ORIGINAL POST: So a teaser video was released Sunday night promoting the very near premiere of the trailer for the new Jurassic Park, titled, appropriately, Jurassic World. Them nostalgia feels were maxed out just from the slow, familiar music in the video that should ring a couple bells. I mean we all grew up watching these things, and now that we're older, Universal wants to pull of a Disney and give us a modernized, matured version of our childhood faves! Anyway, I was super stoked to see this and am now counting down every second until the official trailer's release...
UPDATE: IT'S HERE! The guys at Universal could not hold their surprise for much longer and have released the full trailer two days earlier than expected! Go ahead, watch for yourself, and hold on to your butts... What are you waiting for? Do it! Click the link!
And now, the review. Throughout the awesome-sauce trailer, there were quite a lot of familiar sights--the ominous gate into the park and the field with the frolicking herd of Gallimimus--err, Gallimimuses, Gallimimi? You get the point. There were a few new wonders as well--like the incredibly beautiful, fern-filled river of Brontasaurus. And who can forget that unbelievable jump by the new aquatic addition to the family?! I'm not good with dino names, so don't ask me for this one. BUT, the most noteworthy development was the innovative addition of a hybrid dinosaur created by the park's ever-intelligent, ever-curious bio-engineers. No idea what they mixed into this baby, but the chills down my spine were telling me, it's not the typical Spinosaurus from JP 3... What I loved the most about the trailer was not only the content itself, but how it was presented to us. For once, a trailer actually leaves plenty to the imagination and skips the story telling we buy the movie ticket for. Unless, of course, the dinos that appeared in the trailer are the only ones that appear, and they done spoiled it for us already. Or, that hybrid could be nothing more than a mutated T-Rex that only appears for a brief ten minutes, and Universal pulls off a Godzilla on us. Or not...? Anyway, I also absolutely LOVED the nostalgic piano tune that softly played during the split-second sequences of chaos and terror in the park. Them feels.
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On another note, I have experienced one of the worst let-downs one person can handle. Imagine a band that no one knows, slowly rising up the musical social ladder. Imagine this band released a pretty crappy EP album earlier this year, but you still saw opportunity where others saw hopelessness. Imagine this band later released an album so badass, so improved that it overshadowed all crappiness and it still pleasures your ear canals when you blast that shit. Then imagine this band loses almost all of its members, leaving only the lead singer, who then forms a new line-up, just ripe with potential originality and freshness for the band. Now imagine this new line-up promotes a deluxe reissue of the before-mentioned insanely awesome-sauce album with five new tracks...only to release it a few days later, and it turns out to be nothing more than the shitty EP released months ago under the original line-up integrated into the album and sold to the world AS AN ENTIRELY NEW ALBUM ALTOGETHER.
This is the painful disappointment I have survived with the "deluxe reissue" of Reign of Terror, the newest album by Capture the Crown, a band I'm sure you've never even heard of until now, as well as one of my favorite underground metalcore bands. And if you've looked them up and are covering your ears and already hating on my musical tastes, be my guest. Call me an emo, tasteless fanboy who loves Black Veil Bitches and cuts himself for attention. Nothing could be further from the truth. Something else you should know is that I am open-minded with music. Shitty music is still music. Good music is a God-send. Yes, I do like all the good stuff everyone else likes, but why should that prevent me from listening to what others look down upon? Anyway, one can imagine how hyped up I was when I heard that the deluxe edition was on its way soon. I mean, a new line-up equals fresh new songs, right? Not in this case. As soon as I caught wind of its release, I immediately hopped onto iTunes to check out the new track list. One can only imagine my extreme bewilderment when I witnessed the titles of the horrifically bad EP songs on the list. I thought, No way, there must be something off here. Surely this is a mistake. I decided not to jump to conclusions and listened to the samples of each of the five songs, expecting maybe a badass remake of each one under the new, fresh-faced lineup.
It was exactly what I dreaded. A copy/paste tactic falsely advertised as originality. Ya'll have no idea how disappointed, how let down, how crushed I was by this atrocity. I was finally starting to believe in this band and hoping it would finally step out of the shadows and really make an impact in the underground musical community. But nope. Apparently the band had no plans of the sort and decided to return to their days of utter shittiness and lack of musical talent that truly lives up to their new album's name. Reign. Of. Terror. Utter. Hopeless. Terror.
Everyone following the band was as upset as I was, apparently so much so that the band released a statement that, admittedly, makes sense. Basically they said that buyers get more songs for the same amount as their new album by itself, which is true. I mean we're getting their EP and the new album for the price of one. That I don't argue with. What I do bash heads with is their statement that they "never said they would be new songs," nor that they "don't force you to buy it." My response: Dude, okay so it is true that you never said 5 "new" additional tracks, but if you've got a new line-up, and a golden version of your album artwork, of course people are gonna expect new songs! You could've at least added some more detailed info. I don't know, maybe "Featuring our shitty EP that got us kicked out from our original label because we sucked so much"? Just saying. Okay to be fair, people are complaining a lot, but the band played a major role in it, too. No wonder these generic "metal" bands never make it.
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So that's my Media Monday post, guys. Sorry it's late. Again I had other things to take care of, as I still do, but I decided to take time out of my day to do what I love the most. Hope you enjoyed my nerd-out sequences, and be sure to watch Jurassic World, which is out on June 12, 2015! As always, share and stay up to date peeps! Have a good one :)
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