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I'm all caught up. Definitely better than Season 3 so far, although I am starting to feel like after this season is over with whatever conclusion it has... where else can you really go with the story/concept? I do hope we get a Season 5, but as mentioned in the post above, I think they really need to make it be the last before it truly feels dragged out.

Bruce? Bruce Vilanch?

I think it's more of just a different direction. JW wrote it as a scary moment, which I am sure for the characters it really would be. But Spielberg likely realized he actually wanted it to be more "heroic". I mean a big reason they changed the ending was because he felt the Rex was the "hero" of the movie, if you will. The big star.

I actually hear that on my end too. I wouldn't call it "loud" per say but definitely can be heard while wearing headphones. But I didn't notice this before while playing it through regular speakers.

Most laptops don't have disc drives anymore, sadly. I have a 4K/Blu-Ray burner external drive on my end.

My own article about this release is now up, with a nice simplified history of all the previous releases leading up to it! https://jurassicoutpost.com/jurassic-park-soundtrack-by-john-williams-gets-a-new-2-cd-release

Well technically you'd still need the second CD. "Stalling Around" is at the end of CD 2.

Especially "End Credits" because you can't truly get that clean opening just from doing a fade in with "Welcome to Jurassic Park".

From what I know, they were the album takes/mixes, or just different takes/mixes than how they are in the film. Probably too minute for most people to notice, but I guess we will hear soon enough.

Yuppp. Couldn't agree more. And besides, maybe if this sells well again... Lost World will come next with its own updates... or even... JURASSIC PARK 3, baby!

I think this release is really only for uber-fans of the score (like myself) and people who didn't get it in the first pressing when it was paired with Lost World. This score, in expanded form, should ALWAYS be in print.

More Jurassic Park? I'll take it.

I feel like it gets better with repeat listens (unlike Fallen Kingdom's score, which I loved right away). Whether you like the film or not, watching it may also put it in a better context in this case.

THANK YOU for explaining that. I was not aware of that terminology! And it drove me crazy trying to understand why it was titled that in Dominion. At first I thought it was a fun reference to Alan, Ellie, and Ian... but in the film it just plays at the start of the end credits. So I was like "why the hell was it called that, then?". And here we are, lol.

Well JP1 and TLW were kind of made for "everyone" but definitely had darker stuff in it and more complex things going on for adults, too.

You may as well ban me from your life then! Hahaha. I know the "World" films are pulpy bad fun, but I still like them. And from what I have been told, the director made them for younger audiences in mind, not us adults. Which is a shame. But now that this trilogy is done... I would LOVE a darker spinoff film. Something akin to the terror of A Quiet Place, but with dinosaurs. Like a family that has to deal with dinosaurs attacking them at their home or something. A smaller film with more personal stakes and actual scares. I doubt they will ever take this series into R rated territory (compies eating babies! guts spilling out of bad guys! raptors being hit by a rocket launcher and exploding into a bloody pulp!), but I think they really could push that PG-13 to its limits like they used to try. Because otherwise, the only stories you can tell with this franchise at this point are random dino attacks in the world, otherwise you are just repeating the same story over and over again. OR, you can do prequels set during the time before JP was visited by Alan and co, or you do a prequel of JW before the Indominus shows up. But would those even be compelling enough stories for a movie? Maybe more for a TV series? That's why personally I would be fine if this IS it. It's my favorite franchise, but all good stories have an end. But if they do keep going... they need to change it up and not cater to kids anymore like they have for 3 films now (4 if you count JP3, which was definitely made in a rush to appeal to those damn kids and their toys).

Personally, I don't think there is much of a story to tell with dinosaurs just loose in the world. Which was my problem from the beginning that people even wanted that kind of story. After a while it just becomes a string of random dinosaur attacks in various places. What is the driving force of that story? I guess a story COULD have been made solely focused on just rounding up the dinos and putting them in the sanctuary location, and just cut all the BioSyn stuff out mostly. But would it really have been THAT interesting with another hour of random dino attacks in different locations? I think with Battle At Big Rock and the Prologue combined with what is in the movie, you get just enough of that. I will say that I love the Malta stuff with the underground dinosaur trading and etc. Maybe more could have been done with that. I should note there actually is going to be an extended cut on home video release. From what the director recently said, it will be 14 additional minutes. However, from what I also know about 5 of those minutes will be the Prologue reinstated into the film as it was originally intended. That leaves about 9 additional minutes of whatever deleted scenes there may be. Battle At Big Rock is said to be one of the bonus features (but not integrated into the film).

Yeah, exactly this. It's so puzzling and weird to omit it on ANY score release, especially given that it is not a very long cue! There is easily some more boring underscore that could have been edited or cut to have made room for it. It really is a bizarre choice. I rank this score as my second favorite of the trilogy, with Fallen Kingdom taking the top spot easily. The first Jurassic World may have most of the best themes, but that score as a whole (especially in complete form) just has too slow of a pace for a Jurassic score, musically. I'm not sure if Colin at the time gave him misdirection to not make the music be so... lively... but it's just really kind of there. That and the recording quality of that score isn't very good compared to Fallen Kingdom and Dominion. Dominion on the other hand is a really fun listen all the way through, even with its less memorable new themes. Like the film, it's a nice fun ride but not nearly as impressive, insane, and masterful as Fallen Kingdom's score.

I just thought of all cues to not have on the CD it is hilarious that it's the one that was first released online in full officially, haha. And for good reason: it's one of the biggest standout tracks of of score.

This is very disappointing about the CD release. Of all the tracks to leave off the album... LOL. Especially after they showcased it. Kind of a joke! Still going to get it, but truly as a "completeness sake" trophy of sorts, lol. EDIT: Now the Dominion OST CD says it will be released in July on Amazon. Blegh.

I thought it was really good! Too tired to say much more, but as a Jurassic fan, this hit most of the right marks for me. Not perfect by any means, but I had fun watching it! And great music score!

US CD Version Pre-Order is now up. Ships on the 24th. According to the listing it is a CD and has the same tracklist as the digital. Yet still says 1 CD lol. So who knows for sure. Will pre-order and see what happens. If it's a CD-R I may send it back lol. https://www.amazon.com/Jurassic-World-Dominion-Original-Soundtrack/dp/B0B2HMK688

Seeing it tomorrow, so we shall see how I feel. But lol... the Rotten Tomatoes score is pretty low for The Lost World as well. And I and many others certainly love that film here.