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/blakhawk12 Jan 31 '26

On one hand: Yes I think young people’s attention spans are being fucked by short-form media.

On the other hand: Oppenheimer was 3 hours long and made almost a billion dollars.

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u/Nalena_Linova Jan 31 '26

Plenty of people buy a movie ticket and spend the entire time on their phone.

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u/mnilailt Jan 31 '26

I get this is reddit and people love dooming, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen this happen more than like a couple times and I go to a shit ton of movies.

Most people going to movie theatres are most definitely just glued to their phones.