Aladdin's magic ring and lamp
I recall seeing an Aladdin movie (not the obvious Disney one) a few years back (more than 3 but I'm unsure of when). I either saw it on TV or Netflix but it isn't on the previously rented list on Netflix and I couldn't find it on imdb despite vigorous searching. The movie wasn't black and white or a musical, it was in English, it was live action, and I remember thinking the special effects were "good" but don't recall any scenes with special effects so I can't give detail. I remember very little so here's everything I can remember.
<PERSON> and <PERSON> head to the cave of wonders. <PERSON> explores the cave, finds the lamp, and returns with it to the entrance. <PERSON> takes the lamp and kicks <PERSON> back down as the cave's stairs collapse leaving <PERSON> trapped inside. <PERSON> rubs a magic ring that I think he already had (I want to say his brother gave it to him) which causes a genie to appear. The genie will grant 3 wishes and <PERSON> uses the first to escape. He then returns to Agrabah to find that <PERSON> had used a wish to take over. <PERSON> says that his second wish is to obtain the magic lamp to which the genie of the ring responds "oh no, that's simply not possible. The genie of the lamp is much more powerful than I am". So <PERSON> instead wishes he was a prince and the plot goes on.
At the climax (I'm less sure about this part) <PERSON> squares off against <PERSON> while both genies fight (which has a nice symmetry to it). 377
The genie of the ring was simply trying not to die (since he knew he couldn't win). After <PERSON> beats <PERSON> the genie of the lamp stops fighting and the genie of the ring is still alive.
The genie of the ring had a very friendly personality: he wanted to be <PERSON>'s friend. The genie of the lamp on the other hand was very cold: he was only here to grant wishes (in fact I don't think he ever even talked). The genie of the ring was played by an actor (I want to say blue clothes) without special effects as opposed to the genie of the lamp who never had legs and was completely a special effect.
I don't remember any actors or anything useful but since I couldn't find any movie description that mentioned a magic ring I'm going to guess that this is a fairly uniquely identifiable movie. After some google searching I found this page which talks about the original Aladdin story. It says the original story did contain a genie in a magic ring which freed <PERSON> from the cave. I didn't read much of the page but when I saw the part talking about exchanging old lamps for new I remembered a scene in this movie where <PERSON> falls for this trick. Although I don't remember if it was <PERSON> or <PERSON> in disguise.
My inability to find this movie made me think that this was somehow a dream. But I've never read the Aladdin story and had only looked up details when trying to find this movie. So the few details I somehow knew of the original story makes me think that somebody must have made this movie based on the original story. Perhaps this was a lesser known movie made for TV (like SciFi movies). It's definitely not Aladdin and the Death Lamp (2012) nor is it Aladin (2009). 377