SDTM: Jurassic World Dominion Exclusive Trailer Reaction (2022)

Straight Down the Middle·video·16m 39s·analyzed·Feb 11, 2022

Analysis

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TL;DR

SDTM hosts react to Jurassic World Dominion trailer, analyzing plot and themes.

Summary

Zach Sharp and Greg Bone of Straight Down the Middle react to and analyze the Jurassic World Dominion theatrical trailer released in 2022. The hosts discuss plot details, character returns, dinosaur species, filming locations, and themes while debating whether the film risks becoming overly action-focused or maintaining the sense of wonder from the original Jurassic Park.

Key Claims

Jurassic World Dominion releases June 10th
high confidence · Zach Sharp states 'I think June 10th' and later confirms 'You guys can see it in theaters June 10th.'
The trailer features an original score that is not John Williams
high confidence · Zach Sharp: 'we did not have that John Williams score' and 'I haven't looked up seeing who scores this, but this whole trailer is scored very, very well.'
Dominion is the final installment of the current Jurassic Park trilogy
high confidence · Zach Sharp confirms: 'It's not the end of the franchise from what I read, but it is the end of this trilogy.'
Greg Bone has a room in his home dedicated to Jurassic Park
high confidence · Greg Bone states: 'Do you have a room dedicated in your home to Jurassic Park? I do. I'm sitting in it now.'
The trailer shows dinosaurs in multiple distinct locations including Arctic, jungle, Venice-like areas, and other settings
high confidence · Zach Sharp: 'we obviously saw the Arctic cold. We saw a jungle-esque, you know, tropical area. Now it's like...we're in a Venice, uh, type area'

Notable Quotes

“I'm sitting in it now.”
Greg Bone@ 0:59 — Establishes Greg's deep personal investment in Jurassic Park fandom, used for comedic effect in the show opening.
“they just didn't want to pay John Williams for a score, but I'll tell you what: I am impressed by the score already within the trailer.”
Zach Sharp@ 3:58 — Critical observation about film production choices and soundtrack approach for Dominion.
“I'm already watched this trailer like 10 times. I know to see Sam O'Neal when she walks in there, man. And to see Alan Grant and the look that he gives—oh my God, that little smirk!”
Greg Bone@ 6:18 — Shows enthusiasm for returning original characters and emotional resonance of the trailer.
“They went back to their roots.”
Zach Sharp@ 6:37 — Identifies the film's callback to original Jurassic Park setting and themes as a positive creative choice.
“My only fear is seeing so many locations...Are we gonna start to get lost in this film? Because there's so much all over the place—transcontinental...I feel a hell of a rush watching this trailer, and it's not even over yet.”
Greg Bone@ 11:05 — Expresses concern that excessive travel and locations may make the film feel rushed or lose narrative coherence.
“as much action and stuff is in there, it almost encompasses some of that wonder again that has kind of been missing since the original film.”
Zach Sharp@ 14:21 — Identifies a key positive theme—the trailer suggests Dominion may recapture the original Jurassic Park's sense of awe despite increased action.

Entities

Zach SharppersonGreg BonepersonStraight Down the Middle: a pinball showorganizationJurassic World DominionproductChris PrattpersonAlan GrantpersonIan MalcolmpersonBryce HowardpersonJohn WilliamspersonLaura Dernperson

Topics

Jurassic World Dominion film analysis and reactionprimaryCharacter returns and legacy themesprimaryPlot speculation and narrative structureprimaryFilming locations and production scopesecondaryDinosaur species identificationsecondaryFilm soundtrack and scoring choicessecondaryFranchise direction and trilogy conclusionsecondaryGreg Bone's personal Jurassic Park collectionmentioned

Sentiment

positive(0.78)— Hosts express strong enthusiasm for the trailer, returning characters, and potential for the film to recapture original Jurassic Park's sense of wonder. Greg shows concern about excessive scope/travel potentially creating a rushed feel, and both note disappointment with Fallen Kingdom. Overall tone is optimistic about Dominion's potential despite some reservations.

Transcript

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[Music] hey what's going on everybody it's straight down the middle here i am zach my buddy over here is greg bone i don't know if he's left or right how's it going greg what's up what are we doing here today we're going to show these people some aren't we we are showing them the brand new just released jurassic world dominion trailer for those of you who may not be familiar uh with straight down the middle greg bone here is a is a big lover of jurassic park does that work greg you're no expert but you're a big lover of the franchise intellectual property yes very much so do you have a universe about my ass do you have a room dedicated in your home to jurassic park i do i'm sitting in it now you're not you're just a nut that's just part of my collection and i got a jurassic park jeep but that's people are not here for that they're here for our valued opinions oh well they need to tune out at this point we're going to give a a breakdown of this brand new trailer for the dominion film coming out i think june 10th okay i'm gonna pause it right there we have opening up a snowy scene have we ever seen a snowy scene in the dream franchise and you you get the introduction of uh what is it a pair up here a lot of soros parasaurolophus i love my jurassic park but i cannot pronounce a dinosaur name so we have chris pratt oh beautiful beautiful chris pratt he's like it looks like he's rugged he's western he's he's kind of settled out on the frontier not wanting to be bothered but that's the question what are they doing in this environment something that was real something that we can see and touch creation is an act of shia okay we've got baby raptors but you also for whatever there's there's multiple dinosaurs in this environment we get a a brief glimpse i want to say a brief glimpse a nice pan of macy like what's what's macy doing there now like i just seen owen grady rubbing on a different dinosaur that's another paralophosaurus parasaurolophus i see and then we get that groan of that brontosaurus looking thing on a construction site i don't know i'm just looking for a special eyes man so we got a baby dinosaur how does that happen i thought well i mean we saw a breeding in the first jurassic park obviously remember when grant found the eggs so because i heard somebody else bring that up too they're like oh so i guess they breed now i'm like yeah they sort of were breeding in the very first film so don't uh don't let too much into that we've known that for a while we're we're only 30 seconds into this trailer and the the music so listen so we need to capture that real quick let's make that clear for the people that is something that stood out to me is we did not have that john williams score and i haven't looked up to seeing who scores this but it this whole trailer is scored very very well like it is some nostalgic almost of spielberg type as stuff that feels good they just didn't want to pay john williams for a score but i'll tell you what i am impressed by the score already within the trailer will find a way oh looks like blue we can't keep her here forever they find her we're never gonna see her again we gotta protect her that's our job [Music] humans and dinosaurs can't coexist [Music] we created an ecological disaster okay i've got to pulse it there 30 more seconds and so much more to digest here so we have the last shot there t-rex at a drive-in movie roaring to an uns uh uh unexpectedly you have the mosasaur in the ocean obviously attacking a fishing vessel or something in there we've seen that before but yeah we're on so see and then we saw then we saw some uh the the grady character we saw him and others saying that they have to protect and help and save it sounds like the raptors but there was no snow there so it almost puts me into were some of these dinosaurs was it sort of that like claire's save the the dinosaurs type thing did they move some of these dinosaurs to um a very remote location like a siberia something like that that is a very remote cold place because that's almost like when they start to say that about like you can't keep her here like like with with blue and i'm assuming blues baby like are they trying to harbor these dinosaurs keep them out of it like it's a trailer so when are we seeing this mosasaur and like the t-rex in the real world like what ha like where how were they unleashed because a lot of these dinosaurs in dominion when they got loose like a lot of these dinosaurs weren't there oh ellie settler alan graham you didn't come out all this way just to catch up now did you you coming or what oh okay oh i've got the goosebumps that's the one there they went again and i've already watched this trailer like 10 times i know to see sam o'neal when she walks in there man and to see alan grant and the look that he gives oh my god that little smirk and then this summer it's freaking and dude it's it's almost like uh you know i feel they're playing a little homage to the first one with them being there in the tent they're out digging again back you know they went back to their roots but dude it's almost like well that's where alan graham probably was when she came back to say hey of course he's here he's not gonna stop so in that so that like what you just said like we need some help like like the introduction of to the these original characters like what what is laura dern coming back to do what's ellie coming back asking grant for like what do they need their help for oh just so many questions that this trailer arises but man it's like you said seeing dr grant standing there and it's you honed in on it perfectly the smirk the smile [Music] we're racing toward the extinction of our species we not only lack dominion over nature [Music] we're subordinate to it okay now we have like just jam-packed action we're introduced back to ian malcolm again yes holy [ __ ] the whole crew is back and his philosophy on chaos and everything else is is yes being reiterated within dominion and it shows you it it literally says where they were the the wild horses dude so like i guess i i don't i again like there's nothing we can truly answer from this but it's just like i'm still curious about like where like with the turn that that the dinosaurs became because here's something that's not shown in the trailer like that i was talking to somebody about today um you know so you have like bio scenes were you on the forums no no i'm actually talking to a neighbor um and so you have them that come in did they potentially steal some of these secrets that did did was woo able to get them some of this this dna this genetically modified dna have they produced some off-site dinosaurs of their own now or is everything still in with engine and these are just escaped dinosaurs like okay you see what i'm saying like because they stole proprietary secrets you remember in the first with dachshunds oh yeah like like that's what he that's who he works for and that's what he was there with nederi for at that little cafe was to steal the secrets and to buy the secrets and that's what he was paying nedry for so did they succeed this time and then that's how these dinosaurs have come become rampant greg did you see the shot though of the dinosaur right above the water level and the girl hiding under it and oh yeah that that was a shot right there but i didn't see teeth it was like a hard build dinos what is that was it a duck bill i didn't even see it it was weird it was like it wasn't teeth it was almost like a bill of a and speaking of of ducks feathers are they finally jurassic park uh the franchise is finally okay with suggesting that dinosaurs had feathers well i mean they obviously suggested some of that a little bit in the first but you know there's doing some fossil discoveries i don't know i've seen a lot of feathers let's see if we see more feathers in the next cut i'm so glad they picked chris pratt for this these new installments of jurassic park we got more of them i'm stuck on him just yeah he looks like he's going through the streets of venice with raptors chasing him he's supposed to be the raptor king more owen more raptors more motorcycle do you see the new character though with owen they're like cut knives out ready to fight this thing on water with the feathers yeah what is that thing i think it's nuts my only fear is is seeing so many locations i mean we obviously saw the the arctic cold we saw a jungle-esque uh you know tropical area now it's like you said we're like in a venice uh type area like italy yeah how much jet setting are we gonna do are we gonna start to get lost in this film because there's so much all over the place transcontinental it's dominion i didn't dominate the whole planet i know but i'm like are we doing too much traveling is it going to be too rough is it going to be a rushed film don't rush it don't travel too much i feel a hell of a rush watching this trailer and it's not even over yet let's keep going i agree that's another plane right not exactly don't move oh eager why do they always have to go bigger so we've got so many more dinosaurs in this one we we just saw an introduction of a triceratops again like combating that um what did we have do we have a dilophosaurus in there again i don't know again i have no clue i saw uh the two main heroines of uh i don't know what their name is ellie and uh and the new chick uh bryce howard oh everyone claire i saw them in a shop with one another and then and then we see owen and and and grant in a shot together you see the parallel there see the see the parallel it brings us to the end probably one of the most intriguing parts of of what's going on is alan grant's remarks they always have to make it bigger like so what do we have don't move do we have a connoisseur like what do we have do we have another genetically modified dinosaur similar to indones rex but bigger nasty that dominus rex what is it what about the what about that bird tearing up the plague [Laughter] so i i got a little bit in fear like i had somebody was talking about you know the curse of kind of universal about how universal goes another neighbor you know in the neighborhood it's actually on a form and somebody's talking about like i don't want it to fall into you know a fast and furious type thing again where it gets so outlandish but then i'm kind of like you know that seems kind of far-fetched but [ __ ] if you had this going on in real world like this is a very big possibility you hit little birds now can you imagine that that thing was swarming the skies like yeah it still threatens it it's gonna attack something that's flying 100 from start to finish of that trailer like i was terrified especially after falling kingdom because fallen kingdom was just awful in my opinion it was just terrible but to see a lot of these characters and it's not just because of grant ellie and ian coming back but just the the feel of the film um oddly enough as much action and stuff is in there it almost encompasses some of that wonder again that has kind of been missing since the original film so this is the final installment of this uh this round of jurassic park yes yeah is it it's it's not the end of the franchise from what i read but it is the end of this trilogy this completes this trilogy so i don't think we'll see chris pratt uh i don't think we'll see don't you say that you want william h macy back no i do not i do not i do not but i am excited to see this kind of franchise wrap up well you guys seen it here this is our reactions from straight down the middle on the new trailer uh in the first trailer release of jurassic world dominion you guys can see it in theaters june 10th just don't go to the location Greg Bone at because he's got a whole scheduled thing and he won't even let his best friend go with him but all right that's fine watch it on demand with you i guess yeah you can come just set a row over so as always like follow subscribe we're on youtube and facebook yeah and and you got to share the video share this video get some love out there so that we know you guys want to see more of this type of content go ahead and share it now the video is over share it well the outtakes check out the outtakes and then the video share the video see you guys [Applause] um what are those dinosaurs called if i know you're the dinosaur guy what are those dinosaurs called i trust no they all look like dinosaurs to me parasol office um i want to make sure that mother spelled it right too it's funny because if you're if your mom was a dinosaur she'd be paraslava novice