Golden Village installed the seats in two of its Bishan cinema halls.
#Dbox seats for home movie#
These D-Box seats will help attract more moviegoers especially action movie lovers as now not only do they get to see and hear the action onscreen, they even get to feel it live in action too!ĭ-Box seats were introduced to Singaporean moviegoers back in March 2014. The seats are also set to be installed in GSC Mid Valley. Another RM5 surcharge applies for 3D movies. The basic break down of the pricing will be a RM15 surchage on top of the original ticket price. However, the price will vary according to the movie playing. The ticket price for the seats are currently set at RM32. On 27 November 2014, 27 more D-Box seats were installed at GSC Pavilion KL, bringing GSC's total number of D-Box seats in Malaysia to a total of 57.
The soft launch for the D-Box seats were held on 4 August, with "Guardians of the Galaxy" as the movie chosen to be experienced with the motion seats.
#Dbox seats for home full#
Kelvin Chee, GSC Senior Manager, says this is to ensure that the audience will get to feel the full effect of the motions from the seats. Introduced in the US in 2009, the motion effects seats finally make it to the other side of the world in 2014. This is where D-Box Motion Seats come in. High definition and 3D visuals make every scene sharper and more realistic to the watching eyes.Īfter the senses of hearing and sight, it is only natural that touch comes next – let the audience be one with the movie as they sway and vibrate with every motion effect. Dolby Atmos surround sound system makes every sound clearer to the listening ears. To further enhance the moviegoers' experience, exhibitors have come up with ways for the audience to enjoy movies even more. Needless to say an enclosed cinema hall does provide higher chances of complete immersion compared to an open space living room, where random sounds and happenings can easily hinder the audience from fully enjoying the movie they're watching. They want to sit in the darkness and see and hear only the movie that is playing. Cool tech, horrible pricing model, which seems to be the norm for the entertainment industry as a whole these days.Moviegoers go to the cinema to be immersed in the movie they're watching. Do two rows of massage chair seats really force you to increase prices 90% for a movie? This makes no sense to me. Lord knows if you combined them all you’d probably be shelling out damn near $25 for a single movie ticket.ĭ-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. If I’d gone at a “normal” time? I’d probably have paid damn near $18 for a non-IMAX, non-3D. To see it D-Box? That will be an extra $8 please, for a grand total of $13. I saw the movie at 3PM, where my ticket cost $5 for a matinee. So would I recommend it? Absolutely freaking not. I didn’t mind D-box, and I actually kind of thought it was cool for some parts. 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. 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. When it whips around a corner, you seat moves the way you might if you were sitting there. For example, when the characters are riding in a muscle car, you feel the vibration of the engine and each bump it hits. Essentially how it works is that the seat has a track that’s synced up to whats going on in the movie. 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. 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. He suggested that for the movie, I try out this theater’s D-Box seats, something I didn’t even know existed. 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).
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