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4DX - What Is It And Would Spielberg Approve?

Will 4DX Shake Up The Cinema Experience? A few days ago I was lucky enough to attend a gala opening of a 4DX screen at Cineworld, Spytty in Newport South Wales .  Actually, the cinema is the first in Wales to not only have a 4DX screen but a Superscreen and Screen X too. What is 4DX? But I was there for the 4DX and this would be my first taste of this latest experience.  So what is 4DX?  Well, if you've been to a theme park and you've been in one of those special movie showings  like the Terminator at Universal or The Muppets at Disneyland where you feel the chair move, get sprayed with water and have wind blown in your face then you are only half way there. I say half way there because the effects that you experience for a movie at Cineworld seem to be more clever and intense.  I was there to watch Midway from the ID4 director, Roland Emmerich so I was expecting a lot of dog-fights and ocean scenes.  I was not disappointed.  A plane woul...