Left-wing movie, 'How to Blow Up a Pipeline,' blasted by Fox News show as normalizing violent, deadly acts to reach ideological aims

A Fox News program over the weekend blasted a left-wing movie that debuted this weekend — "How to Blow Up a Pipeline" — as normalizing violent, deadly acts to reach ideological aims.

What are the details?

“Climate craziness reaching a new level — a new film is out called ‘How to Blow Up a Pipeline,’ and you guessed it: It pushes climate activists to sabotage a Texas oil pipeline to stop that 'evil fossil fuels’ production,” said David Webb, co-host of “The Big Saturday Show.”

The Wrap reported that the movie is "inspired by Andreas Malm’s 2021 nonfiction release of the same name" which "argues that property destruction is a valid form of activism in the fight for climate change reform" and "takes those arguments and depicts a group of young activists fighting against the climate crisis by planning to blow up an oil pipeline in West Texas."

Joey Jones, a retired U.S. Marine Corps bomb technician, said "How to Blow Up a Pipeline" is emblematic of “what Hollywood’s doing overtly" at the present time and what it's "done subtly for a really long time." But he predicted it won't produce box-office gold like "Top Gun" or "Lone Survivor" or "American Sniper."

"When we put movies out that show the true heroism of a selfless individual, the American people respond. They go; they love it," Jones said. "Hollywood’s trying to bankrupt itself, I guess. I’m not sure. They’ve become so righteous in their cause they don’t understand the business that they’re in. And that’s fine. Make movies about blowing up pipelines. Nobody’s gonna watch it. That's OK."

Fox Business anchor Cheryl Casone criticized Rolling Stone's positive review of "How to Blow Up a Pipeline." The magazine called it "the Hottest Date Movie of the Season."

Casone said the review is “actually pushing, saying violence is the way to deal with the climate problem — if you believe that there is one.” She added that "if you really wanna do something about climate change, then I guess … go to Washington. But blowing up things and ending up in jail? Sorry, not the plan.”

Fox News contributor Lisa Boothe said she's concerned about younger viewers possibly imitating the actions of the characters on-screen.

“What worries me about this is ... first of all, are we sure this is a fictional tale? And secondly, Gen Z is the TikTok generation where they go watch a video, and then that is where they get their beliefs and thoughts from. They’re not a critically thinking generation,” Boothe said. “So it does worry me for them to be ... spoon-fed this sort of propaganda.”

Anything else?

"How to Blow Up a Pipeline" opened this weekend by grossing only $120,479. But since it ran in only 12 theaters, its per-screen average over three days — $3,346 — actually was the third-highest this weekend, trailing only "Showing Up" ($5,577 per-screen average) and first-place blockbuster "The Super Mario Bros. Movie," which has grossed over $200 million in its first week and averaged a total nearly $11,233 per screen this weekend, Box Office Mojo said.

The Wrap said its film critic, Tomris Laffly, called "How to Blow Up a Pipeline" a “Soderbergh-ian” film that “ignites an urgent sense of activism through a stellar ensemble cast and sophisticated direction.” The outlet added that the movie held a 95% positive critical consensus on Rotten Tomatoes.

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