Comments on: Discuss: 4D Is Coming To U.S. Theaters, Will You Care?

By: yer

yer — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:05:48 +0000

4D? You mean like time travel?

By: bguest

bguest — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:05:48 +0000

3d is just a step towards turning cinema into an amusement park ride…first they make you wear silly glasses, next they put you in a vibrating chair, then comes smoke and lights…why not just remove the movie screen and put the chair on a rollercoaster…I'm joking but that's where the studios are headed…thank god for low budget indies and the growth of vod!

By: Xian

Xian — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:05:47 +0000

The only good thing to come out of the 4th dimension is the Elder Gods and the spawn of Cthulhu. Then again "good thing" is relative.

By: Katie Walsh

Katie Walsh — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:05:47 +0000

8 more dollars to be blasted in the face with water? No danke.

By: nolan

nolan — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:05:47 +0000

I already can't be bothered to pay extra money to put on silly glasses that give me a headache. Why would I pay $8 extra to watch a movie inside a haunted house?

By: Christopher Bell

Christopher Bell — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:05:47 +0000

I don't think the 3D for "Hugo" improved the experience at all, but would make a case for "Cave of Forgotten Dreams."

By: Marco Rodriguez

Marco Rodriguez — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:05:47 +0000

I am from San Diego and there is actually one down in Tijuana, I was very skeptical about it but i watched the Avengers on it and it was really fun, definitely not for every film but i had a blast.

By: bg

bg — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:05:47 +0000

finally theaters are going full retard

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:05:47 +0000

This sounds horrendous. If I wanted this kind of shit I'd go to an amusement park.

By: Glass

Glass — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:05:47 +0000

Look at the movies that are supporting the studios. They're all amusement park rides. Of COURSE something like this will exist and might even catch on, to an extent. There's "consequences" to blowing up movies like Mission Impossible 4 and Avengers.

By: Carlos

Carlos — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:05:47 +0000

I'll pay $10 extra if I have to to be in a 4D theater I believe you get a better thrill and feel of the movie that way. If in the movie a boy pops a stink bomb well dammit I wanna smell it too. If super man is flying well dammit I wanna feel the air running through my face too, and if Nemo makes a splash well dammit I wanna get splashed with water.

By: Mary

Mary — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:05:47 +0000

It sounds very theme park. Like the T2 "ride" at Universal Studios or Disney's Bug's Life thing at Animal Kingdom or Honey I Shrunk the Audience at Epcot. Fun for a seven minute excuse to get out of the Florida humidity. Any longer than that? Eh.

By: MGC

MGC — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:05:47 +0000

Welp, add another 5 bucks to the ticket price. If I wan that, I'll go to Disney.

By: Ugh

Ugh — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:05:47 +0000

I'll wait until 5-D. When I can literally feel Catwoman's ass on my lap OR Magic Mike's crotch in my face.

By: NorCalPatsy

NorCalPatsy — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:05:47 +0000

When the movie is a hologram and the action appears to literally be in front of me, then I'll pay an extra $8, but not for anything short of that!

By: Dom

Dom — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:05:47 +0000

I saw this year's rerelease of The Phantom Menace on 4D. The sprays of water and the noise of the rumbling seats were the only way to make Jar Jar Binks even more unbearable.

By: CK

CK — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:05:47 +0000

NOPE.

I'm not even a fan of 3-d … now 4-d???
I'll pass.

By: walktheearth

walktheearth — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:05:47 +0000

I want to be a part of 'Enter the Void' in 4-D!

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:05:47 +0000

3D adds the illusion of depth to the cinematic experience. The first and second dimensions of sight are length (height in the appropriate context) and width. The human eye does not perceive the other dimensions said to be in existence by physicists. But if those could be "added" to a moviegoing experience I guarantee 4D, 5D, whatever will be a success. What y'all are talking about is simply engaging the audience's olfactory (smell), gustatory (taste), and tactilic (touch) senses…

By: Cynthia

Cynthia — Fri, 13 May 2016 12:05:47 +0000

I'd be a lot happier if they spent their money on acquiring the best writers in the world, and developing excellent scripts with character-driven narratives. It would be far cheaper, and they'd make far better films. Look what HBO and AMC have accomplished on cable television.

Heck, for 90% of all films, 3-D is, at best, meh, and, at worst, cumbersome with those darn glasses, distracting from the actual plot, and/or headache-producing. But, if they feel that they have to differentiate themselves from home movie theaters, online viewing, and pirated material, maybe 4-D is the only way they can go. It just sounds like for, at least the early stage of technology, audiences are going to have to put up with a lot of cheesy effects. Are audiences going to be willing to fork over a lot more money for these new, enhanced 4-D movie experiences? In this economy? And you want to bet that story and character will again suffer at the rush for yet another technological fix?