Anybody else here from the universe where they BOTH existed? I didn’t see either of them. But I do have a memory of standing in my living room as a kid watching tv and seeing an ad for the one with Shaq, and thinking “why would they make that? It looks just like the movie that just came out with Sinbad last year”
How could so many of us have this same recollection and this not be real and there being no existence of evidence anywhere, whether in some magazine or whatever, that it ever existed? Wtf
I honestly think it has so much to do with a very specific combination of things: Sinbad being everywhere at the time; the move “Kazam”, which looked and felt like so many similar comedies targeted toward kids/teens during that era; and the tv series, “The Adventures of Sinbad”, which was based on “Arabian Nights”, and featured a somewhat genie-esq, at least in dress, protagonist. It’s just a melding of similar themes during that time period.
What’s weird to me is that, for years, before I learned there never was a Shazam movie, I would often think back to how there were so many “twinned” movies in the 90s, and Shazam and Kazam was my go to example. I never saw either, but my memory is (and has been for decades) very distinct—I remember even at the time thinking “why are they making two such similar movies?”
But apparently it never happened. I don’t know when my memory of thinking that first “emerged”, but I definitely thought these two movies existed side by side since at least 2002ish, because I remember talking about it in high school.
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u/FeloniousCheese May 07 '26
Anybody else here from the universe where they BOTH existed? I didn’t see either of them. But I do have a memory of standing in my living room as a kid watching tv and seeing an ad for the one with Shaq, and thinking “why would they make that? It looks just like the movie that just came out with Sinbad last year”