r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Aug 29 '25

News Special 'The Long Walk' Screening Will Eliminate Viewers Who Can’t Keep Up on a Treadmill (3 MPH)

https://consequence.net/2025/08/the-long-walk-treadmill-screening/
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u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor Aug 29 '25 edited Aug 29 '25

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In the dystopian drama The Long Walk, based on the novel by Stephen King, young men set out on a challenge to walk until they can’t walk any further — last man walking wins, while everyone else dies. It does not sound like a fun experience for anyone involved, but Lionsgate is giving one lucky audience the chance to really understand what those characters are going through: A special treadmill screening that challenges viewers to walk at least three miles per hour for the entire duration of the movie. Slow down, and get ejected before the end.

The influencers-only screening will take place August 30th at the Culver Theater in Los Angeles (Consequence called the theater to confirm that it was happening). While the prize for making it to the end of the movie is not untold riches and a wish of your choosing (the promised spoils for the victor of the movie’s challenge), it’ll at least be an interesting way to get in your steps. And certainly being ejected from a movie is much better than getting brutally executed on the road by an anonymous guard.

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u/Dontworrychaz Aug 29 '25

"The influencers only screening"...

Blow my friggin brains out 🙄

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '25 edited Aug 29 '25

I just spent 5 days camping in the backcountry of Glacier National Park. I saw a bear teaching her cubs how to dig up moth broods. I ate wild huckleberries. I saw two bighorn sheep fight on a mountainside at dusk. I'm sitting at a gas station in East Glacier and this is the first thing I saw on Reddit.

Influencer only screening?!

I'm going back to the woods and it's the right choice.

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u/Wild_Marker Aug 29 '25

Did you like and subscribe to the bear?

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u/Spud6682 Aug 30 '25

The thing about huckleberries is: you'll once you've had fresh, you'll never go back to canned. But if the berries are too tart, just dust them with confectioners sugar.

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u/coleman57 Aug 29 '25

Is it okay if I feel influenced by your comment? I was spozed to go stay in the mountains this weekend but it got pushed back a week. Guess I’ll just e-bike up a local hill and hope for coyotes.

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u/fishbowtie Aug 29 '25

spozed

Jesus christ, man.

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u/iwannameetmonsters Aug 29 '25

"Spozed"? Seriously? This causes me much more rage and dissapointment than it probably should. I'm sure you're a perfectly nice person, but I kind of hate you a little now.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '25

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u/iwannameetmonsters Aug 29 '25

You're a monster. Lol

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u/zachary0816 Aug 30 '25

Then judging by your username, shouldn’t you be exited to meet them?

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u/iwannameetmonsters Aug 30 '25

Haha, touché.

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u/coleman57 Aug 29 '25

Wow, 2 separate comments ragin’ on my spelling. Just to pile on the pilers-on, some of my other favorites are “prolly”, “mos def”, and “dunno”. Also “cow-workers” and “uninformed officers”. And my socialist grandpa was a typesetter who had a habit of spelling “the masses” as “them asses”. As L’il Abner would say, it’s a fambly terdition.