'Pay to Smell Shit' -- Iron Man 3 in Nagoya

[Taro Toporific]

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Iron Man 3 to Get Smell-Enhanced Screenings in Japan
Wired.com | 04.17.13
...Iron Man 3 in smell-o-vision. It’s not actually called “smell-o-vision” – that’s so last century – but according to The Hollywood Reporter the film will be shown in a theater in Nagoya in 4DX. This “fourth dimension” experience will offer wind, fog, tilting seats, and odor effects. It’s unclear exactly what the smells themselves will be...
...The odor-enhanced screenings, which later this month in the central Japan town, will cost an additional 1,300 yen (about $13) on top of the regular ticket price for 3-D films...
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PRIOR ART..."Pay to Smell Shit"...

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...The original Scratch ‘n’ Sniff, ODORAMA
Card from John Waters’ Polyester, 1981.
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[Screwed-down Hairdo]

I can pretty much guarantee whoever attends the same theater as me is going to be able to enjoy some sort of malevolent odor whose relevance to the story on screen is guaranteed to be purely coincidental...

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Does Iron Man have anything to do with Thatcher?

[yanpa]

It's about her less well-known identical twin who was the first woman to break into the male-dominated, international bodybuilding scene, until she overdid the testosterone shots.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

It's about her less well-known identical twin who was the first woman to break into the male-dominated, international bodybuilding scene, until she overdid the testosterone shots.

Crickey! I thought that was Arnold Schwarzenegger!

[Coligny]

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PRIOR ART..."Pay to Smell Shit"...

Polyester_Odorama.jpg

...The original Scratch ‘n’ Sniff, ODORAMA
Card from John Waters’ Polyester, 1981.
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It's that movie where Divine eats dog poop fresh out his bunghole ?

[wagyl]

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PRIOR ART..."Pay to Smell Shit"...

Polyester_Odorama.jpg

...The original Scratch ‘n’ Sniff, ODORAMA
Card from John Waters’ Polyester, 1981.
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It's that movie where Divine eats dog poop fresh out his bunghole ?

My understanding was that it was out of the gutter, but fresh and real. They didn't have the budget to make fake.

Edited to add: why did I think to fact check on youtube? I should get with the times and lower journalistic standards. To save you having to look too, it is very very very fresh.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

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PRIOR ART..."Pay to Smell Shit"...

Polyester_Odorama.jpg

...The original Scratch ‘n’ Sniff, ODORAMA
Card from John Waters’ Polyester, 1981.
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It's that movie where Divine eats dog poop fresh out his bunghole ?

My understanding was that it was out of the gutter, but fresh and real. They didn't have the budget to make fake.

Edited to add: why did I think to fact check on youtube? I should get with the times and lower journalistic standards. To save you having to look too, it is very very very fresh.

I don't know what's worse....Divine eating fresh dogshit or the hit song he had a few years after this.
I didn't know he was German, though...

[wagyl]

I suppose you are using the definition "into scat" = "undeniably German." Rather than being into scat per se, I think it was more that, egged on by the writer/producer/director, he was "into being outrageous" which, while not ruling out the possibility of being German, may well just mean that he was born in Baltimore.

Returning this to Japan, requires a crafty segue....

You mentioned Divine's single, produced by Stock Aitken Waterman

Also produced by SAW...

who reinvented herself as Suzuki Anju and doesn't talk about her past.

[Coligny]

My understanding was that it was out of the gutter, but fresh and real. They didn't have the budget to make fake.

Edited to add: why did I think to fact check on youtube? I should get with the times and lower journalistic standards. To save you having to look too, it is very very very fresh.

I didn't exactly wanted to see that again...

[Taro Toporific]

Multisensory Version of Iron Man 3 in Japan Is a Gimmicky Waste of $28 million
WIRED.com | 2013April30
--It must have looked great on paper. People like movies. People like amusement park rides. Why not show people a movie in an motorized seat? Better still, why not throw in smoke machines and fans and turn the movie-going experience into a two-hour ride? Yet the so-called 4DX experience, which debuted in Nagoya, Japan last weekend at a showing of Iron Man 3, is a drag…
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…the experience is fundamentally flawed because it interferes with the simple act of watching a film. A 3-D film can often seem a little blurry thanks to the layered images, but it’s even blurrier when your head is shaking back and forth. The action sequences, the ones you ostensibly came to see in 3-D on a big screen, are nearly impossible to appreciate thanks to all the constant, jarring seat motions. The only time I did appreciate the 3-D was when during the squirting effects. At least then then glasses kept the water out of my eyes…
{snip}
…the 4DX managed to interfere with the basic logistics of consuming snacks or drinks. When the aforementioned effects-introduction began, my soda was nearly launched into the next row. Rather than risk an embarrassing spill, I decided to just scarf it all down in-between action scenes.
On an even simpler level, 4DX means there’s nowhere to put your stuff. The seats move up and down so much it’s too risky to leave anything bigger than an umbrella under your feet. Anything in your lap is a potential projectile, meaning you cling to it for dear life or kiss it goodbye. It’s like flying through turbulence without the courtesy of an overhead compartment or even a seat pocket.
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