"The Long Walk"

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

For this week's main podcast review, Dan Bayer and Giovanni Lago join me to review and discuss "The Long Walk," starring Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson, Garrett Wareing, Tut Nyuot, Charlie Plummer, Ben Wang, Roman Griffin Davis, Jordan Gonzalez, Josh Hamilton, Judy Greer, and Mark Hamill. It is an adaptation of Stephen King's 1979 novel of the same name, written by "Strange Darling" filmmaker JT Mollner and directed by "The Hunger Games" filmmaker Francis Lawrence. What did we think of it? Please tune in as we discuss the themes, direction, performances, its awards season chances, and more in our SPOILER-FILLED review. Thank you for listening, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Next Best Picture podcast and this is our review for the Long Walk.
0:05.0	They say you should have made friends on the Long Walk.
0:08.0	I swear to like you three.
0:10.0	Let's be musketeers. All for one.
0:12.0	One for all.
0:13.0	No, and again, I need to hear a louder.
0:16.0	All for one.
0:17.0	And one for all.
0:19.0	The only guarantee you have is a human being
0:25.6	is that you are going to die.
0:28.6	And if you're lucky,
0:32.6	you get to choose how you spend those last moments.
0:36.6	Order! You get to choose how you spend those last moments. I keep hoping that pocket is easier.
0:46.3	That's what I'm afraid of.
0:48.3	I'm proud of you, boys. You got fat.
0:52.3	Yeah! Maintain the speed of three miles per hour.
0:57.0	Walk until there's only one of you left.
1:00.0	Who's ready to fucking win?
1:03.0	All right, everybody is listening to the trailer for the long walk, and the story is as follows.
1:08.0	A group of teenage boys compete in an annual contest known as the
1:12.6	long walk where they must maintain a certain walking speed or get shot. The film is starring
1:19.0	Cooper Hoffman, David Johnson, Garrett Waring, Tutt, Naewitt, Charlie Plummer, Ben Wong, Roman
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