The Mandela Effect in movies

[Trevor]

In other words, scenes in movies, which you either don't remember right or which weren't there to begin with.

My ME moment is from SOLDIER BLUE.

I haven't seen it since 1983 but I seem to remember a scene with Candice Bergen sitting holding a child and, when she lets the child go, the child's guts spill out.😳

I hope that was me misremembering a scene 😳😳😳

[M.10rda]

John Carpenter's THE THING played on syndicated TV in the late 80s - I probably saw it on either WOR or WPIX out of NYC, or a similar Eastern NY station, and I saw it several times. It wasn't until the mid-90s or later that I watched it on VHS and then DVD, and (as is well-documented) those versions are significantly different. TV naturally cut out some of the gore (though, honestly, not much iirc) and also added additional shots and additional or alternative dialogue to pad out the running time/add more commercials. SOME of the additional footage is included as deleted scenes on the special edition DVD - but only in cases where no similar scene already exists in Carpenter's cut.

So, the first several times I saw the film (on syndicated), I saw Wilford Brimley as Blair tell Kurt Russell as MacReady:

"Watch Clark. Watch him good... he's been around 'nem dogs."

And... epic as Brimley's delivery is... I obsessed over and internalized this line. In fact I would quote this line during college in the 90s... probably confusing friends who'd only ever seen the film on video.

Because - of course, sadly - this isn't how Blair says it in the regular (available) cut. He says "Watch Clark" twice and he doesn't say Clark's been around the dogs - which is subtext, anyway, obviously Clark has been around 'nem dogs 'cause his job is Dog Guy. Blair says something else about a dog....... but dammit, I prefer the extra/alternate take that they used in the syndicated cut! And after three decades, I cannot find that take anywhere on the internet.     

I insist that cases like this are responsible for a lot of movie Mandela Effects. I haven't watched EMPIRE since I was a kid in the early 80s but I watched it a bunch back then, and Darth Vader for sure used to say "Luke, I am your father." But George Lucas has performed his own Mandela Effect on those movies so many times nobody knows what is real and what is remembered anymore.

[chainsaw midget]

Ghostbusters II. 

Me and a TON of other people SWEAR that at the very end of the movie, it shows Slimer flying out of the Statue of Liberty and right at the screen. 

Nobody is able to find the footage of this anywhere. 

HOWEVER.... the scene is show ... in a coloring book adaption.  So it had to have existed in some format.  Right?

[Trevor]

Ghostbusters II. 

Me and a TON of other people SWEAR that at the very end of the movie, it shows Slimer flying out of the Statue of Liberty and right at the screen. 

Nobody is able to find the footage of this anywhere. 

HOWEVER.... the scene is show ... in a coloring book adaption.  So it had to have existed in some format.  Right?

I saw GHOSTBUSTERS 2 in the theater way back when. Never saw that ending.

Slimer does have his / its own credit at the end of this: maybe they're confusing that with the way the original GHOSTBUSTERS ends? 🤔

[claws]

The "Shazaam" Mandela effect is a prominent false memory where many people vividly recall 1990s comedian Sinbad playing a genie in a movie named Shazaam. This film does not exist. The memory is a confusion with the real 1996 film Kazaam, starring Shaquille O'Neal as a genie, or a costume Sinbad wore during a Sinbad the Sailor marathon.

Its interesting how one person's claim (Intentional or not) can open a social media avalance of a false memory for thousands. Typically, they created fake Shazaam VHS tapes, adding fuel to the confusion.

Mandela Effect? Not a movie scene, but... All week at work, I had this cheesy, dramatic 1970s song playing in my head called "Dear Michael" by Michael Jackson. I honestly thought I'd made it up. It felt like the perfect "lost" MJ track. After a few days, I convinced myself the idea was too good to be true. I finally looked up his early solo work yesterday and, sure enough, there it was on his 1975 album. I haven't heard that song in ages, but my brain apparently held onto it all this time!

[Trevor]

In other words, scenes in movies, which you either don't remember right or which weren't there to begin with.

My ME moment is from SOLDIER BLUE.

I haven't seen it since 1983 but I seem to remember a scene with Candice Bergen sitting holding a child and, when she lets the child go, the child's guts spill out.😳

I hope that was me misremembering a scene 😳😳😳

I found it online at ok.ru.

Candice is holding a dead child, the ground is scattered with corpses, and Peter Strauss throws up on camera.

I did misremember the scene.

[zombie no.one]

dunno what variation of the Mandella Effect this is, but I had the stomach-bursting scene from ALIEN described to me so many times as a kid (by the one kid at school who had seen it), that when I think of that scene in my head now, I think of it how my brain originally imagined it, rather than the actual scene from the film