What's with all the "Looks like…" posts on IMDb-boards?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Gillian Jacobs
Psilio — 11 years ago(February 23, 2015 12:01 PM)
I'm quite fascinated by the fascination for lookalikes here on these boards. Almost every person listed here have some threads about it. I've never understood it. Everyone looks like someone else. There are over 7 billion people on this planet after all. More than you could count in a lifetime.
This lady had 4 out of 8 threads about it on the front page, and on this first page on her message board (I have it set to show max entries) I stopped counting at a dozen or so.
Can anyone explain why people are so fascinated with lookalikes, please?
(The reason I posted this here is because I was checking out the score and comments and stuff about the movie "The Lookalike" in which Gillian Jacobs starred, by the way)
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Psilio — 10 years ago(May 17, 2015 03:51 AM)
Ah, the grammar police are here. Good. I've corrected it now, ok?
I'm Norwegian so sometimes I write English incorrectly.
You knew what I meant anyway. You're just being difficult.
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Psilio — 10 years ago(May 26, 2015 02:43 PM)
I'm really happy for you. That is indeed useful.
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jeff_mcjefferson — 10 years ago(August 06, 2015 11:25 PM)
I don't understand the obsession with finding lookalikes either. It is amusing sometimes reading how odd some of the lookalike comparisons are though. By the way you write very well for somebody whose first language is not English.
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gosseyn — 10 years ago(February 22, 2016 09:52 PM)
It is something that started becoming common as Amazon started referring people to the site, around 2005. Apparently, Gen-Xers and Millenials spend a lot of their time confusing celebrities for each other, or finding similarities between them. I think it's an outgrowth of them telling their friends, "You look like." It got annoying after a while, because it started taking over the Discussion Boards. It started turning them into juvenile gossip fests and popularity contests. In fact, it got so tiresome, I stopped frequenting the site and contributing. Any attempt at serious discussion of a film, or movie making in general, quickly degenerated into "looks like" fests, or if someone is gay.
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jpozenel — 9 years ago(January 08, 2017 05:15 PM)
I could see if the poster had mistaken one person for another and included that in their post. But the remarks usually just come out of left field for no apparent reason. Also, quite often I've read that someone looks exactly like someone else and there seems to be little resemblance that I can see. I've heard of some sort of condition that some people have where they can't recognize faces. Maybe seeing resemblance where there is little or none is related to that condition?