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Mike Blakesley
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posted 06-20-2018 12:24 PM

quote: Adam Martin
One of the bad guys uses the effect to hypnotize other characters. The effect is used heavily in several scenes throughout.

Well if that's true, then Disney's letter is misleading.... it clearly says the movie contains "A sequence of flashing lights."

How many of these sequences are there, anyway? I was thinking it was just one short scene. (I haven't had a chance to watch the movie yet.)

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Adam Martin
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posted 06-20-2018 09:01 PM

There is one initial prolonged sequence and several shorter sequences. I saw it last night in a Dolby Cinema and found it pretty intense with the ability for black to be very dark.

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Michael Gonzalez
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posted 06-21-2018 02:40 PM

We had a young adult female have a seizure last night but they were in Deadpool not IC2. I think we had 4 cases of seizures during Breaking Dawn pt1. I also once had a customer (who actually later became an employee) pass out in the bathroom after leaving the auditorium during the first Hostel movie (and yes because of his reaction to the content).

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Alexandre Pereira
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posted 06-21-2018 09:34 PM

Now this is what going to the movies is all about! Barfin' and a spazin' and freaking right out - bring on the strobes and watch the kids flip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzBb1J_P1HM

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Adam Martin
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posted 06-21-2018 09:53 PM

It looks like Disney is issuing a DCP to insert before the short warning about the content.

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Mike Blakesley
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posted 06-21-2018 10:55 PM

quote: Michael Gonzalez
We had a young adult female have a seizure last night but they were in Deadpool not IC2. I think we had 4 cases of seizures during Breaking Dawn pt1. I also once had a customer (who actually later became an employee) pass out in the bathroom after leaving the auditorium during the first Hostel movie (and yes because of his reaction to the content).

Wow...everything happens in cities. I've been here going on 43 years and we've never had anything like this happen.

We've had a couple of faintings over the years, and one bloody nose I remember, and that's it. (Knock wood.)

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Martin Brooks
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posted 06-28-2018 02:22 AM

quote: Marcel Birgelen
A few years back it happened to a colleague of mine back at the office. It's indeed a pretty shocking sight and besides calling the ambulance and ensuring the victim doesn't get hurt anymore there's little you can do at that moment.

Nobody, including him knew he was susceptible to it and we never really managed to identify the cause. He just collapsed in front of his desk and continued to have some pretty spastic seizures for a couple of minutes before finally passing out.

That wasn't necessarily photo-sensitive epilepsy. Not all epilepsy is photo-sensitive - in fact most isn't.

If a person is having a seizure, the only thing that should be done is to turn their head sideways so they don't swallow their tongue. In many cases, they're biting down on their tongue anyway and therefore, they can't swallow it.

If you have an employee who has had a seizure, they should definitely be encouraged to see a neurologist and they should not be operating any equipment where they would be in danger if they had another seizure. And they shouldn't be driving or standing near edges of train platforms, etc.

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