Friday, July 28, 2006

Dolby Surround 5.2

Yeah, we all heard of dolby surround 5.1, 7.1, THX and the lot. But have any of you had the exquisite experience of sitting in a cinema with Dolby surround 5.1 + 0.1? Ah... I had the experience tonight. Cyrene, Matt and me got together for a movie... Pirates 2. In we went into the theather with me stuffing myself full of pop corn. The lights dim.... and out of the corner of my eye, a girl sat next to me.. and I thought.. hello! this seems promising. The movie started and beofre I knew it, Ms. dolby surround + 0.1 started screaming with the littlest of scares from the movie. And I mean real screams.. not like one of those sheepish yelps you get when u step from a toy dog's tail... this was full blown scream. Over the course of the movie, any little exciting or nervous scecne... Ms. Dolby Surround would grace me with her + 0.1 sound effects.... and it was annoying. I can understand if we were watching a horror movie like Ju-on, The Ring or even Shaylaman's movies..but c'mon, Pirates of the Carribean 2? You got to be kidding me!
At one point in the movie, as she was again contributing her Dolby Surround + 0.1 screams, she was quaking with fear. I thought she was going into a seizure. In my opinion, I think she doesnt watch movies much..... how on earth can you not expect something to happen when the charaters says that there is something going to happen.... sheesh!
Anyway, what Cyrene and Matt says is true... she got her money's worth. She got the full experience of movie watching and she was fully engrossed into the movie plot, sub plots and sub-sub plots. After that.... I felt cheated of my money... as I didnt have the same experience. ;) Maybe I shall try to squeel abit in Pirates 3.... and if Ms. Dolby is around.... then it will be a world's first dolby surround 5.1 + 0.2 :P and that I pray will not happen......

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