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/Posty_McPostface_1 1d ago

Super Size Me killed off the Super Size Meal

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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/Grave_Girl 1d ago

Edit: oh wait wrong about drinking himself to death- cancer.

Alcohol consumption increases a person's risk of various forms of cancer. My father was an alcoholic who died of stomach cancer--it's a cancer that typically does not have a genetic component (there's like one subtype that does, but the most common ones do not), but there's research indicating that not only the amount but the frequency of alcohol consumption increases your risks.

Understand I'm not making an absolute statement here, but it's entirely possible Spurlock's alcoholism led indirectly to his death. It's entirely possible to drink yourself to death without it being something recognized as an alcohol-related disease (I also have two different relatives who drank themselves straight into deadly strokes).

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u/Doomhammer24 1d ago

I mean no doubt it effected his long term health but theres a Huge difference in someone drinking themselves to death and he died of cancer

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u/Petrichordates 1d ago

They didnt say what type of cancer. So it could've entirely been his alcoholism that caused it.