• Five@slrpnk.netEnglish
    51·
    5 个月前

    Even the right-wing reviewers who hate the premise admit it’s a well written film in the vein of heist thrillers.

    It’s a really good movie. Not particularly useful if you actually want to destroy something - they were careful to get a consultant to make sure they didn’t break any laws or create liability for themselves or the studio. If you didn’t see it in theatre, you missed out! I’m really glad the feds are wringing their hooves over it, it deserved much better marketing. It is destined to become a cult classic.

      • Five@slrpnk.netEnglish
        20·
        5 个月前

        The beauty of it is – the people you go with don’t have to be ‘like-minded.’ You can enjoy Oceans Eleven without endorsing theft, you can enjoy HTBUAP without endorsing sabotage. If your friends feel it crosses a line, that’s a very interesting post-film discussion: Why isn’t it disturbing for people to root against the ‘house’ in Oceans? Is it okay to break the law to get rich, but not to do it for justice?

    • MintyFresh@lemmy.world
      35·
      5 个月前

      But then a couple dozen bros can’t hoard wealth and power. It’s like you don’t even care about the capitalists. Bruh

      • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        5 个月前

        Those giant solar arrays where they focus all the energy up at one tower would be badass to blow up.

        Don’t do it, we desperately need more of those, but I imagine it would be sparkly.

    • sga@piefed.socialEnglish
      1·
      5 个月前

      sadly, no - you still need high quality silica, and advanced facilities to manufacture the photovoltaics. Imagine it like you buying coal and using coal to power your house. yes this coal is cleaner, and runs for 10-20 years, but there are not many coal plants.

      • Zachariah@lemmy.world
        2·
        5 个月前

        all power sources have the same problem of centralized sources of materials and manufacturing, so it doesn’t make solar any worse than the others

        but the other energy sources have the problem of centralization once they’re implemented

        • sga@piefed.socialEnglish
          2·
          5 个月前

          this may seem stupid/naive, but geothermal does not have any such problem. it is effectively a ac (heat pump). Nuclear too does not require complex manufacturing. it still requires mining, but so do almost all electrical solutions too. but beyond that, they are just rocks that pretty much perpetually dissipiate heat. if you go for betavoltaics, they directly give electrons, and can charge stuff.

  • buddascrayon@lemmy.world
    23·
    5 个月前

    The producers of the movie: “Thank you for the free publicity! Now far more people will watch our movie than every would have otherwise.”

  • PieMePlenty@lemmy.world
    18·
    5 个月前

    I liked it. Not exactly a “how to” movie but a nice escape fantasy. The East has similar eco terrorism vibes but it tries to focus on too much and misses the mark. HTBUAP is dead on focused on destroying a pipeline and tells that story well.

  • hex_m_hell@slrpnk.net
    18·
    5 个月前

    Wow, I really hope no one writes “How to Blow Up a Fractionating Column With a $20 Drone.” Pipelines are pretty easy to mass produce, but attacks on distillation towers like we’ve seen come out of Ukraine can knock out a refinery for years.

    • lemmyknow@lemmy.today
      8·
      5 个月前

      I enjoyed the movie. I like how it shows concrete ways in which people can be affected by the matter at hand. Not a “polar bears on thin ice” or similar, but actual effects on everyday people (not that polar bears don’t matter)

    • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
      4·
      5 个月前

      I don’t say carry sand in your pockets because pocket sand shashasha. Well not just because that. It’s because of the OSS Manual of Subtle Sabotage.