Re: Fiction Shmiction and Media Shmedia
So, I found a dbox theater. Apparently it's like imax -- it may or may not be a separate theater. The one I was at, one room was all dbo0x seats, but the room I was in had only two rows of dbox seats. The only show that had it at the time I was there was Spider Man 2.
It was interesting. You have to register which seat you want, so good luck if there's a tall person in front of where you wanted to sit and you want to sit somewhere else. Luckily nobody sat in front of me. My chair didn't work at first, even though I'd had to pick and register a seat -- I had to run out of the theater, tell people, and they want and turned it on for me. The actuators aren't very fine. It sort of felt like the beginning of 3D where people really went out of their way to have things coming at you, so that you could "see" the 3D all the time -- I wasn't sure what I was supposed to be identifying with. At times the chair would start to tilt in one direction and this was sometimes because something on screen was tilted, but might also have been because it was getting ready to really lurch. I usually self identify with the hero -- that would be Spider Man in this case. If I hadn't been in a dbox seat, I would have "felt" it when Spider Man hit and when the bad guy hit I'd just sit there and gloat. Here, I felt it when Spider Man and when the villain hit something. I didn't get a free-flowing swing back and forth feeling/feature when Spider Man swung back and forth, so there would either be nothing or a little rumble until Spider Man was thrown into a building and then I'd get a strong hit. Also, I need a footrest attached to the chair. I'm not a fan of having my feet lifted off the ground when the chair tilts back. I wouldn't mind smaller chairs too (5'10 and 165 pounds, I wear a size Medium shirt) -- all theater seats are just too wide, the armrests are way out there, so there's not quite enough room to put my arms by my side without my elbows hitting the armrests but they're too far away to comfortably rest my arms no them. This made it a bit whiplashy at times as I'd rock on the seat.
All in all, it was interesting, but if I go to another theater with that, I don't think I'll pay the extra amount for that kind of ticket. The seat needs much finer actuators (the lack of swinging back and forth when Spider Man swung) and in a "most of society is overweight" world where lots and lots of people would be using it, the actuators are going to have to be more industrial. I did try turning the chair up to 3 and down to 1 and at 2 in the middle.
All in all the movie was enjoyable.
By the way, spoiler alert, that thing of his Dad's that Peter finds, he apparently just left it for those people to find, the ones that were walking out before he found it. Seriously, Peter? You're going to let someone die because you think their request is too dangerous, so you're just going to leave everything else around that'll let people fill that request themselves? Also, the one line where Peter asks, "And what does that make me?!" The answer is "An angsty idiot."
Last but not least, WTF is up with that hair (I didn't go see the Amazing Spider Man movie, so maybe the hair was the same there), did we really need poofy Twilight hair (and apparently Twilight angst) in a Spider Man movie?