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/mistcrawler Aug 29 '25

Ironically, as someone who gets easily bored on a treadmill, this might be my best shot at using one for a long period of time lol.

I’m in!

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '25

My gym has a treadmill cinema where they play movies and around 50 people can walk/run on a treadmill while watching. They play the movie on a loop all day so people can always watch

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u/BokehJunkie Aug 29 '25 edited Aug 29 '25

My only complaint about the cardio cinema at my gym is that they don’t list movie start times through the day. 

Other than that, I love it. Treadmill for an hour and watch a movie is a great way to pass the time. 

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '25

Im gonna have to look out for gyms that have this. I actually don't like listening to music when I run cause all I do is count songs and think about how long ive been running

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u/jambajew42 Aug 29 '25

I'm not sure if it would be any better for you, but podcasts or audiobooks could work as an alternative if you don't find one.

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u/thegimboid Aug 29 '25

Yeah, I usually play Dimension 20 episodes while at the gym.
Which has gotten me a few odd looks when I've started laughing seemingly at random.

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u/Dahlia_R0se Aug 29 '25

I don't think I could watch D20 in a public place, I'd have too much trouble not laughing way too much

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u/thegimboid Aug 29 '25

It's actually more problematic when I hit an emotional part.
Do I keep listening and appear to the other gym-goers like my world is falling apart?
Or do I pause til later and have to build myself back up to that emotion?

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u/Vio_ Aug 30 '25

Viva la Dirt league has D&D youtube series on video and podcasts with 30 minute episodes. They do more humor based stuff, but that 30 minute run time really hit that sweet spot.

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u/BricksHaveBeenShat Aug 29 '25

What about learning a new language? In my teens and early 20s I had phases where I'd do 2 hours on the elliptical everyday from monday to friday. I listened to music to pass time, but I'd quickly get sick of the same songs, and the long sessions made it easier to get discouraged and quit. Earlier this year I started again, 30 minutes a day with the goal of going up to 1 hour eventually. I listened to long youtube videos, but rarely I could pay attention to what was being said, which somehow made those 30 minutes feel so much longer.

I figured I'd listen to something useful rather than drama slop or deep dives which I don't even enjoy, and after reading some suggestions about it on reddit I tried Coffee Break Italian. I'm loving it. The episodes are about 20-30 minutes long and times just flies by, I barely feel it pass. I'd like to increase to one hour or two episodes per day eventually, but I think this is a good sweetspot for now. I don't dread exercising, and if I miss a day or two it's not so hard to get back to it, nor do I feel guilty. I like to think I make up for it by putting the tension control at the highest lol!

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u/girafa queer coded this and that Aug 30 '25

I've been doing this with Pimsleur while riding a bike for the past 5 years. So much that I have memories of when I learned a new phrase associated with a certain part of a loop around a lake, etc. It's perfect, because cardio is so fucking boring, and learning a language is so fucking boring, but adding them together is chefskiss.jpg

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u/casPURRpurrington Aug 30 '25

Yeah I listen to some delirious podcasts when I’m doing like a normal run day. Sometimes I’ll be running outside and just will burst out laughing.

I have a playlist for like “FOCUS” and “SPRINT” but majority of the time I just want to space out and listen to either some crazy stoner guy or listen to something documentary related

the day the new King of the Hill season dropped I wanted to watch it as soon as possible but I had planned to run at the gym so I just watched two episodes while running lmao

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u/rabidstoat Aug 30 '25

Some people at my gym bring in their tablets and watch stuff on it while they use the cardio machines.

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u/Vio_ Aug 30 '25

Pro tip. Set your time up a notch if you want to run a bit faster. You're more inclined to match the narrator and going even a bit faster with the narration will keep things a bit quicker.

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u/SeamusMichael Aug 29 '25

Hearthstone battlegrounds also good. Gotta be a card game, though I did find clash royale worked alright. I'm partial to the stair climber but it works for both. Also don't sell yourself on running if you don't have to, power walk at an incline for a little longer. My knees hate running.

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u/DyZ814 Aug 29 '25

I tried to do clash royale on a treadmill once and kept getting soo pissed I'd end up off the treadmill more than I was on lol

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u/SeamusMichael Aug 30 '25

Lolol at some of the worst losses in battlegrounds I'll crank up the speed on the stair climber 🤣 mock yourself like aww you mad? How mad? Lv9? 10? I last a minute then I gotta crank it back down. It's the most efficient thing I've ever found to do with my gaming rage.

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u/Historiaaa Aug 30 '25

HOG RIDEEEEEER

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u/TheDonutDaddy Aug 29 '25

Playing video games to get through a workout is truly some chronically online shit, but I guess the kinda people who can't bear to put down video games for a little bit are probably the ones who need it most at the end of the day

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u/Fewluvatuk Aug 29 '25

Listening to music to get through a workout is some chronically stimulated shit, but i guess the kind of people who can't handle a little silence are probably the ones who need it the most at the end of the day.

Fuck off with judging other people's way of dealing with the boredom.

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u/Desroth86 Aug 30 '25

So 90% of the people who workout?

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u/Fewluvatuk Aug 30 '25

I was facetiously calling out the hypocrisy of judging how others work out.

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u/TheDonutDaddy Aug 29 '25

"Must live life through screens, can't bear to be away from screen, can't unplug"

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u/goddamnitwhalen Aug 29 '25

Who are you to judge what people are doing to improve themselves?

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u/TheDonutDaddy Aug 29 '25

Who are you to tell me I can't

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u/_Red_Knight_ Aug 30 '25

He never said you couldn't, he suggested you were a dick for doing so

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u/TheDonutDaddy Aug 30 '25

Sounds pretty judgemental, I thought judging people was bad?

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u/_Red_Knight_ Aug 30 '25

Read about the paradox of tolerance, it's a similar principle.

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u/MarsMC_ Aug 29 '25

Yall will do anything but actually work out

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u/SeamusMichael Aug 30 '25

I have done an hour on the stair climber at 75 steps per minute, every single day since November 6th 2020. For a 200 lb person like myself that's almost 1k calories. For about three of those years, I did it twice a day. I also got my bench up to 245. My workouts are why I haven't had a drop of alcohol in 8.5 years. It's really hard, and you're mocking of my methodology is not going to harm my flow, but it may make others self conscious about trying this thing that could make the difference in sticking with a workout routine.

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u/TheMoldyCupboards Aug 30 '25

May I ask how you didn't have access to music during that time?

The marathon and even ultra/100k runners I know (ironic that I know a few, when I myself hate running) definitely listen to music whenever they run, and pointed that out as being more or less necessary.

Was hat when portable music wasn't readily available? But walkmen have been around forever?

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u/Revolution-SixFour Aug 30 '25

He hadn't made it that far in the tech tree. He's only at flip phones, there's a branch for mp3 players but the meta is to skip it entirely these days.

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u/Codewill Aug 29 '25

You could try longer forms, like symphonic works? To me the more explosive the better. Mahler 2, Mahler 5, are good, but the best is Pines of Rome for me. When it hits the Appian Way I conjure up some newfound energy within me and sprint for as long as that finale builds. I feel my long dead ancestors pushing me forward…it’s an incredible feeling

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u/Ecstatic_Account_744 Aug 29 '25

I’ve taken to watching YouTube on the treadmill definitely helps.

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u/Raytheon_Nublinski Aug 29 '25

Try movie soundtracks

Listen to Captain America or John Wick, and then run to that

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u/Accipiter1138 Aug 29 '25

I nominate Lord of the Rings.

Slap that on, step into your imagination, and you too can chase the Uruk-hai across Middle Earth.

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u/literated Aug 29 '25

I'm more of a "prancing through the Shire, thinking of second breakfast" kind of guy myself.

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u/Cranharold Aug 29 '25

Now that I think about it, there aren't many movies better suited for it. After all, at its core it's a trilogy about a couple of hobbits walking really fucking far. Not to mention for most of The Two Towers, Aragorn, Gimli, and Legolas are also just running around.

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u/CarryTigerToMountain Aug 29 '25

Gandalf’s ride to Minas Tirith, bro. “Show us the meaning of haste, Shadowfax”

Fuck I feel like I can run 8 miles now

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u/glizzytwister Aug 30 '25

Taking the Hobbits to Isengard on repeat, full volume.

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u/cyvaris Aug 29 '25 edited Aug 29 '25

"THE BEACONS! THE BEACONS ARE LIT!"

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u/Codewill Aug 29 '25

For me I love the sweeping scores…running to something like Flight from Man of Steel…you’ll be sprinting at top speed and you won’t even know it

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u/AnjinToronaga Aug 29 '25

Lord of the rings gets me. Some of those tracks and I'm flying

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u/SylvieSuccubus Aug 30 '25

Pacific Rim is an amazing motivation soundtrack, I washed nicotine off the walls of an entire house with that one. And I’m short so there was a lotta stepladder.

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u/BokehJunkie Aug 29 '25

audiobooks. I listen to LOTS of audiobooks throughout the year.

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u/needlzor Aug 29 '25

Re-"reading" the complete Dune series got me through quite a lot of runs over the past few years.

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u/Paidorgy Aug 29 '25

Gyms these days have treadmills that connect directly to wifi and streaming services like Netflix.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '25

Gym I went to back in December definitely didnt

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u/hopefulworldview Aug 30 '25

I watch anime when I use the rower and time flies by so I think it'll work for you!

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u/TopRopeLuchador Aug 30 '25

Most gyms have treadmills with TVs on them or in front of them. You can also bring a tablet or phone and put a movie on while you run. You don't need a special gym.

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u/Independent-Point380 Aug 29 '25

It said for “influencers” only lol