Given that Yours Truely watched the 4-D version two weeks after the 3-D version and with a different theater company implies that the first-time awe was absent during the 4-D version and the picture at the 4-D plex viewed at was of a lower quality than that of the 3-D plex attended by this viewer.
Those two factors ignored, we still have one issue to be brought up and that is, the extra dimension (not time; rather, 4 of your senses). A 4-D experience, unlike lesser theaters which only offer candy to your visual and audio receptors, invites your feel and smell senses to the show.
The romantic scene at the Tree of Souls was accompanied by a very pleasant aroma. That, or, everybody ate flowers for lunch that day.
With every step during an action packed running sequence, and with every flap of a wing during flight, and with every explosion, the chairs vibrate and move like the Back to the Future Ride at Universal Studios, Hollywood.
These extra senses, although much obliged to attend, distracted attention that the eyes and ears were focusing in on, like a couple of bad students telling funny jokes behind you as you are listening to an interesting lecture: the shaking seats are fun, but they dim the power of the viewers imagination of actual flight or running as the shaking is spoonfeeding you the general idea, and now your mind is no longer troubled by creating the imagination. That, and, one might be wide-eyed and open jawed and locked into the scene and then boom, the seats shake and you ejected from your trance. The aroma contributes a similar distraction.
[Once again, this viewers experience while watching the 3-D version is biased because it was his first time watching the film and the screen and sound was bigger and the 3-D picture and glasses were in higher definition]
Given that Yours Truely watched the 4-D version two weeks after the 3-D version and with a different theater company implies that the first-time awe was absent during the 4-D version and the picture at the 4-D plex viewed at was of a lower quality than that of the 3-D plex attended by this viewer.
Those two factors ignored, we still have one issue to be brought up and that is, the extra dimension (not time; rather, 4 of your senses). A 4-D experience, unlike lesser theaters which only offer candy to your visual and audio receptors, invites your feel and smell senses to the show.
The romantic scene at the Tree of Souls was accompanied by a very pleasant aroma. That, or, everybody ate flowers for lunch that day.
With every step during an action packed running sequence, and with every flap of a wing during flight, and with every explosion, the chairs vibrate and move like the Back to the Future Ride at Universal Studios, Hollywood.
These extra senses, although much obliged to attend, distracted attention that the eyes and ears were focusing in on, like a couple of bad students telling funny jokes behind you as you are listening to an interesting lecture: the shaking seats are fun, but they dim the power of the viewers imagination of actual flight or running as the shaking is spoonfeeding you the general idea, and now your mind is no longer troubled by creating the imagination. That, and, one might be wide-eyed and open jawed and locked into the scene and then boom, the seats shake and you ejected from your trance. The aroma contributes a similar distraction.
[Once again, this viewers experience while watching the 3-D version is biased because it was his first time watching the film and the screen and sound was bigger and the 3-D picture and glasses were in higher definition]