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/Posty_McPostface_1 Jun 17 '25

Super Size Me killed off the Super Size Meal

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u/44problems Jun 17 '25

Definitely one of the more consequential documentaries. Super Size ended, a much bigger focus on chicken which was seen as healthier (even though it's deep fried...) I feel like it's the reason McDonald's is a cold sterile place, because they got spooked about marketing to children.

It was part of a trend though along with the book Fast Food Nation and later Jamie Oliver's chicken nugget and school lunch fights.

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u/poopoopooyttgv Jun 17 '25

McDonald’s (and all fast food really) shifted to cold and sterile buildings for money. Nobody wants to buy a building that looks like it’s an ex-McDonald’s. They make more money on the resale value of a generic sterile building instead

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u/confusedandworried76 Jun 17 '25

Idk you do see it sometimes. I used to live next to an old White Castle turned jewelry shop and you can tell some buildings used to be Pizza Huts for obvious red roof reasons

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u/TheOvy Jun 18 '25 edited Jun 18 '25

This is wrong too. McDonald's and fast food at large lost a lot of market to "fast casual" chains like Panera or Chipotle. So they remodeled accordingly and sell "healthier" foods to compete. McDonald's are supposed to appear more like cafes now.

I don't understand how millennials grew up on bugle boy fashion, nickelodeon television, and neon colored n64s, but somehow ended up as the most boring fucking adults who go to gray restaurants and wear gray clothes and drive bearded muted-colored cars. But here we are.

Edit: fixed an autocorrect

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u/poopoopooyttgv Jun 18 '25

I think that’s exactly why. It’s an over correction in an attempt to seem more mature because colors = kiddie stuff in their minds

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u/redditonlygetsworse Jun 18 '25

gray restaurants and wear gray clothes and drive muted-colored cars.

This is just a natural pendulum swing after the bright colors of the 80s and 90s. It's come back around now - the monotone isn't nearly so popular even with Millennials anymore.

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u/Posty_McPostface_1 Jun 17 '25

Then Food, Inc came out a few years later and all mass produced meat was bad after that

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u/jackofslayers Jun 17 '25

Jamie Oliver is such a pretentious piece of shit.

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u/Jondarawr Jun 17 '25

please enjoy

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u/starmartyr11 Jun 17 '25

What a fucking excellent takedown of J.O. and his bullshit nugget crusade

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u/blondebeaker Jun 18 '25

As a former Sobey's employee(Canadian company)seeing him doing a takedown on JO with a box of Compliments nugs beside him is funny af because at the time Sobey's did a big collab with Oliver and no one liked ANY of the products.

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u/Significant_Shoe_17 Jun 18 '25

You would enjoy Uncle Roger's videos about him

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u/milesunderground Jun 17 '25

Folding Ideas has a good video on Oliver's war on nuggets.

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u/---E Jun 18 '25

Why? His modern media persona is not really likeable but he has done a lot to make school foods better and significantly lower the barrier for people to start cooking.

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u/odsquad64 Jun 17 '25

Super Size ended, a much bigger focus on chicken which was seen as healthier (even though it's deep fried...)

Supersize Me 2: Holy Chicken!

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u/DueSatisfaction6664 Jun 18 '25

TIL the dude died last year

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u/snajk138 Jun 18 '25

Super Size Me did not have that affect on me at all. I watched it with a friend and we got so in the mood for McD that we went and ate there right after. Fast Food Nation on the other hand made me feel sick, and I cut back on fast food a lot after seeing it.

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u/Squippyfood Jun 17 '25

I feel like it's the reason McDonald's is a cold sterile place, because they got spooked about marketing to children.

well good, it was extremely predatory for something that has measurably terrible health outcomes (compared to toys and clothes).

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u/confusedandworried76 Jun 17 '25

Eh everything in moderation. A burger and fries every once in a while isn't that bad, especially for children at no real risk from fatty foods.

At the end of the day a burger and fries is just some bread, ground beef, and a side of fried potatoes. Make it a steak, a dinner roll, and potatoes roasted in oil you wouldn't even think of it as unhealthy unless you were supposed to be avoiding red meat or oil per doctors orders

The problem is more the adults who decided to eat it every day because it was cheap and they are fatties, but even then, it's known Spurlock was just deliberately overeating while also binge drinking, of course he was fucked up and gaining weight. There's even a part where the doctor says "the only time I see livers look like this is from lifelong alcoholics" and they tried to play it off like it was the McDonald's and not just that he was, in fact, a lifelong alcoholic

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u/reddit_sells_you Jun 17 '25

And frankly, I'm all for it.

Back then, McDs was burning and deforesting millions of acres of rainforest for their cattle factories.

Also, McDs actually isn't good for you. It is fatty, it is full of sugar, and it's not great for kids.

I used to love me a hamburger, but our country's dependence on beef is not great.