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Post by Nalkarj on Apr 12, 2017 1:43:11 GMT
@mellomoviereview , what are your specific recollections of the movie, besides those you've already listed? I'm interested in tracking down the reasons for this movie's not being around, whatever the explanation is. I remember my Dad and I watching it. I was very young. We ordered on Pay-Per-View. We had one of those rotating satellite dishes, you know, the big black one with G5, F4, and all those groups of channels. Anyway, I was young and only remember seeing it once. Basically the premise was there were two kids who find the lamp, ones a boy the other is a girl. I remember his summoning lightning and scaring them saying "I am Shazam!" Then he starts acting silly to let them know he's not scary. Then it becomes a typical Sinbad style family comedy. They only get three wishes (not each, he made that clear). I just remember there being a scene when he's inside his lamp and the kids see what it's like inside there. I remeber the big hoop earrings, the baggy purple pants, the pointy shoes... I just remember small scenes. That's what's weird, what I do remember is vivid, but I can't remember the whole story, like pieces of my memory are missing. I want to say he falls in love, that's a side plot. What's really weird is I can't remember how it ends. P.S. I had another memory after posting. The boy and girl cannot agree on what to wish for, she gets mad about his wish and he doesn't like her wish, or at least they are arguing about what to wish for... Not trying to discount your memory, and I apologize if it comes off that way, but have you read anyone else's "plot synopses" before writing this one? If you have, by the way, that's fine, it doesn't mean you or your memory is somehow wrong. I'm just interested in this question and trying, probably fruitlessly, to get to the bottom of it. To paraphrase Philip Marlowe a bit, trouble is my business, and these kinds of mysteries spell trouble.
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Post by Nalkarj on Apr 12, 2017 1:53:37 GMT
I actually wouldn't say your not remembering the endings is all that extraordinary, @mellomoviereview . I watched two King Arthur movies when I was very young (I loved knights in armor and that kind of thing--still do, in fact), and I remember the movies, but I can't for the life of me remember how either one ended. One of 'em was called A Kid in King Arthur's Court. Some people may know it because Doug Walker did an early Nostalgia Critic review of it (and, even having watched that, I still don't remember the ending). The other was called Arthur's Quest. I remember both of them at the local video store.
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Post by Nalkarj on Apr 12, 2017 1:58:44 GMT
People on the Internet have really low standards for sources of information. I even once saw Wikipedia use a random person's forum post as a reference for an article on an old TV series. Well apparently this guy is a real actor and that's from his Facebook page. I don't have a Facebook so I couldn't log in and see for myself. Do you know his name? I don't see it there. Scratch that. I found the Facebook post, with his name (Jamie Campbell), but I don't have a Facebook account either, so I can't check. Is there anyone else here who can? I found several Jamie Campbells on IMDb and don't know which one it is. I tried looking at the Facebook picture and comparing it to the pictures on IMDb but didn't see one that matched. UPDATE: OK, I just checked a few comments sections around the web and it looks like he was telling a story. Sorry 'bout that, mellomoviereview. He wrote, "This VERY REAL story of mine is going around the web, huh?" or something like that. Yeah, looks like he was just jokin' around.
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Post by Jerk on Apr 12, 2017 5:56:20 GMT
Your memory is not as reliable as you think it is. That's all that is. And it's more and more common. See, I'm skeptical of this stuff, but I don't think that's all there is. I think there's more to the story. According to one article I read, people were coming into video stores in 2000 asking for a movie that doesn't exist. Now, that's very possibly unreliable, but we know for certain that someone asked about it in 2004. People have been asking about this for at least 13 years and getting the same answer for all those years ("it's Kazaam!"), yet they refuse to accept it? That's extraordinary! Some sources, unfortunately, delight in calling those who remember the picture "racist," probably one of the most overused terms nowadays. (I don't mean to get into politics! Just making a point.) They state that those who remember it are confusing one Black man ("Sinbad") with another (Shaquille O'Neal), thereby supposedly validating their "racist" claim. Here's my point: why Sinbad? If that's true, which I don't believe for a minute, why not the million other Black men who were around and could possibly be in such a movie? Now, you're probably going to give me any number of reasons: it's because his stage name was "Sinbad," a character in The Arabian Nights; it's because he wore baggy pants on stage; it's because he hosted a Sinbad movie marathon in the '90s, wearing genie-like clothing. All very true, but that's my point: there are mitigating factors. It's not so easy as "your memory isn't reliable. That's all there is." Respectfully, there probably was never a Sinbad genie movie, in this or--er--any other universe, but there is more to this story. I'm not going to give you a load of waffle. I believe it's false memory and that's all there is to it. I have memories like that that I know now are wrong.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2017 8:46:12 GMT
I remember my Dad and I watching it. I was very young. We ordered on Pay-Per-View. We had one of those rotating satellite dishes, you know, the big black one with G5, F4, and all those groups of channels. Anyway, I was young and only remember seeing it once. Basically the premise was there were two kids who find the lamp, ones a boy the other is a girl. I remember his summoning lightning and scaring them saying "I am Shazam!" Then he starts acting silly to let them know he's not scary. Then it becomes a typical Sinbad style family comedy. They only get three wishes (not each, he made that clear). I just remember there being a scene when he's inside his lamp and the kids see what it's like inside there. I remeber the big hoop earrings, the baggy purple pants, the pointy shoes... I just remember small scenes. That's what's weird, what I do remember is vivid, but I can't remember the whole story, like pieces of my memory are missing. I want to say he falls in love, that's a side plot. What's really weird is I can't remember how it ends. P.S. I had another memory after posting. The boy and girl cannot agree on what to wish for, she gets mad about his wish and he doesn't like her wish, or at least they are arguing about what to wish for... Not trying to discount your memory, and I apologize if it comes off that way, but have you read anyone else's "plot synopses" before writing this one? If you have, by the way, that's fine, it doesn't mean you or your memory is somehow wrong. I'm just interested in this question and trying, probably fruitlessly, to get to the bottom of it. To paraphrase Philip Marlowe a bit, trouble is my business, and these kinds of mysteries spell trouble. No, I was going based on my memories. I did start reading others memories of the film. For instance, I don't remember the part where their mom died and they wish she was alive again. Doesn't mean that didn't happen. I do remember a love side plot, so maybe it was the dad they were setting up with someone new with Sinbad's help? I just remember there being some love interest. It's a fuzzy memory.
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Post by Nalkarj on Apr 18, 2017 0:20:42 GMT
Not trying to discount your memory, and I apologize if it comes off that way, but have you read anyone else's "plot synopses" before writing this one? If you have, by the way, that's fine, it doesn't mean you or your memory is somehow wrong. I'm just interested in this question and trying, probably fruitlessly, to get to the bottom of it. To paraphrase Philip Marlowe a bit, trouble is my business, and these kinds of mysteries spell trouble. No, I was going based on my memories. I did start reading others memories of the film. For instance, I don't remember the part where their mom died and they wish she was alive again. Doesn't mean that didn't happen. I do remember a love side plot, so maybe it was the dad they were setting up with someone new with Sinbad's help? I just remember there being some love interest. It's a fuzzy memory. Thanks for letting me know, Mello. I understand about its being fuzzy. Since you've told us all you know, are you interested in watching College Humor's spoof video? It's not real, of course, but I would be interested in hearing if you think it's similar or if it misses the mark of your memories. Oh, and do you remember Shazaam and Kazaam coming out around the same time, one probably piggybacking on the other? Like A Bug's Life and Antz (the two examples given in the article to which I linked before)?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2017 19:03:54 GMT
Have you by any chance seen my last post, @mellomoviereview ? I watched it. It's funny, but it's not like the memories I have. I get what they were trying to do. The outfit was wrong, the kids were wrong, and I don't remember an attic scene. The house was bright and upper-middle class looking. More like the home from any 1990s white suburban family. That was definitely too dark in color pallet and style.
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Post by Nalkarj on Apr 21, 2017 19:08:37 GMT
Have you by any chance seen my last post, @mellomoviereview ? I watched it. It's funny, but it's not like the memories I have. I get what they were trying to do. The outfit was wrong, the kids were wrong, and I don't remember an attic scene. The house was bright and upper-middle class looking. More like the home from any 1990s white suburban family. That was definitely too dark in color pallet and style. OK, good to know. Thanks for checking it. I'll be on the hunt, from time to time, for something that may explain your memory. I absolutely cannot fathom that the answer is as simplistic as Jerk says. As noted, this collective memory fascinates me. Thanks for responding!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2017 19:33:44 GMT
I watched it. It's funny, but it's not like the memories I have. I get what they were trying to do. The outfit was wrong, the kids were wrong, and I don't remember an attic scene. The house was bright and upper-middle class looking. More like the home from any 1990s white suburban family. That was definitely too dark in color pallet and style. OK, good to know. Thanks for checking it. I'll be on the hunt, from time to time, for something that may explain your memory. I absolutely cannot fathom that the answer is as simplistic as Jerk says. As noted, this collective memory fascinates me. Thanks for responding! No problem. I know it's not a combination of 1990s films being similar, I specifically remember watching the film, with my dad, on Pay-Per-View.
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Post by Jerk on Apr 21, 2017 19:36:35 GMT
I watched it. It's funny, but it's not like the memories I have. I get what they were trying to do. The outfit was wrong, the kids were wrong, and I don't remember an attic scene. The house was bright and upper-middle class looking. More like the home from any 1990s white suburban family. That was definitely too dark in color pallet and style. OK, good to know. Thanks for checking it. I'll be on the hunt, from time to time, for something that may explain your memory. I absolutely cannot fathom that the answer is as simplistic as Jerk says. As noted, this collective memory fascinates me. Thanks for responding! People tend to make life complicated because they ignore the simple answers.
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Post by Nalkarj on May 18, 2017 2:17:45 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2017 0:58:45 GMT
I suppose there's no news on this, @mellomoviereview ? No more new news. The two two things that really concerned me were "Shazam" and "Bernstein Bears" lol, while I was typing this, it autocorrected it. I was putting "ai" and my phone corrected it to "ei"...
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Post by maxwellperfect on Jan 25, 2018 18:55:06 GMT
Who watched last night's X-Files episode?
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Post by Nalkarj on Jan 25, 2018 19:01:16 GMT
maxwellperfect Why, did they do one about the so-called “Mandela Effect”? I’m still trying to watch some of the original X-Files episodes before looking into this new series.
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Post by maxwellperfect on Jan 25, 2018 19:03:44 GMT
maxwellperfect Why, did they do one about the so-called “Mandela Effect”? I’m still trying to watch some of the original X-Files episodes before looking into this new series. yes, and it referenced this specific example.
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Post by Nalkarj on Jan 25, 2018 19:27:06 GMT
maxwellperfect OK, now I’ve read a few things about that episode; it really seems rather clever. Also, not to toot my own horn, but a week ago I kinda came up with a similar premise here… I particularly like the idea of the non-existent Twilight Zone episode. I do miss @mellomoviereview, the OP here, by the way. We had fun talking about these subjects.
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Post by Nalkarj on Jun 9, 2018 15:54:08 GMT
Hey, look, @forceghostackbar , it’s another trap—I mean, another bump! maxwellperfect , I ended up seeing that X-Files episode a little while ago. I actually started a thread about the fictional TZ episode here… By the way, now it seems that Jervis, who posted here, and I are going through our own Mandela Effect apropos of a Columbo episode. Really weird.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2018 18:03:51 GMT
Hey, look, @forceghostackbar , it’s another trap—I mean, another bump! maxwellperfect , I ended up seeing that X-Files episode a little while ago. I actually started a thread about the fictional TZ episode here… By the way, now it seems that Jervis, who posted here, and I are going through our own Mandela Effect apropos of a Columbo episode. Really weird. That X Files episode is so great! I had pneumonia when it aired and I literally kept falling over laughing! It was a great yet painful experience!
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Post by Nalkarj on Jun 9, 2018 18:30:43 GMT
Sorry to hear about the pneumonia, @forceghostackbar… All better, I hope? I know how long pneumonia can last. I really liked that episode too; the whole thing (not just the Trump-alien parts) comes off as absurdly surreal.
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