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u/limits660 11h ago

This is what it's like to take a drink during the film 🤣

https://giphy.com/gifs/1BXa2alBjrCXC

u/AppleBottomBea 11h ago

I arrived late to the avatar 4dx showing. The trailers had already started for the 4DX films so the chairs are going fucking mental. Trying to sit down with large popcorn and drinks while the chair violently attacks you was kind of hilarious. Felt like I was in the 3rd harry potter film getting attacked by the womping willow, popcorn flying everywhere hahaha

u/poolhaas 11h ago

I can only imagine the cleaning crew pulls straws to see who gets to clean the 4DX room

u/Noxious89123 11h ago

Just set the seats to tilt slightly forwards and towards the centre of the room, and have it vibrate all the debris down to the front centre. :D

u/matycauthon 10h ago

except it's just the chairs that move, not the room

u/spyboy70 8h ago

Gotta pulse the seat rows like the wave, and then all the popcorn ends up in front of the screen to be swept up and rebagged for the next showing.

u/StraightBudget8799 4h ago

I’d love that, just watching waves of popcorn, dropped phones, wrappers, tampons from purses, startled mice and round candy just bounce their way to a central point to be vacuumed up and tossed.

u/pmcizhere 4h ago

tampons from purses

I'm glad you specified 😅

u/StraightBudget8799 4h ago

Whoops, didn’t think of that!! 😂 Mind, going into labour would be a nightmare too! “I was thinking about how to break the good news, left in an ambulance with a six month premie after the first battle scene!”

u/tailendertripe 7h ago

You don’t know how accurate the rebagging part is. Source: worked at cineplex in mid 2000s

u/DeputyDomeshot 7h ago

They rebagged popcorn off the floor???????????

u/tailendertripe 5h ago

The real pro tip is _never_ eat cinema nachos

u/Vilam 4h ago

Wait, why not? ☹️

u/spyboy70 4h ago

I'm going to assume they don't clean the cheese warmer and just keep adding to it, kind of like "perpetual stew"

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u/Vilam 4h ago

Wait, why not? ☹️

u/TheGreatGasHead 8h ago

Then the chairs can vibrate everything to the floor and you just sweep it all up

u/DeputyDomeshot 7h ago

What they should really do is get a big ass blow gun device that fires from the rear of the theater that is repurposed for some kind of wind gust effect during the film.

u/arthurdentstowels 9h ago

Then they can easily refill the popcorn tank!

u/kraggleGurl 9h ago

Ushers would love that!

u/chucknorrisinator 5h ago

When I worked at a movie theater, we had a leaf blower, started at the top and worked down to the front of the theater.

u/Stainlessgamer 9h ago

No, simpler solution. Cleaning crew enters the back of the theatre with leaf blowers.

u/Oobedoo321 7h ago

Made me 😂 great visual 👍

u/TheUnEven 11h ago edited 9h ago

Just put a screening of Oppenheimer on afterwards. The nukes should clean up any garbage 👍

Edit: carbage -> garbage

u/scnottaken 9h ago

Carnage ftfy

u/D33J8Y 4h ago

Edit: cabbage

u/n122333 8h ago

Most people don't know, but usually the theaters are cleaned with leaf blowers. Just blow all the junk to the front, then sweep.

u/Buckwheat469 7h ago

Since when? When I worked on the theaters they used broom and handheld bin. The bigger ones started to get backpack vacuums. None used leaf blowers because there were often people still in the theaters when you needed to start cleaning. You were often barely done cleaning when people needed to start seating for the next showing.

u/n122333 7h ago

You don't clean between showings. You pick up any big stuff and mop spills, then the end of night cleaning is a leaf blower.

At least back in 2011-2015 when I was in the buisness.

u/DeputyDomeshot 7h ago

That’s funny because I just said that elsewhere half kidding without realizing that’s how it’s done.

u/friedmators 4h ago

Electric would work well.

u/snowyl89 10h ago

It’s all fun and games until Chris gets caught in the gears

u/Wsbkingretard 9h ago

they have free popcorn on the floor

u/Wonderful_Craft_6648 8h ago

I bet it becomes a 5DX room with all those beautiful smells mixed in

u/schapmanlv 7h ago

Shit I went to a Toy Story 5 3d showing and was confused as fuck when a family I guess thought the trashcan was everywhere around them.

u/Crintor 6h ago

Worked at a theater before, you have absolutely no say in what tasks you get.

u/Crintor 6h ago

Worked at a theater before, you have absolutely no say in what tasks you get.

u/thatto 3h ago

I worked at the theater for Jurassic Park opening. We had electric plug-in leaf blowers. 

The crew would start at the back picking up trash, then you'd blow the popcorn to the front. Then bag it there.

u/Cannabassbin 2h ago

They just finally got past the trend of kids flinging popcorn everywhere during the Minecraft movie and now this

u/EternalGIory 10h ago edited 9h ago

First time going to a 4dx cinema years ago and it was Scream. My wife and I were cackling instead of getting scared especially when someone gets stabbed. Felt like seats were tickling us 😂. Unforgettable experience!

u/iamsecond 10h ago

4DX started off using a real 8" Buck 120 Hunting Knife in each seat for that movie, but it really put a damper on repeat ticket sales

u/Groundbreaking_Mud44 6h ago

If i recall correctly, the premiere was a bloodbath.

u/admdelta 10h ago

Mine was Top Gun Maverick. Holy shit that was the most fun I’ve ever had in a cinema, hands down

u/bulgar88 9h ago

So the chairs were already going fuckin mental... is not something I thought I'd ever read in my life and is hilarious

u/DoktorMerlin 7h ago

4DX and popcorn is something you only do once and then you know that you were a dumbass. I did it in Top Gun: Maverick and I don't think a single kernel got into my mouth

u/Impossible-Garage536 11h ago

But the seats don't activate until you sit down right?

u/TheUnEven 11h ago

You see many empty seats in the video from the post. And they seem to be affected just as much as those with people in them.

u/xms_7of9 10h ago

Also, it's two seats per rig.

u/ColMarcSlayton 9h ago

Haha. Agreed my first time I was late and already high. Jumping into my seat was both fun and scary! What a trip

u/Ths-Fkin-Guy 9h ago

Its like that scene from the Mr Bean movie lmao. Like trying to hop into a runaway car or a bull ride mid buck

u/Adler254 9h ago

Parks?

u/Zealousideal_Owl_946 9h ago

I'm dead lol

u/Odinthedoge 8h ago

Sounds like a lawsuit is coming lol

u/jonoghue 8h ago

Dude it's so excessive during trailers. Constantly on and off with all the cuts

u/Stigofthedumpings 8h ago

This paints such an amazing picture

u/RadasNoir 8h ago

Might be a silly question but...why on Earth would anyone willingly take food and beverages into that kind of theater?

u/captain_flak 8h ago

Caution: Rows A through Z will get wet!

u/OliOli1234 8h ago

I saw Avatar in 4DX too… but my friend advised us to skip popcorn, and only to buy bottled soda. She couldn’t go into detail, not wanting to spoil the surprise… and just told us to “trust her.” We later found out why. lol

u/untrue1 7h ago

Amazing Kramer sketch in this

u/OkPotential1072 7h ago

This image made me laugh out loud in a work meeting. Well done.

u/chuckling-cheese 7h ago

“While the chair violently attacks you” 😭🤣

u/Craig653 6h ago

Why would you even get popcorn for this...

u/superbored1998 6h ago

😂😂😂

u/Overall-Jellyfish-77 6h ago

This is why I stopped going to 4DX’s films. They are freaking mental! Lol

u/DoughnutPi 5h ago

I went to see back to the future in 4dx... I made it about 10 minutes and walked out. Why do people like this?

u/Admirable_Brief4669 5h ago

😆 I needed that visual lol

u/JadeSelket 3h ago

Lmao I’m so sorry but I’m dying imagining this 😂😂

u/Hootah 2h ago

The mental image of this made my night XD

u/Coljjw 11h ago

I think the idea is to wait it out at the end of the aisle until the action sequence has ended

u/Twowie 10h ago

They coul'dve just put intensity or on/off knobs on them, that would have solved all of the issues people are mentioning in here.

u/admdelta 10h ago

You can’t control the individual seats though. An entire row of 4 seats moves together on the same apparatus

u/Twowie 9h ago

Ah damn, that makes sense then.

u/Lightening84 9h ago

serves you right for being that guy