But a 4DX experience isn’t a matter of sensory overload.
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With so many instruments inside each auditorium, it might be easy to simply crank everything up and put the room on full blast. They call it ‘the back kicker,’” Kim laughs. The bells and whistles of a 4DX auditorium include wind machines, strobe lights, snow simulation (it’s foam), smoke scents and a device inside the seats that thrusts into the shoulders of audience members. “We have what we officially call the three degrees of freedom - our chairs move with the pitch (a forward-and-backward rolling motion), the yaw (a left-and-right turning motion) and the heave (an up-and-down elevating motion),” explains Paul Kim, SVP of content and production at CJ 4DPlex. “Then there’s the vibrations and then we have 21 different effects across all of our equipment.” Those who decide to see the film in 4DX will experience each movement onscreen as a motion in their seats, which shake and wobble to the rhythm of the action. Like when you’re watching ‘Finding Nemo.’ I was watching ‘Moana’ recently and the wind in my face was really nice.”Ĭinépolis Vista is in the Vista Village center at 25 Main St.Over the course of “Bullet Train,” Pitt will get socked, stabbed, chucked and chased as he untangles a complicated web of conflicting hit jobs. “The real ‘ooh ahh’ moment always comes when snow starts falling in the theater,” she said. Lee said moviegoers like the idea of a multisensory experience, and there are some elements that are everyone’s favorites. Moviegoers can check for upcoming 4DX releases on the Cinépolis website.
In weeks where there are no new releases, Lee said classic titles and recent releases will be presented so there’s always a 4DX option available.Tickets went on sale Thursday morning, so it was too soon to say how well the new auditoriums will play with Vista moviegoers, but Lee said that at Regal Cinemas with 4DX, those auditoriums are among the highest-grossing in the chain. And when Kong pounded his chest, you could feel the thuds reverberate with simultaneous pumps of pressure in your back.įilms play for one week only in the 4DX auditoriums, Lee said, so there’s always a demand and sellouts are common. One of the most amusing effects was the droplets of water that fell on your face when giant spider guts or blood was spattered onscreen. Whenever characters splashed into the water, raindrops fell from overhead, and fog and water spray accented the misty environment of Skull Island. Action, sci-fi and superhero movies are an obvious fit for 4DX, but the codes have been written for films as benign as Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast,” which played in Vista on Thursday night.Īt an afternoon media screening of “Kong: Skull Island,” the seats were in near-constant motion and vibrating with the chop of helicopters, then turning and shuddering as the giant ape Kong knocked them out of the sky.
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“It’s a completely immersive experience.”ĤDX software designers works with film producers to embed software cues into the film’s digital code, a process that can take one week to one month, depending on the number of effects desired. “What 4DX does is allow the audience to feel the story as it’s happening onscreen,” Lee said. In the U.S., there are 4DX theaters in L.A., New York, Chicago, Orlando and Puerto Rico, with another planned next week in Seattle, according to Jane Lee, a 4DX marketing associate. introductions because they’re family-oriented communities, she said.ĤDX was developed in 2009 in South Korea and has since been introduced at 360 theaters in 44 countries.
Vista and Pico Rivera were selected for the U.S. The Junior theater in Vista is not only the first for Cinépolis in the U.S., it’s also believed to be the first movie theater designed for children in the United States, Holyoak said. “These days people have home theaters and digital movies so they need a new reason to get off the couch.”Ĭinépolis, which is based in Mexico, chose Vista and Pico Rivera for its initial rollout of 4DX. “This is something you can’t get at home,” Holyoak said.
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