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Once, at UK's first in Milton Keynes. Kingsman: The Secret Service. It was fun enough but [1] I'd have enjoyed the film just as much without it and [2] I wouldn't want to watch every film that way (eg Fifty Shades). For whatever reason I didn't detect the smells, but we did get the bubbles from the ceiling (mysteriously not during the underwater sequence), the flashes of lightning and clouds of smoke, the "bullet shot" air jets and the seat movements.
Haven't been back since; generally I prefer movies in flatvision rather than 3D and without throwing me around like I'm on a rollercoaster.
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Mar 25, 2017 - 6:03 AM
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Thor
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3D, now 4D? You can have it. Their turning films into amusement park rides.
Not quite, and that's one of my issues with it. It's not a film experience, but it's not an amusement park ride either. It's something weirdly inbetween. Occasionally, it's a bit fun (like sprinkles of water for watery sequences), or seat movements for action sequences -- but why does the seat move for mere camera movement? And when Kong is pounding his chest, why do I feel it in the back as if someone behind me is kicking in my seat? These things don't take you IN to the movie, they take you OUT of it.
So while engrossment in movie universes is one of my favourite things in the world (one of the reasons why I rate AVATAR so highly, for example), this weird hybrid presentation was neither here nor there as a total experience. Seems to be made mostly for the ADD kids, who can't deal with regular cinema.
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Now imagine Trainspotting with the 4DX experience...
Or a porno!
I'm told that in Edinburgh this effect was once achieved in an adult theatre by means of a crowd of medical students equipped with syringes full of yoghurt. I believe it was an enlivening experience for those uninitiated.
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no interest in this gimic. Just show good movies, i you make you a good movie, they will show up. what's the line from Field of Dreams, if you build it they will come. You shouldnt need gimmicks and such.
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I was just in a theater on Monday to see KONG, and they had a demo machine in the lobby. It was two chairs in front of a flat screen TV, all mounted on a mechanical platform. I didn't care for the experience at all. It offers a ton of vibration for some reason, punctuated by lurches in various directions. All it does is distract you from the film and make you think about your chair all the time.
If anything, the chair reminded me of Irritabelle (Ilana Becker), the redhead who personifies a spastic colon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpLOM3LdFNk
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Universal Studios had (has") a ride called STAR TOURS which sounds like what you are describing.
It was fantastic but fairly short running time.
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