Most mismatched couple.

[Nr1Humanoid]

What is the most mismatched couple in movies and TV, be it due to bad writing, bad casting or whatever other reason?

I would go with Twilight as Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart had about as much chemistry as a perfume store and a quiet fart despite being a real life couple.

[Cyno]

Hayden Christensen and Natalie Portman in the Star Wars Prequels. Though I put a lot of that on Lucas.

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

Cara Delevingne and Dane DeHaan in Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. They might as well be androids.

[Totorob101]

Superman returns the chemistry between Brandon and kate was non existent which for Lois and Clark is just woeful.

[El Pollo Guerrera]

There was very little chemistry between Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne in the Valerian movie... or between them and the audience. I was more interested in Rhianna's shapeshifter and she was only in the movie for about ten minutes.

[Hit Girl]

Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley

He had more chemistry with Myrtle the ghost than with her

[agent817]

This was a bad movie already, but I did not buy Jason Patric and Sandra Bullock as a couple in love in "Speed 2: Cruise Control." Hell, you know there are a lot of issues when Jason Patric has more chemistry with the young deaf girl, which is as sus as it sounds.

[LiamMcDuggle]

Mar 8, 2024 15:38:45 GMT -5 Cyno said:

Hayden Christiansen and Natalie Portman in the Star Wars Prequels. Though I put a lot of that on Lucas.

I don't think George Lucas did it in a perverted sense or anything, but George Lucas writes romantic stories very oddly. Leigh kisses Luke in the first Star Wars, and then in TPM, the entire audience needs to sit their awkwardly knowing that grown woman is going to fall in love with that 10 year old boy in a few years.

As good as Lucas is at world building and having a big imagination, there are certain aspects of storytelling that he just doesn't seem to understand whatsoever. 

There are A LOT of stories that A New Hope and Empire Strikes back were pretty much saved by editors, John Williams (the composer) and good Directors.

[Mozenrath]

Mar 9, 2024 0:50:28 GMT -5 LiamMcDuggle said:

Mar 8, 2024 15:38:45 GMT -5 Cyno said:

Hayden Christiansen and Natalie Portman in the Star Wars Prequels. Though I put a lot of that on Lucas.

I don't think George Lucas did it in a perverted sense or anything, but George Lucas writes romantic stories very oddly. Leigh kisses Luke in the first Star Wars, and then in TPM, the entire audience needs to sit their awkwardly knowing that grown woman is going to fall in love with that 10 year old boy in a few years.

As good as Lucas is at world building and having a big imagination, there are certain aspects of storytelling that he just doesn't seem to understand whatsoever. 

There are A LOT of stories that A New Hope and Empire Strikes back were pretty much saved by editors, John Williams (the composer) and good Directors.

I think Padme is meant to be like 14. Natalie Portman was only 16 when filming it, so it's not even really a case of Hollywood age, they probably just should have cast an older actor for Anakin.

[Cyno]

Mar 9, 2024 1:11:40 GMT -5 Mozenrath said:

Mar 9, 2024 0:50:28 GMT -5 LiamMcDuggle said:

I don't think George Lucas did it in a perverted sense or anything, but George Lucas writes romantic stories very oddly. Leigh kisses Luke in the first Star Wars, and then in TPM, the entire audience needs to sit their awkwardly knowing that grown woman is going to fall in love with that 10 year old boy in a few years.

As good as Lucas is at world building and having a big imagination, there are certain aspects of storytelling that he just doesn't seem to understand whatsoever. 

There are A LOT of stories that A New Hope and Empire Strikes back were pretty much saved by editors, John Williams (the composer) and good Directors.

I think Padme is meant to be like 14. Natalie Portman was only 16 when filming it, so it's not even really a case of Hollywood age, they probably just should have cast an older actor for Anakin.

Yeah there's only a 5 year difference between Anakin and Padme. Yeah, it's weird as hell when they're 9 and 14 (though it's 100% Anakin just having a boyhood crush in Ep 1 and not anything more than that). But much less so when they're 21 and 26 in Episode III.

Though Lucas has always had a weird thing for stark age differences in his on-screen pairings. Like Han is 12-13 years older than Leia. And, more infamously, the age difference between Indy and Marion in Raiders.

[sarkerpolseng]

Buffy and Riley

[EvenBaldobombHasAJob]

Mar 9, 2024 1:25:27 GMT -5 Cyno said:

Mar 9, 2024 1:11:40 GMT -5 Mozenrath said:

I think Padme is meant to be like 14. Natalie Portman was only 16 when filming it, so it's not even really a case of Hollywood age, they probably just should have cast an older actor for Anakin.

Yeah there's only a 5 year difference between Anakin and Padme. Yeah, it's weird as hell when they're 9 and 14 (though it's 100% Anakin just having a boyhood crush in Ep 1 and not anything more than that). But much less so when they're 21 and 26 in Episode III.

Though Lucas has always had a weird thing for stark age differences in his on-screen pairings. Like Han is 12-13 years older than Leia. And, more infamously, the age difference between Indy and Marion in Raiders.

George wanted it to be confirmed onscreen that Marion first got with Indy when she was 14 and Spielberg rightly told him to stuff that idea.

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Corey and Topaga because.

[OGBoardPoster2005]

Steve Carell looked too much like Kiera Knightley's father in "A Friend"

I felt the same with Jim Carrey and Zooey Deschanel. That said, 10 years prior she would have been great because I could see the dynamic but the age gap hurt it for me.

Add John Travolta and Lily Tomlin too.

[Scoops]

I remember watching Kong: Skull Island and thinking that every issue people had with all the side characters being disposable would have been solved if Brie Larson and Tom Hiddleston had a speck of chemistry between each other.

[A Platypus Rave]

Mar 8, 2024 15:37:08 GMT -5 Nr1Humanoid said:

What is the most mismatched couple in movies and TV, be it due to bad writing, bad casting or whatever other reason?

I would go with Twilight as Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart had about as much chemistry as a perfume store and a quiet fart despite being a real life couple.

I mean that was entirely an issue with the writing of Twilight.

[agent817]

I have never seen it, though I am curious despite having heard some negativity, but I had heard that The Rock and Mandy Moore played a married couple in "Southland Tales." When I heard about that, I was like, "Huh? Really?"

Maybe I should see it for myself.

[Ryback on a Pole!]

Mar 8, 2024 22:22:32 GMT -5 Hit Girl said:

Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley

He had more chemistry with Myrtle the ghost than with her

I always thought Harry should have ended up with Luna.

["Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik]

Jerry Maguire and Dorothy were a terrible pairing and I had no faith the marriage would last by the end of the movie.

[Nr1Humanoid]

Mar 10, 2024 9:48:40 GMT -5 A Platypus Rave said:

Mar 8, 2024 15:37:08 GMT -5 Nr1Humanoid said:

What is the most mismatched couple in movies and TV, be it due to bad writing, bad casting or whatever other reason?

I would go with Twilight as Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart had about as much chemistry as a perfume store and a quiet fart despite being a real life couple.

I mean that was entirely an issue with the writing of Twilight.

Fair enough.