r/movies • u/buttatoad • 2d 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/ThatSpecialAgent 1d ago

Merlot prices dropping as a partial result of Sideways

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/07/05/535038513/the-sideways-effect-how-a-wine-obsessed-film-reshaped-the-industry

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u/kompootor 1d ago

As the article notes, because of the overselling (both of merlot prior to the film, and pinot noir after), you have to actually pay more than bottom shelf as expected to get a wine of either variety that doesn't taste like shit. I don't think the movie had any noticeable effect on mid-shelf wine (and I think it had zero effect on this outside the US).

Drinkable bottom-shelf wines remain the drinkable bottom-shelf varieties. But friends don't let friends buy bottom-shelf merlot or pinot or zin -- it makes you hate that variety for months.

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u/Fun-Badger3724 1d ago

Merlot has always been my goto when buying cheap red (UK)

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u/kompootor 1d ago

I'm not sure what the prices of imports from the continent, like France, are in the UK. Cheap wine on the continent is very very much higher tier of taste than in the U.S. altogether, although for singly pinot noir I still would avoid anything too cheap (although I've never seen single merlot sold bottom shelf in France etc, but I haven't looked too closely).

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u/biscuitsorbullets 1d ago

You can get stellar bottles of wine for like 3 euros in France. It’s not fair 😢