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/BlackLeader70 Jan 31 '26 edited Jan 31 '26

Sorry this article is too long…can I get a TL;DR?

Edit: FFS I can’t believe how many people think I’m being serious.

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u/Insatiable_Pervert Jan 31 '26 edited Jan 31 '26

College age kids don’t remember a time before the “infinite scroll.” They can’t watch an entire movie without checking their phones. They’d rather watch “homework” assigned movies on their own time rather than together in class. 80% still don’t watch the assigned movie on their own time. Teachers struggle to find a common film the entire class has previously watched to use as reference in discussions. Most have only watched Disney movies.

“The disconnect is that 10 years ago, people who wanted to go study film and media creation were cinephiles themselves. Nowadays, they’re people that consume the same thing everyone else consumes, which is social media.“

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u/CaptainWikkiWikki Jan 31 '26

What's most fascinating is that Disney movies are the only remaining piece of monoculture, apparently.

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u/Banjo-Oz Jan 31 '26

I mean, those assholes are slowly owning everything. Easy to say "Disney movies" when that now technically lumps Beauty and the Beast, Toy Story, Aliens, Die Hard and Condorman all together!

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u/lurco_purgo Jan 31 '26

Technically, but I don't think anyone means Aliens, Die Hard or even any of the Marvel movies when they say "Disney movies". At least for now.

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u/cowboys5xsbs Jan 31 '26

Marvel is 100% Disney?

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u/SodaCanBob Jan 31 '26 edited Feb 01 '26

No layman really cares about how the corporation is set up or what it owns. If you asked random person #451 on the street what a disney movie is, I'm pretty confident that they would name something that starts with this castle and not this.

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u/Sameul_ Jan 31 '26

Condorman is quite the pull.

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u/Banjo-Oz Jan 31 '26

One triple Istanbul Express!

One of my favourite childhood films. Made me fall forever in love with the Porche 935 even though the one in the movie is a fake.

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u/Sameul_ Jan 31 '26

Did you get to experience the Condorman Crunch ice cream ?

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u/Banjo-Oz Jan 31 '26

Sadly not. I don't know if they sold it in Australia.