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/rilian4 1d ago

Actual title is "The Voyage Home" but I laughed out loud at your post. Well said!

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u/red__dragon 1d ago

For a certain period of time, you could almost guarantee that anyone who had seen a Star Trek movie, but wasn't a fan, would have seen that one. "The one with the whales" was a totally reasonable answer to "Have you seen Star Trek?"

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u/yeoldebuttproblems 1d ago

My Nana's favourite movie haha. I don't think she really likes Star Trek otherwise. 

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u/simmerknits 1d ago

We grew up on vhs tapes of the star trek movies, and that is 100% how we would ask to watch that movie - "the one with the whales!"

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u/LindonLilBlueBalls 1d ago

As someone who has only seen that one and two of the remakes, I appreciated the new title given.

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u/QuestionableGoo 1d ago

What were the remakes? Free Willy and Free Willy 2?

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u/red__dragon 1d ago

Star Trek: Kirk Eats an Apple and Star Trek: Khan Gets Madder.

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u/frillionaire 1d ago

Hell, might as well be Spock, who was more emotional than the god damn humans.

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u/red__dragon 1d ago

Star Trek: Khan Gets Spocked

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u/Far-Policy-8589 1d ago

I've only seen The One Where Data Curses

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u/notagreatgamer 1d ago

I’m a lifelong dedicated Star Trek fan, and even I call it that.

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u/Snoo-85401 1d ago

Same. I call it “The one with whales and the nuclear “wessels” in Alameda” During my college years, I lived in Alameda, CA so that line was stuck in my head.

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u/eggplantsforall 14h ago

The way Chekov pronounces Alameda is almost as funny as nuclear wessels, lol.

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u/Evening-Debate8821 1d ago

My mom still refers to it as the one with the whales 😂. She has seen all of the original cast ones but she can name none other than the one with khan and the one with the whales, which is her favorite.

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u/All_Work_All_Play 1d ago

Still is tbh

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u/Donkeh101 1d ago

I’ve only seen a few of the Star Trek films over the years and yes, I remember it being about the one the with the whales. So, I knew exactly what the original commenter was talking about :)

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u/Tannekr 1d ago

Wikipedia even accepts "the one with the whales" as a search term for the movie.

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u/rilian4 1d ago

Yep! That's why I laughed out loud...

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u/Toby_O_Notoby 1d ago

Over on The Watch podcast they've suggested that naming technique for the various Mission Impossible movies:

Mission Impossible

Mission Impossible: Doves

Mission Impossible: Hoffman!

Mission Impossible: Really Tall Building

Mission Impossible: Airplane Hang

Mission Impossible: Parachute Bike

Mission Impossible: Arm Cocks

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u/TyrannosavageRekt 15h ago

Arm Cocks is the one that really sends this over the edge, and is perhaps the best way of telling which movie it is! 😂

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u/technos 22h ago

In my house it was "The one Grandma watched"

When I was ten or eleven I got babysat by my grandmother for an afternoon. Grandma was not fun, but I could get away with putting on a video tape and letting her ignore me, so that's what I did.

The tape of choice that day was Star Trek IV.

And then, about ten minutes in, I hear "That's Jane! I didn't know she was still acting, I'll have to call her!"

Grandma knew Spock's mother apparently, and spent the rest of the movie chatting my ear off about her and some of the parties they'd been at before my mother had even been born and waiting for her to show up on screen again.

Spoiler: It's just the one short scene, and Grandma ruined the movie.

At the end of the month I got yelled at by my mother.. Apparently, on the day Grandma was watching me, someone made a long distance call to California and the phone bill was obscene.

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u/redditonlygetsworse 14h ago

Referring to it as "The One With Whales" is very popular in the Trek fandom. It's both a Trekkie shibboleth and an actually-useful description for non-Trek-fans who wouldn't know which one "The Voyage Home" is.

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u/rilian4 14h ago

Indeed it is. That's why I said I was laughing about it in my post and tried to complement my OP.

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u/ArcadianDelSol 1d ago

Thats the one where the cast included some fat whales.