10 Most Cringeworthy Onscreen Kisses In The History Of Movies

8. Angelina Jolie And Johnny Depp - The Tourist

Back To The Future Kiss
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If nothing else about The Tourist worked, you had to believe that Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp could manufacture some level of passion. These are, as their filmographies and general hotness have proven, two of the most sensual and sexy on the planet.

Yet, this make-out scene is a bit like watching a little girl trying to make her dolls kiss. Yes, you can make their faces touch and add in your own kissy sounds if you want, but in the end, they're just pieces of perfectly-molded plastic and are incapable of interacting with each other the way real live humans do.

They attempt to smooch a few times over the course of the movie, but the most blatantly phoned-in performance comes in a dream sequence.

There's something distinctly unsettling about the way that kiss is initiated. Depp walks up behind Jolie - clad in a tasteful, almost matronly evening gown - lightly grabs the back of her hair, and goes in for the kiss. When he does this her head simply falls back into his hand, her eyes closed, looking for all the world like a very, very dead woman whose body had been held up by strings until this point.

Seriously, it seemed like this banal movie was about to take a major turn, revealing Jolie's character was actually dead this whole time and Depp had been living some surreal Weekend at Bernie's-meets-Psycho fever dream.

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