"There was the dolphin at the end..."
I see that Matthew McConaughey is appearing in a movie * which is about to be screened on Sky. His leading lady in the movie is Sarah Jessica Parker, she of the face like a horse.
Oh dear.
This led me to speculate about doomed pairings in movies. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie is obviously one such. What might others be?
* Jennifer Anniston and Angelina Jolie
* Goldie Hawn and Anthony Hopkins
* Arnold Schwarzenegger and Meryl Streep
* Ben Stiller and, well, anyone really
You get the idea. Whatever the opposite of "chemistry" is, this is it.
* Out of curiosity I looked up the Matthew McConaughey/SJP movie (it's called Failure to Launch: you have been warned) on the Internet Movie Database. It's rated 5.6, which is code for: "This is a lemon". The reviews are mixed, but this one seemed typical:
Sturgeon's Law applies here: "90 per cent of everything is crud." There is no chemistry between any of the actors, the writing is on middle-school level, and any movie that dares to invoke Katharine Hepburn in one scene and then drags its characters through one contrived and pointless and flatly-acted episode after another is indeed crud. The only redeeming scenes were those featuring Zooey Deschanel, who brought some charm and liveliness to her role, and there was the dolphin at the end. That dolphin was more engaging than most of the humans in this pitiful excuse for a romantic comedy. This movie was a major disappointment and a major waste of talent and time.
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