> “Alan!”
> This film - probably superior to The Lost World yet still extinct
> on arrival - has not aged well, but I’d argue its score has aged very
> well, Don Davis delivering a hybrid between John Williams’ established
> style, Davis’ years as a Horner orchestrator, and the gargantuan
> complexity that would define his action mannerisms for the upcoming
> Matrix sequels. Davis’ score got 50 minutes on the original album,
> an abbreviated program relative to the prior score albums in the franchise
> likely due to trying to fit “enhanced” features on the disc when used on a
> PC plus a bizarre Randy Newman country song used as source music. La-La
> Land’s recent expansion puts the score in film order; its Bone Man
> Ben was actually a suite pulling from six disparate areas of the film.
> Intriguingly, it adds in a number of additional variations on Williams’
> two main themes and raptor motif, the more traditional ones reserved for
> the expanded end credits but several unique adaptations buried earlier in
> the movie. And there are multiple notable newly released passages of
> Davis’ own material, namely the film introduction to his family theme and
> the material for the climactic Spinosaurus attack (a continuation of the
> cacophony already heard in Frenzy Fuselage and Clash of
> Extinction).
> I had this score at ***½ and clearly unfairly discounted it when I
> discovered it over a decade ago. ****½ this time.
Really looking forward to picking this score up, since I always thought it was under-rated.
Would it surprise this community to learn that yours truly was the only one to include in his Scoreboard Extravaganza top 100 list?
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