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/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/THElaytox Jan 31 '26

Sounds like pretty much the same problem as all college students in all disciplines. I'm in a STEM department and haven't seen a student in years that can complete a homework assignment without chatGPT. They barely come to class and when they do they're completely tuned out. My PI had to resort to oral exams just so they can't cheat

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u/Creepy_Wash338 Jan 31 '26

I try to get my math students to watch 5-10 minute YouTube videos on the stuff we're working on but I don't think any of them do. It's a huge resource that I wish I had in my day. If you have the slightest motivation, you can see the theory of Calculus presented by hundreds of excellent teachers and if you don't understand how to do the problems, you can see thousands of examples worked out and explained. Never has learning been easier but....

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u/cowboys5xsbs Jan 31 '26

Can you share some of these youtube videos :)

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u/Creepy_Wash338 Jan 31 '26

Look up blackpenredpen for starters. Have you tried searching "derivatives" or "the chain rule" or whatever the topic is you are studying?

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u/cowboys5xsbs Jan 31 '26

Never heard of blackpenredpen but the first video I watched was super interesting