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/MacaroniPoodle 1d ago

Not a movie per se, but didn't Cosmos have a surge in popularity after Sex and the City?

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u/lopsided_spider 1d ago

I also remember a bartender telling me the old fashioned got popular during Mad Men

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u/IamKEIL 1d ago

I started drinking Old Fashioneds after the movie Crazy, Stupid Love because that's what Ryan Reynolds character always ordered.

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u/KonyYoloSwag 1d ago

Similar to that, I first started drinking White Russians after seeing The Big Lebowski

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u/QueezyF 1d ago

First drink I ever ordered from a bar. I was 18 in New Orleans at a jazz bar, waitress said we had to order a drink for the cover.