What couple in a movie had no chemistry at all?
Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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Harry and Ginny in the Harry Potter series
Kit Harrington & Emilia Clarke
Especially having this follow on from Kit & Rose Leslie, who obviously had all the chemistry.
It just felt so forced. Because it was. There was more chemistry with Hot Pie and one of his pies.
The two leads in Valerian and the city of a thousand planets
Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson in 50 Shades
Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard in Jurassic World
Mark Wahlberg and Zooey Deschanel in The Happening
Seth MacFarlen and Charlize Theron in A Million Ways to Die in the West
Natalie Portman and Chris Hemsworth in Thor. It never really felt like they had much.
Annabelle Wallis and Tom Cruise in The Mummy (2017).
That movie had very few redeeming qualities but the chemistry between those two still managed to stand out as bad.
Jonah Hill and Lauren London in You People.
Season 4 Hughie and Starlight, like they were contractual roommates.
Vin Diesel and Michelle Rodriguez. The worst and most forced chemistry ever. And the have done it for like 20 movies. It’s only gotten worse.
Jason Momoa and Amber Heard in Aquaman. It just didn’t work at all.
Zendaya and Zac Efron in the greatest showman. Their love story was so forced and brought nothing to the movie
Will Smith and Eva Mendes in Hitch.
Kevin James had more chemistry with Will Smith.
Ryan Renolds and Blake Livley in Green Lantern. HTF are they married.
When casting was released I was pretty confident Zendaya would carry and was iffy on Timothy. Turns out Timothy did great and Zendaya was the weak one
Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively in It Ends with Us
Julia Ormond and Harrison Ford in the remake of Sabrina was one of the worst offenses for this that I’ve ever seen… and I like both actors. He went with angry, bitter old guy and she seemed like his daughter trying to get a smile out of her dad.
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez in Gigli.
The most correct answer is and always will be Harry and Ginny.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Cameron Diaz in Gangs of New York
Daniel Craig and Lea Seydoux in Spectre
Hayden Christensen & Natalie Portman had zero chemistry.
Jodie Foster and Mathew McConaughey in Contact.
Movie chemistry is defined as, at minimum, Raul Julia and Angelica Huston. Otherwise whats the point?
Vanessa Kirby & The Rock in Hobbs and Shaw. I’d probably say Rock doesn’t really have romantic chemistry in his other movies in general too
Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne in Valerian. Loved the movie but they absolutely were the worst choices for their respective lead roles.
Finn and Rose in The Last Jedi.
Hayden Christensen and Natalie Portman.. worst on screen chemistry I’ve ever seen in my life
Although Lucas’s writing didn’t give them much to work with
Mark Wahlberg and Zooey Deschanel in The Happening. Them being married was more ludicrous than plants driving people to suicide.
She would have been a good Chani if the script matched her character in the books. They tried to write her too much as his pariah which takes more time to build. The first book is so dense it’s two movies but they made the decision to try and add themes that take a while to set into the world.
Totally off topic, but I’ll tell you which couple had THE BEST chemistry: >!Sam and Frodo.!<
Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevigne in Verian and the City of a Thousand Planets.
So, so bad.
Hot Take: Zendaya is a bad actor.
I said it, and I’ll stand by it. Yes, I’ve seen all the Spoodermn movies. Yes, I’ve seen Challengers. Yes, I’ve seen Euphoria. Euphoria is as close as I will ever get to conceding that she can act because all she’s doing is being a moody, insouciant teenager, which is what she does EVERY. WHERE. ELSE. I SAID WHAT I SAID.
They weren’t a couple – but Julia Roberts and Mahershala Ali had a dancing scene in “Leave the World Behind” that was extremely awkward.
Sofia Coppola and Andy Garcia, Godfather 3
Russell Crowe and Renee Zellweger, Cinderella Man
Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess, One Day
Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson, Babygirl
Tom Cruise and Jennifer Connelly, Top Gun Maverick
Matt Damon and Vera Farmiga, The Departed
Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lily in Ant-man.
I always get downvoted for saying it but Gwyneth Paltrow and RDJ in the Iron Man/Marvel movies had negative chemistry if you ask me
Lindsay Lohan and Mr fitz in that new Netflix Christmas movie
Tom cruise and Renee zellwegger Jerry Maguire. I just did not believe he loved her at the end.
It was very obvious they were acting in Dune. There was not an ounce of chemistry between them and it was so obvious I’m surprised this hasn’t been the subject of more criticism. Villeneuve messed with the original story line too much when it came to Chani and I think his changes made things worse.