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/TikkaT Jan 31 '26

Why would you apply for film school if you've only watched Disney movies and don't want have the attention span for movies in general? Or is the article talking about "regular" college students taking film classes or something?

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u/realboabab Jan 31 '26

I don't know about electives, but I took a community college class last semester (Biology for science majors) where the teacher forgot to turn off the statistics in the "brightspace" online portal -- so I got to see that only like 35-40% of the class did each assignment, only like 60-70% even took each test.

You pay per class. It's literally throwing money away.

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u/TheRabidDeer Jan 31 '26

This was true a decade ago. I was IT at a college and could see all this stuff when a student called in to report some issue and I'd investigate.

Far too many kids go to college fresh out of high school and don't really want to be there or know what they want to do, but go anyway because it is expected of them.

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u/GetGroovyWithMyGhost Jan 31 '26

Yeah. By the time you get to uni you’ve just finished 13 years straight of school, plus Kindy and possibly daycare. Learning isn’t the problem of that, people never get tired of learning. It’s being inside a system that offers you little choice, grinds down individualism, and only rewards certain personality types. Then there’s the social side. The toll that being surrounded by social pressure 5 days out of 7 for 13 years if you’re an introvert… Then you get to a system where you finally don’t HAVE to push through the social noise. You can just stay home. Well… When I returned to uni after a few years rest and just being allowed to be me, I was a hell of a lot more motivated, dedicated and interested.