Sadly, this is not what the D-Box people are talking about.
Now that’s what I call literally being in a movie. * Tom Hanks landing on the beaches of Normandy in “Saving Private Ryan”? Say, isn’t that your boss floating facedown in the French surf? * The Battle for Endor in “Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi”? The Ewok on the runaway Imperial speeder bike looks just like your family’s pet Shih Tzu. * Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal in the hilarious diner scene from “When Harry Met Sally”? That’s you in the background, eating meatloaf at the table in the corner. For a fee, your image - or the image of your choice - is computer-generated and digitally inserted into your favorite movie: Now, that’s something for which I’d pay a premium. Perhaps by saying they can put you literally in a movie, the D-Box folks mean they could cast you as a digital extra or something. But I do know I wouldn’t want to be the one to have to clean out the projector. ‘Cause that would mean - well, I don’t know exactly what that would mean. Because I’m almost positive that this D-Box thing can’t take you “literally inside” a movie.
OK, so these people might know motion effects, but they don’t know squat about the English language. PLEASE stop kicking the back of my seat! STOP KICKING THE BACK OF MY SEAT!Īnd we’re supposed to put up with that for an entire 142-minute “Hunger Games” screening?Įxplains the company’s website: “D-Box Simulators are the next dimension of your cinematic experience.
DBOX MOVIES MEANING PORTABLE
It reminded me very much of those long car trips when our children were younger - back before iPods and onboard movies and portable video gaming systems - where they would sit in the back seat and, for want of something better to do, kick the back of the driver’s seat for hundreds upon hundreds of miles until I’d finally end up hissing: Please stop kicking the back of my seat. Personally, I found the motion somewhat annoying. “The resulting motion is perfectly synchronized with all onscreen action, creating an unmatched realistic immersive experience,” according to the company’s website, So whenever our heroine Katniss Everdeen would schlunk! another arrow into an unsuspecting Hunger Games contestant’s chest, our chairs would shudder oh-so-slightly.
DBOX MOVIES MEANING MOVIE
In a D-Box-equipped theater, movie seats are capable of subtle pitch, roll and heave motions - which cause the seats to move forward and backward, side to side, and up and down, as well as vibrate.
It consisted of two seats in front of a large screen, showing the trailer for “The Hunger Games.”Īlthough it sounds more like a bad rapper name, D-Box is a system that utilizes something called MFX, or motion effects. We know this because when my wife and I went to see “The Hunger Games,” there in the lobby of the new Gigantiplex in Centerville was a “D-Box” demonstration. This is definitely not your father’s movie snack bar.īut as impressive as film fare has become, there’s something even more exciting making its way into the theaters of tomorrow. But now, one can purchase - and take into the theater - such modern marvels as pizza, pasta, chicken strips, fish and chips, gelato and ice cream, pulled pork, sandwich wraps, quesadillas, and warm cookies. The last time I’d been to a movie, the most exotic thing you could buy at the snack bar was a Diet Cherry Coke. Primarily, I was referring to today’s snack-bar food choices.
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