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Comments about the soundtrack for Jurassic World: Dominion (Michael Giacchino)
the problem with the End Credits Suite

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the problem with the End Credits Suite   Sunday, June 26, 2022 (11:22 p.m.) 

To be more specific, I don't find anything inherently wrong with 'Suite, Suite Dino Revenge' OUT OF CONTEXT ... but the final 90 seconds feel tonally out of place when taking into account how the movie ends.

I'm not entirely sure what word to describe the tone of the music at the final 90 seconds of the Suite.
Maybe GLOOMY is the word I'm looking for.

I personally prefer that the tone of a movie's End Credits Suite reflect/correspond with the tone of the movie's ending ... and in my view, 'Suite, Suite Dino Revenge' ending does not match up with the movie's ending at all.

If the movie's ending was bittersweet (or even some kind of 'downer ending'), then the Suite's final 90 seconds would probably make more sense. But since the movie ends with all the heroes triumphing and moving with their perfectly happy lives (the T-Rex doesn't even die after everything it's gone through in the saga), the Suite's gloomy and sorrowful conclusion comes off as just plain weird and, like I said, out of place.



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Re: the problem with the End Credits Suite   Monday, June 27, 2022 (1:23 a.m.) 

There was a typo in my post:

> I personally prefer that the tone of a movie's End Credits Suite
> reflect/correspond with the tone of the movie's ending ... and in my view,
> 'Suite, Suite Dino Revenge' ending does not match up with the movie's
> ending at all.

I didn't mean to say I think the End Credits Suit should 'reflect/correspond with the tone of the movie's ending'. I think my mind was stuck on wording a different paragraph when I wrote those words.

What I meant to say was 'reflect/correspond with the what STORY'S tone/status is BY THE END of the movie' ... But the rest of my post is fine.



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Re: the problem with the End Credits Suite   Monday, June 27, 2022 (1:54 a.m.) 

For example: the original Jurassic Park's end credits suite concluded with the creepy 4-note leitmotif and a spooky high-pitched string chord ... but that was an acceptable way to wrap up the End Credits because that movie's ending was NOT a happy ending.
All three "Park" movies had deaths of heroes' friends and/or loved ones. The most positive thing about the ends of 1st and 3rd movie is the heroes being relieved to have escaped. So it's logical to end the credits suites for both of those movies with music that reminds the listener of the horror that those islands provide.
The 2nd "Park" movie's credits suite ends on a powerfully borderline-bombastic and adventurous tone, because that movie was mostly about going on a "heroic" journey with the established purpose of saving the dinosaurs from human interference, and the movie ends with Hammond apparently succeeding in his activism.

Honestly, in my view, a bombastic and/or heroic tone similar to "The Lost World"s end credits suite would've been more fitting for Dominion's end credits conclusion instead of the sad/sorrowful tone Giacchino went with.


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