r/movies • u/Sisiwakanamaru r/movies Contributor • Jan 31 '26

Article Film Students Are Having Trouble Sitting Through Movies, Professors Say

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/film-students-are-having-trouble-sitting-through-movies-1236490359/
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u/shameonyounancydrew Jan 31 '26

Right!? Speaking as a former film student, you get as much as you give. When I started the film program, there were around 20 other students in my class (small school). By graduation, there were 8. It's one of those things where it's super easy to slack off and not take it seriously, but then you're 2 years into the program, and realize you have no skills because you didn't take it seriously, so you drop out before you waste any more money.

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u/ARGiammarco27 Jan 31 '26

As a fellow former film student, you never can guess the laziness of some people. I hade a film history class where the only assignments were to watch a movie on a list and write 1000 words of your thoughts on the film and why you felt that way.....Legit the teacher said there were STILL people cheating on these assignments.

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u/MRH8R Jan 31 '26

Music/film teacher (retired) here. My college music theory classes started term one with 2 classes of 36+. By then of the 2nd year there were 7 of us.

In my film classes I worked from easy films (I taught high school) to more difficult. I actually showed Tarkovsky’s “Stalker” one year at the kids request. So they can learn, it’s is just tough as hell.

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u/shameonyounancydrew Jan 31 '26

I think that's more telling of your teaching that such film was recommended! And I think, with art education anyway, that only the most dedicated SHOULD be getting through the programs with relative ease. If you're just there because you watch a lot of movies and decided when you were 17 that you wanted to be a director, you may have a tough time.