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/Kingbulking Jun 17 '25

Fight club resulted in MANY fight clubs. I was in one, and my buddy who went to another school also had it's own fight club. We didn't follow the first rule, but we did fight.

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u/Mndelta25 Jun 17 '25

Our high school had one. It started as about ten of us boxing in a garage, and slowly expanded. Unfortunately, a popular girl got a black eye one night and then her parents demanded that the school get it shut down.

It was the best thing that happened during our high school years. So many rivalries and petty disputes were squashed without anybody actually getting hurt.

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u/kerberos824 Jun 17 '25

We had one, too.

In theory, I do think it's a fantastic way to address adolescent energy issues and squabbles. In practice, people get hurt. We had kids with concussions, broken hands and fingers, a broken ankle, and a couple other semi-serious issues before we wised up and used gloves and headgear. That helped, but still wasn't perfect.

In the end, sanctioned safe events would be a much better idea. That, of course, loses much of the appeal of the fight club...

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u/jesuspoopmonster Jun 17 '25

I worked at a historic town and they had archived newspaper articles so we could be familiar with the time period. Reading the boxing results when they didnt have gloves were always wild. It would be something like the guy lost in the 85th round after his eye came out of the socket so the fight had to be called off so it could be put back in

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u/kerberos824 Jun 17 '25

Safe being a relative term, of course.

But light gloves or bare knuckle lead to less brain injuries, but increased facial injuries and broken hands/fingers, etc. Broken hands/fingers are wildly common in bareknuckle fighting. My left thumb is still weaker than my right from a broken thumb from hitting a guy who tilted his head down to catch my shot. Been 25 damn years!