Movie Review: The Long Walk

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4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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0:28.5	And by the way, I watched a, I guess this is a movie review, sort of, I watched a movie
0:34.9	called The Long Walk.
0:43.1	I don't know totally how I feel about it.
0:48.9	It was very well done. The original book is by Stephen King, which means kids get killed.
1:02.2	People say Stephen King, kids dropping it. You know, kids getting munched up, kids dying, clowns, kids dying, and kids die in this too.
1:18.4	49 of them. There are 49 dead kids in this movie. Anyway, before Stephen King wrote so-called horror books, he wrote novels dystopian in nature in the 70s and 80s. He used a pseudonym Richard Bachman.
1:26.9	These were bleak, dark works, imagined worlds in which economic and
1:32.3	social collapse. This is basically what dystopian stuff is about, that it leads to an authoritarian
1:40.6	regime that offers blood and guts to pacify, like ancient Rome, blood and guts
1:48.7	to motivate the terrified populace, blood and circuses. So what they do every year, they do a long
1:58.8	walk, where they take one adolescent teenage male from each state.
2:07.2	No females. Frankly, I was a little grateful for that. It's sort of like a conscription into some
2:16.6	army. But anyway, they take one mail from each state
2:19.9	and you have to walk. Minimum of three miles an hour. And in the beginning of this, you're going,
2:29.4	okay, what is this amounting to? I had not read the book or heard about it in advance.
2:36.0	I was just curious, and I was just going to watch the beginning,
2:39.3	but I watched it to the end, and the end I...
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