We love a good romance, but some movie couples are just not destined to be. It might be because they have terrible chemistry, it could be because they have nothing in common, or it could just be because one half of the couple is a total douche.
Here are nine dreadful couples who have no business being together.
1. Andy and Nate in The Devil Wears Prada
She’s got a great job that’s obviously important to her, that requires dedication and long hours. He’s a total dick to her about it. Andy (Anne Hathaway) and Nate (Adrian Grenier) have zero chemistry, we struggle to see what they have in common and he’s completely unsupportive of her the whole way through, telling her she’s got no integrity because she decides to go to Paris when she’d have been fired if she’d said no. She’d be well rid.
2. Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley in Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
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Dude, that’s your best friend’s little sister. You’ve known her since she was 11. We don’t think this relationship is super-healthy for either of them, since they’re brought together during a massively traumatic time and neither has really had much of a chance to, um, investigate other options before getting MARRIED AND HAVING KIDS. Also, it’s a bit like Harry is dating Ron.
3. Aurora and Jim in Passengers
A better version of Passengers – a movie where would-be colonist Jim (Chris Pratt) accidentally wakes up 120 years early, and deliberately wakes up fellow passenger Aurora (Jennifer Lawrence) – would not be a love story but a horribly claustrophobic revenge horror.
Jim has condemned Aurora to death with only him for company for the rest of her life, and when she’s quite rightly pissed off and won’t speak to him, he bothers her constantly over the ship’s tannoy system. Not a recipe for romance.
4. Bella and Edward in Twilight
He’s mopey, miserable, deadly dangerous and about a century older than her. She’s dour, sulky and absolutely no fun. Not a couple who should be together for an actual eternity, and not a couple we’d want to spend any time with at all.
5. Vivian and Edward in Pretty Woman
They have absolutely bugger all in common and their entire relationship is based on Edward (Richard Gere) buying Vivian (Julia Roberts). Quite literally: he pays prostitute Vivian for sex, and then to spend a week with him.
Towards the end he uses money, fancy events and posh clothes as a substitute for empathy and charisma. It won’t last.
6. Anna and Will in Notting Hill
Julia Roberts again, but this time she’s the one with money and power, instead of a personality. She’s a famous movie star who chats up humble book shop owner Hugh Grant even though she’s dating someone else, which she fails to tell him.
Then when the press get wind of their relationship she has a massive go at him and dumps him even though it’s not his fault. She doesn’t bother to contact him for months, slags him off to a co-star and then somehow at the finale he ends up apologising to her. Now THAT is star power.
7. Jamie and Aurelia in Love Actually
Never mind that he’s clearly massively on the rebound having just learned that his girlfriend is cheating on him with his brother, Jamie (Colin Firth) and his Portuguese housekeeper Aurelia (Lucia Moniz) don’t even speak the same language. That doesn’t stop him learning just enough Portuguese to propose and her summoning just enough English to accept though.
8. Anakin and Padme in Star Wars: Attack of the Clones
There’s zero chemistry between awful Hayden Christensen and cold Natalie Portman – he’s playing an irritating and petulant teenager, while she’s a dull cipher. So when they met it was… boring. We would struggle to think of a couple we gave less of a shit about.
And did we mention he was a pre-teen when they met? She groomed him, basically.
9. Sandy and Danny in Grease
Summer loving is all very well but greaser Danny and good girl Sandy don’t exactly make a great couple. Both have to go to lengths to change themselves in order to impress the other, with Danny becoming a track runner and Sandy squishing herself into a cat suit and taking up smoking fags. Never gonna work.
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