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shadowkatThe slow inevitable death of the Romance Writers Association
This is an insane read of how an organization should NOT be run.
Edited to add...uhm, apparently Rise of Skywalker can be watched in 4D, which means you can get beaten up by your chair during the movie. Friend who saw it in 4D, said "Because nothing enhances film appreciation like getting beaten up by your chair" - she felt like she was on an episode of Distraction. (I don't know what Distraction is either - your guess is as good as mine.)
But I hunted down a review of 4D, to see if she was joking, she is not. (see link above to 4 D description.)
While there are notable issues in the story and action of The Rise of Skywalker, the best way to see the sequel trilogy capper is 4DX, if you have a theater near you that offers it. What J.J. Abrams and company have created is a nonstop series of quests that includes space battles, Force lightning, skiffing over giant waves, and an in-atmosphere ground assault on a Star Destroyer over a misty planet. It’s like the whole movie was designed to be an amusement park ride, and your local multiplex might have the equipment to play it as one.
[Ed. note: The following contains spoilers for the first third of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.]
Here’s a taste of my experience: In the first 10 minutes of the movie, the 4DX theater chairs swooped and vibrated with Kylo Ren’s lightsaber as the new Supreme Leader cut his way through a Mustafarian village. Each time he stabbed a poor villager with his saber, the 4DX seat punched me in the back to feel the full impact. Later, my four-seat group bobbed and weaved with his TIE Fighter as he navigated the unknown regions of Exegol, and the theater filled with mist as both Kylo and the audience got their first look at the Emperor. Palpatine’s introduction, shot like a horror film, set off synchronized flashes all throughout the theater. The action cut immediately to a Millennium Falcon chase sequence. As each TIE fighter laser narrowly missed the ship, I felt blasts of air that went just past my head, as if I was the Falcon being shot at.
n March 2014, a company called CJ 4DPlex made a deal with the Regal Cinemas theater chain to build “4DX” theaters in selected multiplexes. The 4DX experience finds each patron seated in a chair that’s part of a four-chair unit, which is then hydraulically controlled (like a Star Tours flight simulator) to move with the pans, shakes, and tilts of the image of the 3D-projected movie. The “X” part of 4DX has to do with environmental effects: fog to haze the auditorium, large fans around the room to create winds and breezes, and misters to splash water on the audience if they are, say, watching a lightsaber battle that takes place on the wreckage of a Death Star.
Well, this certainly explains a lot of the reviews about the problems with the movie. It was not designed to be a movie -- but an amusement park ride.
While there are notable issues in the story and action of The Rise of Skywalker, the best way to see the sequel trilogy capper is 4DX, if you have a theater near you that offers it. What J.J. Abrams and company have created is a nonstop series of quests that includes space battles, Force lightning, skiffing over giant waves, and an in-atmosphere ground assault on a Star Destroyer over a misty planet. It’s like the whole movie was designed to be an amusement park ride, and your local multiplex might have the equipment to play it as one.
Sigh. I think I may pass. I'm not sure my blood pressure or for that matter tendency towards motion sickness can handle being tossed about and beaten up by my chair. Then again -- it may make the movie more interesting?
Although I have yet to find anything that explains the utter insanity that is CATS.
This review however... may well have you almost crying with laughter over craziness of the movie CATS.
The reviews of that movie are crazy. Weirdly, I think people are enjoying making fun of CATS more than seeing Skywalker.
This is an insane read of how an organization should NOT be run.
Edited to add...uhm, apparently Rise of Skywalker can be watched in 4D, which means you can get beaten up by your chair during the movie. Friend who saw it in 4D, said "Because nothing enhances film appreciation like getting beaten up by your chair" - she felt like she was on an episode of Distraction. (I don't know what Distraction is either - your guess is as good as mine.)
But I hunted down a review of 4D, to see if she was joking, she is not. (see link above to 4 D description.)
While there are notable issues in the story and action of The Rise of Skywalker, the best way to see the sequel trilogy capper is 4DX, if you have a theater near you that offers it. What J.J. Abrams and company have created is a nonstop series of quests that includes space battles, Force lightning, skiffing over giant waves, and an in-atmosphere ground assault on a Star Destroyer over a misty planet. It’s like the whole movie was designed to be an amusement park ride, and your local multiplex might have the equipment to play it as one.
[Ed. note: The following contains spoilers for the first third of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.]
Here’s a taste of my experience: In the first 10 minutes of the movie, the 4DX theater chairs swooped and vibrated with Kylo Ren’s lightsaber as the new Supreme Leader cut his way through a Mustafarian village. Each time he stabbed a poor villager with his saber, the 4DX seat punched me in the back to feel the full impact. Later, my four-seat group bobbed and weaved with his TIE Fighter as he navigated the unknown regions of Exegol, and the theater filled with mist as both Kylo and the audience got their first look at the Emperor. Palpatine’s introduction, shot like a horror film, set off synchronized flashes all throughout the theater. The action cut immediately to a Millennium Falcon chase sequence. As each TIE fighter laser narrowly missed the ship, I felt blasts of air that went just past my head, as if I was the Falcon being shot at.
n March 2014, a company called CJ 4DPlex made a deal with the Regal Cinemas theater chain to build “4DX” theaters in selected multiplexes. The 4DX experience finds each patron seated in a chair that’s part of a four-chair unit, which is then hydraulically controlled (like a Star Tours flight simulator) to move with the pans, shakes, and tilts of the image of the 3D-projected movie. The “X” part of 4DX has to do with environmental effects: fog to haze the auditorium, large fans around the room to create winds and breezes, and misters to splash water on the audience if they are, say, watching a lightsaber battle that takes place on the wreckage of a Death Star.
Well, this certainly explains a lot of the reviews about the problems with the movie. It was not designed to be a movie -- but an amusement park ride.
While there are notable issues in the story and action of The Rise of Skywalker, the best way to see the sequel trilogy capper is 4DX, if you have a theater near you that offers it. What J.J. Abrams and company have created is a nonstop series of quests that includes space battles, Force lightning, skiffing over giant waves, and an in-atmosphere ground assault on a Star Destroyer over a misty planet. It’s like the whole movie was designed to be an amusement park ride, and your local multiplex might have the equipment to play it as one.
Sigh. I think I may pass. I'm not sure my blood pressure or for that matter tendency towards motion sickness can handle being tossed about and beaten up by my chair. Then again -- it may make the movie more interesting?
Although I have yet to find anything that explains the utter insanity that is CATS.
This review however... may well have you almost crying with laughter over craziness of the movie CATS.
The reviews of that movie are crazy. Weirdly, I think people are enjoying making fun of CATS more than seeing Skywalker.
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Date: 2019-12-28 02:22 pm (UTC)From what I read -- it has some of the same problems as the last two. Last Jedi to be fair, was Rian Johnson's film not Abrams, Abrams washed his hands of the franchise and was brought back for Rise. And Johnson had some great ideas for expanding it -- but, alas, he tried to cram three different movies into one, and to please everyone. So many of the ideas - I felt got a bit lost, unless you were hunting for them. He needed a good editor badly.
Abrams, unlike Johnson and Lucas, has nothing to say. He just wants to put on a spectacle -- he's a showman. And yeah...you are absolutely right, the 4D gimmick fits with Abrams -- it's also about spectacle. Abrams is a frustrated amusement park ride director.