Love scenes in movies are difficult to get right, so any time a love scene turns out
well the actors involved should probably get an award.
On the other hand, a lot of movies end up with really bad love scenes.
Here are some of the worst love scenes of all time.
Dunking on Tommy Wiseau's unintentional comedy classic The Room is almost too easy, but its
historic incompetence means the two almost-identical love scenes contained within it are diamond-sharp
comedic highlights.
Not only is the scene filmed like a straight-to-video 80's soap opera, complete with gauzy draping,
rain-splattered windows, a frankly impractical number of candles, and awkward kissing while
Tommy Wiseau struggles to hold his long, flowing locks out of their faces, but they actually
use the same exact footage later in the film for a second love scene.
No wonder this movie is legend!
"You are tearing me apart, Lisa!"
For a long time it was believed that Watchmen, the classic graphic novel by Alan Moore and
Dave Gibbons, was unfilmable.
Zack Snyder's 2009 adaptation did little to disprove this, especially when it came to
the love scene between Nite Owl and Silk Spectre.
In the comic, there are themes of empowerment, the power of adopted identity, the connection
between violence and arousal, and a commentary on superhero costumes as fetish wear.
In the film, though, there's none of that.
Instead, there's the mind blowing decision to set the entire sequence to Leonard Cohen's
"Hallelujah," which helps turn this scene from sexy to creepy to absurd in a matter
of moments.
Gigli is pretty much on every single list of "worst movies of all time," but it's also
become shorthand for a specific type of terrible movie: the vanity project starring a celebrity
couple who make the mistake of thinking their red-hot chemistry is so red-hot that the masses
will pay money to watch 90 minutes of it.
And then this happens.
"In every relationship there's a bull and a cow.
It just so happens that in this relationship here with me and you, I'm the bull, and you're
the cow."
Instead, the doomed romance between Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez played out in the most
cringeworthy way possible, with one of the least sensual seduction scenes of all time.
The only thing worse than the passionless acting is the terrible dialogue.
"It's turkey time."
"Huh?"
"Gobble gobble."
How this ever made it into theaters is a question with no good answer.
"Bull!
COW!!"
The Matrix blew minds in 1999 and demonstrated that the Wachowskis were masters at using
modern technology to capture impossible action sequences.
This should have made them adept at capturing a love scene, but what we got in 2003's The
Matrix: Reloaded was a love scene between Keanu Reeves' Neo and Carrie Ann Moss' Trinity
that was both a slow-motion travesty of misplaced gravitas and a love scene cross-cut with an
incredibly strange rave-type celebration that is mostly the last surviving humans grinding
it out on a dance floor.
For six extremely long minutes.
It's easy to see what they were going for with a celebration of the sweaty, messy business
of being human instead of a cold hunk of murderous machinery, but the scene drags on for far
too long, while Reeves and Moss appear about as engaged and excited as if they were doing
laundry.
And the slow motion!
With the boutique-at-the-mall dance music!
All these bad choices combined with the slightly creepy Matrix implants all over their bodies
results in a love scene that you want to skip right over, otherwise, you may decide to just