stephen chow is so famous here in asia that i forget he makes b movies, was surprised to see a stephen chow movie here
I’ve seen Kung Fu Hustle and Shaolin Soccer here in the U.S. They were a lot of fun. And holy shit, I just read that he made the highest-grossing and second-highest grossing films in China.
Also, this bit from his Wikipedia page is amusing:
In 2013, Stephen Chow was elected a member of the 11th Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).[39] According to media exposure, Chow often arrives late and leaves early at the conference, and has not put forward any proposals.[40]
yeah lmao hes probably there just to get paid lmao
Is that in Indianapolis?
Good eye. Circle Center Mall. We were there for Indy ComicCon.
How was the Comic Con?
Not fun. Way too many people. Probably double from last year, which was too many. And the vendor floor was ridiculously huge. Also, celebrities now charge like $60 for an autograph. Back when I regularly went to cons, it was free. I didn’t even walk by their booths. Why even bother? I mean it would have been cool to walk up to Felicia Day and say I’m a big MST3K fan and loved her playing Kinga Forrester, but I’m not going to do it for $60.
They had other stupidly expensive things too. Like they had a DeLorean done like the one from Back to the Future. If you wanted to take a phone picture with it- as in stand in front of it and have a picture of you taken with a phone- it cost $10.
I only went because my daughter wanted to see all the cosplayers and had a cosplay costume to wear herself and even she found it way too exhausting. We didn’t even stay for the cosplay contest, which she was initially looking forward to.
Pop Con is next month in the same location. I don’t think we’ll be going.
Aside from the less unpleasant but still unpleasant experience at the same con last year, it’s been a good 15 years now since I’ve been to one, but I’ve done a lot of cons in my life. I’ve been a guest and a vendor and a performer and a guest at various times (no, I’m not famous, it’s more complicated than that). I’ve been to DragonCon. I’ve been to NASFiC, the official U.S. national convention. This was just not fun. And if this is what cons are like now, forget it. Honestly, the only part I really enjoyed was, because I know nothing about anime and not a gamer, asking my exasperated daughter what half the cosplayers were.
I once went to the booth operator of the nearby “4D” theatre, and asked what the fourth dimension was.
Near as we could figure. It was water. The theatre sprayed you with water (probably a mist or something) as the “4th dimension”.
I did not buy a ticket to the show.
Ive been in a couple of these and usually 4d means 3d movie with a combination of added physical effects in the room, common are
- spray mist
- blow wind
- moving/shaking chairs
Most fancy ive seen was the roof fake collapsing
As a novelty attraction in an amusement there quite fun but i cant see it worth much of a premium over already overpriced movie tickets.
Ask your mom about her 9D experience lol gottem
1 dimension of space, and 8d sound
Curious what country this was found in.
The U.S. Specifically Indianapolis, Indiana.
Well you’ve got hight, width, depth of course. As for the other six, you’ve got: time, parallel, perpendicular, alternate, Disney, and fnord.
You make a good point, all movies are three dimensions (height, width, time), while some have the illusion of a fourth (depth).
All movies are 3D.
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how is that going through the floor
edit: i commented this and immediately realised the poster thing was actually small and near rather than big and far away.
I just wish I could see it from that perspective. I can’t imagine how you saw it lol
kind of like this but since there was no indication of a reflection i was very confused
Ooooooooh I see now. I didn’t think about a reflection being a thing either lol
I think m-theory pushes out to 13. String up to like 11. It gets mind melting after 5 because things are more existential based, not just simple physical properties. Like timelines enveloping time and dimensions within but expressing the conditions of existence. So it’s like you can totally travel to the future, but not in your own timeline. You’d need to locate where the future is “waiting” and manipulate things in such a way that it triggers without existing in your timeline. Since in order to return to the present, you’d need the future to still be waiting and every atom in your existence continuing as it did to continue to that future, which isn’t there yet, but exists… So that’s simple. But now where and how are timelines sustained? They can’t operate at the same time because time can be “distorted” in one place but not another resulting in different time values. There must be a dimension that expresses and governs this so universes remain connected but have their different dimensions and rules within.
And it just keeps getting more and more mind fucky. If you were experiencing 9D—you actually are but don’t realise it—youd lack the mental fortitude to appreciate it, since your mind would be needing to be constantly understanding and perceiving 5 additional dimensions beyond time.
nah
I don’t know about 9D, but I once saw Avengers: Age of Ultron in 4D in a theater in Seoul, South Korea. It was a 3D film with moving seats, smells, and air that would blast in your face.
During a car chase, you could smell burning rubber, or close-ups of women would have a whiff of perfume or flowers. During a shootout, you’d get fine blasts of air on either side of your face, like bullets barely missing your head. If someone took a hit, the seats would jolt violently. It also poked you in the back if someone was hit from behind. Not to mention, flying in any aircraft felt like you were on a rollercoaster; the seats would raise and lower and tilt in all directions. It was pretty intense. Like being on one of those Universal Studios rides at their theme park, except for an entire film.
I saw day and the furious something like this. It was ok but not really worth it.
you could smell burning rubber, or close-ups of women would have a whiff of perfume
That sounds horrible
Just wait till the sex scene.
Dude I wish those kinds of theatres were more common. Disney has (or had when I was there last anyway) Honey I Shrunk The Audience and A Bug’s Life as 4D experiences, and those were awesome.
Unfortunately, Honey I shrunk the kids is no more and I heard that they are getting rid of A Bugs Life (although that might just be a retheme)retirement.
The Star Tours ride moves around while you’re in it and the Avatar ride moves and puffs smells while you fly on the back of the flying dragon animals, but I think that’s the closest experience to 4D now.
My dad and brother are going in a couple months but I gotta know: has Star Tours changed at all? I constantly hear rumors that it has more tours you can take, but I’ve heard that since I was 12 it’s always just been the same thing, despite all the posters in the line for other things lol
Read up on Genie Plus, they now have a system where you can get a virtual queue starting at 7 AM on the app that will give you a time window to join a ride (kinda like Fast Pass). Then you have to wait a certain amount of time to join another virtual queue. Some rides, like Tron and Guardians of the Galaxy, are virtual queue only. There is also Lighning Lane, that costs around $16 and let’s you basically skip the line.
I think there’s even a way to link everyone’s accounts together so that you can select the virtual queue or lightning lane for everyone. You definitely can link accounts, so that all your pictures are pushed to everyone’s account. If a picture doesn’t show up from a ride, you can tell them the date, time, and a description of people in the group and they can normally find you and send the pictures into your Disney experience app I hope y’all have a great trip!
Yes, Star Tours has changed. A friend rode it back to back like 6 times and only repeated a couple scenes. The ride has multiple scenes to choose from the prequels, OT, and sequels and it’s all randomized.
Disney’s California Adventure has one that was recommended to us where you fly over parts of California, but it was unimpressive. Also, it apparently was highly dependent upon where they seated you because we were getting perfumes blown right in our faces rather than getting vague wafts of smells like were obviously intended.
This is a PSA but there are a handful of theaters that do 4D called 4DX theaters and you might have one near you if you live in the US. Regal theaters specifically usually have them.
Went and saw Dune Pt2 in theaters and it was actually super fun. Shaking during the fight scenes, wind on your face when out on the dunes, lots of movement riding the sand worm, and water blasts and more.
They’re super fun, look them up and maybe travel to one sometime.
Oh shit. There’s one in Dublin. That’s not too far.
I saw dune 2 in 4dx and I’m going to have to disagree… It was mostly just being mildly shaken, uncomfortably, for 10 seconds as you hope your food and drinks don’t spill in a hard chair. Not to mention expensive, I’m probably never gonna see a 4dx again
It’s not for everyone but mildly shaken is not how I would describe it for me. They would be hard pressed to shake you or move you any faster without a seatbelt. The movie also doesn’t shake you for the entire time, but I’d say it’s on for a good 1/3rd of the movie. I was at my limit with it by the end for sure but that was fine. But maybe it varies from theater to theater.
You’re correct though, they usually are more expensive. I went on a discounted day, my ticket was $14, but they are usually $20 which is double normal rate.
So my advice is: If your movie is available in IMAX, go see it in the room adjacent. Or on a regular screen. Have your soda, popcorn, hotdog, whatever. Be comfortable. Then on another day, preferably discount night, come back to 4DX and don’t get a lot of food and drink. It will make you spill it.
4DX isn’t meant to be comfy and relaxing. It’s an intense experience and isn’t for everyone. It was my second time with the movie though and if you’re going in expecting to be on a rollercoaster the entire time, it’s super fun if you already know the movie. Also, pick your movie carefully. They only do a dozen 4DX movies a year. Horror would be amazing with it but the more action packed, the more shaking. So choose wisely. And if you have kids, this is a must at least one time. They’ll have so much fun.
thanks for the review i’ve been wondering about hese
When I was a kid in the mid-90s, I went to Universal Studios in Orlando and experienced T2-3D: Battle Across Time, their Terminator spinoff story. It was amazing! 3D visuals, spraying mist into the audience as machines are blown apart, and there was audience interaction too, where the story would “leap off the screen” and actors would duke it out in front of us. I always wanted to go back and experience that again, but I guess they finally closed down that ride about a decade ago.
To each their own—I hated a Bugs Life 4D as a kid. Get stung by bees for fun? No thank you!
That sounds awful to experience as a customers, but also sounds like an awesome challenge to pull out convincingly for whoever created it.
I would skip it. Turns out it’s a 3D movie and a gangbang.
1D6 psychic damage from how disappointing this will be.
Dr. Pepper, Dairy Milk, Double Bubble, Dots, diabetes, debt.
There were Dippin’ Dots vending machines in the mall… Like 4 of them. Do people really like Dippin’ Dots that much?
I mean, it is “the ice cream of the future”. From some 30-odd years ago. May want to check the expiration date on that.
They’re basically ice cream styrofoam. They probably last forever. And putting them in vending machines actually makes more sense than having a person handing out specific-size cups of the same 4 flavors in a mall kiosk.
That said, in the attached convention center, they had a Dippin’ Dots kiosk with a person handing out specific-size cups of the same 4 flavors. 🤷
