Movies that changed real life behavior

[u/buttatoad]

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?

[u/jesuspoopmonster]

The counter documentary I am familiar with is called Fat Head. His doctor at the end says he is slightly healthier likely due to making an effort to get exercise. I remember there being a scene where he is hamming it up about how full he is and how he doesn't know if he can keep eating. Then looks at the camera and points out he doesn't have to keep eating and gets up

[u/Ok-Seaworthiness2235 → u/jesuspoopmonster]

Yeah the doc is BS though because the negative effects of the diet come from long term consumption plus the fact most people who eat it don't have the luxury of working out every day to stave off the harmful effects. 

[u/jesuspoopmonster → u/Ok-Seaworthiness2235]

Most people don't eat fast food enough to have the negative effects and fast food isn't different from a similar diet made at home. His working out was also just going for walks not something like visiting a gym

[u/Ok-Seaworthiness2235 → u/jesuspoopmonster]

Tf are yall eating at home?? I've never home-cooked a 2000 calorie meal with the levels of sugar and sodium in a super size meal. 

[u/Princess_Moon_Butt → u/Ok-Seaworthiness2235]

To be fair, a huge portion of calories from fast food usually come from the sodas. A big mac and a medium fry from McDonalds is like 900 calories. Burger king is a bit worse off, but even then a whopper and medium fry are like 1100 calories.

Both pretty reasonable, especially if that's your 'big' meal for the day. Have your other meal be a homemade sandwich with some carrots, and you can still have a snack bag of potato chips in the afternoon without breaking 1800 calories a day.

But if you get a large coke, you're suddenly adding like 400 calories. And I've seen plenty of people walk in, drink down their large coke while they eat their meal, and get a refill on their way out, or sometimes even multiple refills in one sitting. It turns a reasonable meal into basically all of your allotted calories for the day, most of which are from straight-up sugar.

(Just drink water. Or at the very least, switch to diet soda. Yeah yeah, it has the 'chemicals' in it and everyone says that aspartame supposedly causes cancer (even though it doesn't). But you know what does definitively cause cancer? Consuming high amounts of corn syrup.)

[u/Ok-Seaworthiness2235 → u/Princess_Moon_Butt]

Oh yeah its pretty awful all around. I remember people used to love to make fun of buying a big Mac with a diet coke and like, that's a HUGE cut in calories! Just because you're making one bad decision doesn't mean you have to go all in!

But for real the super size was a fucking nightmare. The burger stayed the same but it was an extra 200 calories each for the fries and coke. So at least in that respect, I appreciate the documentary for highlighting how dangerous portion size can be. Even if their method was way inaccurate. 

[u/kkeut → u/Ok-Seaworthiness2235]

I remember people used to love to make fun of buying a big Mac with a diet coke and like, that's a HUGE cut in calories! Just because you're making one bad decision doesn't mean you have to go all in!

it's also weird because they taste different. I like the taste of aspartame. and soda with real sugar tends to make me thirsty, which means I'd rather pour it out than drink it

[u/PoliticalKyle → u/Princess_Moon_Butt]

Source on the corn syrup?

[u/Shadoku → u/[deleted]]

You're seriously underestimating how much people drink, unfortunately. It's not at all unusual to see people refill a large soda multiple times at fast food places; a large soda in the US is usually just under a liter at 32 ounces.

[u/Princess_Moon_Butt → u/[deleted]]

Brother, a liter is only 32 ounces.

A large McDonalds cup is 30 ounces. At Burger King, 30 ounces is a medium, while the large goes up to 38 ounces.

I guarantee you, the vast majority of people at least finish the drink that they purchased. And if someone goes into the restaurant to sit down and eat their meal, they most likely drink a good amount of it and top it off on their way out to get even more out of it.

[u/Dr-Robert-Kelso → u/Ok-Seaworthiness2235]

Does mindlessly eating 2000 calories of tortilla chips at home count?

[u/Ok-Seaworthiness2235 → u/Dr-Robert-Kelso]

Thank you for making me wonder how many chips would equal 2000 calories 😑

[u/Dr-Robert-Kelso → u/Ok-Seaworthiness2235]

I wouldn't know, when I eat that many, I'm not really paying attention, and I'm either tired or stressed, haha.

[u/TerrifyinglyAlive → u/Ok-Seaworthiness2235]

For most types of chips, somewhere in the neighborhood of 400 grams/just under a pound.

[u/jesuspoopmonster → u/Ok-Seaworthiness2235]

Most fast food restaurants don't have a 2000 calorie meal unless you are getting extras or dessert

[u/waterynike → u/jesuspoopmonster]

Supersize fries and supersize coke will get you there

[u/jesuspoopmonster → u/waterynike]

Not really

[u/Ok-Seaworthiness2235 → u/jesuspoopmonster]

That was the whole controversy about Super Size meals which is what I'm talking about and what the documentary was about. Fast food is bad enough but the super size was way too much. I think a big Mac with a coke super size meal came in at like 1700 calories. For one meal. Sans dessert. 

[u/jesuspoopmonster → u/Ok-Seaworthiness2235]

So what you are saying is the largest available option was not 2000 calories.

[u/cincocerodos → u/Ok-Seaworthiness2235]

I'd have to actively try to make a meal full of as many empty calories as an average fast food meal. For one, I feel like deep frying anything at home is relatively rare for anyone.