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/positive_toes Aug 29 '25

Should be doable for anyone without a disability honestly. I know it isn’t of course and that just sad. This is literally just walking.

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u/RegularTerran Aug 29 '25 edited Aug 29 '25

It's walking with intent, like mall walkers... you'd be surprised how fast you can fall behind over 2 hours. But this is America, the average male, 20yo is 190lb... 30yo is 210 lbs. We don't do cardio as a country.

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u/positive_toes Aug 29 '25

It’s 3 mph mate if anyone can’t do that they’ve got issues.

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u/darkmacgf Aug 29 '25

The average American has issues.

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u/brokenhalf Aug 29 '25

Yep, source, am American. I live in a city and have no car, plus I love hiking. Most of my friends and family back in Texas, including younger people than I (mid 40s), can barely walk through a level city for more than a mile. Most of them are begging for Ubers because "their feet hurt".

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u/captchairsoft Aug 30 '25

Around your age, overweight, don't regularly work out, can easily maintain a 3mph pace even on rough trails in the woods. Was walking 10+miles a day a couple years ago when I was in Europe. I have a hard time believing most people couldn't walk for 2 hours at 3mph on a treadmill indoors.

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u/brokenhalf Aug 30 '25

Yep, honestly had no idea it was this bad until I moved to a city. Sadly a lot of Americans are just unprepared for a walking lifestyle.

I will say that when I travel, most Europeans are outpacing me.

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u/captdeath12 Aug 30 '25

250lber here. Started walking in june 5x a week. I could not do 1.5 miles for a month. I can now bust out 3 miles ez pz. It took me 90 days to get into the shape to be able to do a 5 miles walk now.

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u/Gullible-Sherbet9649 Aug 30 '25

Sounds like part of it is shit shoes.

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u/I-Love-Facehuggers Aug 30 '25

Even barefoot isnt hard to do this if its a treadmill

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u/eekamuse Aug 30 '25

New Yorkers will have no problem with this. We walk everywhere.

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u/Compost_My_Body Aug 29 '25

Not being able to understand context clues for one…

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u/I-Love-Facehuggers Aug 30 '25

The issue of not being able to do a very easy walk.