No innovative blockbuster is complete withits very own Zea mays everta bucket . It ’s a trend that ’s been happen for a few years but rose to viral levels whenDune : Part Tworeleased onethat , well , looked like a sex activity plaything . Since then , the Zea mays everta bucket warshave assume theatergoers onall type of adventuresand now the latest one , for Ridley Scott’sGladiator II , is adding a whole unexampled element .
Coming solely to Cinemark theaters , theGladiator IIpopcorn bucket is n’t just a popcorn bucketful influence like the Roman Colosseum at the centre of the dealership . It also has an AR element that permit you to watch an genuine battle bump inside the Colosseum itself … just hopefully not while you are still in the theatre .
you could watch over a little instance below from theGladiator IIsocial media news report .
The Gladiator II popcorn bucket goes above and beyond.Image: Cinemark
Finish the popcorn , read the codification , and allow the biz commence . Experience your own augmented reality prizefighter conflict with the#GladiatorIIPopcorn AR - ENA Bucket . Get yours at@Cinemarkopening weekend and get slate today.pic.twitter.com/qINBIfJhg2
— Gladiator Movie ( @GladiatorMovie)October 22 , 2024
So the idea here is you order theGladiator IIpopcorn bucket , finish the popcorn , then after the movie scan the AR code and watch the engagement . Which , we have to admit , is not a uncollectible idea . It does promote phone use of goods and services with something you could only buy through a moving picture theater , which is n’t majuscule , but the idea of extending the story out of the theater is a good one . Plus , in term of existent popcorn receptacles , the Colosseum is one of the well - shaped buckets yet . Plus it is by all odds nonsexual , which we ca n’t say aboutevery Zea mays everta bucketful release this class .
Overall though , what the 2024 popcorn bucketful wars — with such films asDune : Part TwoandDeadpool & Wolverine , but alsoGhostbusters : Frozen Empire , Terrifier 3 , Beetlejuice Beetlejuice , and others — have done is given multitude another reason to go to the movies . Not only do you get bighearted screener and good sound , but now you’re able to get collectible too and that ’s a smart add .
One thing that might brook out in the instance ofGladiator IIthough is the subject affair . All the other films mentioned below were sci - fi , illusion , and blockbuster transportation . Gladiator IIcertainly has blockbuster potential but it ’s much more of an awards - lure play than anything else . Will audiences who show up to seeGladiator IIcare about this popcorn bucket or even its AR phylogenesis ? Will they even know what AR is ? It just seems like an odd mating of forward - thinking with a safe sequel .
TheGladiator IIpopcorn bucket will be usable soon . Keep an eyeon Cinemark ’s social medium . Gladiator IIis in field of operations on November 22 .
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