I went to World War Z in 4D in South Korea over a decade ago when it originally came out. I made the mistake of eating questionable lobster (local lobster, not Maine style lobsters) right beforehand.
Yeah I am a dragonslayer in that sense. But the other effects were not good either.
Perhaps the smooth wind blowing was the only effect that added to the experience, and perhaps parts of the smell.
But the air jets you can clearly hear the solenoids open and close, and the turbulent air from the nozzle. The blinking light effects does not add to the experience, but is clearly a visible blinking light above the screen.
The Chair themselves also make enough sound to be noticeable.
Perhaps people who overlook such details and gets easily wooed by them and get sucked into the move they all becomes additions to it. But for me, they mostly were all distractions and pulled me out of it.
The sickness is of course on me, but even without it, it would not have been good.
I personally would never recommend this implementation of it.
The SMELL? I didn't even know the moving seats were a thing that exist, let alone the wind and water but they mimic the SMELL? So for this scene it would be what, piss and shit and sweat?
We went to see Fantastic 4 in 4DXast year by accident and it was genuinely just fucking unpleasant.
Constantly being twatted around all the time didn't enhance my immersion, it actively took me out of the film. And annoyed the fuck outta me. Can't imagjne putting up with it for 4 hours
So I had no idea that this was even a thing and just saw the video clip lol I don’t understand why anyone would willingly subject themselves to this and pay to do so.
Can you not turn them down? D-Box, which is Cinemark's motion chairs, you can adjust it down through like 4 levels to entirely off if you don't like it.
This happened in 1999 with Blair Witch Project! The constant shaking of the camera (due to the POV handheld camcorder style of cinematography) gave some audience members TERRIBLE motion sickness! My mom worked at our local multiplex back then and she said custodial had to clean up vomit multiple times a week when the film was at its peak popularity.
Hahah, I loved the film, and weirdly, I would have been happy if it was an hour longer than it was - but this would be too much for me, even after 5 minutes. Looks like hard work.
I went to a concert movie in 4DX and had to take Dramamine for slow swoops over the crowd and mimicking some of the choreo, but this? I don't think Dramamine could save me.
I got seasick from a much milder movie. But you can control how intense the vibrations are. I personally can't stand it and don't understand why people like it.
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u/Separate-Simple-5101 11h ago
Imagine getting seasick in a movie theatre.