# The End of Oak Street {Spoilers within}

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** movies\
**Created:** [August 22, 2026, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-oak-street-spoilers-within/1032495 "2026-08-22T21:41:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2026, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-oak-street-spoilers-within/1032495/1 "2026-08-22T21:41:18Z")

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Okay, my 2-¢ (mild spoilers)

1. I think the movie somehow worked better that the starting point was 1982; although it did not give us the ending this led me to expect:

> **Summary**
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> They returned to their own time, not 2026 like I’d somehow expected

1. The Mesozoic had an astonishingly dense population of predators, who were all extraordinarily aggressive.
2. Predators apparently have a psychic power that causes humans to keep their eyes turned in any direction whatsoever other than toward the predator that’s sneaking up on them.
3. A smoking volcano in the distance? Really? (At least they hung a lampshade on this by foreshadowing that they were in a geothermally active area.
4. A really nice use of time-cloning.

Altogether I’d give this four out of five stars; like a better than average SyFy movie of the week.

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**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2026, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-oak-street-spoilers-within/1032495/2 "2026-08-22T22:19:38Z")

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Duplicate thread:

> [@The End of Oak Street](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-oak-street/1032377):
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> Saw this this weekend because I can’t not see a dinosaurs raiding a suburb movie. And that is basically what you get. It’s was a fun, kind of cheesy (in a good way) violent action movie where ET meets Jurassic Park with a really good performance by Anne Hathaway (!). People talk about popcorn movies and often use that as a way to excuse a bad movie but this is an an example of good, kind of silly popcorn movie. Anyone else see it?

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**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2026, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-oak-street-spoilers-within/1032495/3 "2026-08-23T14:43:33Z")

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Mods, close this please, my post now copied to older thread.

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**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2026, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-oak-street-spoilers-within/1032495/4 "2026-08-23T22:29:32Z")

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