# Best and worst movie couples

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-movie-couples/416232>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 20, 2007, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-movie-couples/416232 "2007-08-20T12:54:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 2

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirror_Image_egamI_rorriM)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-movie-couples/416232/21 "2007-08-20T20:37:03Z")

</div>

Best: Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova as the Guy and the Girl in **Once**. Also, in real life, they have amazing musical chemistry.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-movie-couples/416232/22 "2007-08-21T02:10:02Z")

</div>

[QUOTE=SaharaTea]

Worst:  
Tom Cruise and anyone, especially Nicole Kidman in _Eyes Wide Shut_ and _Days of Thunder_  
[/QUOTE]

I can top both of those Tom Cruise/Nicole Kidman choices: Cruise/Kidman in that stupid, stupid movie _Far and Away_. I couldn’t understand why those two people from completely disparate backgrounds would fall in love – no charm whatsoever on Tom Cruise’s part.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![straykat23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@straykat23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/straykat23)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2007, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-movie-couples/416232/23 "2007-08-21T03:01:27Z")

</div>

Worst: Michael Douglas and Gwyneth Paltrow in _A Perfect Murder_.

Very cold, bad acting. Might have something to do with the financially broke Michael Douglas character trying to get rid of his wealthy wife who is cheating on him with a sleaze bag lover.

The movie was based on _Dial M for Murder_, an 1954 Hitchcock film that I always watch when it’s rerun on TCM.

[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-and-worst-movie-couples/416232.md?page=1)