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The movie that doesn’t exist and the Redditors who think it does (newstatesman.com)
11 points by garymoon 3470 days ago
6 comments
loader 3470 days ago
While reading the article I kept thinking, yea I remember this movie, I can picture the box art. Then it reveals the Kazaam box art and I thought, oh no it's Kazaam I'm thinking of.
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wildmusings 3470 days ago
Seems like the work of a few dedicated trolls taking advantage of people's susceptibility to false ("incepted") memories about long-ago events.
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curtis 3470 days ago
This kind of story always reminds me of the Larry Niven's "For a Foggy Night".
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scrumper 3470 days ago
This is pretty interesting stuff about false group memories, albeit inconclusive.
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neaden 3470 days ago
I mean, it seems pretty conclusive to me that the movie didn't exist. It would require a massive and bizarre conspiracy theory to be true.
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DrScump 3470 days ago
I saw this in a double-feature, paired with "Beverly Hills Gun Club".
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supercoder 3470 days ago
The movie is kazaam
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DKnoll 3470 days ago
Yeah, I distinctly remember Kazaam, and it didn't have Sinbad.

What did star Sinbad though were First Kid and Jingle All the Way, both of which were released in 1996 (same as Kazaam) and I remember seeing at around the same time as Kazaam.

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