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* CoupleBomb: The most notable bomb featuring Creator/ElizabethTaylor and Creator/RichardBurton starring together, and probably the most remembered. However ''Theatre/TheTamingOfTheShrew'' and ''Film/WhosAfraidOfVirginiaWoolf'' - the two films they did that weren't bombs - are more remembered than their other flops.

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* BetterOnDVD: Since it was filmed to be two movies and still runs four hours long, even with all the edits, viewers find it better to watch the movie in parts, especially with the act breaks that are in the story itself.
* CantUnhearIt: As far as the general public goes, Elizabeth Taylor may as well have been Cleopatra. No one playing the role since has ever managed to erase her from that image in pop culture.
* CoupleBomb: The most notable bomb featuring Creator/ElizabethTaylor and Creator/RichardBurton starring together, and probably the most remembered. However ''Theatre/TheTamingOfTheShrew'' and ''Film/WhosAfraidOfVirginiaWoolf'' - the two films they did that weren't bombs - are more remembered than their other flops. Although ''Cleopatra'' was a very high grossing film, so it's only a bomb because the troubled production meant it would be impossible to see a return. However, the second half focusing on Cleopatra and Marc Antony is considered weaker than the first, so that also factors in.
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** That said viewers far prefer Cleopatra and Marc and actually find the Caesar-Cleopatra romance very uninspired if not outright one of the bad parts of the movie. Rex and Liz simply do not bring the energy onscreen for a convincing relationship despite both stars being outstanding actors. While even with extremely limited screentime in comparison, Burton's Marc Anthony blends so perfectly with Liz as Cleo to thepoint their scenes together are considered easily among the best parts of the movie, if not the best. Chemistry is set on an explosion resulting in a prolonged fire in the second half and it really shows the intensity of Liz and Burton's actual onset romance seeps into the film.
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** That said viewers far prefer Cleopatra and Marc and actually find the Caesar-Cleopatra romance very uninspired if not outright one of the bad parts of the movie. Rex and Liz simply do not bring the energy onscreen for a convincing relationship despite both stars being outstanding actors. While even with extremely limited screentime in comparison, Burton's Marc Anthony blends so perfectly with Liz as Cleo to thepoint their scenes together are considered easily among the best parts of the movie, if not the best. Chemistry is set on an explosion resulting in a prolonged fire in the second half and it really shows the intensity of Liz and Burton's actual onset romance seeps into the film.

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