Have you ever wanted a more sensory-involving movie viewing experience? Well, you’re in luck then. All you have to do is be in Tokyo and sit through the adventure film The New World.
Yes, smell-o-vision is here! This is the real deal — scent spraying, not the scratch-and-sniff thing tryed a while back. A Japanese movie theater has fragrance-spraying devices underneath the seats. The scents come from oils stored there.
The first film to get this nose-pleasing treatment is The New World starring Colin Farrell. The emitted scents are to accompany critical emotional moments. For instance, floral = love scene, peppermint and rosemary = sadness, tea tree and herbs = anger, citrus = joy. This kind of actually makes me want to see The New World.
This sounds pretty cool, or should I say, smells pretty cool. I wonder when they’ll start introducing bad smells into the line-up though. Hopefully they won’t use this smell-o-vision for the eating beans around the campfire scene in Blazing Saddles. No, that’s just gross.
By sumiyoshipilgrim on April 13, 2006 at 6:51 pm
Cool new site design!
By Shay on April 13, 2006 at 7:01 pm
Thanks! It’s currently ‘in-progress’ still. Hopefully I’ll get all back to stability soon. ^_^
By bentong on April 13, 2006 at 10:46 pm
Thumbs-up for the new design! : )
By Miki on April 14, 2006 at 9:17 am
Hey thanks for the comment in my blog too, linked you :-)
Anyway, I kinda have opposite opinions about this “new invention”. What about a movie with lots of farting contents? haha! :-D
By Shay on April 14, 2006 at 11:57 am
Miki,
Thanks & I’ll link to you.
…A movie with farting? That’s the scene from the movie “Blazing Saddles” that I mentioned at the end. If they did this for that movie people would be terrified. hehe
By Mister Moy on April 14, 2006 at 5:07 pm
That’s beyond awesome.
By Nico on April 15, 2006 at 12:27 pm
Dude thats awesome!!