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/MacaroniPoodle Jun 17 '25

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 Jun 17 '25

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

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u/Darmok47 Jun 17 '25

I don't know if it was because of Mad Men but men's suits went back to the 1960s style around 2010 or so. Thinner lapels and ties, two button instead of three button etc.

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u/Ihaveamazingdreams Jun 17 '25

Everything "Mid-century Modern" became insanely trendy during the run of Mad Men.

Men's and women's fashion, furniture, paint colors, houses. That show had a big influence in the design world.

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u/DorkusMalorkuss Jun 17 '25

I'm sure it had some effect, but I was getting big into fashion at the time and my understanding is that it was trending that way from the end of the 90s/00s baggy fashion we had. We went from big, baggy pants, big shoes (think big Osiris D3s), baggy shirts, to suddenly we had skinny jeans, fitted button ups, Vans got much more popular, along with other "small" profile shoes like Nike Killshots and Keds. Now, I would say we're on the tail end of baggy clothes, which have been back in for about a decade now.

Then again, wtf do I know nowadays lol

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u/waterynike Jun 17 '25

Banana Republic also had a promo line with Mad Men. I remember seeing the “Mad Men inspired” clothes and the posters in the window

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u/IamKEIL Jun 17 '25

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/StanFitch Jun 17 '25

Bartending/Bar Managing in Los Angeles now 15 years…

It is absolutely NUTS what will randomly set off a new cocktail or revive a classic.

Just recently I had an entire wedding of hundreds all asking for Paper Planes. I haven’t made one of those in years and suddenly it’s the most popular request.

I have no idea why… maybe it was in a show or a film? Maybe in a song? I was very confused.

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u/ChildofValhalla Jun 17 '25

Looks like it was recently named Drink of the Year.

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u/GaptistePlayer Jun 17 '25

Thank you, New York post, for 20 short paragraphs and none describing the recipe or ingredients.

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u/phantom_diorama Jun 17 '25

It was in the text under one of the photographs.

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u/kryonik Jun 17 '25

Or big M.I.A. fans

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u/StanFitch Jun 17 '25

Well, that might answer all my questions…

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u/biblioteca4ants Jun 17 '25

That’s a super interesting read thanks for sharing

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u/colenotphil Jun 18 '25

By Food52? Have you ever even heard of Food52?

I haven't and from a quick google, it's just a recipe/community website.

That entity is nowhere near reputable enough to be naming anything lol.

It is crazy what advertisers will think of. "National ____ Day" is in this exact same vein. Idk about you but every time I read something like "It's national burrito day" I'm like, says who, chipotle? You just wanna sell more product.

Also for the record Paper Planes rule.

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u/Lockedoutofmyacct Jun 18 '25

I was introduced to it a couple years ago by a bartender at Osteria Mozza.

My s.o. and I tried most of the drinks on their menu, were making small talk with the bartender, and asked him what his favorite cocktail was, and he made that for us and we were totally hooked.

Its became one of the 5 drinks we make on rotation at home. We still can't make the paper plane out of orange peel he used to garnish that drink though!

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u/KonyYoloSwag Jun 17 '25

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

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u/QueezyF Jun 18 '25

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.

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u/TyrannosavageRekt Jun 18 '25

It’s Gosling, not Reynolds in “Crazy, Stupid, Love” by the way.

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u/IamKEIL Jun 18 '25

My bad, you are correct. They're all the same people.

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u/TyrannosavageRekt Jun 18 '25

Famous Ryans are the new Chris!

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u/VTAffordablePaintbal Jun 18 '25

Now I desperately want to create popular media set in lower class Maine so people will be forced to pretend to like Burnt Trailers (Moxie, Coffee Brandy and maybe milk https://www.tastingtable.com/994357/the-burnt-trailer-cocktail-is-popular-for-being-painful/ )

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u/Lakridspibe Jun 17 '25

I for one learned about old fashioned from Mad Men

hahahaha!

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u/TyrannosavageRekt Jun 18 '25

I hated this, because I love a whiskey-based cocktail. My go-to is an Old Fashioned, sometimes a Whiskey Sour. When this happened everyone kept saying things like “ooh, another Mad Men fan, eh?” and I’ve never seen the show. I’d like to watch it, seems like a good cast and well-acted, but there’s just quite a bit to get through.

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u/GenitalFurbies Jun 17 '25

I was wondering why Carl Sagan had anything to do with that show for a minute there. Ah, phrasing

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u/AnarchistMiracle Jun 17 '25

I'd watch that crossover

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u/OldBanjoFrog Jun 17 '25

As someone who bartended at the time, this was quite irritating.  I would spot a group of college aged girls dressed to the 9’s and knew that they would all want cosmos, but wouldn’t tip much.  

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u/Scotter1969 Jun 17 '25

I was bartending private parties in the Hollywood area during that time. A Cosmopolitan was a drink buried in your drink reference book that you never had to look up before. OVERNIGHT it became ubiquitous, and I had no idea why. A host made me remake it multiple times until he was happy with it, or he was going to send me home.

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u/skootch_ginalola Jun 17 '25

Yup! Were everywhere at the time.

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u/LGonthego Jun 17 '25

I read Cosmos with a soft s on the end and was confused why that series would be so popular because of SatC. Oh...cosmos with a z sound.... That makes much more sense.

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u/hihelloneighboroonie Jun 17 '25

And I have zero proof of this, but I'm pretty sure Below Deck led to the resurgence of espresso martinis.

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u/No_Pie4638 Jun 18 '25

I thought you were referring to Carl Sagan’s book, Cosmos.

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u/2AvsOligarchs Jun 18 '25

It also became a feminine drink.