Thrill Ride: The Science of Fun

1997
5.7| 0h30m| en
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How to create the imagination of movement for fun parks is the theme of this documentary. Although engineers try and try to create machines that shake, tilt, turn, lift and drop people in a way that fools their senses, the real McCoy cannot be imitated: Roller Coasters just let you experience movement much, much more intense than everything else - even on the screen.

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SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction
Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.
Bessie Smyth Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.
Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.
Dalbert Pringle This 40-minute documentary really didn't spend too much time when it came to out-lining the evolution of the amusement park "thrill ride" from the past. No, it didn't.Instead it zoomed in at full-throttle on the high-tech, 3-D, motion-simulator rides of today that feature super-awesome CGI effects by such tech-wiz designers as Ben Stassen (this documentary's director).In these state-of-the-art thrill rides (that use NASA technology) - "Illusion" is, of course, everything.So (if you've got a big-screen TV set) - Buckle up, sit back, and hold onto your seats for a total adrenaline rush on the ultimate, amusement park, thrill ride of them all.*Note* - The one thing that seriously marred this documentary was the irritating "old miner" character who repeatedly popped up in this otherwise entertaining presentation to offer his worthless and unwelcome remarks to the audience.
Opie-7 First off, "Thrill Ride", like many other IMAX movies, is a DOCUMENTARY. In my opinion, "Thrill Ride" was a great DOCUMENTARY. It talks about the progress of amusement park rides and the creation of flight simulators. It takes you on a rollercoaster, and some simulated rides.But I keep hearing people complain that it wasn't the "WHITE KNUCKLE" movie experience that they expected to see. The title itself, "Thrill Ride: THE SCIENCE OF FUN" is a dead giveaway that the movie is about the science of thrill rides, thus a DOCUMENTARY.Overall, the images were outstanding, the narration was boring, the sound was great, and the "prospector" tour-guide was annoying, but funny.
ldsky The movie was not what I expected they only took you on one rollercoaster. I wanted to at least go on a simulated ride of 3 or 4 rollercoasters not just 1. They also should have used someone else to narrate because the charater was distacting and annoying. They also did not give names and locations of the rides they showed. To much detail about the effects and not enough on the rides themselves.
bcsiegfr I expected to see a movie about thrill ride. What I saw was an interminable advertisement for the new cinedome/imax "rides" that cost so much money at places like Las Vegas. There was only the barest minimum about actual roller coasters. Most people leaving the theatre expressed the same disappointment. Most of us who care already have an idea of what goes into rendering. The rest of the people just wanted to have some fun. All were disappointed...