One thing I'm sure we all noticed about the DS film's score CD is that "Dark Shadows - Prologue" and "The End" are listed as "Uncut" - but what I didn't realize until today is that the versions of those pieces on the soundtrack CD are shorter. "The End" is only shorter by 12 seconds - but "Dark Shadows - Prologue" is shorter by 3:56 - which makes it exactly half as long as it is on the score CD. So, I'm wondering now if the versions on the soundtrack CD are the versions as they actually appear in the film? If so, that would mean 12 seconds was snipped from the end of the film after Danny Elfman had written his score for the sequence. And that may or may not be all that bad depending on just what was cut. But it would also mean that half of the prologue ended up being snipped - and 3:56 could have easily been an awful lot of story that got snipped!
But I suppose we won't really know if the soundtrack versions are the versions in the film until after the DVD/Blu-ray comes out because I seriously doubt any of us are going to try to track down a theater still playing the film and then time those two sequences to see how long they are.
100 days 15 hours 22 minutes 4 seconds since the Depp/Burton Dark Shadows has been in release(ET)!!