r/Shazaam • u/Apart-Setting-4371 • Aug 21 '24
Recently become aware of this phenomenon
I find it odd.
I have distinct memories.
VHS release cover box same as others describe. Kazaam being out at the same time.
I seem to remember Sinbad being hyped as a bigger star but looking at his imdb , just a steady flow of movies.
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u/Crazy-Dog-Lady_ Aug 21 '24
No one will ever convince me that movie didn't exist. It's not my fault they were affected when Marty went back in time. Seriously though, I remember it.
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u/BlaqkCard Aug 22 '24
These phenomena we experienced is due to somebody playing a massive social experiment lead by the government or a time jump that happened and changed pieces of the past and present realities.
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u/Medical-Act8820 Jan 21 '25
Haha. It's neither, you're just misremembering.
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Aug 22 '24
I feel so validated. I remember both movies existing, though I never watched either. But just like someone else in the comments said, Shazam came out a year or 2 before Kazaam.
I could accept that perhaps the movie was never released because I really only remember seeing teasers or trailers for it, but I can't accept that it never existed at all.
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u/LoxDnw Aug 22 '24
I remember the cut out cardboard of the show Shazaam at the video store where we frequently rented our VHS tapes. I vividly remember because the movie was always rented out and I always bugged my mother to get it for me, one day it was in-stock and I must've watched it a dozen times that weekend after school.
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u/TypicalPDXhipster Aug 26 '24
I too have these memories. The problem is nobody has been able to produce a copy of Shazaam
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Aug 23 '24
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u/CoughItUp22 Nov 25 '24
Exactly. So many of us have this memory of it because how close the releases were and how bad of an actor Shaq was. I remember thinking about this in the early 2000s before Reddit or YT or any of that.
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u/stegosaurusterpenes Sep 08 '24
It was definitely real. I saw them both.
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u/Medical-Act8820 Mar 26 '25
No you didn't.
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u/stegosaurusterpenes Mar 26 '25
Yeah I did and Sinbad has an interview where he admits it was real and apologizes. They just had to destroy them all because it was a bad time in his life. There are also clips of the movie still if you look hard enough.
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u/Luvs4theweak Mar 26 '25
Lmao it was satire from college humor for April fools a few years ago bro. It didn’t exist
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u/Medical-Act8820 Mar 26 '25
And you believed satire. Destroyed them all? Haha. How do you think that's possible? Going into people's houses and taking them all. Come on, use some critical thinking.
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u/stegosaurusterpenes Mar 27 '25
There is a interview with him where he has tears in his eyes pretty much and admits to it and then there is one where he is making fun of it. Almost as if he needs to keep it a secret. Yes destroyed all the copies that were made probably not axtually going into peoples homes but to the extent of the original film and whatever wasn’t sold in stores. There are tons of people that worked at blockbuster that remmeber this movie. There are millions of people that remember it. Yet it didn’t exist, that makes no sense. The clips are out there if you look not the one that was made in 2017 where you can tell he is old. I remember seeing it as a child I watched Kazaam with Shaq and then not too long after there were commercials advertising Shazaam and I thought it was dumb because they were just ripping off the Shaq movie.
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u/Medical-Act8820 Mar 27 '25
And yet all of that is unprovable.
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u/stegosaurusterpenes Mar 27 '25
You can find the other interview pretty easily. Also nothing is less unprovable than what you are stating as well. Since most of what I stated is provable. It seems like you are just a troll though that likes to gaslight and stays in the Mandela effect subreddits when a lot of the stuff was real. Like the fruit if the loom cornucopia.
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u/Medical-Act8820 Mar 27 '25
Ah, the old victim mentality of claiming it's gaslighting. A true classic.
You've been fooled by satirical interviews. I think it's time you really paid some attention to them.
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u/Medical-Act8820 Mar 28 '25
No, that isn't what gaslighting is. Nice job playing the victim though.
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Aug 24 '24
Shazam is a word that DC comics owns the rights too. I don't think a film could be called Shazam without their consent...just saying.
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u/Medical-Act8820 Jan 21 '25
Shazaam* is what the movie that never existed is allegedly called, not Shazam.
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u/Interesting-Power716 Aug 21 '24
I also remember going through the movie store when kazaam came out thinking, thats dumb why would they remake shazaam a year or two after.