Hello, welcome to this week's PCJ Pop.
My name is Shauna and I'm Olivia.
And this week I'm going to talk about a movie that came out in 2025 that I wanted to see
when it was in theaters and just never got around to it.
I've been waiting for it to come out into streaming for free, but it's just not.
And so one day I said, screw it.
I have disposable income.
I'll pay the $3.99 rate of this.
Yeah, whatever.
I'm going to watch this.
And it's called the Long Walk.
OK.
So the Long Walk is based off of a Stephen King novel.
I want to say it's one of Stephen King's first novels that he wrote and he wrote it under
a pseudonym.
So it wasn't like under Stephen King.
So a little fun fact there.
But this movie was absolutely just heart-wrenching.
It's a dystopian thriller directed by Francis Lawrence based on King's novel.
It kind of reminded me of the Hunger Games.
It's a deadly annual contest in a dystopian United States where young men join this competition
to walk continuously for as long as they possibly can.
It is led by the sergeant or the major, I think they call him, who is played by Mark Hamill,
who we know is Luke Skywalker, who is amazing in this.
But it follows this core group of like teenage boys out of the group of 50 whose goal is to
walk for as long as they can continuously.
They have to maintain three miles an hour or above.
And if they fall below it, then they're executed.
Yeah.
And if you are the last person standing at the end of this, you win riches and a wish for
your family.
So again, very like Hunger Games, you know, teen death competition winner takes all.
But it's definitely a more adult than Hunger Games.
It's very gory.
You know, it's rated R.
I cried in this movie at just like the relationships that are formed and you know, just the people
who you see like what they're fighting for and just, you know, this dystopian landscape.
I love an end of the world dystopian movie.
So I was totally sold.
But I am going to definitely pop this stellar cast very emotional.
You can watch the long walk on Amazon Prime.
So I'm going to street up.
I wanted to watch this on out of my millions subscriptions.
I am going to pop the long walk on Amazon Prime and that'll do it for this week's PCJ Pop.
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