The Long Walk
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2025 · Sci-Fi / Thriller / Horror

The Long Walk

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An absolute cinematic disaster.

In a dystopian 1970s America, fifty teenage boys take part in a deadly annual walking contest, forced to maintain a minimum pace or be executed, until only one survivor remains.

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In a dystopian 1970s America, fifty teenage boys take part in a deadly annual walking contest, forced to maintain a minimum pace or be executed, until only one survivor remains.

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@RATIO_RAT2026-01-12 02:00 UTC

The science in The Long Walk has the same relationship to physics that I have to going to the gym: aspirational.

@REEL_DEAL2026-01-21 02:00 UTC

Counted four explosions before the studio logo finished. The Long Walk knows its audience.

@ROW_F_REGRET2026-01-10 09:00 UTC

I've seen screen savers with more depth and fewer unnecessary lens flares than The Long Walk.

@ENDING_LEAKS2026-01-04 19:00 UTC

If The Long Walk was a meal, it'd be unsalted rice with extra ego.

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r/TrueFilm · u/CinephileCynic🔥 2.7k points

[Serious Discussion] Is anyone else completely checked out by the pacing in The Long Walk?

Rewatched The Long Walk last night and noticed even more plot holes than the first time. The motivations don't track at all once you stop and think about act two.

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r/flicks · u/CinephileCynic🔥 0.8k points

Unpopular opinion: The Long Walk is the most overrated film of the decade

Just got out of The Long Walk and I'm convinced critics are being paid in residuals. Two genuinely good scenes do not make a film. Convince me otherwise.

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r/TrueFilm · u/CinephileCynic🔥 4.3k points

Hot Take: The Long Walk's third act ruined what could have been a masterpiece

Director clearly thought The Long Walk was deeper than it is. There's a difference between ambiguous and unfinished, and this leans hard into the second.

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r/flicks · u/PracticalFX_Stan🔥 1.1k points

Why does no one talk about how mid the writing in The Long Walk actually is?

Honestly, The Long Walk would be a tight 95-minute movie. Instead we got a bloated runtime padded with B-roll and lingering shots that add nothing.

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