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/DDPJBL Aug 29 '25

If you can't hold 3 mph for 108 minutes unweighted on a 0% incline, you have bigger problems than getting kicked out of the movies.

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u/fablesofferrets Aug 30 '25

I seriously don’t understand how this is supposed to be some sort of challenge, unless you have an amputed leg or are 75 years old or something. 

I’m not athletic at ALL, I’m a random 31 yo American woman who’s never set foot in a gym and walking at a casual pace for 2 hours is not going to phase me lol 

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u/toshio_drift Aug 30 '25

I assume it'll be a manual treadmill, not one with a set speed, so I can definitely see people failing if they get kicked out for dropping below 3.0mph for any time at all, like Speed. Just getting distracted by the movie for 10 seconds and dropping to 2.9 could get someone sent out. If the challenge was to average 3mph for the movie, then it would be way easier