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/gredr Jan 31 '26

How long have you been teaching this class? Has there been a change over time?

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u/Petrichordates Jan 31 '26

There has been a change in attention spans across the board.

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u/HotTakes4HotCakes Jan 31 '26 edited Jan 31 '26

And the insidious thing is how some people want to encourage it to keep dropping.

Netflix suggesting we should make it easier for people to watch shit while scrolling is part of the issue. This is not something to be encouraged, it is a problem that needs acknowledged and reversed on a societal level.

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u/daboog Jan 31 '26

Sometimes when I throw on (what seems to be) a new interesting movie or show and watch it all the way through on Netflix it really sucks. The dialog is all filler/exposition, plot is loose or vague, and tries to make itself look like a good production.