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Author Topic: Spy kids 4 is it a gimmick? Burleigh Ibbott Film Handler Posts: 46 From: Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, UK Registered: Jul 2006 posted 08-09-2011 04:04 PM                     Not sure what room to put this in. Is it right that spy kids 4 is in 4D? Can anyone tell me if this is a gimmick or something. I say as i got a quick glimpse on kids TV channel before i turned over (as one does when the 3yr old likes to think he commands the remote control again). I saw a picture of kids in a theatre with 3D glasses on holding some box under it suggesting its a scratch and sniff thing. Maybe its with your nose. Has this film been released in the USA yet as i am quite interested in the take up for it if any? Burleigh  |  IP: Logged Frank Cox Film God Posts: 2234 From: Melville Saskatchewan Canada Registered: Apr 2011 posted 08-09-2011 04:40 PM                        It's a 3D movie and customers get a scratch-and-sniff card along with their ticket. (It will also be available as a 2D, also with the scratch-and-sniff card.) The North American release date is August 19. The one-sheet I have up for it says that it's in "4D Aroma-Scope".  |  IP: Logged John Lasher Master Film Handler Posts: 493 From: Newark, DE Registered: Aug 2001 posted 08-09-2011 04:55 PM                        See prior discussion here .  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-09-2011 05:15 PM                        Actually, the whole Spy Kids franchise is a gimmick.  |  IP: Logged Bruce Hansen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 847 From: Stone Mountain, GA, USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 08-09-2011 05:33 PM                     It's 3D AND smell-o-vision. That's a DOUBLE gimmick! Here's what you chould do. Before you go to the therter, have a few drinks and lots of beens. Every time there is a cue to scratch and smiff, let those beens do their thing. FUN!  |  IP: Logged Claude S. Ayakawa Film God Posts: 2738 From: Waipahu, Hawaii, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 08-09-2011 06:18 PM                        BEENS? You mean Beans, don't you? -Claude  |  IP: Logged Bill Enos Film God Posts: 2081 From: Richmond, Virginia, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 08-09-2011 08:17 PM                     I guess the reference is to Farts. Can you throw somebody out for excessive farting? About 15 years ago we had a woman out complaining about another patrons emissions and wanted him to be ejected, we declined to do so and suggested she take another seat further away from the alleged offender.  |  IP: Logged Bruce Hansen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 847 From: Stone Mountain, GA, USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 08-09-2011 08:25 PM                     Beens are new, and much more explosive. OK, so I can't type, or spell.  |  IP: Logged Frank Cox Film God Posts: 2234 From: Melville Saskatchewan Canada Registered: Apr 2011 posted 08-09-2011 08:53 PM                        Some years ago the junk/novelty shop that used to be across the street from my theatre was selling something called a "Fart Bag" -- a plastic bag filled with aromatic air. One day some kids apparently smuggled a bunch of those things in and set them off during the show. The smell was something out of this world. After that I talked to the owner of that shop and asked him to please not sell those things close to my showtime. Never had any more problem with that, so it apparently worked.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 08-10-2011 01:59 AM                     quote: Spy kids 4 is it a gimmick? No, it is just a really bad movie that should never have been greenlighted. Watch this. I rest my case.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 08-10-2011 04:01 AM                        If 3D isn't considered a gimmick, then this should not be considered a gimmick, either. It is every bit as legitimate a form of cinema as 3D is.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-10-2011 11:12 AM                        Not really because this thing requires that you carry a little card, keep track of the card, refer to the card multiple times during the movie and scratch the card in the proper spot. Whereas 3D only requires that you put on the glasses and watch. It's ridiculous though. What's next....Itch-o-vision, where they hand you a card telling you where to scratch yourself? Rain-o-vision, where we activate the emergency sprinkler system whenever there is a rainstorm onscreen?  |  IP: Logged Chase Pickett Expert Film Handler Posts: 142 From: Irving, Texas, USA Registered: Nov 2010 posted 08-10-2011 02:05 PM                     Jessica Alba in Aroma-Scope. I'm nursing a semi.  |  IP: Logged Michael Brown Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1522 From: Bradford, England Registered: May 2001 posted 08-10-2011 04:11 PM                     It's a gimmicky movie from a director who loves gimmicks. If Robert Rodriguez was a proper director instead of this nonsense we would have a release date for Sin City 2.  |  IP: Logged Jim Cassedy Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1661 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Dec 2006 posted 08-10-2011 06:31 PM                     quote: Frank Cox "Fart Bag" -- a plastic bag filled with aromatic air. You can still find these here in San Francisco's Chinatown. I think they contain two chemicals in a glass vial, that when broken, combine to produce a small amount of hydrogen sulfide & ammonia gas. Someone set a couple of them off on the bus I was riding home on one night last year. Phew! They do smell really bad!  |  IP: Logged

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