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Topic: Love scenes that shouldn't have happened
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Faith
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posted February 09, 2013 10:34 PM
  
I was going to link to the love scene between Kevin Spacey and Helen Hunt in Pay it Forward, but I can't even stand to watch the YouTube clips.Ewwwww Anyone else get really annoyed by romance in movies...when it's just off or something? IP: Logged |
ail221
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posted February 09, 2013 10:47 PM
I get annoyed when there is obviously no chemistry between the two actors.IP: Logged |
Faith
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posted February 09, 2013 11:00 PM
^ Yeah it's like who are they trying to fool?On the other hand I noticed that when the couple has trine suns in real life...that's usually believable chemistry. Casting directors should know basic astrology.  IP: Logged |
MillyX
Knowflake Posts: 489
From: canada
Registered: Feb 2012
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posted February 09, 2013 11:03 PM
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Originally posted by Faith:
I was going to link to the love scene between Kevin Spacey and Helen Hunt in Pay it Forward, but I can't even stand to watch the YouTube clips.Ewwwww Anyone else get really annoyed by romance in movies...when it's just off or something?
Haha! I remember that movie, I think I was about 8 years old and we watched that in class. Most parts of the movie are blurred from my memory but one scene that stood out me was when the little boy was so happy that the teacher slept with his mom. Back then,
I was like yuck, why would anyone be happy to see their mom sleeping with their teacher. I'd be traumatized. Kid look real happy though he was jumping for joy lol IP: Logged |
Faith
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posted February 09, 2013 11:14 PM
 Hilarious! IP: Logged |
PixieJane
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posted February 10, 2013 04:02 AM
I do know a lack of chemistry has ruined those scenes for me as well. But I think the most overused stupid cliche is where people shrieking at each other (sometimes even attacking each other) suddenly go to passionate kisses. It's just so incredibly stupid, I don't know why it works (and it does NOT work for me). Where it gets especially moronic (to call it merely stupid would be to flatter it) is when there's a battle going on around them and they put both themselves and their friends & allies in danger to make out (which makes me think the mind boggling idiotic love birds should be tied behind a horse and dragged along the ground about a mile to teach them not to do that). I'm not talking about a quick peck or expression of concern, but a full make out session right there complete with gazing lovingly into each other's eyes as chaos & carnage surrounds them. Magic, sure, that's cool and often hilarious, but otherwise such scenes (which are distressingly common) just ruin it for me. Example, I got pulled into the movie, I accepted the love dust of broken hearts scene (that was awesome), epic wizardry, talking animals, trolls, 2-headed dragons, and all else, but the sudden lip locking of mortal enemies (which is followed by her instantly becoming a completely different person than she had been) was just way too much:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hrb4n-x7CJ4 IP: Logged |
PixieJane
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posted February 10, 2013 04:20 AM
And just how stupid about all the characters in Angel and Buffy were whenever it came to anything even remotely romantic. They're great, tough, resilient characters, but throw in a love interest...or even someone who USED to be a love interest...and watch them regress to the emotional maturity of a 10-year-old! If it was just a couple of characters (or a spell of some kind affecting everyone), fine, but they all seemed to turn stupid that way, and so an admittedly useful plot bender just turns trite. I love both series but that peeved me more than once. It's one reason I think of those 2 series as more of a soap opera/drama than action/horror. IP: Logged |
peregrine
Knowflake Posts: 853
From: Her Majesty's Young Offender Institution
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posted February 10, 2013 09:33 AM
marlon brando, maria schneider, a stick of butter as lube, last tango in paris.actually there's a darker bend to it. the girl never acted again i believe and later killed herself. iirc. IP: Logged |
sweet-scorpion
Knowflake Posts: 1334
From: PA, USA
Registered: Apr 2012
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posted February 10, 2013 08:51 PM
That one flick with Jake Gyllenhal and Anne Hathaway together --? Man, talk about a terrible mix. Water and oil to the extreme. It was pretty outrageous, the bad casting, IMO. I can't picture her with a guy like that, at all. I also found that Nat Portman and Ashton Kutcher in No String Attached was an awkward nightmare of chemistry in a movie. He doesn't go well with many leading ladies - actually, I think he was even worse with Cameron Diaz in What Happens in Vegas.  IP: Logged |
Faith
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posted February 12, 2013 04:07 PM
Sorry if I'm offending anyone, it's just my personal taste, but I really didn't like Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as a couple in Titanic.He's a Tiger, she's a Rabbit...there's a subtle but palpable clashing of flavors there, & it really prevented me from getting into the film. @PJ So true, what you said about people making out in the midst of battle or whatever.  As for the video link you posted...for some reason I can't watch squishy balls giving birth to monsters..I didn't make it past that. @peregrine What's a peregrine anyway, may I ask? You mean like the falcon? Happy I never saw the butter-stick movie. @SS I can't understand why anyone likes Jake Gyllenhal as an actor. IP: Logged |
peregrine
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From: Her Majesty's Young Offender Institution
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posted February 12, 2013 07:29 PM
peregrine is an unaspected planet no? or one with no dignity/ exaltation... traditional astrology i believe. i didn't know of the falcon.IP: Logged |
ail221
Knowflake Posts: 3000
From: Mary Margaret Blanchard's home
Registered: Feb 2012
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posted February 12, 2013 08:57 PM
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Originally posted by Faith:
Sorry if I'm offending anyone, it's just my personal taste, but I really didn't like Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as a couple in Titanic.He's a Tiger, she's a Rabbit...there's a subtle but palpable clashing of flavors there, & it really prevented me from getting into the film.
Actually I agree that scene was kinda awkward. She look like his mother too me  The movie unfaithful had some good scenes. IP: Logged |
Faith
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posted February 12, 2013 09:05 PM
^ YES. Winslet is YOUNGER than DiCaprio but looks/seems much older.Unfaithful...okay I'll check that out. @peregrine: Thanks, I wasn't familiar with the term. I had been associating you with a peregrine falcon.   IP: Logged |
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