10 Weird Movie Romances That Made Your Skin Crawl

1. Vincent and Mary - The Godfather Part III

The weirdest movie romance of all time, in the most disappointing movie of all time, featuring the most ludicrous casting choice of all time. The phrase "dropped the ball" doesn't quite cover the bizarreness of this semi-incestrous romance. Of course, watching the actors you could be forgiven for thinking these two had no feelings for each other at all, given the acting on display here. There's not much more that can be said about Francis Ford Coppola casting his own daughter in a main role, only for her to display absolutely no acting ability whatsoever. She looks bored, tired and uncomfortable throughout, and her casting provides the fatal flaw to the film, from which it never recovers. To go with Sofia Coppola's Mary, we had Vincent portrayed by Andy Garcia, who is so busy doing the worst Al Pacino impression this side of Al Pacino impersonating himself in Jack and Jill, he forgets he's supposed to be falling in love and creating a sense of eroticism. Though eroticism can be hard to come by when the characters are effectively cousins, which just turns the weirdness up to boiling point. There is genuinely no affection showed by either throughout the entire 170 minutes, though it feels like four days. Andy Garcia has had many splendid performances, but he and Coppola just grate against each other, and every second they're supposed to be loving with each other, you cannot help but cringe and feel your skin crawl as Coppola's delivery is so stunted you'd be surprised she's literate. Even without the fact that they're cousins, the romance still makes your skin crawl, because never have two actors, two characters looked so uncomfortable in the presence of each other.
 
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