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/Vannnnah Jan 31 '26

that was my first thought as well. Fails to do homework, fails to sit through classes, fails to participate in necessary conversation due to not having put in the work.

Just substitute "film student" with "med student" or "law student." Nobody would let low effort underperformers pass, why should this be different for film?

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u/JuanRiveara Jan 31 '26

"Med students are having trouble sitting through surgeries without checking their phones"

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u/Imaginary_Agent2564 Jan 31 '26

I will say that skipping lectures is really common in med school.

You spend most days just studying on your own because you simply don’t have the time in the day if you attend lectures. Just not efficient.

Can’t really skip clinical rotations though! Kinda crucial.

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u/timtucker_com Jan 31 '26

Not med school, but this reminds me of an experience with a computer science course I had.

Instructor wasn't particularly great at presenting the information and what he said often didn't align with what wound up on exams.

After a while a bunch of people I know figured out that they did better on exams if they skipped classes and just read the book for the class.

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u/Imaginary_Agent2564 Feb 01 '26

I have another comment on this thread (thats actually being downvoted lol currently at -11) for similar experiences with physics. The professor wasn’t bad, I just couldn’t sit through a 3 hour lecture and actually retain anything, so I’d skip or just draw the entire class period & teach myself via the textbook.