Best or Worst On-Screen Chemistry.

Supernatural actors

Bill Pullman and Ellen DeGeneres in Mr. Wrong. As a matter of fact Ellen DeGeneres and any man.

Rupert Everett and Madonna

Best or Worst you dumb fucks?

The moronic co-worker I had this week.

Worst On-Screen Chemistry: Helen Hunt/Mel Gibson (What Women Want), Helen Hunt/Jack Nicholson (As Good as It Gets).....Helen Hunt with anyone.

Best On-Screen Chemistry: Audrey Hepburn/William Holden (Sabrina)

Best On-Screen Chemistry: William Powell and Myrna Loy

Hugh Dancy and any dude Hugh Dancy happens to be on screen with.

Worst: Christian Bale and Katie Holmes in that Batman movie they did together.

CB and most of his leading ladies, now that I think about it.

Worst Wentworth Miller and the prison doctor on Prison Break.

Tom Cruise & anyone, except for Jerry mcGuire

R3 I meant worst.

Cher and Nicholas Cage. They were a nice combo.

R8 BEST

R13 Moonstruck is just so great.

BAD: Ralph Fiennes and Jennifer Lopez in Maid in Manhattan

My favourite would have to be Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher.

The standard by which all others are judged: The worst has to be John Travolta and Lily Tomlin and let's not forget Jodie Foster and Richard Gere.

Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins on the other hand... Perfection.

Shirley MacLaine & Jack Lemmon in "The Apartment" - try to watch it sometime. It won Best Picture. Or Barbara Stanwyck & Fred MacMurray (wow - he was sex on a stick back in the '40's) in "Double Indemnity."

John and Lily were pretty bad. She had more chemistry with Bette in Big Business.

This is confusing

Not best or worse but most overrated: Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone. 3 movies and not ONCE was I convinced that he wanted to fuck her. They could have good chemistry as friends or siblings (they had some decent moments in Crazy, Stupid, Love.) but they keep getting miscast as lovers.

r16, O yes. Ralph Fiennes was terrible miscasted in that film.

Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman in Saratoga Trunk, love it and for some reason I never hear anyone talking about it.

For some weird reason Rock Hudson had amazing chemistry with Liz Taylor in Giant.

Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon have suprisingly great chemistry IMO. She never clicks with anyone except for him. She's even a little sexy opposite him. Both in Walk the Line and her few scenes in Inherent Vice.

I guess both of them being horny over James Dean played some role in that, R26.

R9 Katie Holmes was the only bad thing about Batman Begins. She was horribly miscast.

I didn't become Mrs. Tom Cruise for nothing bitch.

R28 Didn't Hudson and Dean wrestle in oil in that film? Or is that just my subconscious filling in the blanks again?

One of the best: Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort in “The Fault in Our Stars”

BEST: Abbott and Costello

Good: Julie Walters and John Alderton in “Calendar Girls”

R7, best screen couple ever. It would be a shame to hear they didn't have fun making those films. I also thought Doris Day and Rock Hudson had great chemistry.

Not impressed with the "chemistry" between Heath and Jake in Brokeback Mountain. Heath gave the performance of his career. But the "love scenes" between Heath and Jake had no chemistry and were all acting.

Jodie Foster and Matthew McConaughey in "Contact." Zero chemistry.

BEST: Armie and Timmy

Best [TV]- Tony Geary and Genie Francis [General Hospital]

Worst- Mary Tyler Moore and Dudley Moore in Six Weeks.

R21 wow, I’m watching Big Business now. One of my favorite movies.

Most of the examples I can think of in terms of worst onscreen chemistry all involve Audrey Hepburn. I don't think there was ever an actress who was more poorly matched as she. For example, George Peppard in Breakfast at Tiffanys, Fred Astaire in Funny Face, Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady and Humphrey Bogart in Sabrina.

Best onscreen chemistry:

Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy

Katherine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart in the African Queen

Worst: Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew McConaughey in Failure to Launch Best: Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart in any of their movies

Best (or maybe best sex scene chemistry) Sharon Stone and Michael Douglas in Basic Instinct

Best: Kathleen Turner and William Hurt in Body Heat Worst: Hayden Christiansen and Natalie Portman in Star Wars

[quote] miscasted

there is NO SUCH WORD as "casted" or "miscasted"

An actor is CAST in a movie.

If it's the wrong movie, they are MISCAST.

Worst: Christian Bale and Maggie Gylllenhaal in "The Dark Knight". P.U. What on Earth were they thinking with that pairing?

That one kiss between Ennis and Jack was the most convincing kiss I had ever seen, thank you Heath.

Most here are just ridiculous. You put too many of your own ideas into the film, instead of going with what the director gave you. Most actors have plenty of chemistry with their co stars.

Yes, my attitude towards Kevin Spacey has plummeted.

But the chemistry between Judy Davis, Denis Leary and Spacey in THE REF was pretty amazing.

R37 - yes, so true. Together they were cringe-worthy.

R48 love that movie. I completely agree with your sentiments about Spacey.

Not intended, but James Dean and the beautiful Richard Davalos in East of Eden.

Worst: Katie McGrath and Mehcad Brooks in "Supergirl." They look uncomfortable. Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara weren't all that sizzling either, but it could be all on Mara.

Best: Minnie Driver and John Cusack in "Grosse Point Blank."

Best onscreen chemistry on TV:

Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny, The X Files

Tony Randall and Jack Klugman on The Odd Couple

Diana Rigg and Patrick Macnee, The Avengers

The worst were Rigg's and Macnee's onscreen counterparts in that Godawful The Avengers adaptation, starring Uma Thurman and Ralph Fiennes. I still cringe at their onscreen kiss.

Yes, Macnee and Rigg. I've been watching Avengers recently and it really stood out. So sweet.

cary grant and randolph scott: "my favorite wife"

julie christie, donald sutherland: "don't look now"

alan bates and oliver reed: women in love

liv ullman and erland josephson: "scenes from a marriage"

Worst: Harrison Ford and Anne Heche, SIX DAYS AND SEVEN NIGHTS. It's no good having two would-be romantic leads screaming at each other unless you can feel the desire: here you just thought they hated one another and were about to go at each other with knives any second.

Best: John Dall and Peggy Cummins, GUN CRAZY. The director told them before every scene that all they wanted to do was fuck each other in every scene and you can believe it--even though Dall was gay.

r55-59: Do you mean those are the best examples or the worst examples? The OP specified either, so your posts are confusing.

natasha richardson and liam neeson

Another vote for Rock Hudson and Doris Day. They really did seem to enjoy acting together. Ditto for John Wayne and Maureen O'Sullivan.

diane keaton and woody allen

R62, oops, make that John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara.

Good one, R64!

Great onscreen chemistry: Babs and Ryan O'Neill in What's Up Doc?

Horrific: Babs and George Segal in The Owl and the Pussycat.

Good thread for a Friday evening!!

I watched THE GETAWAY last night with Steve McQueen and Ali MacGraw, and their connection was HAWT - right through the TV screen! Other good ones:

Elizabeth Taylor and Monty Clift in A PLACE IN THE SUN Sandra Dee and Bobby Darin in COME SEPTEMBER Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr in THE KING AND I

And the bad ones:

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck Brangelina - sorry, just never got it EVERY COUPLE in St ELMO'S FIRE - in every combo: Rob Lowe/Mare Winningham; Ally Sheedy/Judd Nelson; Ally Sheedy/Andrew McCarthy; Emilio Estevez/Andie McDowell; Demi Moore and her gay neighbor; Rob Lowe and his ex wife - THEY ALL SUCKED.

Good: Salma Hayek and Antonio Bandaras in Desperado.

Bad: Salma Hayek and the Chandler guy from friends; Salma Hayek and Russell Crowe. Both forgettable movies in which the couples SCREAM at each other for two hours.

Good: Russell Crowe and Connie Nielson in Gladiator.

me and any costar with a vagina

assuming the intro clip of Jack and Ennis/Jake and Heath was meant as an example of incredible chemistry, just about every scene they shared in BB Mountain is off the charts chemically speaking. I think it is time to watch Brokeback Mountain again. my tear ducts need some irrigating. I know some folks just reject out of what may be meanness or contrariness finding BBM to be wanting in many ways. But my oh my, the chemistry of these two men is so stunning and powerful.

Bogey and Bacall had amazing chemistry in The Big Sleep.

this Brokeback scene never fails to tear me up. the aloneness that Ennis experiences after he and Jack part ways the first time. Heath L was one hell of an accomplished actor in this film.

Annie Proulx's novella is beautifully written and worth reading.

Thanks for posting those BBM scenes.

Simon baker and Sanaa Latham in Something New. Great movie.

heath sukd in that gay movie, mr mumbles

Worst: Julia Roberts, Clive Owen, Natalie Portman, and Jude Law in "Closer" (2004)

Worst: Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie in The Tourist

Good: Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey in Dirty Dancing

Worst: John Travolta and any woman.

"Worst On-Screen Chemistry: Helen Hunt/Mel Gibson (What Women Want), Helen Hunt/Jack Nicholson (As Good as It Gets).....Helen Hunt with anyone."

You forgot Helen and Kevin Spacey in Pay It Forward!!!

Worst: Daniel Day-Lewis and Michelle Pfeiffer in The Age of Innocence. They didn't click at ALL. Just didn't feel it.

Good: Daniel Day-Lewis and Madeleine Stowe in Last of the Mohicans. Very underdeveloped but they sold it. He also really clicked with Emily Watson in The Boxer.

Worst: Redford & Streep/Out of Africa

Best: Redford & Newman/Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid

Travolta clicked with Uma Thurman

Oh, wait, totally forgot, but worst ever or close to is Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson. For all the so-called sizzle they were supposed to bring in the 50 shades crap, they sucked.

Good: Billy Crudup and Jennifer Connelly in Waking the Dead.

Marlon Brando and Eva Marie Saint (On the Waterfront) were so fuckin hot together to me as a child watching them on the afternoon movies of the 60s and 70s. When he busts in her apartment door as she screams at him to leave, and kisses her, argh, so inappropriate and wrong but so sexay! MB has this shadowed hollow in his cheek during the second kiss when Edie is no longer fighting back that just indicated passionate tongue action to me as a know nuttin pre-tween. It made me tingle in my bathing suit area!

Yeah, Brando and Saint is the all-time best to me. Nautral and influential. The perfect bad boy/good girl pairing. They were originally going to reunite in The Long, Hot Summer but it ended up going to Newman/Woodward (whose chemistry I've always found slightly overrated).

Best: Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau in all the movies they did together Best: Elvis Presley and Ann-Margret in Viva Las Vegas Best: Al Pacino and John Cazale in the Godfather 1 and 2, and Dog Day Afternoon Best: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr in Ocean's Eleven

Worst: Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez in Gigli Worst: Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney in Two for the Road Worst: Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz in Knight and Day

Best: MTM & Valerie Harper

Best: another vote for William Powell and Myrna Loy (in the Thin man series or any other film they starred in together), Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor in "A Place in the Sun", Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck especially in "Ball of Fire", Harrison Ford and Kelly McGillis in "Witness". And since someone mentioned soaps up-thread , have to add Stephen Nichols and Mary Beth Evans as Steve and Kayla on "Days of our Lives"

Fred and Ginger. I won't quote Hepburn's infamous line but I will say they came alive when they danced together and they were great when trading barbs.

Best: Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin. I honestly think they would be together if Lily wasn't already married.

R92 reminded me to watch 9 to 5 again.

Best: Kevin Spacey and himself, BEYOND THE SEA

R94 lmao

Best:

William Holden and Kim Novak in “Picnic.”

Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal in “The Fountainhead.”

Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh in “Gone With the Wind.”

Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert in “It Happened One Night.”

Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon in “Mrs. Miniver” and others.

Worst:

Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer in “West Side Story.”

Joan Crawford and anyone.

Henry Fonda and anyone.

Henry Fonda was a riot with Stanwyck in "The Lady Eve": Preston Sturges brought out the comic best in both stars.

Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy in "Before Sunrise/Sunset/Midnight"

You decide

They are awesome on the small screen, too, R93. I hope TPTB get Grace and Frankie together!

Is there anyone here who thinks this does not look like an older lesbian couple?

R99 good catch.

I saw Fonda and Tomlin at Sundance once, they were cute together huffing and puffing to a movie cause they were a bit late.

Ralph fiennes and Jlo!

[quote]huffing and puffing to a movie

R101 using drugs?

r103 Again. They smoked up in "9 to 5".

Worst: Jodie Foster and Matthew McConaughey in Contact.

I don't think the kissing between Heath Ledger and Gyllenhaal was sexy.

R14 cool.

Good one R75. Something New was a gem of a film.

I'm with R81 on no chemistry between DDL and Michelle Pfeiffer in "Age of Innocence". What a disappointment! Also terrible: Ralph Fiennes and Kristin Scott-Thomas, "The English Patient". For all his reputation as a stud, Fiennes doesn't click with many leading ladies.

Best: Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, "Sherlock" BBC Best: Ben Whishaw and Romola Garai, "The Hour" BBC. Whishaw tends to be great with women, except in the sex scenes.

Best: Morgan Freeman and Jessica Tandy in Driving Miss Daisy

Best: Dawson and Load #50.

Worst: Dawson and Load #23.

Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester: The Private Lives of Henry VIII

I agree with Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal as the best

R33 - I'll raise your A&C with Groucho Marx & Margaret Dumont . . .

While Heath and Jake did a passable job making it look as if the characters wanted each other, I was never convinced that grunty, unhappy-looking Heath wanted to get that close to Jake (or any man). In any case, I am not one this movie's many fanboys (or fanbois, as I guess we were still spelling it then).

Best: Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting In Romeo and Juliet

Franco Nero and Vanessa Redgrave in Camelot

Worst: JHO and anyone

Rupert Everett had surprisingly good chemistry with Julianne Moore in An Ideal Husband.

Despite the later tabloid trashfest, Jolie and Pitt did smoke up the screen in Mr. and Mrs. Smith.

As far as TV goes, John Krasinski and Jenna Fischer really were perfect as Jim and Pam on The Office. On Parks and Rec, Amy Poehler had excellent chemistry with both Adam Scott and Rashida Jones.

I also thought Jones had better chemistry with Fischer than with Krasinski on The Office. Has Jones ever 'clicked' with a male co-star? If so, I haven't seen it.

While we're in Michael Schur's world, everybody on The Good Place has excellent chemistry with everybody else.

[quote]For all his reputation as a stud, Fiennes doesn't click with many leading ladies.

Agreed. He can seduce women easily but can’t connect with them as complete human beings and it shows on screen. He was perfectly cast in The Grand Budapest Hotel because Wes Anderson’s films are completely male-centric and make no attempts at real romance between men and women at all (I suspect WA is on the spectrum).

His turn opposite JLo in Maid in Manhattan has got to be near the top of the Worst Chemistry list but in his defense, that movie had the world’s shittiest script and would have been better if they’d just gone ahead and made a shot-for-shot remake of Pretty Woman. His American accent was passable but takes away half his charm so they should have cast someone else or changed the role to something other than an American senator so he could’ve remained English. I can’t believe Fiennes and JLo signed on to what by all rights should have been a Hallmark channel TV flick. You can just see the producers pitching it as “Pretty Woman but with a sexy Latina chick and her saccharine little boy...and a dog!”

This is Good Chemistry. And excellent screenwriting. I love the gloves scene.

Three times I've seen so-called straight actors have enough "chemistry" that their kissing scenes don't look forced and all closed mouth and unsexy:

Thomas Jane & Vincent D'onofrio in The Velocity of Gary - hot French kissing and they both look 100% into it

Ewan McGregor & Jonathan Rhys Myers in The Velvet Goldmine

Lee Pace & Troy Garity in Soldiers Girl - Lee plays a transvestite but under the wig, he's still a guy. Troy did not hold back.

R41, I like Audrey Hepburn in [italic]The Nun's Story.[/italic] I find her dull and sexless most of the time but in that film she has some interesting sexual tension in her scenes with Peter Finch.

More good onscreen chemistry:

Robert Mitchum and Deborah Kerr in [italic]Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison[/italic]

Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll in [italic]The 39 Steps[/italic]

Claire Bloom and Richard Burton in [italic]Look Back in Anger[/italic]

Claire Bloom and Laurence Olivier in [italic]Richard III[/italic]

Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier in [italic]That Hamilton Woman[/italic]

Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton made some terrible films together but their chemistry on film is undeniable, like a living palpable thing, even in silly dreck like [italic]Boom![/italic].

I disagree with r109 Fiennes/Scott Thomas no chemistry in English Patient. The bathtub scene, the afternoon party scene were scorching.

But I agree about Age of Innocence and Michelle P was miscast.

GOOD: Ellen Barkin and every man ever. BEST: Kevin Quaid and Ellen Barkin

You mean Dennis Quaid, don't you, R123?

Andy Garcia and Sofia Coppola in Godfather III - worst ever.

Is this who you mean by JHO, r116? Does it really take that long to spell out someone's name?

126 comments deep and no one has mentioned Bonnie and fkin clyde yet.

127 that should be warren beatty and Faye for best.

R120 I was also going to vote for JRM & Ewan kiss in Velvet Goldmine. And I would like to add River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves in My Own Private Idaho.

For someone on the Down Lo, Clooney had great chemistry with J-Lo in Out of Sight. Actually, his straight stick/Leading man stuff in most movies is pretty good.

r130, Clooney isn't gay. He made love to a friend of mine in Reno and made her cum.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Kathleen turner and Michael Douglas

[quote]126 comments deep and no one has mentioned Bonnie and fkin clyde yet.

Because there was nothing remarkable about Faye Dunaway's and Warren Beatty's onscreen chemistry.

Nia Long & Taye Diggs in Best Man.

I agree, r134, they are the worst.

TV: Sam Elliott and Mary Steenburgen made a great couple on [italic]Justified[/italic]. I saw them in something else earlier, Funny, hot and good looking.

Agree about J. Lo and Clooney in [italic]Out of Sight[/italic]. I've watched that a few times because it's so much fun.

Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole in How to Steal a Million - best Sophia Loren and just about anybody - best Another best vote for DDL and Madeline Stowe in Last of the Mohicans. It was dripping off the screen. Julian Sands and HBC in Room with a View - best The two leads in God's Own Country - best

[quote]River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves in My Own Private Idaho.

This is one of those “one actor is doing all the work” scenarios for me. Phoenix, like Ledger after him, was charisma personified onscreen. Reeves has always been way too detached as an actor to have chemistry with his costars.

The Pianist .

Best: Brian Cranston and Aaron Paul in 'Breaking Bad'

R140, that reminds of "The Piano." Harvey Keitel and Holly Hunter were very good, especially Hunter who played mute and could only express herself with facial expressions and the like.

[Quote] One of the best: Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort in “The Fault in Our Stars”

Really?

R123, Ellen and Al Pacino in Sea of Love was also good.

Good: Sarah Michelle Gellar and David Boreanaz (Buffy), Tyler Posey and Dylan O'brien (Teen Wolf), Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves, Shannen Doherty and Luke Perry (90210), Tina Fey and Amy Poehler

Bad: Teddy Dunn and Kristen Bell (Veronica Mars), Shiloh Fernandez and Amanda Seyfried (Red Riding Hood), Brad Pitt and Claire Forlani (Meet Joe Black), Emilia Clarke and Jai Courtney (Terminator), Molly Ringwald and Andrew McCarthy (Pretty In Pink)

Excellent: Deborah Kerr and David Farrar in Black Narcissus; Deborah Kerr and Burt Lancaster in From Here to eternity

Weak: Deborah Kerr and David Niven in Bonjour Tristesse

BEST: Christian Slater and Winona Ryder in Heathers, or at least second best, because I agree with Dennis Quaid and Ellen Barkin HOLY shit. Another vote for My Own Private Idaho as well, it really worked.

L145 Veronica Mars and Logan had fantastic chemistry though. Maybe not enough to support that movie, but still.

Worst: Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman in Eyes Wide Shut

R140, what about The Pianist? Is it an example of good chemistry or bad chemistry? Why is this so hard for some people?

Sorry [R150] I didnt mean The Pianist. The one with Hupert or Brody ;)I meant the Piano with Keitel and Hunter. My fault

Hands down the best:

Angela bassett and lawrence fishburne in Whats Love Got to do with it.

I found Angela Basset and Raplph Fiennes great in "Strange days" btw. as it was suggested he doesn't click with women. He did!

R120 Straight is very relative in some of those examples. Ewan McGregor, Rhys Myers, Lee Pace and Troy Garity were all rumored to be not heterosexual and Lee Pace actually came out later, saying he has dated both men and women.

Martin Sheen & Sissy Spacek/Badlands

Hugh Dancy and Mads Mikkelsen in Hannibal

R96 I was just telling my sister that Joan Crawford never had chemistry with anyone. That’s because it took too much to be Joan- no room for anyone else.

And Monroe only has chemistry with women: Jane Russell, Lauren Bacall, Betty Grable, Thelma Ritter.

Judy Garland had great chemistry with James Mason and Tom Drake

And don’t forget Loy and Frederic March

I forgot to add that Hugh and Mads had GREAT chemistry

The chemistry between Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr in FHTE was so hot that even without the beach scene it was scorching.

Whereas I thought that Clift and Reed had no sexual chemistry at all.

Goop and RDJ on Iron Man

"gently lift the wire"

Bad: Tom Cruise and Jean Tripplehorn. Good: Gene Hackman and Jeanne. Both in The Firm.

Bibi Andersson & Liv Ullmann/Persona

I haven't found that Gene often has good chemistry with female co-stars but he is good with Barbra in All Night Long.

John Travolta and Lily Tomlin OWN THIS THREAD.

Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway come close (take that Three Days of the Condor troll).

Robert Redford has great difficultly connecting to anyone, especially women, in any movie. He's too smug and detached. In love scenes he's brutal or not interested. Everyone points to Streisand, but there would be nothing if she wasn't working so hard. Fonda is better, though there's not a lot of sex there - Redford is handsome, but he's not sexy. For me, Redford's best chemistry with a female co-star was Natalie Wood. They were having an affair, so that helped.

Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour in Somewhere in Time. The way he looks at her.

I was never a huge fan of either Faye Dunaway or Steve McQueen, but the chemistry between them in "The Thomas Crown Affair" was off the charts.

I loved the interaction between Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts in " Notting Hill". Not passionate, but very,very sweet.

On the non-romantic front, two sets of on-screen brothers had the best chemistry on the small screen: Jerry Mathers and Tony Dow, and Kelsey Grammer and David Hyde Pierce.

Redford was always a shitty actor, a good director yes (check out his Milagro Bean Field movie), but terribly lifeless on screen.

Best:

Jude Law and RDJ (Sherlock Holmes)

Alexander Vlahos and Evan Williams ( Versailles)

RDJ and Mark Ruffalo (Avengers)

Another set of TV brothers with great chemistry were the Petrelli brothers on the show "Heroes", played by Milo Ventrimiglia and Adrian Pasdar. They had millions of fangirls/boys shipping them, incest be damned.

Hey! You forget about us.

[quote]Redford was always a shitty actor, a good director yes (check out his Milagro Bean Field movie), but terribly lifeless on screen.

When you look like this, it's worth the $10 to spend 2hrs just watching him - lifelessness and all.

Best: Thomas Crown Affair remake with Pierce Bronson and Renee Russo. Also thought Angelie Jolie and Antonio Banderas were good in Original Sin(?). Those were some steamy scenes (in both movies).

Worst: Hayden whomever and Natalie Portman in those Star Wars prequels. /facepalm That almost killed a franchise.

[quote]Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour in Somewhere in Time. The way he looks at her.

for R165 . . .

R172, when Redford looked like that movie tickets were 2.50, not $10.

Today you can spend $10 to look at this pathetic person:

William Powell and Gail Patrick in My Man Godfrey. I'm still mystified by how Godfrey could have ended up with Irene (Carole Lombard) and not Cornelia (Gail)

Good: Jude Law and Matt Damon in The Talented Mr. Ripley

Worst: Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman in Eyes Wide Shut.

Best: Gyllenhal and Leger in BBM

Loved the Thomas Crown Affair remake...

...and Redford could never escape his own persona - Streisand had the same problem

R175 stop posting such sexy photos, I’m getting too turned on.

Worst: Ryan O'Neal & Marisa Berenson/Barry Lyndon

Best: James Mason and Sue Lyon/Lolita

Worst: Tom Cruise and any female, Leonardo DiCaprio and any female

The guys who play Ragnar and Athelstan on Vikings

I thought Emily Blunt and Benecio Del Toro had sexual chemistry in Sicario even though it was unrealized. There was something about the way he sort of kept an eye on her that I found very hot.

Worst: Barbra & Amy

Yes, r182, I agree. They are the worst.

I forgot to say Best for the Vikings dudes

Best:

Sarah Jessica Parker and Chris Noth on Sex and the City

Shelley Long and Ted Danson on Cheers

Worst:

Courtenay Cox and Matthew Perry on Friends. Monica and Chandler were fine as friends, but once the storyline had them become a couple, it was never convincing.

Scarlett Johansson and Jonathan Rhys Meyers in Match Point. It was most likely due to the fact that Johansson can't really act, but the actors' chemistry was really bad and disappointing. (And I think I'm the only person who saw that movie.)

I thought the main cast of Hazel had amazing chemistry. The show completely lost all warmth after they ditched Whitney Blake and Don Defore because the new actors felt so cold interacting with Shirley Booth. Before, you could really feel the bond between Hazel and the other characters because of how well the cast gelled together.

Other shows in this vein, where it felt as if the cast really gelled were Alice and Barney Miller. I've been watching Barney Miller again for the first time in years and it's so crazy how well all the actors work off each other.

Lastly, Jay North and Joseph Kearns for Dennis the Menace. Gail Gordon played the new Mr. Wilson well enough but it didn't feel as if there was any real connection between him and Dennis because something about the two actors didn't click the way it did when Kearns was there.

Best in TV: Mary Tyler Moore/Dick Van Dyke ; also Tony Goldwyn/ Kerry Washington.

Great: Joe Pesci and Marisa Tomei in My Cousin Vinny

Shitty: Hugh Grant and Julianne Moore in Nine Months

Great: Robert DeNiro & Charles Grodin in Midnight Run

Terrible: Matt Damon & Edward Norton in Rounders

R153, thanks for chiming in on the excellent chemistry of Ralph Fiennes and Angela Bassett in Strange Days. That final kiss and the look he gives her right before he kisses are absolutely scorching.

Another one for best is Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in Hot Fuzz. They totally came across as a rom-com couple and it's delightfully unexpected.

Best: Leo & Kate in Titanic

Worse: J-Low & Ben Afflecks in Gigli

I'd heard that these two actors disliked each other, but I thought the chemistry of Bruce Willis and Sybil Sheperd in Moonlighting held together for most of the season. They either had great chemistry and disliked one another or were better actors than I would credit them. Loved the Taming of the Shrew episode.

Best? Hepburn and Stewart in The Philadelphia Story. Love the scene where a tipsy Tracey is teasing Mike about being so uptight. Loy and Powell, Bogart and Bacall, Bergman and Grant in Notorious,Streisand and O Neal in Doc, McQueen and Dunaway in Thomas Crown. Fabulous!

The worst? Lena Dunham and any of her leading men In Girls. Jesus Christ, the chick couldn’t grab the attention of any one of them in real life. Talk about vanity casting. Julia Roberts and Clooney in Oceans 11. Dreadful duo, Roberts was supposed to be the epitome of chic, but the sight of her stomping down that fucking staircase is seared into my brain.

[quote]Maid in Manhattan has got to be near the top of the Worst Chemistry list but in his defense, that movie had the world’s shittiest script and would have been better if they’d just gone ahead and made a shot-for-shot remake of Pretty Woman. His American accent was passable but takes away half his charm so they should have cast someone else or changed the role to something other than an American senator so he could’ve remained English. I can’t believe Fiennes and JLo signed on to what by all rights should have been a Hallmark channel TV flick. You can just see the producers pitching it as “Pretty Woman but with a sexy Latina chick and her saccharine little boy...and a dog!”

Yeah, but we wouldn’t have had the charming Tyler Posey in Teen Wolf, if it wasn’t for “Maid In Manhattan”.

Great: Bette Davis and Claude Rains in Now, Voyager. Bette Davis and Paul Henried in Now, Voyager. Bette Davis and Claude Rains in Deception.

[quote]Not impressed with the "chemistry" between Heath and Jake in Brokeback Mountain. Heath gave the performance of his career. But the "love scenes" between Heath and Jake had no chemistry and were all acting.

Yeah. Great movie but zero romantic chemistry. Just like Hammer and Chalamet which is the problem with most straight actors playing gay roles. They only see gays as two extremes: Like a stereotypical straight guy--slob, watches sports, hates disco, misogynist, hangs around guys BECAUSE HE’S BUTCH--but just so happens to like cock (Adam Pally) or the overtly effeminate cartoon character--essentially straight guys thinking effeminate gay men act like either teenage high school girls or sassy Black women (And of course, I can’t think of any examples, I just woke up).

But the point is no nuance. And many of the sex scenes begin with a wrestling match or throwing each other up against walls to show who’s the top.

Not every straight actor playing a gay...but a lot of them.

R156 There's a scene in Hannibal where they're eating and its edited to look like they're blowing each other. Acted that way too.

Agree on Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman in [italic]Notorious[/italic] - I know he was gay but he seemed to really like women. He had good chemistry with most of his leading ladies, even the plainer ones. But the kisses in [italic]Notorious[/italic] are steamy.

R164, what I find interesting is that Redford had fantastic chemistry with Paul Newman, both in The Sting and Butch and Sundance.

File this under unexpected chemistry:

Channing Tatum & Jamie Bell in The Eagle

I thought Scott Foley and Kerry Washington had a shit ton more chemistry than Kerry and Tony Goldwyn in Scandal. I just didn't lie his character. I like Foley's calculating, violent, tough guy and he was hot. Tony Goldwyn wasn't hot to me. he looked like a candyass.

I liked them both, r203. Olivia Pope was the luckiest red wine drinker in Washington, DC.

"Redford could never escape his own persona"

No persona, just bleach.

I like Redford's scenes with Faye Dunaway in [italic]Three Days of the Condor.[/italic] You'd think that they wouldn't work well with one another but they're great together. Actually the whole movie is worth watching.

Agree, R206.

You know, it's funny but can you think of any African American actors, guys who have "great chemistry" with their co star? I was thinking of Denzel. Then I realized that the only movie I can recall him having any love scenes with anyone was in Out of Time with Eva Mendez and Sanaa Lathan. And his chemistry was off the charts with them. Damn. He also had chemistry good chemistry with Julia Roberts in Pelican Brief.

We know, R206, you've promoted it here for years. My evaluation of Redford - Dunaway: wood meets wood.

r203, Kerry is one of those women that just oozes sex appeal. She's good in almost everything she's in.

I know this may sound bizarre but I think Chris Rock and Rosario had really good chemistry in Top 5.

I really believed Barbara and Nick in Prince of Tides.

I loved Rachel Ward and Jeff Bridges in Against all Odds.

Denzel has great chemistry with Denzel.

He and Angelina had a weird sexual energy in Bone Collector.

I have problems with Rosario ever ince she acted like such a horrible asshole during the 2016 campaign.

But yeah, she & Chris Rock had good chemistry...and I think it was off screen too.

Oddly enough I thought Jeff Bridges had good chemistry with Glenn Close in Jagged Edge. And Jeff Bridges and Michelle Pfieffer were off the charts in The Fabulous Baker Boys.

Best: Kevin Costner and Madeleine Stowe in Revenge (1990)

R148 Yeah i know they did. Teddy Dunn played Duncan Kane on Veronica Mars.

R187 No, you weren't the only one who saw Match Point.

R196 He was so cute in that movie.

Lena Dunham and Adam actually had chemistry on Girls. Might just be that he is a good and very intense actor, but they seemed really into each other. He also has chemistry for miles with that Jedi girl now, although she seems otherwise somewhat blah.

I agree with some of the earlier posters who didn't really feel the on-screen chemistry in Brokeback Mountain. For me, the gay romance that really sizzled on screen was between Daniel Day-Lewis and Gordon Warnecke in My Beautiful Laundrette. I could very easily picture those two characters flip-fucking and having all kinds of nasty sex.

"You know, it's funny but can you think of any African American actors, guys who have great chemistry with their co star?"

I could name several of Sidney Poitier's, but how about this:

The Slender Thread (1965), an totally fun and implausible melodrama co-starring Anne Bancroft. Awesome connection and chemistry between Sidney and Anne, and their characters only communicate over the phone. He also has great chemistry with Telly Savalas in a small supporting part.

I've never seen 6 degrees, but did Will Smith have any chemistry with his fuck buddies in that?

Catherine Deneuve and Susan Sarandon in the Hunger, decades before Sarandon lost my respect.

Robert DiNiro, John Savage, Chuck Aspergen, John Cazale and Christopher Walken in The Deer Hunter. The chemistry between all of them was so authentic. They reminded me of the group of guys I hung out with when growing up.

I also thought Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard were fantastic together in Breakfast At Tiffany's, which remains one of my all-time favorite films and caused me to call irrevocably in love with George Peppard who, to me, was absolute perfection.

I was watching Casino again the other night, and I thought I would vomit when Sharon Stone started making out with Joe Pesci. Seriously. So yeah, I'd sa bad chemistry, but damned good acting. She earned her fucking Oscar.

Kevin Costner and Madelyn Stowe in Revenge were amazing. I agree! I hate to say this but Kevin Costner and (gasp) Susan Sarandon were hot in Bull Durham too. Kevin & Whitney were hot together in The Bodyguard too.

Oh, DEAR, R211. I think I'm hyper ventillating. Oh, DEAR

I' watching Friendly Persuasion on TMC and honestly, Anthony Perkins never looked more beautiful. He was just adorable.

One of the best in 2018: Ralph Macchio & Billy Zabka in COBRA KAI.

Between them they project what could be best-described as Fuck Energy. Maybe it's just the characters.

R194-I think that's true about a lot of couples - the more they dislike each other, the more chemistry they have onscreen. Not just Bruce and Cybill, but the two who played Bo and Hope on DAYS OF OUR LIVES apparently didn't like each other. Same with Tony Geary and Genie Francis from GENERAL HOSPITAL.

Also, Doris Roberts gave an interview which made it clear that Pierce Brosnan and Stephanie Zimbalist couldn't stand each other on REMINGTON STEELE.

[quote]the two who played Bo and Hope on DAYS OF OUR LIVES apparently didn't like each other.

Could anyone like Hope?

There was a movie with Jane Fonda and father of Angelina Jolie... They were nice together. He was impotent(??), on wheelchair . after Vietnam war

It was the worst movie of 1978. Should not have won any awards.

Coming Home. John Voight Jane Fonda.

Damn Gary Cooper was a fine older man.

Another vote for Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon for the 2 Miniver films.

Loved Jack Lemmon and Juliet Mills in "Avanti".

"She earned her fucking Oscar."

R223, no., you blithering idiot. Sharon Stone got nominated; NO Oscar.

R190 YESS I saw this in the movies and it was very cringey!

Shitty: Hugh Grant and Julianne Moore in Nine Months

Kevin Costner and Whitney in Bodyguard

Jessica Lange and Dennis Quaid in All American

Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

R233, you're right. I was wrong. Stone won a Golden Globe, for her role, but no Oscar.

Best - Carol and Mike Brady.

You're right, r235, those were all awful.

R199 can you name the season/episode # of that scene? I’d really like to watch that (I’d just watch Hannibal all the way through but I don’t go in for horror stuff).

Daniel Craig and Judi Dench had amazing chemistry in the Bond movies. Not romantic, obviously, but they snap and crackle onscreen.

This is an old one, but I loved the chemistry between Steve Martin and Victoria Tennant in L.A. Story. Not at all surprised to learn that they were married in real life.

John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson had delightful chemistry in Pulp Fiction. Actually that whole cast did.

As for the worst... SJP and John Corbett in Sex and the City. Leo & Cate Blanchett in The Aviator. Andie MacDowell opposite anyone in anything.

Best - Meryl Streep + Robert Redford - Out of Africa

Worst - Streisand + any of her leading men. She never connects. You are always aware that she is Barbra Streisand.

For R239: Maybe this scene - they're eating this delicacy, whole tiny birds cooked in cognac.

Worst: Leo D. and Cameron Diaz in Gangs of New York

Cameron Diaz had a better connection with Drew Barrymore, as far as chemistry goes, than she ever did with any leading man.

Catherine Zeta Jones had wicked chemistry with Sean Connery in that movie about the thieves, Entrapment. She had great chemistry with Antonio Banderas in the two Zorro movies as well.

Gwyneth Paltrow has no chemistry with anyone.

[quote] The interaction between Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts in " Notting Hill". Not passionate, but very, very sweet.

[quote] Shitty: Hugh Grant and Julianne Moore in Nine Months.

I came here to say just that. Hugh Grant has the most baffling filmography when it comes to his leads.

Opposite women his performances always come out "sweet" and courteous, and nothing more...and how strange for a man with a reputation as a lothario. Opposite men (or boys, as in ABOUT A BOY) he just comes across nervy and at one remove, which is a wonderful boon for a film like MAURICE or CLOUD ATLAS.

His acting isn't even necessarily poorer for this, just limited in odd ways. He is a good hire if you want a very specifically detached, distracted & introverted effect in your leading man. He's not one for intensity.

Best: Sissy Spacek & Tommy Lee Jones in Coal Miner's Daughter

Worst: Leonardo DiCaprio & Cate Blanchett in The Aviator (he comes off like a big kid and that didn't help)

BEST:

Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling Kate Husdon and Matthew McConaughey (in How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days, not that other one they did) Matt Bomer and Tim Dekay Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt (Mr and Mrs Smith)

Worst:

Chris Hemsworth and Natalie Portman Natalie Portman and Hayden Christensen Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson

“The Eagle” came and went, but it’s really a good movie. And the two guys end up together, making plans to get a farm. Great chemistry between Tatum and Bell.

And there’s good chemistry between Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis in “Spartacus,” and between Curtis and Sydney Poitier in “The Defiant Ones,” and between Poitier and Rock Hudson, in “Something of Value,” one of the only films he made where Hudson’s chief interest was his relationship with another man.

Worst chemistry? Jake Gyllenhaal and Ann Hathaway in Love & Other Drugs. Jake was looking good, but Hathaway has no sex appeal whatsoever. Nada.

Jake Gyllenhaal and any female

One of my favorites is Clea Duvall & Nick Stahl as doomed fated lovers Sofie & Ben in HBO's CARNIVALE, more remarkable and testament to their talents as she is definitely gay and he might be. Heartbreaking performances both, though the writing and world-building helped immensely.

Speaking of Hugh Grant, I thought he had great chemistry with Andie MacDowell in "4 Weddings and a Funeral."

I also thought Julia Roberts had better chemistry with Rupert Everett than she did with Dylan McDermott in "My Best Friend's Wedding."

You bitches started without me, unbelievable.

Jordan Brower should come the fuck back to work and Jesse Bradford should work with him again.

RDJ and Val Kilmer in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang had great chemistry.

streep and kline: sophie's choice

ahem

questions:

if we know now that the actors were fucking during the making of the film, does that influence the perceived "on-screen" chemistry?

do actors who were fucking show better chemistry than those who were not?

Best:

Chris Evans and Sebastian Stan. in Winter Soldier/Civil War

Worst:

Chris Evans and his female "love interest" in Winter Soldier/Civil War

R239 its this scene, what do you think? Watching it again even the dialogue is insanely suggestive. Its also the first time I heard of this awful, disgusting dish, which I was pretty horrified by.

I remember that the prop food (some kind of marzipan) for that Hannibal scene had the actors gagging. IIRC they said it was the worst thing they had to eat on the show.

Best:

Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake

Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford in Gilda

Powell and Loy

Worst:

Bekhim Fehmu and Candice Bergen in The Adventurers

BEST: Chris Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleston

WORST: Chris Hemsworth and Natalie Portman

Thank you, r259. I’m not even sure I want to watch it because I read about that “delicacy” in an Anthony Bourdain thread (he was invited to a private dinner with about a dozen people who ate those poor little tortured birds whole, even though their species is endangered and it’s illegal to kill them now). Just reading about it made me sad and angry. I hate humans. It shouldn’t surprise me that Hannibal would be eating something like that but ...ugh...any joy I’d get from seeing Mads Mikkleson in a sexually suggestive scene with another man is going to be canceled out by the thought of what they’re supposed to be eating.

[quote]questions: if we know now that the actors were fucking during the making of the film, does that influence the perceived "on-screen" chemistry? do actors who were fucking show better chemistry than those who were not?

Not always. For instance, Meg Ryan and Russell Crowe's chemistry in "Proof of Life" was non-existent; it was as if they were making an effort to not show any connection.

[quote]if we know now that the actors were fucking during the making of the film, does that influence the perceived "on-screen" chemistry?

One word: Gigli.

R265 wait? You thought Ben and Jennifer had chemistry in Gigli?

I think Sharon Stone and Joe Pesci were *supposed* to have bad chemistry in Casino. Sharon Stone's character (Ginger) was supposed to be in desperation mode when she started a relationship with Pesci's character.

Not necessarily "good chemistry," but Tony and Carmela Soprano did seem like a real married couple.

[quote]Not necessarily "good chemistry," but Tony and Carmela Soprano did seem like a real married couple.

That’s a great one. Edie Falco and James Gandolfini were perfect together.

R266 No, the opposite - I meant Affleck and JLo had zero chemistry despite the fact they were fucking.

I hope you're joking, R266.

[quote]Chris Evans and his female "love interest" in Winter Soldier/Civil War

Why is love interest in quotes?

R270 i guess they're not a fan of Sharon Carter.

"Billions" had Bobby and a couple of other guys eating the same dish with the birds one episode and it sounded absolutely disgusting.

Maybe there is something to the dating theory.

Molly Ringwald & Anthony-Michael Hall did three films together, and sparkled together in all of them.

Tommy Lee Jones and Jessica Lange in "Blue Sky" and "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof" (good chemistry).

[quote]Maybe there is something to the dating theory. Molly Ringwald & Anthony-Michael Hall did three films together, and sparkled together in all of them.

Those two dated? How did I not know this? Talk about odd couples.

I thought Depp and Ryder had great chemistry in Edward Scissorhands. They were probably doing a lot of chemistry as well.

Iman deserved an Oscar for kissing Michael Jackson in his "Remember the Time" video and not puking

It's new, but Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh have a delicious chemistry in "Killing Eve."

Virginia Madsen & Paul Giamatti of all people in Sideways.

Beyonce and Jamie Foxx in Dreamgirls

^worst chemistry, obvs

david chiang and ti lung in the old shaw brothers films.

Julie Andrews and Paul Newman in Torn Curtain.

I hope you mean for "worst," R283

R252 Agreed - Roberts had zero chemistry with McDermott in MBFW.

Another thread here reminded me: Patrick Swazey and Jennifer Grey, good chem in Dirty Dancing

SJHorseface and all of her onscreen love interests. She’s the most sexless person I have ever seen. It’s like she’s made of plastic and rubber with some wood thrown in.

Best, I like The Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins pick. They were fantastic.

Best: Laura Dern and Willem Dafoe in Wild at Heart. She really seemed believably moistened in their "fuck like a bunny" scene.

R53 I loved Diana Rigg and Patrick Mcnee too in The Avengers

R288 did you know Dern's first screen-kiss was with Ralph Macchio, of all people, for a tv movie shot in 1983? They didn't have much of a chance to develop 'chemistry' in the 7 minutes they shared on-screen and their movie was certainly nothing special, but their make-out looked very convincing for teenaged passion.

It seemed uncomfortable for her, though. He was chewing her face and his hands were wandering way too far. This was just a year before he tried to suck the teeth out of poor Elizabeth Shue's head in THE KARATE KID.

Best: William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy. Alan Rickman in anything especially with Emma Thompson. Barbra Streisand and Omar Sharif in Funny Girl. Charlton Heston and Stephen Boyd in Ben Hur. Rex Harrison and Gene Tierney in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir. Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman in Sherlock.

I'm no pedo, and chemistry doesn't have to necessarily mean sexual, but for me the chemistry between young Natalie Portman and Jean Reno in The Professional was off the charts.

Jon Voight & Jane Coming in Coming Home = one of the best Jon Voight & Dustin Hoffman in Midnight Cowboy = one of the best

R292 That's one of my favorite movies and I agree they had great chemistry. There were clearly sexual overtones but he was horrified by them. She also had great chemistry with Gary Oldman during the scene in the bathroom.

I always thought Daniel Craig and Eva Green had great chemistry in Casino Royale.

Best: Gosling and McAdams In Notebook, Brad Pitt and Clooney in Oceans 11, Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence in Silver Linings (nothing else), Linda Hamilton and Michael Biehn in Terminator, Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer in Sound of Music, Leo DiCaprio and Vera Farmiga in Departed

Worst: Jodie Foster and Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts and George in Oceans 11, anyone with Goop, Tom Cruise and Renee Zellweger, Kristen Stewart and anyone.

I’ve loved a lot of tv couples with tons of chemistry too. Leighton Meester has tons of chem with Ed Westwick until writers killed their relationship. Then she had tons of chem with Penn Badgley.

I thought Gale Harold and Randy Harrison had tons of chemistry on QAF. Every other couple on the show had no chemistry at all.

Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorvino had great chemistry in Romy and Michelle.

Stanley Tucci and Tony Shalhoub had great chemistry as brothers in Big Night.

BEST

BEST

Good chemistry: Jake Gyllenhaal and Robert Downey Jr. in (DL fave) 'Zodiac'

WORST:

Cary Grant and Doris Day in That Touch of Mink

Cary Grant and Frank Sinatra in The Pride and the Passion

Cary Grant and Sophia Loren in Houseboat (yes, despite the bullshit "affair" everyone loves)

BEST:

Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn in Charade

Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine in Suspicion

Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr in An Affair to Remember

Sophia was gorgeous in Houseboat

In the Harry Potter movies, Daniel Radcliffe and Bonnie Wright (the actress who played Ginny Weasley) had laughably bad chemistry. I never for a second believed those two were supposed to fall in love.

Eva Green and Josh Hartnett in Penny Dreadful - didn't see any heat in that pairing. He had better chemistry with the other male leads Timothy Dalton, Reeve Carney and the little queeny guy who had a crush on Josh' s character. It was cute how Josh would flirt with that little guy.

Best:

Sarandon and Davis, Thelma and Louise

Gershon and Tilly, Bound

Hayakawa and Guinness, The Bridge on the River Kwai

Lancaster and Curtis, Trapeze

Curtis and Lemmon, Some Like It Hot

Giancarlo Giannini and Mariangela Melato, Swept Away

Another vote for Josephson and Ullman, Scenes from a Marriage and Hepburn and Tracy.

Worst:

Burt Lancaster and any woman he's appeared with on screen.

Say what you will about SNL and about Aykroyd & John Belushi, but their chemistry in THE BLUES BROTHERS was masterfully handled.

Jake & Elwood Blues seem like real brothers who lived and breathed and jumped separate from their creators, even now. "Hey you Sleaze, my bed!"

I love this thread.

Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle in Pride and prejudice.

Best: The Ghostbusters (original). And also the Aliens cast.

Best: Judy and Scarecrow

Outstanding: Ellen Barkin and JoBeth Williams in Switch

Ryan O’Neal and Shelley Long in Irreconcilable Differences. They weren’t on fire, but such a very sweet, touching love story. Fine film.

Ryan and Tatum O’Neal in Paper Moon.

Paper Moon = Good

MTM and Timothy Hutton. The greatest anti-chemistry ever. Love so much. “Wait a minute, did I take trig?”

Also Great: Shirley MacLaine & Debra Winger, Terms of Endearment

Good: Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon.

One of the best odd couples: Ryan O'Neal and John Hurt as a mismatched pair of cops in the movie, Partners

Wurst: Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer in The Sound of Music. OK, so their chemistry actually wasn't bad, it was just that I didn't buy them as a married couple not even for a second. Julie was being her usual asexual self while Plummer seemed to be in love with himself only. There was no sexual chemistry there. There were more sparks between Captain and Rolf than between Captain and Maria.

Best ~ Jada & Ghostface in Scream 2

Michael and Laurie

Tea Leoni and Jim Carrey in Fun With Dick and Jane.

Best: Shirley Temple and Bill Bojangles Robinson

[quote]OK, so their chemistry actually wasn't bad, it was just that I didn't buy them as a married couple not even for a second. Julie was being her usual asexual self while Plummer seemed to be in love with himself only. There was no sexual chemistry there. There were more sparks between Captain and Rolf than between Captain and Maria.

Totally agree. In what universe would he have ditched the Baroness for mousy Maria?

Julie Andrews and Omar Sharif in The Tamarind Seed. Chaste Julie being pursued by Omar. As stupid as it sounds.

The only male Julie had chemistry with was James Garner. But he has chemistry with everyone because he was such a good actor and because of his nice guy persona.

Julie and her bikini in The Tamarind Seed also had some terrible chemistry going on.

^ YUM

Omar Sharif and Peter O 'Toole.

robert de niro and joe pesci.

Maggie Gyllenhall and anyone.

No mention of those two Italian beauties, Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni under BEST?

Best-Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara- Carol Cate Blanchett and any female co star Worst- Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis- Top Gun

I thought Jodie had chemistry with Mel Gibson in Maverick

Gabourey Sidobay and Monique in Precious.

Best: Gabriel Mann and Ashley Holmes in Revenge

R322, I agree. Tea Leone is the worst!

Best: Cory Michael Smith and Robin Lord Taylor in Gotham

Best: Peter Capaldi and Michael Maloney in Mr. Wakefield's Crusade

No love for Robert Forster & Pam Grier in Jackie Brown?! I thought they were easily the best part that film.

Worst: Streep and Redford in Out of Africa Best: Sutherland and Christie in Don't Look Now

Best: The guys from God's Own Country

Claire Danes & Nick Stahl in TERMINATOR: RISE OF THE MACHINES.

Unlike most I bought Stahl as John Connor entirely, and in fact felt he did a beautiful job of crafting a tortured heartbroken young man forced into an unthinkable position. I also thought Danes was a clear sharp presence on her own. The problem was their lack of connection when in the same scenes, like they were acting either side of a screen. It's so strange how in a single film two talented actors perform well alone, but not together.

Perhaps that was the point here, though, given the way John Connor and Kate Brewster, total strangers, are forced to cleave together by colossal events without their volition and in a very short space of time.

Ellen Barkin and Any man with a pulse.

Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell in My Kind of Woman - a woman more macho than him.

R343, r344, I agree that these are the worst.

Best: Leslie Nielsen and Priscilla Presley in The Naked Gun trilogy.

JGL and Tom Hardy in Inception had great chemistry.

Good: Sir Lawrence Olivier and Tony Curtis in Spartacus

Good: Kirk Douglas and Jeanne Simmons in Spartacus

Good: The Scenes between Charles Dance and Maisie Williams in Game of Thrones.

GOOD

Ted Danson and Shelley Long - Cheers

MTM and Valerie Harper - MTM show (actually that whole cast vibed really well together)

Tom Cruise and Tandie Newton - Mission Impossible #? (the only time other than with Rebecca deMornay I believed his chemistry with a woman)

Michelle Pfeiffer and John Malkovitch - Dangerous Liaisons

Walt Willey and Michael B Jordan - All My Children (it's inappropriate but I thought Jackson liked Reggie a little too much)

Michael B Jordan and Amanda Seyfried - All My Children (weird I know but they had chemistry too)

In contrast to the modern Ocean's movies, where some members had chemistry and others didn't, in the film Kelley's Heroes with Clint Eastwood everyone's chemistry was popping with everyone else and it makes that silly film really fun to watch.

Gena Rowlands and the little Black kid - Gloria

Cher and Stanley Tucci - Burlesque ( i'd love to see them in something together again)

Has anyone mentioned these two yet? Awful chemistry in a film that depends on it.

Liza Minelli and Michael York and Helmet Griem in Cabaret.

Just saw Gaga and Cooper on the cover of Entertainment Weekly. It looked kind of gross.

Best: Linus Roache and Helena Bonham Carter in Wings of the Dove

I love the subtle but intense looks that he gives her.

RDJ has been mentioned a couple of times.

I thought he actually had the best chemistry in the first Avengers movie with Hiddleston. The two of them going toe to toe with each other was one of the best parts of the movie.

Best: Brian Cox and Anthony Higgins

^ That looks way better than J. Edgar

R356 Yes, it is. The acting is so much better.

Best:

Lawrence of Arabia - Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif

Days of Heaven - Richard Gere, Brooke Adams

Mr. Ed - Wilbur and Mr. Ed

Good call on Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif. I wanted to see them ride off into the sunset together!!!

Best: Ray Liotta and Michael Esper in Shades of Blue

Best: Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore.

Also Best: I agree with the comment about Alan Rickman with anyone. He even made Tom Selleck look better.

Doris Day had better chemistry with James Garner than Rock Hudson.

Michael Esper seemed to have great chemistry with everyone. He was great with Donald Sutherland in Trust.

Just watched A Star is Born. Don't get the hype. By the end, I wanted them to both hang themselves.

Worst on screen chemistry- John Travolta and Joan Allen in Face/Off

Linus Roache also has great chemistry with everyone. He was great with Lydia Wilson in The Making Of A Lady.

Best - Gere and Roberts Pretty Woman Slater and Ryder Heather’s

Fred & Barney, hawt!

Best (sexual or romantic chemistry):

Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman in Moulin Rouge (reportedly had an affair during filming)

Michael Keaton and Michelle Pfeiffer in Batman (also reportedly had an affair during filming)

Armie Hammer and Timothy Chalamet in Call Me By Your Name (totally believe they fucked and are still fucking; actually think they're in love with each other)

Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman in Far and Away (I know most of you will scoff at this, but I thought they had a lot of chemistry in that movie)

Jim Sturgess and Evan Rachel Wood in Across the Universe

Ewan McGregor and Jonathan Rhys Meyers in Velvet Goldmine

Emma Thompson and Kenneth Branaugh in Much Ado About Nothing

Emma Thompson and Anthony Hopkins in The Remains of the Day

Helena Bonham Carter and Julian Sands in A Room with a View

Daniel Radcliffe and Tom Felton in the last three Harry Potter movies

James Mcavoy and Michael Fassbender in the X Men movies (especially Days of Future Past)

Colin Farrell and Ezra Miller in Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them (I think they fucked at least once)

Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs

Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman in Sherlock

Hale Appleman and Jaon Ralph in The Magicians

Way back in the day, on ‘Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman’, there was a lot of sexual chemistry between Louise Lasser and Bruce Solomon, who played policeman Dennis Foley. The Foley character was very popular with the fraus, but if you watch the episodes now his behavior was appalling.

WORST: Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald.

BEST: Donald Trump and Lindsay Graham

Among the worst : Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier in The Prince and the Showgirl.

(And didn't she get to change clothes during the 2 days she was at that Ambassy ?) Gross.

Tracy and Hepburn in everything they did together had great chemistry. But especially in woman of the year and Desk Set

Best: Tom and Jerry

Excellent :

Christopher Reeves and Margot Kidder. Very endearing.

James Wilby and Rupert Graves in Maurice.

Jean Harlow and William Powell. There is a scene where they banter, sing-songing to each other, but for the life of me, I can't find it.

The wost, Nicole Kidman and Will Farrell in Bewitched.

The best, Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law in Sherlock Holmes.

Worst: Lady Sybil Crawley and Branson the Chauffeur of Downton Abbey, never saw or felt a spark between them. Baffling why they felt the need to run off together.

Also, her sister Lady Mary Crawley didn't have any spark with the guy she married at the end, Henry Talbot. I guess that's why they had all supporting cast running around constantly saying "You're perfect for each other" to try and convince them and the audience there was something there when there wasn't.

Best: Rufus Sewell, Alan Rickman, William Powell - and anyone.:

Worst: I love him like a son and he's a really good actor but - Elijah Wood and any female

Re: Hugh Grant, I agree with the comments above, and I think his persona worked unusually well with Emma Thompson’s in Sense and Sensibility. Still, not sure about him playing a modern man with so few social restrictions, though.

I think that Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci have good chemistry, in both Prada and Julia

TV- Tony Geary and Genie Francis.

Best: Juliet Stevenson and Trevor Eve in "A Doll's House" and "The Politician's Wife"

Worst: Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall in "The Shining"

Hugh had good chemistry with Ben Whishaw in A Very English Scandal

Worst on screen chemistry: Jeremy Renner and Amy Adams in Arrival

Worst chemistry is anyone with Helen Hunt

Great chemistry: Drew Barrymore & Timothy Olyphant in the now defunct 'Santa Clarita Diet'

Ingrid Bergman - Cary Grant - Notorious

Shelly Long - Ted Danson - Cheers until they became played-out.

Helen Hunt actually had decent chemistry with Paul Reiser in the first few seasons of Mad about You. The show was pretty painful by the end though.

My god OP, Jake's areolas were in full bloom.

When you take the clothes off of Julie Andrews you've got a very naked Julie Andrews.

Though she and Plummer are great in the Edelweiss and Landler scenes.

Best

Arlen and Rodgers-Wings

Garbo and Gilbert-Flesh and the Devil

Turner and Garfield-Postman

And the ultimate-Deneuve and Castelnuovo-Umbrellas

Ellen Barkin and every man in the universe.

Barbara Stanwyck and Richard Chamberlain

Mentioned once above, but this great chemistry deserves a photo.

Loretta Young and Clark Gable. They even made a baby!

Best: Julie Andrews and Robert Preston in Victor/Victoria. Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer in Tombstone. Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman in Shawshank Redemption. Oliver Reed and Michael York in The Three Musketeers. Ciaran Hinds (so hot) and Amanda Root in Persuasion (1995).

Worst: Kristen Stewart & Robert Pattison in the Twilight Movies. Carrie-Anne Moss & Keanu Reeves in The Matrix trilogy. Catherine Zeta-Jones & Brad Pitt in Ocean's Twelve

This one is a little odd -- but when I catch Leave it to Beaver as an adult - Ward and June had a nice chemistry. They also had a dry, gentle sarcastic sense of humor I did not catch as a kid. June gets some low-key zingers in from time to time.

Tony Dow and Jerry Matthers did have a good sibling chemistry. The whole family played off of each other well. For old shows - Betty and Bud also had good sibling chemistry on Father Knows Best (and were not bad actors). The less that is said about Kitten, the better.

I never found Heath Ledger's performance to be anything more than acting.

In the nosebleed/footrub scene in CMBYN, Elio runs his index finger along Oliver's jawline, the sexiest moment in a very sexy film, for me. Followed by their first kiss. Licking Oliver's lips playfully. Shivers baby

Jon Snow and the Kahleesi

Best: Streisand and Redford, Leigh and Gable, Di Caprio and Winslet

Best: Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher

BEST: Rupert Graves and James Wilby in "Maurice"

BEST: Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki in "Supernatural"

BEST: The young actors who played gay in the TV show "Eyewitness"

WORST: Jessica Chastain and Chris Pratt in those Jurassic movies. No heat at all

Best: Hugh Dancy and Mads Mikkelsen in "Hannibal".

BEST: Robert Downey Jr and James Spader in "Less Than Zero"

WORST: Robert Downey Jr and Gwyneth Paltrow in the Iron Man/Avengers movies

Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger, In the Heat of the Night. The tension they created together was palpable and much of it with long silences and stares.

Best -- Dan Feuerriegel and Pana Hema Taylor, who played a couple in the TV series "Spartacus".

[quote] BEST: Robert Downey Jr and James Spader in "Less Than Zero"

R402 I just finished TRUE COLORS and I actually think Spader had even more better chemistry with John Cusack. They’re so different they have a symmetry, and watching their scenes you really believe at points they wanted to kill or kiss each other.

[quote]WORST: Jessica Chastain and Chris Pratt in those Jurassic movies. No heat at all

Fuck you.

Worst: Christian Bale and any female love interest in any movie that he's ever done.

BEST: Corbin Bleu & Lucas Grabeel, HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 2. Popped off the screen.

That was the real plot. I don’t know why Kenny Ortega insisted we watch Zanessa faintly glimmer for 2hrs runtime instead.

the boys in Beautiful Thing the boys in Shelter Peter Krause and Rachel Griffiths in Six Feet Under Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell in The American Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrade in The Lady Vanishes Eden & Cruz on Santa Barbara the girl and the Balthazar in Au hasard Balthazar the two guys in Farewell My Concubine agreed on Catherine and Nino in Les Parapluies Gloria Grahame and Bogart in In a Lonely Place Ingrid and Cary in Notorious Clarke and Lexa on the 100

R409 I completely agree with you on the boys from Shelter. They had amazing chemistry.

As for Peter Krause, I've watched him in just about everything he's been in, but his best chemistry was with Josh Charles in Sports Night. Amazing show, great chemistry, cut way too short.

Former TV series, I'd say Joe Flanigan and David Hewlett, who played John Sheppard and Rodney McKay on Stargate Atlantis.

Current TV series, I'd say Alex O'Laughlin and Scott Caan, who play Steve McGarrett and Danny Williams on the Hawaii Five-0 reboot. Bonus points is that Caan has pushed to make McDanno (what their 'ship is called) canon. Of course that'll never happen...

I second R372 - Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn in ANYTHING they did, although Desk Set was a particular favorite.

[409] here:

Redgrave*

and the donkey *or* and Balthazar

Worst: Clooney and any actress.

Clooney was good with Brad, jLo, Julia, and Michelle pfeiffer IMO

[409] again, the kids in The Dreamers--Garrel, Pitt, and Green weren't bad together

SMG and David Boreanaz did have great chemistry. Bad actors but esp. on SMG's part, there was believable longing.

I liked Mia with Joe Montegna in Alice; very sweet

Michelle Pfeiffer and John Malcovich in Dangerous Liaisons

Diane Keaton and Woody Allen (comedic chemistry) in every film; perfect together; Louise Lasser was the prototype but Diane Keaton and Woody Allen worked so well in Sleeper, Love and Death, Annie Hall, a bit less so in Manhattan, great in Manhattan Murder Mystery

Ann Todd and Trevor Howard in The Passionate Friends (perhaps debatable, but I liked it)

Deborah Kerr and Richard Burton in Night of the Iguana, at least in the hammock/panic attack scene, very loving and sympathetic

Jakey G and anyone with a vagina.

Worst: Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby

Moe, Curly, Larry

Leonardo Di Caprio and any female

Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles in 10 Things I Hate About You. This was his first American film and he just oozed sex appeal. I believe he and Stiles had a fling on set.

Jeff Bridges and Michelle Pfeiffer in The Fabulous Baker Boys.

Nicole Kidman does not have any chemistry with anyone except for Ewan MacGregor in Moulin Rouge. She always comes off cold and detached.

[Quote] One of the best: Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort in “The Fault in Our Stars"

I thought they worked better as brother and sister in Divergent. And that Anne Frank scene was just tasteless.

[Quote] SMG and David Boreanaz did have great chemistry. Bad actors but esp. on SMG's part, there was believable longing.

Boreanaz has somewhat improved over the years. But I never thought Sarah was terrible.

[quote]Great chemistry: Drew Barrymore & Timothy Olyphant in the now defunct 'Santa Clarita Diet'

I agree. I was sad that the show got canned because it would have been fun seeing what the couple would have done after what happened in the final episode of season 3. I do like that the writers gave some closure in that episode because they had a good feeling the show would be canned. But, that ending would have provided some good storylines for another season or two.

Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee: The greatest horror/sci-fi movie team in history. They made 24 films together. The four films listed below were made for Hammer Films between 1957-59 and made them a major studio from that time up to the mid-70s.

The Curse of Frankenstein

The Horror of Dracula

Hound of the Baskervilles

The Mummy

Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles looked like they could be siblings.

Paul Michael Glaser and David Soul -- Starsky & Hutch

Best - Lee Tergesen and Chris Meloni from the series "Oz". I would not be surprised if it came out that they fooled around off screen.

Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta Jones in "Entrapment".

The film makers were trying to imply a love interest (not overt) but the age difference between the two convinced me that we were going to eventually find out that she was actually his daughter.

Seeing the pair together was just a really big EWWWWW!

[quote] Worst: Clooney and any actress.

Actually, I think worst is Clooney with anyone on screen.

He's a terrible actor.

Warren Beatty and Natalie Wood in Splendor In The Grass were perfection.

Likewise, DiNiro, John Savage and Christopher Walken in The Deer Hunter.

According to old DL rumours they were R428.

YES to the Meloni and Lee OZ pairing!!!

[quote]Boreanaz has somewhat improved over the years. But I never thought Sarah was terrible.

It is kind of funny to watch him in the first season of Buffy now. He really was the generic brooding boyfriend with the personality of cardboard. As good of chemistry he and SMG had, Angel really did not come into his own until after he was free of her and developed more of a personality other than star-crossed lover and a sense of humor. In a lot of ways Cordelia was a better series co-star r for his character because they balanced each other better. I wish more series would realize not every female - male pairing on a TV show has to go the romance route.

Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds in The Proposal. I remember this was a huge hit in 2009 and propelled Reynolds' career. There was supposed to be a sequel but never was. I think there was something going on between those two. They both have good comedic instincts.

Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton had incredible on screen camera in Friday Night Lights even though I think she's a lesbian.

Worst chemistry has to be Chris Pratt and Zoe Saldana in the Guardians of the Galaxy movies. They were about as sexy as a pair of lukewarm sponges together.

Best: Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward in The Long, Hot Summer. Paul Newman was so damn hot in that movie, hoo boy!

I need to watch that again. Soon.

R434 I almost wish Buffy got to see more of Angel's comedic side, just to see her reaction. I hate that they put Cordy and Angel together. They should have stayed friends.

Best:

Cher and Nicolas Cage in Moonstruck

Kate Winslet and the murdering gf in Heavenly Creatures

Jason Momoa and anyone

Christian Bale and Winona Ryder in Little Women

Sam Eliot and anyone

Worst:

Kirsten Dunst and Orlando Bloom in Elizabethtown (even though she was great)

What is the consensus on the Hugh Grant/ Sandra Bullock romcom from years ago? I thought they were a decent match.

Eric Roberts and Mickey Rourke in the Pope of Greenwich Village.

[409] here, yet again...

Lots of free-floating chemistry among the leads in Another Country.

Not sure what to say about Maurice--Wilby and Graves had decent animal chemistry, Wilby and Grant shared a kind of bashful affinity. I love the movie, but thinking back to it, none of the pairings lingered with me, although the fantasy of running away with Graves does, and the final resignation of Grant is still more memorable. That moment when he's closing the shutters and thinks back to Maurice calling out to him from a quad at Oxford with the bells ringing hits me the same way David seeing Keith just before David dies in the SFU finale.

Fernanda Montenegro and Vinucius d'Olivera (sp?) had a beautiful evolving connection in Central Station.

In The Shop on Main Streep the old Jewish shopkeeper (Ida Lupinska???) worked very well with the "Aryan" who took over her store. Everyone should see that film. It's devastating.

Agree about the girls in Heavenly Creatures. You could tell Kate was a force waiting to be unleashed.

In Parting Glances, the couple about to be separated because one is going to Africa have less chemistry than anyone else in the cast. The little flirtation in the music store felt so familliar. Buscemi's scenes were kind of OTT and contrived but still effective.

Nicole Kidman and Billy Zane had good sexual chemistry in Dead Calm. He was so appealing that it probably would have happened with any actress (though not with Tilda in Orlando).

Janet Margolin and Keir Dullea were heartbreakingly tender and tentative in David and Lisa.

Paul Mercurio and Tara Morice were lovely together in Strictly Ballroom.

The actresses in Aimee and Jaguar were perfect.

couple has*

Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson in The Nanny Diaries.

I thought Stanley Tucci and Patricia Clarkson had great chemistry in Easy A as Emma Stone's eccentric parents.

Love the movie overall but.....Jimmy Stewart had no chemistry with Grace Kelly in Rear Window. You wonder what she saw in him.

Jimmy Stewart did have good chemistry with Donna Reed in It's a Wonderful Life.

[quote] Maurice--Wilby and Graves had decent animal chemistry, Wilby and Grant shared a kind of bashful affinity.

I think the restraint and shy tentative courtship Wilby & Grant played is exactly for what the script and indeed the book called. Let us remember; this relationship was a ‘first love’ for both and a criminal one at that, and moreover that both were young characters played by young actors playing in their first major film. Maurice & Clive had in common a robust intellectual curiosity and a sense of romance, which is enough for most students to fall for one another.

Wilby & Grant were friendly acquaintances from theatre and had even rehearsed love-scenes even before casting (they touch upon this in the interviews I’ve linked below), which adds quite a lovely layer of subtext to the film and a strong warm tangible frisson to an otherwise slightly-tepid relationship. I believe the two characters like each other as much as love, and that the actors got along.

Knowing the book first of all, my reading of the relationship between Maurice & Clive is of two boys who saw each other first as dear firm friends who happened to fall into an inconvenient albeit ‘safe’ erotic infatuation - one which only Maurice in his vigourous curiosity would like to become physically sexual. They care about the welfare and standing of the other intensely, and it’s a fear of losing one another to the ‘Lower depths’ as it were that stymies their progress into a full-bore love affair; at one point thanks Maurice for his ‘decency’ in guarding the secret of their feelings, and for his part never reveals Maurice’s inclination either. There’s a slight teenage desperation and swooning innocence about it all.

I do think they were in love, of sorts, only it was a pastoral and almost childlike attraction between kindred spirits more than the material ‘real love’ of maturing passion Maurice shared with Scudder. I do think Maurice & Clive held fast to the love between them to the end, in the nostalgic way one clings to happier memories of youth and a greener past as Forster might have put it.

[quote] thinking back to it, none of the pairings lingered with me, although the fantasy of running away with Graves does, and the final resignation of Grant is still more memorable. That moment when he's closing the shutters and thinks back to Maurice calling out to him from a quad at Oxford with the bells ringing hits me.

This very scene is the only one to ever convince me that Grant is able to act well. I’ve not seen him perform better before or since. But it is an exquisite scene, anyway.

Best Chemistry-Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson in Her

Frankie Muniz & Justin Berfield, MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE.

Those two plus Bryan Cranston in solo scenes were carrying the entire show by the final seasons.

Best - Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx in Collateral

Worst - Niles Crane and Daphne after they hook up on Frasier

R443 they still have great chemistry in the Avengers movies.

R444 yes! I wish they'd been my parents lol.

[409] here. Beautifully put, [447]. I, too, read the book first (long after the film came out) and agree that they calibrated their performanes well. The music and editing does much of the heavy lifting in that final sequence and Phoebe (Nichols?) sympathetic obliviousness also creates a poignancy. I do give credit to Grant for projecting mixed feelings, though, and delicacy in enacting such a literal physical metaphor (closing the shutters). He was an entertaining caricature in last year's A Very English Scandal.

Best line from Maurice: "Omit the reference to the unspeakable vice of the Greeks."

Worst Chemistry- Sam Heughan and Mila Kunis in The Spy Who Dumped Me

[quote][409] here. Beautifully put, [447].

Put an R in it, r453. Nobody's going to bother otherwise.

Speaking of parents.....

Best: [italic]The Facts of Life[/italic] girls with each other

Worst: [italic]The Facts of Life[/italic] girls with men

Matt Bomer and Tim DeKay were pretty good in White Collar.

Sorry if these have already been mentioned:

Ann Margret and Elvis in VIVA LAS VEGAS

Ava Gardner and Clark Gable in MOGAMBO

Sandra Dee and Bobby Darin in COME SEPTEMBER

Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner in THE KING AND I

Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger in 9 1/2 WEEKS

Kathleen Turner and William Hurt in BODY HEAT

Does the tee vee count? Liza Snyder and Anthony Clark.

U.S. Teencom edition...

Best: Beth Broderick & Caroline Rhea (‘Sabrina the Teenage Witch’); Danny Tamberelli & Mike Maronna (‘The Adventures of Pete & Pete’); Mark-Paul Gosselaar & Mario Lopez (‘Saved by the Bell’); Colin Nemec & Melanie Chartoff (‘Parker Lewis Can’t Lose’); Ben Savage & Rider Strong (‘Boy Meets World’); Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen (‘Two of a Kind/So Little Time’); Eric von Detten & Trevor Fehrman (‘Odd Man Out’); Shia Laboeuf & Christy Carlson-Romano (‘Even Stevens’); Raven Symoné & Anneliese van der Pol (‘That’s So Raven’); Drake Bell & Josh Peck (‘Drake & Josh’); Dylan & Cole Sprouse (‘The Suite Life of Zack & Cody’); Selena Gomez & David Henrie (‘Wizards of Waverley Place’); Hal Sparks & Jeremy Kent Jackson (‘Lab Rats’); Kevin & Nick Jonas (‘Jonas’)

Worst: Sean O’Neal & Melissa-Joan Hart (‘Clarissa Explains it All’); Tia & Tamera Mowry (‘Sister, Sister’); Robert Ri’chard & Meagan Good (‘Cousin Skeeter’); Hilary Duff & Lalaine (‘Lizzie McGuire’); Wilmer Valderrama & Mila Kunis (‘That ‘70s Show); Jamie-Lynn Spears & Victoria Justice (‘Zoey 101’); Emily Osment & Mitchel Musso (‘Hannah Montana’); Devon Werkheiser & Lindsey Shaw (‘Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide’); Emma Roberts & Jordan Calloway (‘Unfabulous’); Miranda Cosgrove & Nathan Kress (‘iCarly’); Ariana Grande & Jennette McCurdy (‘Sam & Cat’).

Jean Arthur and Joel McCrea in "The More the Merrier"

^Best chemistry.

Others in best.

Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland

James Cagney and Joan Blondell

Bing Crosby and Bob Hope

Bonita Granville and Frankie Thomas,Jr. in the "Nancy Drew" movies

The Dead End Kids

The Little Rascals

Best: on TV, no matter what you think or her or what she has become: Roseanne & John Goodman, Roseanne & Laurie Metcalf Melissa McCarthy & Billy Gardell - Mike and Molly Lucille Ball & Vivian Vance - I Love Lucy

Gene Kelly & Donald O'Connor - Singin' In The Rain

I love BB MTN and think the two actors give amazing performances with amazing chemistry. One of my top 10 fave films.

Thelma Ritter opposite anyone....not that they have much of a chance with her on screen.

Liam Nielson and Ralph Fiennes in Schindler list

Great: Irene Dunne and Cary Grant in The Awful Truth (1937). Grant usually doesn't do much for me, but here he is matched by the effervescent Dunne and she really brings out the best in him. They look like romantic pals.

Great: Joan Blondell and James Cagney.

Bad: Katharine Hepburn and Burt Lancaster in The Rainmaker.

Atrocious: Ryan O'Neal and Barbra Streisand in What's Up, Doc? A 1972 movie saved by Madeline Kahn, Kenneth Mars, Austin Pendleton, Mabel Albertson, Michael Murray, and everyone else in the picture.

R223 imo Costner's best chemistry was with Bill Pullman in HATFIELDS & McCOYS.

Been awhile since I have seen it, but was the chemistry between Alan Ladd and Jean Arthur part of what helped drive Shane and give some subtext to the movie which helped elevate it to a classic rather than just another western. Their chemistry helped create a tension, even though the characters never act on it.

If we can have sports entertainment then, Bray Wyatt & Dean Ambrose.

I think one of them even told a fan reporter once that the chemistry they had was like that between “soulmates”.

Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan

Mira Sorvino and Lisa Kudrow in Romy and Michele's High School Reunion

Andrew Scott and Phoebe Waller-Bridge have amazing chemistry in the second season of Fleabag, from beginning to end. It's quite mesmerising to watch.

Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock in Speed.

R419 speaks truth to power.

Martin and Lewis - some of their early movies are very homoerotic. They are all over each other and right up in each others space.

Jake G and Riz Ahmed, two excellent films together and hopefully many more!

Kirsten Dunst and Michelle Williams in Dick.

Best of Thrones

Worst of Thrones

R461 - Thank you!

That movie was hilarious. Particularly the scene where he is walking her home. Dialog is one thing, action is quite another.

OP posts a link to a movie where we have the straightest horrible kiss ever where the straight guys look like they are completely disgusted and just rub their lips on eachother and then look away. WORST KISS ON RECORD.

needs Lasik ^

The gold standard for worst

Best: The Wedding Crashers guys.

just one straight guy R480

Drew Barrymore/Adam Sandler. Drew Barrymore/Timothy Olyphant.

Best

Worst

Worst- 50 Shades of Shit - Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson

Best

Worst

Going back for some of these: Agree that Warren Beatty and Natalie Wood were great together in Splendor in the Grass Also, I always liked Beatty with Julie Christie in their 3 films together, and he and Annette Bening in Bugsy, though they were tepid at best in Love Affair His chemistry with Madonna in Dick Tracy has to be some of the worst Dustin Hoffman and Katharine Ross in The Graduate made things believable and he and Anne Bancroft played off each other beautifully Alan Bates and Julie Christie in both Far From the Madding Crowd and The Go-Between

Best: Ricky Schroder and Jason Bateman on [italic]Silver Spoons[/italic]

Worst: Ricky Schroder and anything with a vagina

Michelle Pfeiffer and Max Caufield in Grease 2. Supposedly a miserable experience for all concerned, but these 2 beauties were captivating onscreen.

In R490's photo Melanoma looks like she's about to vomit, while working on her exit strategy.

Trump is so vile in every area: disgusting fetid body, mottled pink/orange coarse skin, unattractive face, anus lips, a truly horrible human being all around and let's not forget his ugly micro mushroom dick. Kill it!

There was some sort of White House event (in the rose garden?) where they were shown holding hands. There arms were so stiff and their body language tense that it was clear they felt they should be seen showing hands but were not feeling it at all.

"Supposedly a miserable experience for all concerned, but these 2 beauties were captivating onscreen."

Really I thought the exact opposite

Best

Jeff Bridges and Rachel Ward; Jeff Bridges and Michelle Pfeiffer

Scorching Hot -

BEST - Barbra Steisand/Kris Kristofferson The REAL A Star is Born

Travis Fimmel as Ragnar in "Vikings". He played great against everyone - his brother, his wives, his friend Floki, his sons, Athelstan, King Eckbert.

Best

Worst chemistry - Joaquin Phoenix and Bryce Dallas Howard in The Village . I get that Joaquin's character was a quiet loner type and Bryce played the poor blind girl who he was in love with. But, some of their scenes together felt so forced and awkward.

Antonio Banderas and Angelina Jolie in Original Sin had great chemistry. So did Kathleen Turner and William Hurt in Body Heat. I disagree about Heath Ledger & Jake Gyllenhaal. I thought they had great chemistry in BBM. I've seen a couple other movies with Jake and he doesn't generate much chemistry with hs leading ladies. In fact, for a man who's so physically attractive, he doesn't have much sex appeal IMO.

Here’s my candidate for least believable couple. It’s a commercial, but the husband doesn’t seem comfortable making any physical contact with his wife. I’d imagine that he’s a gay guy, and probably to company owner’s nephew or something.

Joaquin has no chemistry with anyone. Total loser. Nic Cage is another one. No chemistry with anyone. No, not even Cher.

Tom Cruise has no chemistry either. Nada.

Best: Harry Treadaway and JJ Field in The Night Watch

Worst: Tom Hardy and Michelle Williams in Venom

Riz Ahmed and Kate Hudson in The Reluctant Fundamentalist. They actually had more chemistry during the film's press junket!

Kate in a dark wavy fake looking wig sure didn't help the proceedings, she looked old enough to his character's mother. Think they are actually the same age.

Riz Ahmed also had a sex scene with Rooney Mara in UNA, she has no sexual appeal whatsoever. She's the human equivalent of an ice cube!

[quote]Eva Green and Josh Hartnett in Penny Dreadful - didn't see any heat in that pairing. He had better chemistry with the other male leads Timothy Dalton, Reeve Carney and the little queeny guy who had a crush on Josh' s character. It was cute how Josh would flirt with that little guy.

Were they a couple in that series? I don't recall. I remember Eva Green's character living in a house with Dalton's character and they were not sexual.

Wasn't Josh's character fucking some other woman?

I don't remember Eva and Josh's characters actually getting together, but the second season played it like they were attracted to each other. Josh's character was with the woman who became Frankenstein's bride in the first season before she died, but I don't remember him being with anyone after the fact (but I don't remember much of the third season). I thought he and Eva were OK, but the scene with him and Carney definitely had chemistry, and they never really interacted again after that.

One more comment about Penny Dreadful, I thought the overall cast chemistry was good. I thinking having everyone separated and not interacting with each other the third season hurt the show.

Worst chemistry - Tom Hardy and Michelle Williams in Venom

Judy Greer and Nat Faxon had good chemistry on that short lived FX show Married.

Mila does tend to be a bit wooden in her acting sometimes.

Sorry but I didn't read the whole thread. sorry if already posted.

Richard Gere and Winoa Ryder in some romantic shite

R516 Kunis??

Meg Ryan and Anthony Edwards had good chemistry in Top Gun.

Best: JR & Sue Ellen

Come on, y'all

Worst chemistry on a new TV show likely to be canned-Michael Ealy and Cobie Smulders on Stumptown

Diane Lane and Oliver Martinez were damn near orgasmic in Unfaithful.

Jack Lemmon and Joe E. Brown in Some Like it Hot.

River Phoenix and Wil Wheaton - Stand By Me

Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul in Breaking Bad were great together.

Worst chemistry- Javier Bardem and Jennifer Lawrence in Mother!

For new spring TV shows - Reese Witherspoon and Joshua Jackson have zero chemistry on Little Fires Everywhere.

Emilo Estevez and Lauren Graham have zero chemistry on Mighty Ducks: Game Changers

CSI - Jorja Fox and William Peterson

Mariska and any man on SVU