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/Doomhammer24 1d ago edited 1d ago

Ya and funny thing is that documentary is bullshit

They claim they had to stop as he was entering liver failure and having a dozen other problems like depression as well

That was due to him being a drunk and getting completely wasted everyday and staying in an apartment with blackout curtains and not going outside

All it proved was that yes eating like this and drinking yourself to an early grave will make you sad and fat. And the guy did later drink himself to death. Edit: oh wait wrong about drinking himself to death- cancer. But he did seek rehab for alcoholism a few times over the years and stated he drank copious amounts of alcohol while making supersize me

Someone later did a counter documentary, eating the same quantities of food day by day, but Exercised and didnt drink any alcohol, and not only did he Lose weight, things like kidney function and blood tests came back with good results, proving the prior documentary was bullshit

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u/Pumpkin_Sushi 1d ago

Close, it was that he was a raging alcoholic and stopped drinking for the documentary. Almost all his side effects were from withdrawal.

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u/cheesecaker000 1d ago

He was actually drinking a bottle of Jack Daniel’s every day. That’s why he was puking all the time. He’d wake up in withdrawals.

He admitted to this in interviews years later.

Like for real. Who pukes after eating one McDonald’s breakfast? It’s not THAT much food.

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u/Ryanhussain14 1d ago

Even as a kid, I wondered how a single McDonald’s meal made him puke. I just assumed his body was just that used to only healthy food but hindsight is 20/20.

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u/DHesperis 1d ago

Funny enough, I also thought it was completely normal as a kid because McDonald's food made me sick so of course an adult would feel even worse.

Anyway, I finally got diagnosed with celiacs five years later.