5D cinema experience

the ticket. generic one

When I think of the jargon associated with cinema experience, first there's 3D (wearing 3D glasses, made by popular revival from our beloved Hollywood since 2010 or 2011). It was fun but I had to wear double glasses (on top of my own prescription). Still acceptable.

Then there's 2D, digital 2D projection for much cleaner experience compared to traditional film projection. I've gotten excited and pretty much switched to 2D only for my movie days. Only skipping once or twice every now and then because of show times.

Then, there's 5D experience from this little "cinema" at 1st Avenue Mall. Well, it's intriguing in a way that I could not think of anything that go passed 4D. I know for 4D, there's motion chair you can strap yourself on, there's 3D glasses involved, and wind + weather effect. 5D, I joked to my friend, what? they add in some smell there as well? e.g. dead animals and blow the stinks to your face? I'm not too sure.

Well, turns out that the ticket for Adult was RM20 a pop! gosh, well for the sake of testing I don't really mind. The setup was that at 1 go, only a maximum of 5 people can enter the small room. They only rented 1 place for this. Not a very huge setup by any stretch of the imagination.

Then there's around 7 categories you can choose from to watch these HD movies. We chose Horror, I see there's roller coasters, military, children stuff, etc. Then for each category, there were like 2 - 4 different movies each lasting from 7 - 12 mins long.

We were told to memorize the title of the show we've watched so that during the next visit, we could tell them and if we're choosing the same category, they can pick another show for us. We watched horror house or something like that.

We went in, only me and my friend, 2 people, climb up a small staircase and sat on the motion chair and strapped ourselves in. in front was a projector and we were given our 3D glasses to put on.

Upon starting, the room went dark, and the show was on the way. It shows us navigating through a house, obviously half drunk and the whole chair just sway here and there non stop. I find this hard to pull us into the experience as there's no back story, and why am I walking and swaying left and right. Am I on some crack?

Then we were constantly "attacked" by some 3D creatures that were suppose to scare us, but it looked kinda lame, the 3D model was not very convincing and the chair was swinging left right front back without any reason. It made me more dizzy than scared to be frank.

Then there were some constant gush of cold wind whenever a monster would pop up but that's just about it. There's 1 scene near the end where we went outside the court yard and without any reason/justification, we started floating around, avoiding some giant snake like creatures. I was half dizzy and wanna puke from the constant shake.

Then, the show ended, lights up and the assistant came in and spoke to us. We gave him the frank response, it wasn't pretty scary or convincing. Well, we told ourselves, maybe we would experience the 2nd and last try if we go for Rollercoaster type of show? Otherwise, it's the 1st and last time we'll try this.

I find the 4D arcade shooter beside this (RM8 per game, RM6 for continue) to be far far more convincing and genuinely scarier than this.

If you absolutely must try, go now, I'm not sure how long they can keep this up. I sincerely hope they upgrade their shows. The one we watched, it was made around 2007 and boy, has the technology aged in 5 years. :)