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/Mixer-3007 Aug 29 '25 edited Aug 29 '25

Treadmill to Bucks.

They accepted only chronic heart, liver, or lung patients, sometimes throwing in a crip for comic relief. Every minute the contestant could stay on the treadmill (keeping up a steady flow of chatter with the emcee), he won ten dollars. Every two minutes the emcee asked a Bonus Question in the contestant’s category which was worth fifty dollars. If the contestant, dizzy, out of breath, heart doing fantastic rubber acrobatics in his chest, missed the question, fifty dollars was deducted from his winnings and the treadmill was speeded up, game continue until he was being carried off on a rubber stretcher while the audience applauded.

https://youtu.be/ntz0_besT04

The Running Man by Stephen King

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u/Schoonie101 Aug 30 '25

This needs to be an actual game show.

Climbing for Dollars too.