At one point when Ariel was swimming downward, the chairs just tilted gently forward. In swimming scenes and one really great scene of Scuttle flying, the movement was soft and flowing. The colorful market scene was fabulous too. The gentle motion of the chairs as characters swam through the sea enhanced the effect. It felt pretty magical to be “under the sea” in the movie. And certainly there are several dark underwater scenes (director Rob Marshall explains the reason for this was to capture the sense that the deeper you go in the sea, the darker it is.) But in this format, the film looked great! (There were a few seconds in the Ursula scene where it was too dark but that was it.) When the trailers for the movie came out, people complained they were dark and murky. Little Mermaid was a great movie to see in this format. (FYI, here’s the health warnings for this experience – like amusement park rides, they make it sound worse than it is.) I was wishing that I’d grabbed a drink at the theater’s bar on the way in instead of a water bottle at concessions… as someone in my late 50’s, a muscle relaxant before being tossed around on amusement park rides isn’t a bad thing… In the end, though, I didn’t tire of the effects and I’m not stiff and sore the next day as I might be after a day on roller coasters. The remaining trailers were all 3D and 4DX, so we got a taste of what those movies would be like in this format.īy the end of the trailers, I was enjoying the experience, but I wondered if I would be tired of it by the end of a 2:15 movie. (There were a few minor beverage spills amongst our neighbors during the movie.) When lights flashed on the screen, lights up near the ceiling flashed, like lightning bolts.
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The seats started shaking and rolling, like you’d experience on a 4D motion simulator ride.
Apparently this was a new experience for many of us, and we were ready for the ride.
At the first jolt of the chairs, several people in the theater screamed.
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We saw the movie in 3D, with good sound, plus these effects as listed on the CJ4DX site: Wikipedia says that as of 2020, there were 32 in the U.S. Their locator tool is here – it’s buggy but it seems to work if you drag the map around, then click on the pins. The parent company CJ4DX says there are 788 theaters in 69 countries. In the Seattle area, there’s only one 4DX theater – the Meridian in downtown Seattle. And, the promise of the 4DX experience intrigued my son who wasn’t that enthused about “a princess movie”. And, I have mixed feelings about these Disney remakes – my brain sees them as a cynical money-grab (and wow does Flounder look terrible in this movie!) but my heart sings along so happily with the familiar songs and the new twists that new actors bring to very specific line reads… Melissa McCarthy’s “Poor Unfortunate Souls” is pretty great.) So, the option to have a different kind of movie-going experience along with a movie retread made it more appealing to me. And I realized this was the perfect opportunity! It was a “new” movie, but I knew the plot and many of the words. Then the next day, I was trying to talk my 12 year old boy into going to see the new Little Mermaid. I didn’t want to try it on a movie I was super invested in watching, because I was afraid it would distract me from the movie. This entertaining anecdote raised my curiosity about 4DX movies, and I started thinking about what movie I’d want to see in 4D. Last week, I was listening to the Filmcast podcast, and they shared an email from a listener who had joined a friend at a movie, not knowing it was a 4DX screening, and how startled they were when the seats started shaking (“my friend’s mom screamed!”) and when they were sprayed with water, and the experience of “getting punched in the kidney” by the chair when a character on the screen was shot. Although it’s not an experience I would do many times, it was a lot of fun for the right movie, for adults and older kids. TL/DR summary: At some Regal cinemas, including the Meridian in Seattle, they have 4DX movies which include chairs that rock and shake, water and wind effects.
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