Why has nobody picked up on the fact that conjoined twins are ALWAYS identical. They arise from ONE fertilized egg, which either fails to split fully, or splits but then becomes reattached. Thus, both twins would look the same... To have one twin looking like Matt Damon and the other like Greg Kinnear is a biological impossibility.
You'd think someone had bothered to check this fact in preproduction...
Like the guy already said...
A.) it's a freakin' movie
B.) it's a comedy
C.) it's not supposed to be real
Cojoined twins, by definition, must be identical. If this fact is ignored in a movie, and you are OK with that, then it means that you are allowing the creators of this movie to treat you as a very shallow and stupid person. It is a movie, yes; it is a comedy, yes; it is not real, yes; but it doesn't mean they have to treat their audiences like simply passive couchpotatos with an intellectual capacity of Hanna Montana. When somebody makes a movie about the world being flat, you would probably find it OK too because it is a movie and it is not supposed to be real. Avoiding factual errors is part of the filmmaking training and no one should, under no circumstances, make such unforgivable error as this one. I simply frown upon silently passive and media-illiterate society that is OK with anything just because it is a MOVIE. There should be no excuse for stupidity, be it a movie or real life.
shareMedia-illiterate? We can't read the media?
What's the problem with a movie about the world being flat? Of course we'll believe it because that is what the movie is centered around, even if, in our world, it is not true. Honestly, have you ever heard of suspension of disbelief?
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Good pointrs but remember that Most of what happened in The Wizard Of Oz was just a dream Dorothy had.
He's taking the knife out of the Cheese!
Do you think he wants some cheese?
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If the fact that the world is "flat" leads to comedy... then yes, i would find that ok. Movies are meant to be suspensions of disbelief. No Farrelly Brother movie exists THAT much in reality.
"Weirdness was all he cared about. Weirdness and sex and plenty to drink."
wow... houses don't fly in the air spinning onto witches... there are no such things as wookies... Dracula does not exist... There is no wolfman, Frankenstein monster or an actual Phantom of the opera... these are movies...
Are you a retard?
and don't tell me that you can't enjoy fantasy... after your inane and stupidic comments I wager you voted for fantasy!... how is that hope and change working out for you moron?
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""Cojoined twins, by definition, must be identical. If this fact is ignored in a movie, and you are OK with that, then it means that you are allowing the creators of this movie to treat you as a very shallow and stupid person.""
I think you'll find you're the stupid person for thinking that this point is in any way relevant to the story and humour that this movie is trying to convey to the audience. Stop and think about that for a while, let it sink in :)
This film is NOT, I repeat NOT a documentary on Conjoined (not cojoined btw) twins. If it was, you'd have a point. This is a film about how two related people who are permanently joined together live their adult life and what brings them to the point of wanting seperation. They do not need to look the same for this story, or the humour contained therein to work, at all, period.
If them not being identicle twins really bothers you that much in the context of this particular comedy film then it is you my friend who are stupid, certainly narrow minded at the very least.
It's a COMEDY! The entire point of the movie (or a big part of it, anyway) is that they are NOT identical. This isn't a documentary. No one is illiterate, media-wise or any other way, we just know how to enjoy a good laugh. And yes, if someone made a comedy or fantasy about the world being flat, we would enjoy it. Jeesh.
shareOh no! You mean the fact that they used Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear--two well-known actors--as the two conjoined twins means that "Stuck on You" isn't a documentary?!
And here I thought the Farrelly brothers had shot their first film depicting real life! You've completely ruined the movie for me! You should have at least included a --spoiler alert!-- or something!
Yeah, I noticed the same problem in the movie Twins. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny Devito look nothing like each other. What's up with that?
shareThat's different because they weren't necessarily identical twins. I know a pair of non identical (forgot the proper word) twin girls, and they don't look anything alike. One's pretty, the other's isn't LOL. Oh, and in the movie 'Twins', I haven't seen it in ages, but in that movie, I'm pretty sure that the plot was that scientists used all the best genes they could find to create a baby (Arnold), and the *leftover* genes made up Danny DeVito's character.
sharemr. brain was being sarcastic you mook.
shareLOL I feel like the biggest idiot now....
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Those were Lori and Reba Schappelle. Reba has spina bifida-- her spine and pelvis are seriously underdeveloped, and as a result, due to disuse, her legs have not grown like they should. She has her hair DYED red (duh), and her sister Lori, who wears her hair much shorter that Reba, does not dye it. But they are still genetically identical. Not are traits, like spina bifida, missing limbs, and cerebral palsy, for example, are the result of gene coding. Height can be influenced by many, many things, including pituitary tumors. I once saw a pair of identical twins, one a foot taller, and with bigger facial features and a deeper voice, all the result of a pituitary tumor.
shareThat wasn't the Schappell conjoined twins was it? Because if so, they are identical, but Reba has spina bifida and has to get around by some contraption with wheels. Conjoined twins are ALWAYS identical. They're from the same zygote, formed the same way as identical twins.
shareNon-identical twins are called fraternal.
shareWell Arnold and Devito in "Twins" were SUPPOSED to be fraternal twins, not identical ones, which iirc was the whole point.
shareQoute: Well Arnold and Devito in "Twins" were SUPPOSED to be fraternal twins, not identical ones, which iirc was the whole point.
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THIS IS NOT COJOINED...YOU CANNOT SHARE BLOOD (COJOIN) WITH SOMEBODY WHO IS NOT AN IDENTICAL TWIN---THEREFORE LIKELY TO HAVE A DIFFERENT BLOOD TYPE. GOD, YOU GUYS ARE MAKING ME REALLY ANGRY.
LOL idiot that post was agreeing with you, dumbass.
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Were they at any point in the movie referred to as identical twins (ie from the same egg, genetically identical)? No. That's because they're fraternal twins (ie two completely different eggs). S
Surely you know non-identical twins?
They don't have to. Anyone familiar with these anomalies knows that conjoined twins come from the SAME egg, not two different ones. In identical twins, the same egg is fertilized by two spermatozoa, they split in two. If they do not completely split, conjoined twins are the result. Identical twins are also always the same gender.
Fraternal twins come from two separate eggs that get fertilized. They can look similar, be the same gender, or different genders, look nothing like each other, etc.
If you remember properly Greg Kinnear says to Matt Damon's character (in effect): "You got most of our liver!"
Indicating that Walt has aged faster because of this.
So there you are.
P.S. NOTHING IS SET IN STONE.
With the except of death. Maybe.
Oh my God, it's MOVIE. A FARELLY BROS. movie. It's not supposed to be 100% Acurate.
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Congratulations, do you feel like a real important person now? It's a movie, and unless I missed the part where they claimed it was someone's biography or a documentary on conjoined twins, I think you really come off petty and foolish.
shareThat was my thought when it was coming out, and then I just suspended by disbelief. lol
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