together.
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Right. I did not love "I Love Trouble."
Tell you what, slightly OT but I often don't love movies that pair young actresses in romances with actors 30 years their senior (or 26 years, in the case of Julia/Nick). I'm not saying it never works, but it's usually annoying. Especially as it's so rarely the other way around. Or if it is, as with Diane Keaton/Keanu Reeves (18 years apart) in "Something's Gotta Give," the relationship is doomed (Diane leaves Keanu for the more "appropriate" Jack Nicholson, nine years older) and the age difference is THE central issue, as opposed to when the man is older, when the difference usually goes unmentioned.
I know, I know, older men/younger women are more common in "real life." And you could find possible explanations in evolutionary psychology. But in movies it always seems like male vanity and sexism to me.
So next I want to see a movie that pairs Heath with an actress close to my age, like Michelle Pfeiffer or Debra Winger or Andie MacDowell. It could work, couldn't it? COULDN'T it???
OK, back on topic. Good list, Barb! I don't agree with all of them, but many of them I do. (J-Lo and Ralph -- cringe!) And funny about Tom and Nicole! Something tells me Tom and Katie would lack chemistry, too.
ednbarby:
Here's one along the Tom and Nicole/Tom and Katie lines that interests me, too:
In "Bugsy," Warren Beaty's and Annette Bening's chem-o-meter reading was off the charts. Then, a few married years later, they nearly bored me to death in "Love Affair." So what does that say about what marriage does to your libido? :o
JennyC:
I actually loved Jodie Foster and Richard Gere in "Sommersby" and Jude Law and Nicole Kidman in "Cold Mountain" :), agreed with the rest of Barb's list.
Here are some that come to mind now:
1. Julia Roberts and John Malkovich in “Mary Reilly”
2.Tom Cruise and Penélope Cruz in “Vanilla Sky” (Don’t care for them as a couple either in the movie, or in the real life.)
3. Ben Affleck and Gwyneth Paltrow in “Bounce”
4. Ben Affleck and J. Lo in “Gigli” (Ok, someone please name a film that Ben had good chemistry going with the actress)
5. Richard Gere and Winona Ryder in “Autumn in New York”
6. Nicole Kidman & Anthony Hopkins in “The Human Stain”
Barb, now that we have a bad chemistry thread, can we also have a thread for on screen chemistry that you can not get enough of. ;)
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