New Motion Seats at Frank Theatres Let You Feel the Films

Frank Theatres is the first movie theater company on the East Coast to introduce motion effect seats. The Montgomeryville location has 30 seats in one theater, available Friday evening

For 20 minutes on Friday morning, I was Vin Diesel and Paul Walker in "Fast Five." I felt the punches thrown. I felt the acceleration of the vehicles. I felt the tingling of the car engine being revved. I felt the impact of trucks and cars crashing into buildings and trains.  And when the screen panned back or revolved around an object, my seat moved back and hula-hooped in a circle. At one point, I was also part of the group on the front of a runaway train in "The Polar Express" animated film. The seat I was in rumbled with each hit of the roller-coaster train track at one scene in the film. "It's its own script," said Frank Theatres Montgomeryville Stadium 12 manager Russell Davis. "It moves with the movie." This new seat technology at …

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