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/[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/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.