So how many on here have...

been to the Barnsley Cineworld ? More specifically anyone seen a 4D film there? Many years ago I went to Universal Studios in Florida and the Muppet Theatres 4D show which was a hoot and wondered if the 4XD experience was similar.
Apart from the 3D film itself which kept pausing and animatronics of Stadler and Waldorf in a box near the balcony piped up with how great... good......average......rubbish...boooo... it was. Fozzie bear and other animatronic characters kept appearing in various parts of the theatre and interrupting the film creating general mayhem. We got sprayed with water at times, and the climax was the theatre 'blowing up around us' (obviously not really) but shell holes etc appearing in the walls and smoke and explosion were all around us. Don't know if it is still there..probably not

I have read about 5,6,7D film experiences involving smells, water etc but understand the main thing re 4D is that the seats move and vibrate in sync with the action on certain films. ( Definite potential for porn content!! -although I was once told by an ex that a similar sensation can be had by sitting on the automatic washing machine set on the 'spin cycle')

 

Great idea, maybe we'll be able to use the 4th dimension to escape the doomed Earth and find a replacement planet. I'm all for it.

 

The seats move and theres smells, water and wind. Expensive though.

https://www.cineworld.co.uk/4dx#/more-about

 

I've literally just walked passed and wondered if it was open yet.

 

Get thissen in, Kes's on.

 

When does it start that?

 

I bought a 3D tv to watch golf on ,brilliant for 6 months until ESPN who had the rights packed it in and no one else took it up

 

Cheaper to pop round to @Stephen Dawson's and watch the telly there. The seats don't move, but there's no shortage of smells, water and wind.

 

I havn"t been but I used to go to the " Futurist Cinema " in Elsecar in the fifties & sixties & I once had a seat that still had some foam left in the cushion, luxury !!! They don"t make em like that these days

 

Reight local picture experience, when we went , sure the same person took the money, was the projectionist and came round with the ice creams

 

I bought an unlimited card when it first opens, so I’ve been 20+ times already. Avatar in IMAX 3D was pretty stunning. The ScreenX, where you have screens down either side of you, as well as at the front, was okay, but didn’t really add much to the two films I saw there. I don’t think either of them were really filmed with that in mind though. I probably won’t go to that screen again, unless something is specifically shot to be displayed in that format.

I haven’t been to 4D there though, as I can’t cope with it. I took my lad to the one at Centretainment to see the last Star Wars film. I honestly couldn’t tell you what happened in the film though, cos I was in so much pain and discomfort throughout. I should never have gone there in the first place really. The problem wasn’t so much being thrown around, it was the bits that poke out into your back/neck during the fight scenes that did for me. I had a spinal cord tumour removed 19 years ago. It was right at the top of my spinal cord, so the surgeons had to remove the back of a couple of vertebrae in my neck to get to it. I have a load of problems anyway, such as lots of neck/back pain and reduced feeling below my neck, but with nothing to protect the back of my neck, each time the chair poked me it was pretty much putting direct pressure onto my spinal cord. So not only was it absolute agony, I was having electric shooting pains going down all 4 limbs and was gradually losing what was left of my feeling/power below my neck. I should have got up and left really, but my son was having a whale of a time, so I didn’t want to let him down. Walking back for the tram afterwards was…interesting, to say the least. My son had to hold on to me and I must have looked like I was pissed!

To be honest though, I found the movement aspect of the 4D a bit rubbish. Every time there was a space battle you’d get thrown around, but there was no correlation between what was happening on the screen and the movements your chair was making, so it wasn’t like one of those rides you get on Scarborough front, where it simulates you being on a rollercoaster, etc. It was completely random. It made focusing on what was happening on the screen pretty much impossible.

The unlimited card for Cineworld is the best thing I’ve bought in ages. As I am no longer able to work it’s been nice to go down there in the afternoon, where I’m often the only person in the theatre. I’ve watched nearly all the films that have been shown there since it opened, Bullet Train being my favourite. The annual ticket only cost me £12 and £60 worth of Tesco vouchers. Seeing two of my all time favourite films in the next few days. Casablanca tonight and Kes on Saturday. I’ve been waiting to show Kes to my lad, as I wanted to wait until I thought he’d understand it more, and therefore enjoy it more. He’s 12 now, so it should be a perfect time to watch it and it’s been in a pile of Blu Rays we’ve been working our way through over the past few months, so I am glad we hadn’t got to it yet. I know he’s going to love the Brian Glover scene, but he’s a sensitive soul, so I can’t see him being very impressed with what Judd does. I’ll take a hanky!

 

Went there with a mate ,late 60s , the film was boring about people stranded in the desert. We worked a thirst up watching it so we nipped out and went across to “ the clothiers “ for a quick pint then went back in for the second film.

 

Is that 19 years already? Back of your neck did look like a scene from Alien. Don't watch that in 4D.
That's great value though, shame we don't have a bus in Wentworth..

 

That happened at Mapp pictures as well lol

 

& rats to keep your feet warm..

 

Is it in colour ?

 

Went in the late '90s to Penistone cinema . Talked a few Performing Arts Students from Barnsley college to go and watch an old 'foreign' film - Cinema Paradiso- (one of my favourites of all time). Not one of those fancy chains .nor a dedicated Cinema and a bit like the Civic Hall hall no tiered seating , sound pretty mediocre as was the projection althogh it was I believe still a film projector with real film rather than digital source that we have now. Nevertheless I remember it was great with a bar and friendly staff. Proper old fashioned cinema which showed a lot of vintage stuff in betewwen the run of teh mill blockbuster stuff.

Nice to see the new cinema showing showing classics like Kes and Casablanca where they were intended to be viewed on the big screen rather than TV. I have a home cinema 4K /3D setup with 8 speaker surround sound because cinemas here, obviously, dont show many films in English. I just prefer projected images with films over large screen TVs as there is something about the light projected and displayed as the director intended.

 

Oops, I was a bit premature; 9th to 15th December.
In the 4D section you get added bird 5hit and that skanky, acrid smell of late 60's / early 70's PE towels.

 

Ice Cold in Alex?

 

Might well have been. The pint was better than the film.