Do two rows of massage chair seats really force you to increase prices 90% for a movie? This makes no sense to me.
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Lord knows if you combined them all you’d probably be shelling out damn near $25 for a single movie ticket.ĭ-Box is a feature I’d maybe pay $1 or even $2 extra for, but $8? I don’t understand how people come up with these prices. If I’d gone at a “normal” time? I’d probably have paid damn near $18 for a non-IMAX, non-3D.
To see it D-Box? That will be an extra $8 please, for a grand total of $13. I saw the movie at 3PM, where my ticket cost $5 for a matinee. So would I recommend it? Absolutely freaking not. I didn’t mind D-box, and I actually kind of thought it was cool for some parts. Usually in parts like these it’s just a visual flash and sudden musical cue that gets you to jump out of your seat, but when your seat actually pitches back at that exact moment? The effect is amplified further.
More effective still are during big action scenes where rumbling and rocking makes the onscreen action even more intense, and during “boo” moments of the film where a monster appears out of nowhere. When it whips around a corner, you seat moves the way you might if you were sitting there. For example, when the characters are riding in a muscle car, you feel the vibration of the engine and each bump it hits. Essentially how it works is that the seat has a track that’s synced up to whats going on in the movie. I’m pleased to report that a rumbling and moving seat is actually LESS of a gimmick than even 3D is, and I daresay it adds more to the experience than its bespectacled counterpart. As I tend to avoid movie theater gimmicks (like 3D), I was hesitant, but I figured what the hell, and I gave it a go. He suggested that for the movie, I try out this theater’s D-Box seats, something I didn’t even know existed. Its value as an escapist tool shouldn’t be underestimated-at times, I even forgot I was watching Prince of Persia.This weekend, I met up with my friend in a theater far away from my usual one to see Super 8 (which I reviewed about an hour ago). Ultimately, the D-Box is more immersive and less distracting than 3-D, which constantly encourages you to look away from the screen. OK, so there’s a limited range of effects.
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On the plus side, the chair’s motions were remarkably well synced with the onscreen action-when Gyllenhaal got punched, it shook violently when he slid across rocky terrain, the seat rumbled in rhythm when an arrow sliced into its victim … it shook violently again. This innovation will provide movement and vibration to gamers, allowing them to have a better experience by bringing an immersive and more realistic. As announced last December, Cooler Master officially launches today, as a world premiere, the first gamer chair incorporating D-BOX haptic technology. I can’t see how a vibrating chair would help Raging Bull, but Rocky V? Couldn’t hurt. They are expected to ship in January 2022. D-Box seats can also be purchased for home use, but Steve Carell already made a film about 40-year-old virgins.ĭ-Box is ideal for a film as execrable as Prince of Persia (seriously, would an American-sounding Persian named Gyllenhaal have been less authentic than one who talks like a third-year seeker on the Gryffindor quidditch team?), because the ever-jostling chair only aids a film that provides no entertainment of its own. D-Box seating is the latest “immersive” gimmick from an industry desperate to regroup its fractured market share with a unique theatrical experience. Using the latest in haptic motion technology, D-BOX provides feedback to the whole. No longer content to merely hurl shit at your face in 3-D, movies now want their two for flinching. Your seat moves with the movie, so you can feel power and awe every scene.
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Folsom’s Cinema West Palladio 16 became the first area theater to install the pricey D-Box seating ($15.50 for a 2-D matinee) in one of its screening rooms, currently just two rows worth available for reservation. The motion sickness was courtesy of D-Box Technologies, a Quebec-based company that produces “motion simulation devices,” individual seats that shake and swirl in sync with preprogrammed films. I felt nauseous five minutes into Prince of Persia, and it had nothing to do with Jake Gyllenhaal’s British accent.
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