10 Worst Film Couples Of The Last 20 Years
Oh c'mon, can't you even pretend to like each other?
Chemistry between actors is one of the most difficult things to fake in a movie. You can CGI in monsters and you can cleverly edit around an actor's abrupt weight gain, but there's no post-production tool that lets you magically create a spark between your two leads. It's either there or it's not.
You might think that actors - ya know, those people who are paid to pretend to be any number of things - might be able to utilize the skills of their craft to fabricate some believable chemistry. But more often than not, that simply doesn't pan out.
That's why the casting process is so important. Just because you've hired two very talented actors, that doesn't mean they'll automatically have a good rapport with each other. For every Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio, there are several Kristen Stewarts and Robert Pattinsons.
And nothing sinks a good movie - or turns a mediocre movie into an abysmal, life-draining experience - like terrible chemistry.
The following onscreen couples aren't just missing that special spark, they've taken the spark out back, murdered it, and buried it where no one will ever be able to find it again.
10. Dane Cook And Jessica Simpson - Employee Of The Month
Judging from all the archived evidence, Dane Cook is incapable of having real chemistry with anyone except Dane Cook. Likewise, Jessica Simpson probably has a stronger bond with the watercolor painting of herself she made ten years ago - that she still proudly displays on her refrigerator door - than she does with any actual people.
So naturally the decision was made to bring these two vacuous, strangely popular pin-ups together, throw some money at a production crew who didn't mind leaving their souls at home for a few weeks, and hope the cameras are able to catch something vaguely resembling human emotion emanating toward one another.
It didn't work.
No, despite every frat boy in America lining up outside of movie theaters to worship at the feet of this new "power couple," Employee of the Month was a major bomb. If you need any guesses as to why that is, simply check out that photo above. It's basically a guarantee that somewhere off camera, a PA is holding a kitty cat in one hand and a Nickelback poster in the other. That's the only way you could even get them to look in the same direction at the same time.