![]() ![]() As henchman started getting thrashed by unseen ninja turtles, I barely registered the visuals of what was happening in the movie. It was my D-BOX seating, delivering a coordinated motion with the action on screen. That’s when I realized… It wasn’t a kid kicking my chair at all. I was about to turn and give his mother a pleading glance when it happened again, perfectly in sync with the action on screen. It was like he had brought his knee up to his chin before driving his heel into the center of my chair, causing a couple popcorn kernels to fall out of my bag. I was determined to ignore it, but just as a container took a huge hit on screen, the kid lashed out again with a newfound intensity. The same way he did before, with light kicks that made the whole thing tremble. As the tension built, the kid behind me started kicking my seat again. Thugs moving cargo containers in the dead of night are destined to be attacked by mutant ninjas. The kicking subsided and the film began in earnest, with Megan Fox making her way onto the screen with her frozen expression of beauty that she desperately tries to pass off as acting.Īn unknown number of minutes in, it was clear that we were setting the stage for some Turtle Power. ![]() ![]() A series of small, rapid kicks, vibrating my entire seat. The opening credits of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles started up and I silently noted that I shouldn’t have sat directly in front of a woman and her two kids, because one of those little ones was kicking the back of my seat relentlessly. I still wasn’t sure exactly what this mystical chair did, which was separated from its neighboring chairs by a few inches, so I did the logical thing and put it on the medium setting. It explained that our unique seats had a small control panel on the right armrest, where we could change the intensity of our experience. Oh, how wrong I was.Īs the lights in the theater darkened, signally the start of the film, a tutorial played on the enormous screen in front of us. I figured there would be some special speakers integrated into the chair that would deliver surround sound like never before. When I viewed the available seats, there were just two rows to choose from that offered this new experience, positioned towards the middle of the theater. A quick and careless Google search told me that it was a new system from a Canadian company that would take you even deeper inside the film. So, I figured that D-BOX must be something like IMAX or 3D, etc. The higher one had “D-BOX” written next to the movie title, along with the more common “Atmos,” which is a Dolby sound system. Although the time slot was identical, there were two prices from which to choose. When I first saw the difference in pricing as I viewed the showtimes online, I was a bit confused. Today, I was going to see my first movie from a new D-BOX seat. In fact, I had paid an extra $8 on top of the normal ticket price to ensure that it was anything but standard. Despite this well rehearsed process going off without any hint of abnormality, I knew that I was in for a new experience this time around. Squinting through the dim lighting, I ignored the sound of my shoes pulling themselves free of the sticky floor as I made my way to my seat. Armed with my three pound bag of popcorn and bucket sized soda, I shuffled cautiously into the dark theater like I have hundreds of time before. ![]()
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