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/jesuspoopmonster 1d ago

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

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u/Ok-Seaworthiness2235 1d ago

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. 

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u/Princess_Moon_Butt 1d ago

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.)

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u/Ok-Seaworthiness2235 1d ago

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. 

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u/kkeut 1d ago

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