Avatar Going 4D in Korea With Smells, Lasers
Enjoy Avatar in new smell-o-vision!
Avatar may be opening the door to mainstream 3D movies, but a Korean cinema is adding an extra dimension, making to 4D.
The 4D screening adds to the experience moving seats, smells of explosives, sprinkling water, laser lights and wind, according to Variety. The added cost to attend such a show more than doubles to the U.S. equivalent of $15.80. (An average ticket in Korea costs $6.90.)
While the added sensual experience wasn't a part of James Cameron's vision, the Korean division of Fox have been working it since last summer. "We (started to) prepared the 'Avatar' 4D ride last summer," says Tom Oh of 20th Century Fox Korea.
Avatar in 4D is being shown in Korea's leading multiplex chain, CJ-CGV, and has shown more than 10 different 4D-enhanced films over the last year.
"There is no 4D theater like ours around the world. CGV's 4D plex is the first in the world that fully offers five-sense experiences with a movie title," says Kim Daehee, publicity manager of CJ-CGV.
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I guess now those nerds on that forum can "live" in Pandora or whatever...
I thought the 4th dimension was time? Does that mean..? Oh crap.
I smell radiation.
5 sense? so what are they making you taste?
ColMirage scientifically you are right.But in entertainment industry 4D features are the features that enable them make 4 times more money.
wtf 15.80 is double the price of US tickets?! how low are your theater tickets!!? here in canada just normal IMAX 3D cost 15 dollars
I thought the 4th dimension was time? Does that mean..? Oh crap.
lol, pretty sure Avatar already has time covered, it's almost 3 hrs long.
Maybe they were going for 4 Senses, now if they could just find a way to add taste without having to lick the theatre floor...
movies with smell? no thanks, I want to live after watching Nutty Professor III. these klumps will kill me with the smell!
"There is no 4D theater like ours around the world. CGV's 4D plex is the first in the world that fully offers five-sense experiences with a movie title,"
Please tell me they didn't include a sense of taste as well...
movies with smell? no thanks, I want to live after watching Nutty Professor III. these klumps will kill me with the smell!
Lol dude, I totally get the joke. I saw that the nutty professor and understand why you wouldn't want to smell through that
damn and i paid $18 for 3D imax....i got jipped.
Lol dude, I totally get the joke. I saw that the nutty professor and understand why you wouldn't want to smell through that
there isn't any III (yet, hopefully there won't be), there is no way in hell I'll pay to see II as I've already seen it.
they should replace star tours at Disneyland with this
Wow, only $15? Seeing as it costs that much just to see an Imax film here in the states, that's a pretty good deal.
Wasnt smell enchanced cinema done in the '30s but turned out to be a bit naff so it was dropped.
Funny how things come around eh.
That's just a bit much.
I'm not sure I'd want my seat moving and water sprinkling on me while I'm eating popcorn.
I wonder if they show pron with golden showers?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh7bYNAHXxw
You know, I have one simple request. And that is to have sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads! Now evidently my cycloptic colleague informs me that that cannot be done. Ah, would you remind me what I pay you people for, honestly? Throw me a bone here! What do we have?
Answer......Sea Bass!
I prefer the taste of pop-corn in a cinema, and I don't want sprinkling water in them.
Those aren't dimensions, say it fucking right. 4D would allow us to view time as something that isn't a cross section.
Humm, that part in the woods with the rino like creatures won't smell to good... no popcorn for me!
4th dimension is time. Headline Fail. Besides who wants to smell all the scenes in a movie. I can only imagine what gore-flics would smell like, or even the manure scene in Back to the Future.
"5 sense? so what are they making you taste?"
The popcorn, silly!
4D movies? one word comes to mind...LAME
4D would be you traveling thru time backwards and forwards like how you walk in the 3d world.
Also because time is a dimension that means everything that happened, happens now, or will happen will always exist. Neat huh?
I love these new ways of watching film and making the experience better. I think the old timer type directors who are not tech savvy are threaten by the possibility of what Cameron introduced. Avatar fans want more Avatar at www.Naviblue.com
Hmmm the smell of burned navi's.
I wanna taste one.
On a stick.
hey, what about the part when they have, like, sex...?
wtf 15.80 is double the price of US tickets?! how low are your theater tickets!!? here in canada just normal IMAX 3D cost 15 dollars
The USD15.80 is double the price of KOREAN tickets. Regular tickets in NYC are like $12.50 and IMAX 3D tickets are like 18 bucks so stop whining.
4D....first thing that comes to mind. 4D version of Saw VI and Taste features included. Forthe first time you'll experience cannibal-ish in a theater.