Video summary
The video serves as a belated follow-up to a previous recap of the film *The End of Oak Street*, addressing specific moments the narrator, Adam, foolishly omitted from his earlier review after receiving feedback from viewers. He acknowledges that while he generally enjoyed the movie's concept and dinosaur kills, it suffers from significant logical inconsistencies and gross details that defy modern sensibilities. The most glaring issue he highlights is a massive pile of dinosaur dung left in a neighbor's backyard, which creates an unbearable smell that should have been impossible to ignore inside the house. Adam questions the practicality of how the family could possibly clean up such a monumental mess before a freak storm hit that very night, noting that this scene was likely overlooked by the filmmakers due to its sheer absurdity and lack of resolution regarding waste disposal.
As the narrative progresses, the Platt family attempts to reunite with their children who have wandered into dangerous territory, only to encounter more dinosaurs in what is essentially a mundane suburban setting. The film then reaches its climax when the remaining family members, along with a neighbor girl, must escape an impending dinosaur attack by traveling back through a black hole to save their neighborhood. Unlike modern audiences who can instantly warn everyone via smartphones, the characters in 1982 rely on payphones and quarters to spread the alarm. The protagonist, Denise, demonstrates remarkable quick thinking by calling her husband at the pizza place to deliver food to them while simultaneously dialing up other neighbors, including a hostile one she dislikes, to evacuate before the destruction begins.
Although the film does not explicitly show every person fleeing their homes, it implies that everyone successfully escaped thanks to Denise's heroic efforts, a fact confirmed in a documentary-style epilogue set one year later where survivors credit her with saving them. Adam humorously contrasts this efficient plot device with how his own family would likely have reacted, imagining a chaotic scene of arguing over pizza toppings and delivery times while trying to fit everything into the narrow window of eleven minutes. He concludes by apologizing for missing these pivotal moments in his initial review, joking that he has finally made a mistake after years of perfection, and encourages viewers to subscribe and support his channel through Patreon to help him continue making content despite his full-time job and family responsibilities.
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What does a massive smelly crap banging
dinosaurs and a family surviving through
a black hole running over to a pay phone
and dialing up a bunch of friends
warning them that the end is nigh have
in common? Well, they're all in the film
The End of Oak Street. And they're all
key moments that I foolishly forgot to
cover in my recent almost 30inut recap
video. So now here I am at the mercy of
the court who informed me in the
comments the other day that I did not
bat a perfect game. My memory is not
what it used to be. As far as I know,
there is yet to be any sort of maximum
to the amount of times you can talk
about a subject. Here I am hopefully for
the final time talking about those few
big moments that I stupidly, foolishly
forgot to talk about last time. Let's
head to the end of Oak Street for one
last ride.
If you find yourself enjoying the
commentary, feel free to sub to the
show. Adam does movies. I'm I'm Adam. I
I do the movies. I'm about to do the
dinosaurs. Hot sexy. I I just want to
point out that I did overall enjoy this
one. But it does have a ton of issues
and it's kind of fun to poke holes or
poke fun a little bit. Even though for
the most part it was a fine ride. There
was some great dinosaur kills. There
were some cool looking dinos. The the
concept is neat. Makes no sense.
Obviously, uh you go back 65 million
years, you're not going to be breathing
that air. The sights, the sounds, the
the viruses, the bacteria, just gross.
The smells. Oh, we should talk about the
smells. And that's going to lead me to
this beautiful, powerful segue into the
first egregious thing I didn't talk
about. The first is the giant poop
outside in the backyard. In this film,
we follow the Platt family, Mom Platt,
Papa Platt, and the two dumb kids. But
we also see some of the neighbors.
There's the friendly old lady that's
helping Anne Hathaway's character with
her novel. We're all rooting for her to
get that thing finished. There's the
brand new girl on the block that lost
her parents to the dinosaurs. And
there's the douchebag that lives right
next door. He cannot stand the plat
family dog Starbucks which is based off
of a character from Battlestar Galactica
and not from Moby Dick or from the
coffee chain Starbucks. But I bet there
was a lot of people hankering for some
coffee after this film ended. That's
just good cross promotion. That's
synergy, baby. Around 20ish minutes into
the film, the neighbor is livid with the
plats again and he thinks it's all
because of the dog. either the dog or
the youngest 14- 15 year old son Brian
and his dumb friends because there is a
humongous pile of [ __ ] in his backyard.
Greg Platt, played by Ean McGregor, is
very apologetic. He's trying to keep the
peace in the neighborhood, but he
obviously sees this thing and goes, "Uh,
yeah, dude. How do you think my son
accomplished this? How do you think my
dog What in the hell do you think we
would feed this creature that he could
produce such a mammothsiz amount of
shit?" In either case, I'm more shocked
that they didn't smell it from inside
their house because I mean, you think
about Malcolm from Jurassic Park. That's
the level of [ __ ] we're talking about
right now. The reason this scene is
interesting is because it's one of the
artifacts that has warped in from the
past. And I couldn't help but be puzzled
as to how they planned on actually
disposing of this stuff. Greg offers he
and the son will help clean the mess up.
The neighbors appreciative. We never see
that scene unfold. Not that I was really
clamoring for the scoop shovels to come
out and see what they would do with the
mess. But if you actually stop to think
about it, what the hell did they do?
Where did they dispose of this? Did they
get the old Ford pickup, bring it on
back, beep beep beep, put down the
tailgate, and just start shoveling it
in. This is a This is a day project.
This is a full day, if not a couple. Not
only do you have to dispose of the
mound, you got to clean up the remnants
all over the yard. And I'm not convinced
that actually happened because there was
a freak storm that very night and
leaving that crap in the backyard. That
ain't right. But we don't dwell on it.
That scene's done. It was just it was a
terrible omission that I made, but not
near as disgusting as the next one I
forgot to talk about. Oh, and the reason
I remember these is because of the
comments. You know, we live in a lovely
time where if you put something out
there, you're going to get instant
feedback for better and for worse. I
consider this a nice taste of humble
pie. Up until yesterday's video, I was
bowling a perfect game online. Never
made a mistake once in the over a decade
I've been doing this. Just go back and
try to find an error. I dare you to comb
over the hundreds of videos I have.
watch each one of them from beginning to
end and then report back by making
several comments about the different
issues you found on my channel. I would
appreciate it and so would my wallet.
All right, we have the Platch family
Robinson split up in the second section
of the movie. We have Denise and Greg
together looking for their [ __ ] kids
who went off on their own misadventure,
wandering around in the yards, going
down the main road, thinking, "Man, it
would sure suck if some dinosaurs came
out right now because we have basically
no way of surviving." Their ears perk up
as they hear some very loud dino noises.
So, they do what any rational person
would. They run towards the noise. And
what pretel do they find? Nothing
special. Typical yards, cars, homes with
some dinosaurs banging on the side. You
know, the basic dayto-day. What?
Yeah, we got some horny brontosaurus in
this [ __ ] I don't know if they're
brontosaurus. They're long necks of a
nature, but they're very hairy. So, it's
kind of hard for me to make out as a
dinosaur expert. It was it was tough for
me to figure that out. And I have to
imagine for the Platts, this was tough
to look at because they haven't been
giving each other any real loving
lately. Their relationship is on tough
times. Greg was probably looking up at
those guys and thinking, "At least
someone's getting some action." No, this
actually perked them up a bit. You know
what? The kids might be with him at this
point, too. I think the kids were with
him at this point. This was like a fun
family bonding experience. Again, I
don't ever make mistakes on this show.
Denise has Gregory run out there in
front of the creatures, give a little
pose so she can take a photo of the
whole experience.
Yep. Right there. That's the money shot.
Yes. You're a naughty dinosaur.
After the Jurassic porking scene was
done, we are now going to go to the
final crescendo of the film. When this
movie winds down, the platts are going
to be a party of three, plus the the
neighbor girl, the father, he's gone,
eaten by sharp tooth himself. While it
ended bad for him in this timeline,
there's an opportunity to back to the
future his ass. And that's exactly what
they're going to do. We got to go back
in time. I don't need money. Don't need
friends. Well, that's the power of love.
It's power. After hopping into a black
hole, falling into a swimming pool in
the past, they're able to see their
neighborhood fully intact again, at
least for the next 11 minutes. Now, in
the grand 2026, we have the luxury of
modern technology. We have phones on us
all the time and it's easy to justep
speed dial your mom, your neighbor, your
best friend. I don't know, give them a
heads up at 11:00 at night that their
world's about to die. Say to them
something like, "Hey, bud. Uh, don't
know if you know this, but in about 11
minutes, this whole neighborhood is
going to go to [ __ ] Dinosaurs are going
to run a muck. I suggest you wake up the
misses, hop in the car, and just beline
it out of there. Come come up about a
mile and you'll be fine." Denise Platt
did not have that luxury. So, she had to
think real fast, real quick. And that's
exactly what she did. With those 11
precious minutes, she got to a phone
booth. Thankfully, she had quarters on
her. I assume is what you needed in
1982. I was I was around. She put in the
coins.
Ching.
Oh [ __ ] He's at the pizza place. She
remembered her husband is delivering
pizzas right now in the middle of the
night to make some extra coinage for the
fam. So, she calls up the pizza delivery
place. Now, even though I'm pretty much
perfect with my memory, and I have been
for years, no mistakes, zero up until
yesterday, I do not remember if she had
a phone book on her that she was quickly
sifting through to find numbers or if
she just had this [ __ ] memorized. In
either case, what she does next is
insanely impressive. Not only is she
able to call up the pizza place, put in
an order, and get her husband to drive
that [ __ ] out to them in like 8 minutes
flat because they still have time after
he makes it over the boundary. They hug,
they kiss, it's it's a whole beautiful
thing. But she also calls up three or
four more people in the neighborhood.
WHAT? ONE OF THE PEOPLE SHE CALLS is the
librarian. And another, this one's
hilarious, is the douchebag neighbor who
hates her guts. And she's not very fond
of him either. I don't know about any of
you, but I do not know the [ __ ]
number of my neighbors, nor did I ever
at any point in time. I grew up in the
80s. I I know my parents didn't have
their neighbors numbers memorized. Re
especially ones that they didn't like.
Regardless, she calls up the neighbor.
She warns him to get out. What's more
impressive about this is she called them
in the dead of night. They all answered
their phones. They were all like, "Uh,
yeah, that that makes sense. You're
definitely not crazy." They got in their
cars and they got out of there. Now, we
don't actually see this play out. This
is all assumed knowledge that you're
going to get later when we fast forward
one year into the future and we see that
everyone's fine and safe. There's a
little documentary thing going on with
interviews of the neighbors and how they
owe their lives to Miss Denise Platt,
the hero of this picture. Here's how
this scenario would have taken place if
my family was the one making the phone
calls.
It always takes like four.
They just never [ __ ] pizza. What
can I get for you? Uh yeah. Uh
what are the specials today? Uh we got a
crazy bread for $3 and you get a large
any top meat pizza for $5.99.
Can two liter of Coke put in the mix
there? Yeah, we got a 2 liter of Coke
throw for an extra dollar. Okay. Uh
kids, you crazy about the crazy bread at
uh [ __ ] pizza or what are you
thinking? And then we would have this
whole rigomearroll where we argue for a
while about how many toppings, how many
crazy breads, the two liter coke, if it
should be maybe something else like a
mellow yellow. I I don't know. It'd be a
whole thing. Yeah, we're thinking maybe
just a couple medium pizzas. We just
can't agree on anything.
How long is it going to take to get
here?
I'm aware that it's 11 at night and you
only have one guy driving around right
now delivering pizzas. Yeah. Yeah. We
need this like yesterday. Okay. If you
could step on it, maybe get the guy to
come out in uh eight minutes with those
pizzas, that'd be great. We have 11
minutes, but I don't want to push it
that close. How long does it take to
make a pizza, by the way?
You have them done already. Oh, perfect.
You knew exactly what I was going to
order. That's wonderful. Yes. So, as
soon as I hang up the phone, your driver
is already on his way here with them.
Oh, he's already left. Great. Oh, you
know what? He's right here. Okay. Hey,
Greg. How's it going? Yep. Bye. Go [ __ ]
yourself. And that, my friends, is that
the end of Oak Street. I wow. I
apologize. I don't know how I missed so
many pivotal moments in the film the
first time around, but here they are.
You know, consider this a companion
piece to the last video I put out. If
this is the first video you've ever seen
of mine, I'm sorry I let you down.
Talking about the one and only time I've
ever screwed up and not talked about a
scene in a film or got anything wrong.
It's just it's been perfect across the
board and it'll never happen again. I
don't make mistakes that often.
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