Plugged in, virtually like The Matrix, in front of 8 massive flat screens with constantly rolling audio-visual movie stimulation and Big Brother style cameras watching and monitoring their eyes and body movement, Neo-like movie buffs gathered yesterday in the Cavendish shopping mall in Cape Town for an M-Net Movies Marathon competition.
In a specially designed and custom-built octa-petal movie powered diarama, eight movie buffs sat back in Challenger Shuttle-style recliners, headphones on, and each watching the unending movies unspooling in front of them.
Each one, through a lucky drawn, got one of the eight new movie TV channels on MultiChoice's DStv to watch (and appropriately colour-coded): M-Net Movies Premiere, M-Net Movies Comedy, M-Net Movies Family, M-Net Movies Action+, M-Net Movies Stars, M-Net Movies Showcase, M-Net Drama and Romance and M-Net Action.
The lucky one of the eight who could keep watching the longest would win an unbelievably big and flat flatscreen TV, a DStv HD PVR and a Mozambique holiday.
On Saturday night when I visited and as the press as onlookers gawked and chattered behind them, the eight, strapped in like little babi brother in his car-seaty with popcorn, drinkeys, blankeys and hovering event monitors, kept watching movie after movie after movie.
As DStv in Randburg kept track through remote securicams as to who was still
Juan-Marc Scrimgeour is a 26-year-old IT security consultant, was eventually the winner on Sunday morning of the M-Net Movies Marathon in Cape Town.
With Cape Town now completed which was first, the M-Net Movies Marathon competition moves to Durban and the Gateway shopping centre on 10 and 11 November, with the M-Net Movies Marathon coming to Sandton on 17 and 18 November and Soweto's Maponya Mall on 24 and 25 November.
