![]() ![]() Maybe that is actually Shaquille O’Neal, not Will Smith, in the new Aladdin. But good luck finding a copy of any of these movies to prove it: the offending frames have all been removed from reissues. Rumours of a hidden message in the original Aladdin saying “good teenagers take off your clothes” turned out to be untrue, but The Lion King really did feature the words “S-E-X” spelled out in dust (well, the animators claimed it said “S-F-X”) there really was a photo of a topless woman in the background of The Rescuers and we really did see that Jessica Rabbit was wearing no underwear in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Forrest Gump never says the words “life is like a box of chocolates”.ĭisney films are no stranger to this territory, either. The Amityville Horror is not based on a true story. Bogart never says “Play it again, Sam” in Casablanca. Having outsourced our pop-culture memory bank to the web, we can no longer separate myth from fact, especially when it comes to movies. Action Adventure Comedy A newly fostered young boy in search of his mother instead finds unexpected super powers and soon gains a powerful enemy. You could also call it the “internet makes us all dumber effect”. This collective misremembering is known as the “ Mandela Effect” – based on the fact that many people (supposedly) believe that Nelson Mandela died in prison in the 1980s. Then, in 2017, excerpts emerged online from a “rediscovered” VHS copy of Shazaam! – with the actual Sinbad playing a genie! Unfortunately, the clip was an April Fools’ spoof, courtesy of US website CollegeHumor. Or at least the internet says he did – who knows? As a result of the Shazaam! chatter, someone Photoshopped the fake video box cover. Have some kind of parameters of what you are before you come here (Hollywood).Contributing factors include the time in 1994 when Sinbad introduced Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger on cable TV, dressed as a genie. He can transform into an adult superhero ( Zachary Levi) whenever he says the titular magic word. ![]() "First of all, want nothing so bad, you sell your soul to get it. Parents need to know that Shazam is a DC Comics-based superhero comedy that's like Big meets Superman because the main character is a 14-year-old who's given a magical gift. seems like its also peculiarly about a kid that summons the assistance of a superpower figure! RIP Shazam! and more importantly, Jonathan! Did he really commit suicide though?! Will be interesting to see what the NEW Shazam! (2019) movie is like when it comes out. ![]() While fighting over it Sinbad emerges and grants them 3 wishes, the sister choses their broken doll to be fixed, the brother a dog to play with, and their final wish together ends up for dad to fall in love again since their mom had passed away, and happily ever after, Sinbad and his bottle vanishes in their swimming pool, the end! Oh well. Lamp is being transported at sea but shipwrecks and 2 siblings find the lamp on beach Now, its up to him and his foster siblings to save the world from the evil Sins. ![]() In Billy Batsons case, by shouting out one word - SHAZAM - this streetwise 14-year-old foster kid can turn into the adult superhero Shazam. Starts with Sinbad a goofy, clownish genie watching his own sitcom on a TV inside his living room of a lamp Shazam (2019) We all have a superhero inside us, it just takes a bit of magic to bring it out. Anyways, before seeing the movie, I remember seeing big colorful posters for it which depicted Sinbad with a big gold hoop earring, and a very bright purple Aladdin type sleeveless outfit that flaunted his bright yellow skintone, very different from Shaq in his later movie Kazaam. Only to find that it also had been disappeared! Sadly back then I was not online to dive into research heck I didnt even get a 'smart'phone till last year and it's so dumb how the screens are made to crack every couple months. I first noticed the movie was 'missing' around 2003 when hearing Jonathan Brandis hung himself and wanting to watch it again. I remember our family renting the movie from Blockbuster in early 1995, just months after seeing Aliens for Breakfast which also had the main character played by the comedian Sinbad. ![]()
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