# The End of Oak Street **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [August 17, 2026, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-oak-street/1032377 "2026-08-17T11:23:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2026, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-oak-street/1032377/1 "2026-08-17T11:23:34Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2026, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-oak-street/1032377/2 "2026-08-17T11:43:19Z")
Huh, i saw a preview of it when i went to the Odyssey, and other than “violent action movie”, that’s not what i expected at all. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2026, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-oak-street/1032377/3 "2026-08-17T12:53:25Z")
I have not seen it, but have seen previews, and when my wife and I were looking for a movie the other day, we found ‘The Last House’ on Netflix, and I said "oh, is this that ‘dinosuars in suburbia’ movie? No, it was not. It’s Cthulhus in suburbia. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2026, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-oak-street/1032377/4 "2026-08-17T13:12:06Z")
I found the acting to be uniformly terrible. Especially Ewan. His lines were just so _flat_ and insipid. There were some good moments throughout and the dinosaurs were cool but I _hated_ the ending. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2026, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-oak-street/1032377/5 "2026-08-17T14:25:31Z")
I’m a sucker for dinosaur movies and went in with pretty high expectations. I thought it was just okay. What surprised me was seeing Anne Hathaway has so much better running form than Ewan McGregor. She looked like she could be a sprinter, he ran like an old man. The giant snake thing that came out of the pool was kind of funny looking, but apparently it was extremely stealthy…how did they not notice it slithering right past them in the house? ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2026, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-oak-street/1032377/6 "2026-08-17T21:41:15Z")
Well, she WAS cat woman. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2026, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-oak-street/1032377/7 "2026-08-17T23:00:39Z")
Of the two movies this summer featuring a desperate attempt to find home, fights with scary monsters, a guy with a bow-and-arrow, a loyal dog, and Anne Hathaway….i liked this one better. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2026, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-oak-street/1032377/8 "2026-08-22T22:34:57Z")
Just saw it. It was a very 1980s movie and I don’t mean the year it was set in. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2026, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-oak-street/1032377/9 "2026-08-23T02:21:05Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > She looked like she could be a sprinter, he ran like an old man. My comments from the generic movies thread: > [@Movies you've seen recently (Part 2)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/6244): > > > [@Movies you've seen recently (Part 2)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-2/1006288/6242): > > > > The End of Oak Street. Saw it in our new plush leather-recliner theater with surround sound, and enjoyed it for what it was. It’s 2026 and writers apparently still require people to do stupid shit to move a plot forward, but it had lots of good action scenes. > > > > Anne Hathaway can actually run really fast. > > I was thinking more about this film later, from a sociopolitical lens. Spoilers ahead! Anne Hathaway is a godless, driven feminist who is hiding her creative life and dreaming of abandoning an anchor of a family. Ewan McGregor is a soft-hearted, browbeaten godly man who is optimistic, like Forrest Gump, who sacrifices himself for his family. This causes the godless feminist to come to her senses about what’s important (“obey your father!”) and who only then is able to save the family and bond to her mate. Neither is forced to confront their prior lives, because dinosaurs solve the problem. ---
**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, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-oak-street/1032377/10 "2026-08-23T14:48:06Z")
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** > > 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. Most people are badly unprepared for a serious crisis. How many monster movies would be less scary and much shorter if people were properly armed? 4. Re. the above, why are people stupid enough to go out to confront lethal monsters armed with their trusty hockey stick? 5. A smoking volcano in the distance? Seriously? (At least they hung a lampshade on this by foreshadowing that they were in a geothermally active area. 6. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Darwins\_Finch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darwins_finch/32/20304_2.png) [@Darwins\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darwins_Finch)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2026, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-oak-street/1032377/11 "2026-08-23T16:03:43Z")
I saw it yesterday. It was fine for a silly dinosaurs-eat-suburbanites movie. My single biggest beef was that I feel like they went overboard with the idea of feathered dinosaurs. There is zero evidence that sauropods, for example, had anything but pebbly, stereotypically-reptilian skin. The fauna that was encountered was all over the place, though, time-wise; it was a weird mix of critters from vastly different time periods, supposedly native to the area. I like the tortoises, though, even if they don’t match with known genera; I don’t actually have a problem with that, since we don’t know all of the species that would have been present in any given assemblage at any given time and place in the Mesozoic, so some ‘new’ species created for a movie is fine (I felt the same way about some of the stuff in 65). Oh, and there were people in it, doing people things, I guess. They weren’t that interesting. Though I did like that the kid that carried the bow everywhere turned out to suck at actually using it. And they all apparently had really bad peripheral vision. Hopefully they all got optometry appointments when things settled down. ---
**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, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-end-of-oak-street/1032377/12 "2026-08-23T16:13:08Z")
That was more or less a toy bow, damn near useless for shooting anything bigger than a squirrel.