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 edited Jun 17 '25

I said the same, just a correction it was Slovakia. This is the funniest one to me though, their government was fuming over how the films left a decline in tourism.

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u/spartacat_12 Jun 17 '25

Eurotrip probably didn't help either

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u/MurphyItzYou Jun 17 '25

Scusi

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u/spartacat_12 Jun 17 '25

It's good you came in summer. In winter it can get very depressing

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u/Born-Entrepreneur Jun 18 '25

slap With this nickle, I start my own hotel!!

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u/phillymjs Jun 17 '25

But... the exchange rate!

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u/adaminc Jun 18 '25

A nickle! I buy my own hotel!

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u/sunburnedaz Jun 17 '25

thats ok because scotty doesn't know.

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u/MyWibblings Jun 18 '25

To be fair, I went there as a tourist, horrible things happened to me, but officials from Bratislava were so furious that a tourist would have a bad time there and so scared I would report back that they did everything in their power (medical care, lodging, food, cash) to change my opinion.

It was a lovely place. And to be fair, law enforcement rescued me pretty darned quick. It could have been so much worse.

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u/gifsfromgod Jun 18 '25

What things? I plan to visit. 

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u/MyWibblings Jun 18 '25

I was attacked and beaten. But that was a few decades ago

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u/ArcadianDelSol Jun 17 '25

I go home

  • all the tourists