![]() ![]() Last November, for instance, it was announced John Malkovich and director Robert Rodriguez ("Sin City") – in collaboration with Louis XIII cognac – made a movie, "100 Years," that's been locked up in a safe and won't be released until, yes, 100 years from now, on Nov. How many of us experience deja vu, that feeling that you're doing something that you know and feel you've done before? How many of us have moments that pop into our minds that we can feel fall somewhere a dream and a memory?Įither way, it's a terrifically wacky and weird film story – one of seemingly many that have come out in the last year and change. Then again, the whole situation doesn't sound completely unbelievable. But then your brain mixes in Sinbad, who starred in several bland – and bad – but still oddly memorable children's flicks like "First Kid" and "Jingle All the Way." And then there's the supposed pool party finale of "Shazaam," which reminds me of the water slide/pool party finale of the weirdly forgettable yet unforgettable "Blank Check." Maybe we've mashed a bunch of meh childhood movies into one Sinbad-led '90s epic. There's obviously a lot of "Kazaam" in "Shazaam," from the basic plot setup to details like the kids wanting the genie to make their estranged parents fall in love again. My theory on the whole ordeal? I think people's memories of a bunch of weirdly bland kids movies from that decade are smashing into one groupthink-created fantasy movie. In short: It's bonkers – and a late entrant for one of the most interesting things you'll read all year. It's an absolutely bizarre case, and Tait's story is fascinating, going into the origins of the rumored movie, the creation of false memories and a crazy theory emerging from The Great Berenstain/Berenstein Bears Debate called the Mandela Effect involving parallel dimensions (seriously). ![]() Have you noticed no one my age has seen this so called Sinbad Genie movie, only you people who were kids in the 90's. Sinbad himself has even taken to Twitter to say that, nope, he never did a genie movie. It sounds like a movie that might've gotten the greenlight back in the '90s – and in fact, it did, except it was called "Kazaam," featuring Shaquille O'Neal as the bumbling (and, in this film's case, rapping) genie who grants a sad child some wishes.īut hoards on Reddit insist that "Shazaam" also exists, like "Antz" to "A Bug's Life" or "Deep Impact" to "Armageddon" – despite the fact that there's no evidence of the movie. In a fascinating story by Amelia Tait of The New Statesman, large chunks of people across the internet are absolutely convinced that they remember seeing a film called "Shazaam," starring comedian Sinbad as a bumbling genie who grants wishes to two kids. However, in the case of "Shazaam," it's a little more curious – mainly because "Shazaam" doesn't actually exist. Getting nostalgic for childhood movies is nothing new on the internet.
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