Jewish Self-Determination and Nerdiness

IMPORTANT NOTE:if you are rude or insulting to me in reblogs or comments on my posts (or are just boring) I will block you—I don’t owe you my attention 36 year old Oregonian Jewish Pantheist Progressive Nerd Librarian White Male who believes in the right of all peoples to self-determination. Not too old to care, not too young to count. I oppose the murder of Jews for political purposes, and I reblog stuff I like.

[stupidjewishwhiteboy]

My instant block policy has officially evolved to include making arguments we’ve all heard a billion times that have counter arguments we’ve all heard a billion times. If you’re boring, you are not worth my time, and you’re getting blocked

[amazingmrcinema007]

The marketing team for The End of Oak Street used an AI dog podcast to promote the movie, Warner Bros. took down a behind the scenes clip of Craig Gillespie using AI to make Lobo concept art, and Saber Interactive's CEO is an AI loving chud with the mentality of a petty child who bashed an ex-employee online after she accused him of replacing her with ChatGPT. And this is all in one goddamn week.

[ronanigans]

ewan mcgregor’s character in the end of oak street is the most dead for sure parental figure to ever die and survive.

[stupidjewishwhiteboy]

I mean, kinda

I did lock on to the annoying neighbor as “oh that’s the guy who’s gonna die first and horribly because they keep showing him as a gigantic asshole” and I was partially right (he’s the second character we spend any time with to die, but his death is pretty horrible)

[tablefourtyone]

Only 200 million years ago would you have to worry about a giant snake slithering through your window. Quietly.

[lennonandmaisyupdates]

Brisket picks his favorite cast mate

[ifuckinglovedinosaurssomuchjesus]

My personal favorite moment in the trailer, the loud noise of the gunshot causing the screen to blur for a second only for the Allosaurus roar to cause it to violently vibrate, love when they do stuff like this to show just how loud these animals would be.

[buckysrightarm1]

How I felt walking into the end of oak street not knowing there was dinosaurs in it

[troythecatfish]

Just got home from watching The End of Oak Street in Theaters.

Honestly, I'm surprised by how much I liked it.

And NO this is not a Cloverfield film, in case anyone was wondering.

The relationship between Ewan McGregor & Anne Hathaway's characters felt believable as a couple, with all the ups and downs that marriage comes with.

The children weren't annoying in the slightest and we're quite relatable at times.

It really felt like all the actors gave it their 100%.

You can really feel their fear, sorrow, joy, etc. Especially Anne Hathaway, she was really great in this movie.

Starbuck was an absolute gem in this film, I think Zeus and Starbuck would be great friends.

I loved the Dinosaurs and other Prehistoric animals featured. Their designs were pretty Neat (if not a little unhinged), I like how their portrayed as regular animals and not evil movie monsters while not sacrificing tension or violence.

The violence was perfectly balanced, not to gorey but not too tame.

I really appreciate the simplicity of the plot. It definitely works to the films favor.

My only complaints are theirs a subplot that lowkey goes nowhere, the ending can be a little bit too confusing and clean cut, the studio used a.i slop to promote this film, and we really don't see the dinosaurs eating the humans they kill.

Overall, I give it a 8.5/9 out of 10. I highly recommend checking it out.

[robindrake93]

Okay so do you think the two Jeannettes are going to fight over Audrey or are they going to make a sandwich?

[amazingmrcinema007]

The End of Oak Street's got me excited. Huzzah for more horror oriented dinosaur media!

[ifuckinglovedinosaurssomuchjesus]

So we got some kind of Stegosaur or early Ankylosaur, a Coelophysoid filling in the raptor role, some Rhamphorhynchus-style Pterosaurs, and Allosaurus as the big-bad theropod.

I might be proven wrong as more comes out, but if not, I really like that they seem to be focusing on Jurassic fauna specifically for this movie instead of it being a generic hodge-podge "dinosaur times" situation.

[theknucklehead]

Me: Can we have Jurassic Park?

Mom: We have Jurassic Park at home.

The End of Oak Street:

Joking aside, I am always excited to see new dinosaur movies in the theater.

[yojabari]

Poster for The End Of Oak Street

[becomingvecna]

[teethbound]

his arms 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

[ifuckinglovedinosaurssomuchjesus]

Just saw The End of Oak Street, pretty good! It's like if a knock-off Spielberg made a zombie movie but replaced the zombies with very hairy dinosaurs.

Near the middle, I thought they were going to take a much darker turn, but ultimately it's at about the same level of PG-13 thrills and scares as the average Jurassic World movie.

The main draw of this movie, and its biggest strength, is the idea of dinosaurs in suburbia. The contrast of a mundane street and a rampaging Allosaurus, a sauropod drinking from an ice cream truck, Coelophysis digging through trash cans and eating people's cats. The film fully understood this and had as much fun with it as it could. That's what this movie is, nothing more and nothing less, and within those parameters I think it did a great job. A solid 7 or 8 out of 10.

I do agree with all the critics though that the ending was kind of weak and weird, and it didn't really make sense with a kind of morbid implication, but it doesn't sour the movie as a whole.

Spoilers thoughts under the cut:

The beginning was kind of hard to get through and also felt unnecessary given almost none of those characters ended up mattering, I think the movie would have been better if it had just started with the portal at night and dropped us in head first.

The initial confusion and then panic felt right out of Dawn of the Dead or The Last of Us, those are always my favorite bits in zombie stories and it was really fun watching dozens of people getting slaughtered by dinosaurs.

I was pretty interested in the family dynamic at first, the contrast between the hopeful Dad and pessimistic Mom, but after their argument scene they kind of lose all character and just become your usual survival movie protagonists. The movie also doesn't really do anything with the apparent love triangle between the three kids.

The dad's death was shocking, it was genuinely horrible and it got me excited, like that this "Spielberg romp" kind of tone was a red herring and that the actual movie was about to get real dark and fitting of a horror director. That didn't really happen, unfortunately.

The ending was... weird. Like, did they kill their past selves? Wouldn't messing with time cause them to disappear or something? Everything after the time travel shenanigans is tooth-achingly saccharine and sweet, but like, they just condemned an alternate timeline version of themselves to death by dinosaurs right? That's extremely fucked up lol.

This movie didn't bother for a second to even try and identify a single dinosaur, what even are half these things they're so gross and hairy. Not as bad as the emaciated wendigos of 65 but none of them besides maybe the psuedosuchians looked good. Reviews kept calling the Allosaurus a T. rex but can you blame them, nobody says anything!

I also wouldn't say this movie is a special case where the dinosaurs are treated like animals, if anything the dinosaurs are less sympathetic and more monstrous here than any Jurassic World movie. I did like the bit where the Allosaurus just quietly approached the family, felt kind of like a riff on how big theropods are always roaring at their prey and giving themselves away, but it ended up roaring when it reached them anyways so...

If anyone tries to say "this is what Dominion should have been!" than they're an idiot because there is absolutely no other way this scenario could have worked. If they tried to do this in the Jurassic Park universe it would have completely failed, you need the isolation of being stuck in prehistory or else it's just silly.

I really think the costume department should have given the daughter a more secure bra...

[invader-sans-cipher]

Yuri? In my dinosaur time travel movie?

It’s more likely than you think