Jun 13 2011
My Experience with D-Box Rumble Motion Seats
This weekend, I met up with my friend in a theater far away from my usual one to see Super 8 (which I reviewed about an hour ago). He suggested that for the movie, I try out this theater’s D-Box seats, something I didn’t even know existed. As I tend to avoid movie theater gimmicks (like 3D), I was hesitant, but I figured what the hell, and I gave it a go.
I’m pleased to report that a rumbling and moving seat is actually LESS of a gimmick than even 3D is, and I daresay it adds more to the experience than its bespectacled counterpart. Essentially how it works is that the seat has a track that’s synced up to whats going on in the movie. For example, when the characters are riding in a muscle car, you feel the vibration of the engine and each bump it hits. When it whips around a corner, you seat moves the way you might if you were sitting there. More effective still are during big action scenes where rumbling and rocking makes the onscreen action even more intense, and during “boo” moments of the film where a monster appears out of nowhere. Usually in parts like these it’s just a visual flash and sudden musical cue that gets you to jump out of your seat, but when your seat actually pitches back at that exact moment? The effect is amplified further.
I didn’t mind D-box, and I actually kind of thought it was cool for some parts. So would I recommend it? Absolutely freaking not. I saw the movie at 3PM, where my ticket cost $5 for a matinee. To see it D-Box? That will be an extra $8 please, for a grand total of $13. If I’d gone at a “normal” time? I’d probably have paid damn near $18 for a non-IMAX, non-3D. Ticket. Lord knows if you combined them all you’d probably be shelling out damn near $25 for a single movie ticket.
D-Box is a feature I’d maybe pay $1 or even $2 extra for, but $8? I don’t understand how people come up with these prices. Do two rows of massage chair seats really force you to increase prices 90% for a movie? This makes no sense to me. Cool tech, horrible pricing model, which seems to be the norm for the entertainment industry as a whole these days.
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Hahah!
I’ve never heard of this either.
And when I was reading this I thought “WOw this sounds awesome!”
..until you mentioned the price. ><
yeah no. I only go to my town's shittiest, smallest theatre so I can pay 4$ to see the movie, 'cuz anything over ten dollars isn't worth it. nottt payingg that much money.
Lol brag about it why don’t you. In Canada our movies are typically $10-$13, and that’s if it isn’t 3D, add $3 for that. That being said, if it was a true-blue massage chair, i’d pay that extra $8 to see a movie for sure, but for a motion chair like the one described, no way!
“Lord knows if you combined them all you’d probably be shelling out damn near $25 for a single movie ticket.”
Add in popcorn and a drink for one person and you’d be up to $35.
Well I will try these out, I don’t mind the $8 extra if the experience is there. A movie like fast five or transformer must be pretty freaking cool in this…
It’s fine and all to say that it’s “expensive”, but do you have even the most remote idea of how much something like that costs? Because without it, yours is just an uneducated rant.
I’ve tried the D-Box seats twice – 2012 and Fast Five.
The experience was awesome and well worth the $8 surchrge.
BTW, these chairs cost $4k a pop.
Shoot, it’s $18 just to see a regular movie in Japan.
/ Given that, I’d pay that amount.
u think 13 dollars expensive?? what contry u live in
in my country in nz its 26 dollars for a d-box movie, 20 dollars for a 3d movie, and normal is 16 dollars, dont forget tuesday pricing is cheaper which is nice,
how can u NOT like d-box, ive been there since august last year, and i been to like 5 d-box movies, and i absolutely love it, it enhances the experience like if there is an explosion u can feel it, i think it is soooooooooooooooooooooo worth the money!!!!
BEST CINEMA EXPERIENCE EVER!!!! ITS even better than imax over here