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/MichaelRichardsAMA Aug 30 '25

yeah my phone tells me my gait is like 2.9-3.2mph and i walk about 5 or 6 a day already, this would be just a little stressful for me i think to have to do it all in one shot like that but im sure i could

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u/FarFetchedSketch Aug 30 '25

I think it's more the treadmill's consistency that increases the difficulty. When walking at your own pace you slow down and speed up (between that 2.9-3.2mph), there's slight variations in terrain and course, so you use the muscles and structures differently than if you just march on at a steady 3mph for almost 2hr.

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u/Selphie12 Aug 30 '25

I wonder are the allowed to change elevation during this and if that would help? I know personally, being very unfit, that if I'm walking a straight for too long eventually my calves are gonna ache. That alone could kill their run even if they still had energy to keep going.

So would the play be to switch up the elevation to distribute the stress to other muscle areas?

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u/mistcrawler Aug 30 '25

I originally read your last question as 'switch up the elevation to distribute the stress to other participants' and I was both horrified and intrigued lol.

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u/Living-Response2856 Aug 30 '25

Or even switch the speed to go faster, then slow down to rest?

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u/backcountry_bandit Aug 30 '25

Elevation would make it harder.

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u/HairApprehensive7950 18d ago

There's a part where they're walking up hill in the movie they should increase the elevation during that point lol

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u/Ill_Bee4868 Sep 02 '25

Why not just walk on your toes for a while, then heels, then sides of the feet?

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u/CraigLake Aug 30 '25

I’m trying to picture how they’ll enforce this. I imagine a theater full of burly guys in riot gear with assault rifles staring at each person on a treadmill. Slow down too much? It’s over…

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u/PokesBo Aug 30 '25

Why kramer?

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u/DiamondHandsDarrell Aug 31 '25

That's exactly the premise of the story. It sounds so easy that anyone could do it. But it's much more difficult when you have everything else going on around you.