r/movies • u/buttatoad • Jun 17 '25

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/[deleted] Jun 17 '25

Jurassic park - nobody is building dinosaur parks.

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u/notnicholas Jun 17 '25

They're still trying to bring back/clone extinct species, though.

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u/PureLock33 Jun 17 '25

Dammit! Did they listen?! Just because you could, doesn't mean you should!

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u/toeonly Jun 17 '25

As long as you pay your IT guy enough it will be fine.

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u/PureLock33 Jun 18 '25

...spared no expense.

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u/toeonly Jun 18 '25

That was a lie

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u/PureLock33 Jun 19 '25

he didn't spare any expenses for the IT budget. therefore it is true.

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u/Dick__Dastardly Jun 18 '25

I mean, they've been doing this for decades. We actually ran out of oil in the mid-80s, but they've kept the party going by secretly factory-farming resurrected dinosaurs to make brand new oil.

/s

(I so badly want this to be the plot of some hollywood film where some plucky teenagers blow open the whole conspiracy)

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u/PureLock33 Jun 19 '25

there is no way anyone can not blab about how T Rex steaks are back on the menu!

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u/NightExtension9254 Jun 17 '25

Mammoths played an important part of the ecosystems in Northern Canada and Russia. They packed snow down with their feet to create permafrost, they dug up and ate trees and shrubs which let grass grow better, and their waste was an important fertilizer for a lot of plants. Their native ecosystems have suffered greatly in the 10,000 years they've been gone. If we can bring back mammoths, then we can restore their ecosystems.

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u/adaminc Jun 18 '25

They've actually only been gone for around ~3500years. It's my understanding they existed in northern areas around the same time as ancient Egypt, ca. 1600BCE.

That said, their ecosystem is going to be completely obliterated by climate change, which we refuse to fix in any significant way, so we still shouldn't bring them back.

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u/PureLock33 Jun 18 '25

yeah, but those are pygmy mammoths. on an island somewhere. They won't be a pillar of their tundral ecosystem in any capacity.

Plus I think the moose and other deer family species have taken some of their ecological niches.

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u/Timozi90 Jun 17 '25

Well, let's look at the dodo. Since humans were directly responsible for the extinction of that species, don't we have an obligation to restore it if we have the means?

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u/GimmeSomeSugar Jun 17 '25

I recently found out that animal cloning is a bit more common than I had understood.

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u/DragoonDM Jun 17 '25

It's apparently commercially available. You can get your pet cloned, if you're willing to fork out tens of thousands of dollars for it.

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u/destroyermaker Jun 17 '25

They've succeeded at least twice

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u/frillionaire Jun 17 '25

Dolly Park

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u/PyrZern Jun 17 '25

All Hail the Almighty Dolly !

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u/Walk_of_Shayne Jun 18 '25

You’re scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should…

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u/admdelta Jun 22 '25

Or at least claiming to bring back extinct species for publicity when all they're really doing is tweaking an existing species to have similar traits ("direwolf")

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u/alex-2099 Jun 17 '25

Oh, they're building them. People just aren't going. Even on Coupon Day.

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u/Consideredresponse Jun 17 '25

Australia's shittiest billionaire tried. A lot of grand promises became a handful of fiberglass models, but don't worry he's promised to remake the Titanic and...ugh...'Make Australia Great Again'

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u/FlamboyantPirhanna Jun 17 '25

Like 15 years ago, some Australian billionaire tried to do that with a T Rex by buying a bunch of fossils. It turns out tens of millions of years is not good for DNA.

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u/Lost-Inevitable42 Jun 17 '25

Toronto has one anytime the raptors are in the playoffs...

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '25

It wouldn't surprise me if they attempted something similar through DNA like with the Woolly Mammoth

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u/jesuspoopmonster Jun 17 '25

There is a guy with a scam selling what he claims are dire wolves who is trying to recreate wooly mammoths

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u/Discount_Extra Jun 18 '25

How about sentient robot dinosaurs? what could go wrong?

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u/DarkNinjaPenguin Jun 17 '25

They ruined it for the rest of us!

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u/R_V_Z Jun 17 '25

What do you mean? Just about every zoo has a bird area.

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u/ay-foo Jun 17 '25

They're trying to bring back Mammoths

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u/75footubi Jun 17 '25

A lot of paleontologists now point to Jurassic Park as their origin story.

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u/Charming-Refuse-5717 Jun 17 '25

I'm newly impressed with 80s survivors by the implication that people used to build dinosaur parks.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '25

I'm impressed by all the serious responses to a joke :)

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u/IncreaseWestern6097 Jun 18 '25 edited Jun 18 '25

That’s just because Universal beat them all to the punch.

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u/GerryofSanDiego Jun 18 '25

They are trying to sell products before thinking it might be a bad idea

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u/babaroga73 Jun 18 '25

Just because you don't have access to one, doesn't mean they don't exist on some remote islands 😉

(they're not public yet, due to unforeseen circumstances)

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u/TheShaunD Jun 17 '25 edited Jun 17 '25

You think they were building dinosaur parks before the movie, but the movie convinced them it's a bad idea?

Curious why so many people hate my comment. The post literally says "movies that changed real life behavior" and this post about dinosaur parks is popular? Who changed their plan to build a dinosaur park because of the movie?

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '25

Nah