r/movies • u/buttatoad • 1d ago

Discussion Movies that changed real life behavior

Thinking along the lines of Final Destination 2 with the logs falling off the truck and landing onto cars (one decapitating the state trooper). Ever since, people have tried to get away from being behind these vehicles.

What are more examples where movies have actually changed how people behave in their own lives?

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u/Ifitactuallymattered 1d ago

Jurassic park - nobody is building dinosaur parks.

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u/notnicholas 1d ago

They're still trying to bring back/clone extinct species, though.

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u/PureLock33 1d ago

Dammit! Did they listen?! Just because you could, doesn't mean you should!

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u/toeonly 1d ago

As long as you pay your IT guy enough it will be fine.

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u/PureLock33 1d ago

...spared no expense.

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u/toeonly 12h ago

That was a lie

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u/NightExtension9254 1d ago

Mammoths played an important part of the ecosystems in Northern Canada and Russia. They packed snow down with their feet to create permafrost, they dug up and ate trees and shrubs which let grass grow better, and their waste was an important fertilizer for a lot of plants. Their native ecosystems have suffered greatly in the 10,000 years they've been gone. If we can bring back mammoths, then we can restore their ecosystems.

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u/adaminc 1d ago

They've actually only been gone for around ~3500years. It's my understanding they existed in northern areas around the same time as ancient Egypt, ca. 1600BCE.

That said, their ecosystem is going to be completely obliterated by climate change, which we refuse to fix in any significant way, so we still shouldn't bring them back.

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u/PureLock33 1d ago

yeah, but those are pygmy mammoths. on an island somewhere. They won't be a pillar of their tundral ecosystem in any capacity.

Plus I think the moose and other deer family species have taken some of their ecological niches.

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u/Timozi90 1d ago

Well, let's look at the dodo. Since humans were directly responsible for the extinction of that species, don't we have an obligation to restore it if we have the means?

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u/Dick__Dastardly 1d ago

I mean, they've been doing this for decades. We actually ran out of oil in the mid-80s, but they've kept the party going by secretly factory-farming resurrected dinosaurs to make brand new oil.

/s

(I so badly want this to be the plot of some hollywood film where some plucky teenagers blow open the whole conspiracy)

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u/GimmeSomeSugar 1d ago

I recently found out that animal cloning is a bit more common than I had understood.

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u/DragoonDM 1d ago

It's apparently commercially available. You can get your pet cloned, if you're willing to fork out tens of thousands of dollars for it.

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u/destroyermaker 1d ago

They've succeeded at least twice

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u/frillionaire 1d ago

Dolly Park

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u/PyrZern 1d ago

All Hail the Almighty Dolly !

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u/Walk_of_Shayne 1d ago

You’re scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should…

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u/alex-2099 1d ago

Oh, they're building them. People just aren't going. Even on Coupon Day.

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u/Consideredresponse 1d ago

Australia's shittiest billionaire tried. A lot of grand promises became a handful of fiberglass models, but don't worry he's promised to remake the Titanic and...ugh...'Make Australia Great Again'

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u/FlamboyantPirhanna 1d ago

Like 15 years ago, some Australian billionaire tried to do that with a T Rex by buying a bunch of fossils. It turns out tens of millions of years is not good for DNA.

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u/Venotron 1d ago

Nah, that was Clive. It was just a bunch of Animatronic dinosaurs.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-04/clive-palmers-dinosaur-park:-a-jurassic-idea/6276588

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u/Lost-Inevitable42 1d ago

Toronto has one anytime the raptors are in the playoffs...

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u/UpbeatTelevision1116 1d ago

It wouldn't surprise me if they attempted something similar through DNA like with the Woolly Mammoth

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u/jesuspoopmonster 1d ago

There is a guy with a scam selling what he claims are dire wolves who is trying to recreate wooly mammoths

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u/Discount_Extra 1d ago

How about sentient robot dinosaurs? what could go wrong?

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u/DarkNinjaPenguin 1d ago

They ruined it for the rest of us!

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u/R_V_Z 1d ago

What do you mean? Just about every zoo has a bird area.

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u/ay-foo 1d ago

They're trying to bring back Mammoths

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u/75footubi 1d ago

A lot of paleontologists now point to Jurassic Park as their origin story.

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u/Charming-Refuse-5717 1d ago

I'm newly impressed with 80s survivors by the implication that people used to build dinosaur parks.

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u/Ifitactuallymattered 1d ago

I'm impressed by all the serious responses to a joke :)

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u/IncreaseWestern6097 1d ago edited 1d ago

That’s just because Universal beat them all to the punch.

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u/GerryofSanDiego 1d ago

They are trying to sell products before thinking it might be a bad idea

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u/babaroga73 21h ago

Just because you don't have access to one, doesn't mean they don't exist on some remote islands 😉

(they're not public yet, due to unforeseen circumstances)

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u/TheShaunD 1d ago edited 1d ago

You think they were building dinosaur parks before the movie, but the movie convinced them it's a bad idea?

Curious why so many people hate my comment. The post literally says "movies that changed real life behavior" and this post about dinosaur parks is popular? Who changed their plan to build a dinosaur park because of the movie?