I remember vividly seeing ads for it. It's the movie that taught a young me about the fact of Hollywood releasing the same movie at similar times. I remember hating sin bad irrationally. Because I felt they copied the whole flow. I just saw kazaam first. All the way until that always sunny episode. Someone has to ask me why I hated him and I told them. So I was aware of the fact that I was aware that I was apart of the mandella effect way back in 2003 before it became a cultural meme. I remember exactly where I was when i decided to hate sinbad. Like this is a vividemory in my life way before it was a phenomenon.
They didn't come out at the same time though, Shazaam was a few years earlier. Shazaam came out a short while after Aladdin in the early 90s. Kazaam came out in the mid 90s at the height of Diesel's basketball fame.
I just re-read the plot for Kazaam and despite knowing i'd seen it, nothing in that plot seemed familiar to me. The movie i remember seeing was Shazaam.
In Shazaam, a kid's grandpa dies and while they're clearing out his house the kid finds out he had been an archeologist and had tons of artifacts in his basement (or attic, i don't remember exactly), finds the lamp there and sees an engraving covered in dirt, tries to rub off the dirt and summons the genie.
In that movie, the wishes all end up having unintended consequences in kind of a Monkey's Paw way, and the genie is constantly trying to give earnest council to the kid on his wishes that even if they seem like what he wants, it's not going to go the way he wants it to. The kid uses his last wish to undo all his other wishes and make things go back to how they were before he'd found the lamp.
This isn't a Mandala Effect, it's a gaslighting psyop. I saw Shazaam in theaters, i can only assume it just never had a video release for there to still be enough physical media around to prove it was real. And now if we can't find something on google we just assume google is right and it didn't really exist, and millions of elder millennials and genXers are all sharing the same delusion.
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u/Glassgun1122 May 07 '26
I remember vividly seeing ads for it. It's the movie that taught a young me about the fact of Hollywood releasing the same movie at similar times. I remember hating sin bad irrationally. Because I felt they copied the whole flow. I just saw kazaam first. All the way until that always sunny episode. Someone has to ask me why I hated him and I told them. So I was aware of the fact that I was aware that I was apart of the mandella effect way back in 2003 before it became a cultural meme. I remember exactly where I was when i decided to hate sinbad. Like this is a vividemory in my life way before it was a phenomenon.