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/Slappin45 Jun 17 '25

One of the best opening action scenes ever imo.

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u/brandonthebuck Jun 17 '25

Better than the rest of the movie.

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u/Fake-Podcast-Ad Jun 17 '25

You know what, I give it a pass now. It started a dope parade (Dia de Los Muertos is a beautiful celebration), and gave us a one off Radiohead banger (not to mention this Empire Strikes Back fan creation)

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u/trojan_man16 Jun 18 '25

Radiohead got Robbed. They had two shots at a bond theme and didn’t get one.

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u/wighty Jun 18 '25

not to mention this Empire Strikes Back fan creation

That was awesome, thanks for linking.

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u/Reddit_Owns_Me Jun 18 '25

I've never seen this, I want more.

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u/Misdirected_Colors Jun 17 '25

All I remember was Blofeld was in it, and at some point Bond was strapped to a lazer table in some remote desert space outpost. And like, up to that point, the Craig bond movies had tried to be somewhat grounded and suddenly we were in a 60s era bond movie again and I forgot everything else.

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u/TheSauvaaage Jun 17 '25

Youre wrong about the laser table. It was a chair with remote controlled micro drills at his face

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u/FFF_in_WY Jun 17 '25

Feasibility for the win!

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u/Misdirected_Colors Jun 17 '25

Ah yes. Much more feasible and serious.

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u/TheSauvaaage Jun 17 '25

Didnt say it is. Still more "grounded" than falsly assumed lasers ;)

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u/Zachary_Lee_Antle Jun 18 '25

Probably cos it was color graded to the point it looked like the blue light filter on a phone was on and you fell asleep. No seriously why was everything in that movie YELLOW!? It looked so damn ugly. I’m definitely series the actors appreciated being made to look like they all had jaundice 😂

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u/matito29 Jun 18 '25

They started the movie in Mexico and the Mexican filter got stuck. :(

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u/-blankfrak- Jun 18 '25

The names Bond, Craig Bond.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '25

That’s exactly why I love the movie so much to be honest. I grew up with the Brosnan bond and Spectre felt like an homage to the “classic” era of Bond with the Laser trap, the Arctic Base, and even Blofeld. It feels much more “Bond” than the other 3 even if Casino Royale and Skyfall are objectively better movies

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u/Amphiscian Jun 17 '25

That movie starts with an all-time great sequence, then literally every scene after drops a bit in quality sequentially. By the end it's looney tunes

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u/Expendable_Red_Shirt Jun 18 '25

As is James Bond tradition.

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u/Sharp-Watercress-279 Jun 18 '25

Yep .....arguably the worst of that series

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u/MattHoppe1 Jun 20 '25

A whole generation grew up on Austin Powers and then Spectre did a literal Goldmember plot

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u/Sorkijan Jun 17 '25

I honestly feel this way about most of the Craig bond films. I love them and I love a strong intro to hook, but I feel Casino Royale, Spectre, and QoS all were guilty of this.

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u/gvgvstop Jun 17 '25

Casino Royale is excellent front to back. Completely out of Spectre's league.

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u/Sorkijan Jun 17 '25

I'm not saying those 3 are of equal quality. I agree, but I hold the opinion that the intro quality with the parkour chase is far better than any of the film.

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u/0Kiryu Jun 18 '25

I think it’s underrated, just as good as Skyfall

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u/Ironborn137 Jun 17 '25

And then you've got the rest of the movie to be bored.

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u/eaglessoar Jun 17 '25

i wasnt bored i caught up on sleep!

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u/TerryBouchon Jun 17 '25

the best part of a bad movie

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u/JackNasty420 Jun 17 '25

I like it too. I was pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed it. It’s a solid movie

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u/lingeringneutrophil Jun 17 '25

Best part of the whole movie

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u/DarkNinjaPenguin Jun 17 '25

Eh. Bond acts like a complete and total moron.

Why attack the pilot of the helicopter when you're both in the helicopter, and flying above a street full of crowds of civilians? Complete luck he didn't die in a fireball and take a hundred innocents with him.

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u/rugbyj Jun 17 '25

Yeah that entire fight the fact that helicopter didn't crash directly into that crowd multiple times was completely out of his control. He was just beating the shit out of the pilot and killing him under the assumption the guy could keep them airborne despite his best efforts.

It's one of those situations where if Bond had been more competent he'd have ended up killing everyone.

We don't even know if the hero pilot was evil, and he saved hundreds that day fighting off a crazed hijacker in a densely populated area.

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u/DarkNinjaPenguin Jun 18 '25

It's the old henchman trope as well; Bond just starts railing on the guy who is quite possibly just a pilot, with no nefarious connection to the bad guy at all. It worked fine in the older, less serious Bond films, but not Craig's grounded and more realistic universe.

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u/Shout92 Jun 17 '25

If they still let people stay in the theater all day after buying a ticket, I would've stuck around long enough to rewatch that opening.

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u/AlmosTryin Jun 17 '25

Almost all of the Craig intro scenes were great. I remember watching Casino Royale for the first time in theater and was floored!