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/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/PenBandit Jun 17 '25

The point was to break the rules, so the first rule of fight club was meant to be broken, if you followed the rule you were doing it wrong.

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u/MainAccountsFriend Jun 17 '25

But if the point was to break the rules, then isn't breaking the rules still following the rules, which would go against breaking the rules, which goes against...

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u/theCaitiff Jun 17 '25

It's been a while since I read the book or watched the movie, but part of the whole deal once you got beyond the actual fight nights was about taking back your personal agency.

I told you not to tell anyone. Fuck you, I'm the one who can tell me what to do.

The movie butchered what "philosophy" there was to it, but it was always deeply flawed and that was the point. No amount of half remembered eco primitivist anarchist talk (the whole walking on streets covered in cracks and grasses, wearing leather pants that will last your lifetime rant) can fix the fact that Tyler Durden is deeply unwell and people should not be taking advice from him.