![]() I saw it happen.Īs the summer progressed, things changed though. Things were going well and I was recommending the experience to everyone with the one caveat being to only go see films that are getting solid reviews because the experience isn’t cheap and it’s sad to experience 4DX the first time for a bad film. That said, those immersive elements did their job and some sequences were at least a little more fun in the cinema because of the nature of 4DX. X-Men: Dark Phoenix and Men In Black: International were both terrible movies that just couldn’t be made better with 4DX. In fact, I probably enjoyed the film more than it deserved due to that experience. The action was immersive, even the laughs hit a little harder with the haptic feedback. It was the opening weekend, so there could have been adjustments that needed to be made, so I gave the experience the benefit of the doubt. The whole presentation became distracting rather than immersive. Punches would land, you’d wait for it, and then get that haptic feedback. In the major fight that makes up the majority of the last act of the film, the mechanics went out of sync for nearly a full second. What came next though was not so incredible. For the first two and a half hours the experience was incredible, all the way to the destruction of the Avengers complex and the entire theater filled with smoke just as the building was collapsing. I bought a ticket the weekend the 4DX opened. “¢ğast and the Furious Presents: Hobbs and ShawĪvengers: Endgame was the first film shown in the brand new 4DX theater here in Nashville, TN. Here are the movies I have been able to see in 4DX this year: I’ve seen nearly every big summer movie in 4DX, some I bought for myself at a whopping $25 a ticket and some tickets were provided by Regal. Oh, I almost forgot, there are flashing lights on the walls for your peripheral vision for things like lightening. The whole seat can vibrate and there are wind and fog machines for appropriate scenes. 4DX works like a theme park ride the seats move in unison with camera movements, there are sprinklers for scenes that take place in the rain, there are air guns by your head to give greater impact to things like gunshots, little haunted house-style ticklers at your feet, and of course the seat punches you in the back when someone gets hit on screen. 4DX has the potential to truly make the cinematic experience more immersive for certain types of films, namely action, horror and science fiction. The option I gave the most attention to is 4DX. It really only worked well once, when an explosion occurred during the film and the walls lit up.ĪMC’s Dolby Cinema is a solid experience offering an extremely bright image with deep blacks and good sound, like a baby IMAX with the laser projection. Sadly, the result is projection with different color grading that the main image and lower resolution. Basically, films must be formatted for ScreenX to allow use of parts of the image that are normally copped off. The image isn’t stretched up those walls though. The walls of the theater are painted a lighter color, similar to the color of the main screen. ScreenX features additional projectors that extend the image of the film down the left and right walls of the theater at key moments. King of the Monsters was a bad movie in my opinion, and the ScreenX experience made it well, weird. I saw one film courtesy of Regal in ScreenX, Godzilla: King of the Monsters. ![]() Let’s get ScreenX out of the way quickly. I spent the summer checking out cinema chain’s answers to slumping attendance, focusing mainly on what 4DX has to offer. Movie theater franchises have been adding more and more immersive theater experiences to their screenings: There’s the ever-popular IMAX (in its various forms), AMC has the Dolby Cinema, and Regal Cinemas has launched a few new options with ScreenX and 4DX.
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