#d box

AND I WAS SO ENTERTAINED YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOLY CRAP.

First, the movie was beyond what I expected. 90% of movies blow the entire plot in the trailer these days, Godzilla did not. Second, I thought Cranston was gonna be the main dude, he was not. Third, for $20 a seat, D-Box damn well better have been worth it, and it was.

I want this review to be more about D-Box than Godzilla, since you can read a better review of Godzilla anywhere on the internet, and you can get non-D-Box seats cheap for a matinee so you can see for yourself. That being said, if you've never been in a D-Box seat before, you will be so happy if your first go with it is at Godzilla. The D-Box seats are hella comfy, and come pretty far up your back. I'm a touch over six feet tall, average leg-to-torso ratio, and the top half of my head was the only thing not covered by the back of the chair when I sat straight up in it. The seats all have a small touchpad to the right of the seat of the chair that displays your seat number (the seats are reserved so the nice backlit screens help find your assigned seat quickly), and then allows you to adjust the motion strength in 4 steps (off, low, medium, high). I cranked mine up as soon as I realized I could. Some of the trailers were D-Box enabled which gives you time to adjust the effect to your liking before the movie starts. Most of the movements for the trailers and the movie were side-to-side and vibratory, though it seemed like other directions were occurring too, though that could have been a psychosomatic effect, I haven't looked into the chairs movement axes.

ANYWAYS, the motion track for every movie is designed specifically for the movie, so the still parts are still (though sometimes the chair will sway with the camera), and the fast, action-ey parts are fast and action-ey. The fact that the chair vibrates on impacts and explosions alone was enough to sell me on having a great time at Godzilla, it was like the first time you strapped a Rumble Pak™ to your winged N64™ controller and played a rousing game of GoldenEye©. It pulls you so much further into the movie. And while the swaying sometimes seemed unnecessary, there were a lot of points in the movie where being slowly moved to one side and than jerked back really fucking rocked. There was one part of the movie where Godzilla throws an important thing into a building and with the chair there it made the scene soooooooo much more intense. For realsies. I'm not lying.

THAT ALL BEING SAID.

D-Box can be a really cool technology, however, the motion track for whatever movie would have to be really, really amazing to convince me to drop $20 bucks again. Matinee price, maybe, but other than that it's just not worth the upcharge. Some parts of the movie could have used more motion, and I can't help but think that if D-Box doesn't pick up the pace or lower their prices so they don't have to charge as much per ticket, no studios are gonna put up the money to have someone design a decent motion track, and they'll just get worse with time. HOWEVER that's just me rambling. It's awesome tech, I hope it catches on, I hope it gets cheaper, I hope it gets more immersive. It's totally worth checking out, if it's not your thing, I totally get that. But I thought it was awesome.