How to Blow Up a Pipeline

In which we see a bunch of likable youngsters use YouTube to try and save the world ?!?!? Okay so you read properly correctly they are using YouTube videos to save the world quite incredible. They have been told that there is a problem with oil and fuel by US thinktanks (the definition of oxymoron) financed by folks who want you to buy an electric car since their profits will be 4 times more than before like when we went from vinyl to CD and that if they stop that from happening the world will be a much better place of course practically all the replacements we have been given are actually at least as bad or sometimes worse; electric cars contain a ton of rare metal which cannot be recycled and are actually in the end a worse problem Than the old cars as are the unrecyclable blades of wind farms AND solar panels (oh yes which energy was used to make those ???? Hmmm) you could not make this stuff up see the xcellent La face cachée des énergies vertes (2020) for info there is much more elsewhere if you smell a rat in the Saviour tales we are offered; but anyway the Powers-that-shouldn't-Be have groomed them collectively into believing that to save the world we have to stop using coal and oil etc etc it would be funny if it wasn't so sad and gave you a desire to cry about the stupidity of humanity and how so easily manipulated they/we all are ... This is the background ... they all have personal grievances which are completely and utterly legitimate about why they want to hit at the corporations. The greed combined with capitalism and total disrespect for the planet is what we have arrived at at the start of the 21st-century. The only problem though is that the solution is no solution or a solution that is as destructive and moronic as the problem QED Cut to the film now the actors players are pretty good they are a Woke kebab faultlessly put together an Inuit lad a biracial girl in a lesbian relationship with a black girl a redneck a black male student And I believe a possibly Semitic member of the outfit too So their Woke credentials cannot be faulted here and they set about trying to blow up a pipeline using YouTube videos on chemistry and explosives (anyone who follows a howto knows you likely need a few goes before hitting home but not Them) Suspend your disbelief when it all comes off perfectly fine with only a broken leg a bullet in the arm which doesn't really do that much damage and a lot of smiles at the fact that they've managed to completely fork the police and you would expect at some point the secret service But because they are Woke youths they basically walk on water and manage to blow up a pipeline well well well we really are in safe hands here the future of humanity looks extremely golden and shiny now ... frankly it is so dumb I felt like having a pipeline built in my garden just to pi.. them off but hey I am old-fashioned Having said all this I really enjoyed watching this film it is well made looks like something that was made by a bunch of mates who truly believe in this business and they are semi-charismatic at times and the flow of the storytelling here is good I would totally recommend it of course if you also believe that replacing your diesel Renault car with a three times more expensive item which contains a ton of metal dug up by 10 year old Children in the Congo with bare hands is an improvement it will actually make sense to you. To me it really does make me feel humanity is really flipped in the head and if the future and the saviours are those guys we are in deeper trouble than the greedy corporations and shareholders led us to believe.

It's OK That's all that it is, it has structural and pacing issues, but it's the entire concept That's flawed, unrelatable characters not helped by an OK adaptation, so ot all come out as entitled brats and horrible people acting like they care about the environment while they don't understand what it's they're doing, not caring about others suffering, It's revenge for some them pretending to be activism, I haven't read the book, but I hope that it doesn't suffer from this same syndrome. And the gap between what the reviewers and critic6see and the rest of us is getting wider, it seems watching movies just to critiq6them changes how you perceive movies.

This movie depicts the destructive actions of social activists while showcasing their diverse background stories through flashbacks. It presents a range of characters, regardless of their race or gender, who find themselves in dire situations leading up to radical social movements. It reveals the typical portrayal of politically indoctrinated individuals, and although I wanted to see them being swiftly imprisoned, the movie instead disguises them as pioneers and heroes. This movie is more of a propaganda piece that, instead of raising awareness about climate change, tends to provoke with destructive and inflammatory ideas. Some dialogues encourage and justify indiscriminate and delusional social movements that engage in violence and destructive acts for their own political beliefs and objectives. The response of mainstream American media and critics praising this propaganda film is still shocking...

How To Blow Up A Pipeline is sold as a crackling environmental thriller with a message. The fact that it presents the message it has with a hammer doesn't hide the fact that as a film it is just shallow. It is exactly what the title says. It's about a group of climate change activists that plan and carry out the disabling of an oil pipeline in Texas. The problem is that the characters are paper thin. They are just a collection of grievances and slogans, not three dimensional people. I have watched many films like this where I may not agree with the cause or politics of the characters but at least in better movies of this kind I can relate or at least empathize with at least one or some of them. Even though this film uses flashbacks to set up the characters you don't get to know any of them. Those scenes are used to set up and justify their actions which we know is the blowing up of the pipeline. There is no suspense because I didn't care for characters. They are just stereotypes as opposed to fleshed out characters. Each character seems like a bumper sticker representing a particular grievance. This film wants the audience to think about how deep the message is but fails to create compelling characters to support the ambitions of their message. The film is well made but is content with not really delving into the subject it wants to represent. The filmmakers sabotage their own message by being so superficial. Grade: C-

Recently, when a bunch of "Just Stop Oil" activists disturbed a World Snooker Championship game and, as per Gen-Z-climate-activist tradition, threw food all over the tables and sat themselves down in their anti-oil garments, a Twitter user quipped: "These types of climate protests are so detrimental to raising actual awareness and widespread support that if it ever came out that these people were paid for by gas and coal-owning billionaires I'd probably believe it". Now, I don't know if the companies behind the well-made but questionable How to Blow Up a Pipeline have any such dubious ties (neither the production companies nor the distributor, Neon, have any deals with Big Oil that I could find). But man, what a time to do a psyop to make the enemy look deranged when said enemy will agree with the assessment and be proud of it! Here is a movie loosely based on a book -- whose name-similarity to some kinda Dark Web instruction manual isn't accidental -- that speaks straight-out about how violence is a necessity for "climate justice"; essentially how destruction is correct so long as it's (purportedly) in the name of the right cause. I guess I shouldn't be too shocked. It was racism in 2020, it's climate change now; I just thought it was gonna be less mask-off terror apologia and more trying to rationalize throwing soup at art to make fossil fuels go away. Then again, the book predates all those incidents and this manner of disruption was fairly commonplace in Sweden, the author's homeland, before the big vandalism stories of recent UK and US news. Perhaps the real surprise is that it came out after the Nord Stream incident -- an as-yet-unresolved case (of POSSIBLE eco-terrorism) that damaged decidedly more than "replaceable property" (what many radicals will tell you is the only real victim, even on a bad day). Not that this ever really stopped at "property", especially among the new wave of post-Thunberg soup Zoomers. I sometimes ask: If, for example, a patient dies inside an ambulance as a result of road-blocking climate protestors -- as has literally happened in, you guessed it, Sweden a few months ago -- is that person deemed a necessary sacrifice for the utopia? After all, what's one death vs. The doomsday you've been told you're preventing? Do you redirect the trolley to kill one human when there are 8 billion hypothetical humans on the other track? I accuse people of pussyfooting around this query, but I realize they've been answering me through actions for some time. When activists were convicted for the incident in Sweden, there were additional manifestations -- not in the name of the person that died, but the ones that got arrested. Will a film like this exacerbate things? Hopefully not. It's being praised by the Usual Journalists for portraying the "terrorists" (sometimes in quotes, sometimes not) in a sympathetic light, but I didn't read them as outright unblemished. Someone will go "This was my Joker" but someone always does.

My anti-plagiarism app shows most positive reviews here written by one personIt is pretty desperate when people involved in a film or its promotion feel they need to come here and write patently obviously shill reviews. More so when what they are advocating is ISIS, Taliban, Ted Kaczynski type violence and terrorism. Those deeply nasty people also think they are right and the ends justify the means. On the film itself this is a excellent example about how the narcisistic and luddite people advocating terrorism do more damage to their case than their opponents do. The groups portrayed here are the same people destroying artworks by throwing paint on them or gluing themselves to it This type of apocalyptic luddite movement has been part of superstition and religion for thousands, likely tens of thousands of years. If you notice, none of the characters, not a single one, has every done anything positive. They are pitiful losers. They are deeply hypocritical themselves, using petroleum energy as much as anyone else. Indeed, some googling of the people involved and a looksee on google earth shows some have swimming pools on their properties. Oh and cars in the driveway! The fact is these "the end is nigh" nuts are profoundly narcisistic. If they were not they would understand they are the same people who went rampaging during an eclipse or ran the Spanish inquisition. If they really want to worry they should worry about AI. That is the only non-natural occurring existential threat mankind faces. Human carbon in the atmosphere is not an issue since the science already exist to control that, it is only a question of applying it, which we will be doing soon. That same science will also control effects from vulcanization, a large event of which itself will alter the atmosphere much more than all the man-made pollutants will. So if you want to watch a bunch of shrill whiners, who literally talk and act like the Taliban and ISIS, for 90 minutes, do watch this. If not, skip it.

These idiots are doing the oil investors a favor! Lol making oil more valuable by creating scarcity, they may as well be hired by DUPONT. I bet these executives were happy to see the gains in their stock portfolios because of these morons. Really disappointing to see such a degree of ignorance and recklessness disguised as virtue., GO AFTER GHE BUSINESS FROM THE INSIDE. You cannot attack the resource itself dummies. I watched the whole movie but for more from the standpoint of an ironic comedy that the director failed to reveal. All you have to do is think about the implications of what you're doing and stop acting out of blind anger. It's sad that theses kids ruined their lives to accomplish the polar opposite of their intention. But I see the humor in it.

There are occasions when extremes need to be taken, in a world where there's so many to awaken, as catastrophe approaches, there are those that need reproaches, and reminding that, foundations can be shaken. Environmental vigilantes will not dither, to destroy, damage and stop how fuels delivered, if it's black, thick, like a tar, they won't leave the door ajar, as they curtail the poison, toxic, deathly river. It's just a shame that sabotage has to be planned, as the barons won't leave world's end under the land, with their fingers in the pies, manipulating through their lies, to save tomorrows, someone has to take a stand. A group of motivated young people do what the title of the film suggests, and who knows what the consequences might be as a result.

It's interesting reading some of the other reviews here, so many with aloof somewhat sneering tones that anyone who has spent time on social media will recognise, especially women. This film is great, engaging, thought provoking & I'm sure speaks to the many who feel powerless in the face of Big Oil. It has strong female characters & casting, & their motivations & frustrations, whilst plainly idealistic & unencumbered by the cynicism of older generations, echo the voices of very many young people who are understandably angry at the insane & degraded world they are being presented with. Editing was great, cinematography & score were great. Not a moment of flabby self indulgence as we see in so many Hollywood films. Best cinema I've seen for a long time.

It's a tense movie with some good moments, interesting cinematography, and an even better score. However, it didn't live up to the high expectations. Even I, who agree with the main message, found it to be too one-sided. Other perspectives are not heard, there are no arguments, no pros and cons (when there are - and only about the method - a conclusion is quickly reached). I like movies that make me reflect and not movies that feed me the message with a spoon, forcing me to accept that. The structure is interesting, although cutting the tension doesn't always have the desired effect (which I believe is the same as a cliffhanger on tv shows). Lastly, the characters are too linear, too victimized. We know almost nothing about what sets them apart, we are only left with their motivations - all with direct causes - to do what they want to do. Ok, but didn't make me care a lot about them. It's an ok, flawed, somewhat interesting little thriller with an important message, but that's all it is.