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Well good, then! Especially the ears!

Hmmm I'd still take it as cautious confirmation. People who aren't into film scores often get... confused? Haha. To them things sound "the same" or "close enough" in their brains, often. Not saying he's wrong. Just that he may not be right.

Yeah I am not sure why they didn't just release the extended cut in theaters before putting it on streaming. They totally would have pushed it to the billion dollar mark if they had. Look at what happened with Spider-Man No Way Home when they did that.

If you mean the GEMA list, no, it's not chronological.

I don't understand the negativity around this poster/the film itself apart from the music. What did anyone expect?

I shall! And part 3 as well. Both parts feature some never-before-seen art and video footage, along with his great recollections.

Well next week's part 2 goes into a second game he had planned to do to make up for Trespasser. It was a sequel to the original trilogy of films. He called it... JURASSIC WORLD. Sound familiar? Except it was only a game. But then it didn't get made... but ideas from it got absorbed into the new trilogy.

Don't you mean the last?

This may be a little random but here it is anyway. I interviewed the creator of the XBOX who once worked on a game for THE LOST WORLD called TRESPASSER. And during the conversation I bring up the game's wonderful music score by Bill Brown. And, well... Seamus brings up something interesting Bill said about John Williams that may make ya'll angry at first, haha. But just keep listening. The moment happens at around 26:23.

I think I would have preferred that, honestly.

*Renames thread title to: The Weather Channel*

It's been nearly 105 F degrees, or more, every day where I am.

All signs they need to just do one more season... and no more, lol. I think I only have it in me for one more at this point, no matter if its good or not. I feel like there is only so much further they could got at this point, especially. And how will everyone react if it DOESN'T get another season (which is a real possibility, especially since the finale already aired and we still haven't heard anything)? Would you feel satisfied enough? I wouldn't, really. I think if it doesn't get a proper ending at this point, I would honestly just regard Seasons 1 and 2 as the show and probably never watch Seasons 3-4 again. In a way they almost do feel like two different shows when split in the middle.

Honestly, I feel like the film would have been better with something like John Williams Dracula score. And I am not just saying that as a John Williams fan! Haha. I think it would have fit the movie a lot better, like you are saying. Since they played up that dark romance angle.

Oh yeah! There was boobies! I guess I paid it no mind, being gay and all. ALTHOUGH I did notice "the penis" on "the men" was always covered up in "clever" framing setups! So ya'll get to have your "boobies" but I don't get to have "the penis". No wonder us gays finally started a revolt!

Some of these confused mysteries are likely why people stopped with this show altogether (as the low viewing numbers clearly show they have). And I remember people having issues with LOST! Hah! That was nothing compared to this! I still am enjoying this show enough to see it play out, but I admit at this point they may even be confusing themselves or forgetting their own mysteries, perhaps. I think another problem is how meaningless death is on the show. They made a big deal about Dolores dying, making it all dramatic and etc, but then who do we see right away in Season 4? Sure, it's not really the same version of her that "died". But it still is part of this precedent of "Oh, 'So and So' just died. Set the clock now, I wonder when they'll come back." I fully expect to see "another version" of Hale and William in Season 5, if there is one; for example. I'll be more surprised if we don't than if we do at this point.

So, first of all thank you everyone for your responses! This prompted me to do what felt like the most sensible thing: see the movie, lol. Luckily it was easy to do. The longer cut is on the Tubi app for free if anyone is curious, but it is also on Shudder for anyone who has that (I currently do because I want to see Phil Tippett's "Mad God", but haven't gotten around to it yet since I am told it is... really gross. Hahaha. So I need to be in the right mood.). The movie is... well it's a strange one for sure, haha! And I am all about strange! I love sci-fi movies from any era (hell one of my favorite sci-fi films is Metropolis from 1925). But I don't know... something was really off about this movie. I think the directing and pacing? The concept was great, I just don't think it was executed incredibly well, apart from some cool scenes of the life-sucked people looking appropriately gross and creepy. I think this is a film that would benefit from a remake/reimagining honestly. Before you throw food at me, movies like John Carpenter's THE THING or David Cronenberg's THE FLY are some prime examples of just how good remakes can be. I am glad you all warned me about Mancini's main titles being a bit misleading since... dear God, it was! LOL. I think it popped up maybe a couple more times before the end credits? And when it did, it felt HORRIBLY out of place in the film to me! It was used as some "vampire zombies" were leaping onto a helicopter as the lead characters were getting away from the city, during the third act. It just felt... way tonally off. It robbed any suspense that sequence could have had. Honestly, the more I hear that awesome "main title theme", it seriously doesn't go with the movie at all. It feels more akin to a fun western or something. Not this wild movie about space vampires! I'm not sure what the thought process was, to be honest. Did the director want this adventurous theme, or was it the composer's doing? The rest of the score was interesting/good though! It was sometimes hard to tell who did what music while watching it, but I was able to pick out some of Kamen's (he has a style I am a little familiar with from other scores he has done). And don't get me wrong, I like Mancini as well! It's just so odd that his theme, that honestly sucked me right in as soon as I heard it, was so "miscast" for this score. This is all just my views/opinion of course. I am thankful you all gave me the heads up to check this out first. I don't regret seeing the movie! But, I think I may pass on the score releases overall. However, let me know if they contain a lot more music NOT in the film that would be worth visiting, since that is my only source of hearing it so far!

Yeaaaaah, to me it was all a bit too messy by the end, like you said. Like I was literally confused "OH! So this is a bigger deal than I thought!". LOL. And I bet we won't get any concrete answers to those questions you raised. In a way, it sort of did feel like a series finale? I mean all the main characters are "dead". Dolores is just in the system and not even in the "real world". And they kind of imply what she plans to do next. So it's this weird in-between of a cliffhanger and a inferred conclusion. Honestly, with the way it ended, I am not sure how they would really go about the next season at all, if there is one.

Honestly, my memory isn't accurate enough to answer that definitively. However, I do recall hearing the "ride music" in the queue at Hollywood when Botanicus appears, and MAYBE pieces of it in the ride itself. I could be wrong about it being in Florida's now, since I only went on it once while I was there and was too caught up in my nostalgia to remember. I just know for sure about the Botanicus appearance in the queue being when I had heard it in Hollywood. I think someone else on this forum is pretty knowledgeable about the ride (forget who). They had said that other music that played in the queue/ride came from alternates that were finally released in LLL's set. But yes, at least one piece from the ride that remains unreleased is that wild music that plays when you see all the ETs haha. But if I recall, it wasn't made by Williams himself? So that may be why.

This season was definitely an improvement over Season 3, but I still am not sure I liked where this show went after Season 2. However, I am still on board enough where I definitely do want one more season... but JUST one more. I hope they will be able to make a good ending for what they have set up here, even though it's still not what I really wanted or expected. But that's just me. I will say probably my biggest criticism is that for me it was unclear the whole season if it was JUST this city that was under Hale's control, or if it was indeed the whole world. By the end I do think they made it clear the whole world ended up being infected, but I guess it still just didn't feel that way until it was merely said. This is a case where I think "show VS tell" would have been better (since we only see the control and the carnage in and around the city), but I understand it was a limited TV show budget. I guess the stakes were just uncertain for me until the end? Speaking of budget, I felt like the effects weren't as polished this season like they were in others. I imagine their budget decreased after Season 3... and I shudder to think how low it could go if they do get to make another one. I did love the Dolores stuff, and the music in all of her scenes, too. It was some of the best stuff I'd seen in a while, and it was really cool how her story played out (even though that too got a little confusing in the final episode, I still managed to make sense of it).

I am not familiar with this film or score at all, but I will say when I heard the Kamen music in that "trailer" Intrada made, I thought it was nice. But then I heard the Mancini music in the other one, and thought it was GREAT. I may not purchase either for a while until I get a better education on the film and score(s), but I do wonder if I will lean toward just wanting the Mancini album more than the Kamen additional music since that was my reaction?

The ET ride... I loved that thing as a kid. I live a few hours away from Universal Studios Hollywood, so I went to that version before it was torn down (like a year after they updated it for the first Anniversary re-release of the film with the CGI effects!). It was replaced by The Mummy (which is still there... for now). However, in 2019 I went to Orlando for the first time and finally went on it again after so many years. It was EXACTLY as I remembered it in Hollywood. That smell of the forest. Botanicus! His music, haha! The ET theme ala kazoo in the ride! LOL. (I actually hoped it would have been a bonus track on the recent re-release, but oh well hahaha) The garbling of ET's words as he says your name when you get off the ride. Not to sound dark, but I bet as soon as Spielberg "goes", so does the ride. I have been told he is the only real reason the ride is still there in Orlando.

Saw ET last night and yup, all I can do is echo with everyone else saying how amazing it was. Sadly the nearest IMAX for me is one of those Regal fake ones, lol. But at least it was LOUD. Like the music was BLARING, and I wouldn't have had it any other way. Hearing it that loud and in surround sound was incredible. The music and the movie itself... it was hard to hold back tears. There were definitely some that still escaped. The theater had a small crowd, that clustered sort of close together, and people were INTO IT. Such a nice experience. I also echo being one of those people who had NEVER noticed the "old man" face on the tree inside the ship before! Wow! Hahaha. That was a surprise to finally notice that detail. I'm excited to see Jaws next, and am debating between IMAX or 3D for it (although will choose IMAX 3D if available). I think in the end I would choose IMAX if I had to, again for the music to be as loud as possible.

I am seeing ET tonight. Very excited! Will definitely see Jaws in some form when it comes out. By the way... I was rewatching ALL the Jaws films recently (I was just gonna skip the first film since I am seeing it in theaters soon, but I decided to at least have it on while doing something else haha). And when I got to Jaws 3... I was inspired to riff on it for some reason. I'm pretty stupid, but ya'll may enjoy. Note: It's a thread of multiple videos.

There's lots of other little bits too. There's a short moment where Maisie sees Blue in the distance before she rides her bike into town. A short scene follows with her at a convenient store where the worker asks why she isn't in school. Then after the Apatosaur scene that follows, you see her leaving. Little bits. Yes there is a scene with an Oviraptor (a heavily feathered dinosaur that you also see in the Prologue sequence) fighting the Lystrosaurus Kayla sold. It's really short, but unexpectedly graphic as the Lystrosaurus bites off the Oviraptor's head. It's body moves around a bit on its own before it falls over. There isn't any visible blood though. from what I recall. During the Malta chase on the rooftop with Claire, there is a brief bit where she is running between clothes on clotheslines. The clothing is real close to her as she runs, and is followed by a shot behind her showing the Atrociraptor running through it as well. It's a couple of cool shots, not sure why they were even cut because they were so brief. Most people don't even realize this was added when watching the Extended Cut. Once Owen gets back on the plane, he shares a brief scene with Claire who is tending to his wounds from what just happened. There is a nice scene with Grant, Sattler, and Maisie added right when their transport gets "stuck" at the old amber mines. Maisie doesn't want to go into the mines and would rather stay in the tube, but Grant convinces her to come out and says something like Ellie is a good person to have in a tight spot, and etc. I'll take any extra Grant/Ellie I can get. One of the longer added scenes is actually one with Dodgson and Ramsay. It's placed in a weird spot (right before the Dimetrodon attack in the tunnels), but it's a good scene with Ramsay confronting Dodgson about everything wrong that is going on. In a way it makes Dodgson even more oblivious when he realizes Ramsay had "betrayed" him near the end, but it's a well-acted scene. Apart from the prologue, no there doesn't seem to be any extra Giga scenes. However, during the tracking shot to the T-Rex's head after it has fallen down in its big battle with the Giga in the finale, there is a flash of lightning and for a moment it has the feathers it had from the prologue. It's meant to harken back to its death from that sequence. But then of course, she gets back up in the finale and "seeks justice". Those are all the other scenes I can think of that you didn't mention yet. It should be noted that bits of the theatrical version's Mosasaur attack in the opening sequence are trimmed down in the Extended Cut, but not by much. The new arrangement is like this: Prologue from 65 Million Years Ago, The Drive-In scene, the opening logo (which uses the Theatrical version's music instead of what we heard on YouTube), then the "Now This" reel which leads into a bit of the Mosasaur attack before cutting off. Then the rest of the film plays out. Overall, I feel like the Extended Cut is better than the theatrical. Kind of allows a bit more breathing room in certain areas (this film has a strange pace where it either feels too dragging or too rushed) while adding a little more interesting moments to keep things lively. Most of it is, as expected, more character-based. I think them cutting the prologue and the drive-in sequence from the theatrical was a huge mistake. It's a far more engaging opening to the film, and a lot more thrilling once we get to the drive-in (did you know it was one of the few sequences shot before COVID happened?). I mean the T-Rex is barely in the film without these two sequences, and given all the hype for it to be treated more as a "character"... it's weird they cut all this. Especially when they continued to use the drive-in sequence moments in all of its trailers. No wonder people felt cheated. I think if all the extended cut had was this original opening, that alone would have been enough for me to prefer it. Everything else is a bonus. Also: The Blu-Ray/4K includes the short film "Battle at Big Rock" as a bonus feature. For those who haven't seen it but wanted more "dinos in the real world" mayhem, check it out. What I find kind of cheap in Dominion is that they actually used most of the fun bits from this short film's end credits in the "Now This" reel (where you also see alternate views of this film's attack). Cheap, cheap. I honestly wished, and had expected, more of these short films. EDIT: I will say however... while this cut is extended, this is by no means the full cut of the film. From what I am privy to, there was definitely still a longer version with even more additional scenes and different layout of scenes. This film is still recut from how it originally was at one point. But that's kind of par for the course of any film these days.