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The film, with the working title Pawn Shop, centers on an Antifa siege of a Minneapolis pawn shop amid anti-ICE unrest. On one side: an ICE agent joined by a group of pawn-shop employees and customers. On the other: a rabble of progressive protesters, and eventually a bloodthirsty MS-13 death squad, both intent on rescuing a Hispanic man detained by ICE. It plays out exactly how you’d expect it would.

The film’s first minutes will likely get the most attention. As Pawn Shop opens, two ICE agents in Minneapolis arrest the Latino man, later revealed to be an MS-13 boss. Dimwitted liberal activists film and scuffle with the agents as they try to take their suspect away.

Then the film’s Renée Good stand-in enters, slamming her Subaru into the ICE van. Described with the subtlety of a brick as “MELANIE (40), a fat blue-hair,” the woman, blasting NPR, revs up again and fatally hits ICE agent “Juan” with her car. Then his ICE partner, “Mike,” shoots her in a justifiable killing.

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The first shot takes the [sic] Melanie in the neck, below her covid mask. The second in the head, above her covid mask.

They even have to include a symbolic reference to COVID masks being totally ineffective for protection. This is supposed to keeps us safe from viruses? It can't even stop a couple of 9mm bullets!

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago

Big Gun was really worried that COVID deaths were going to outpace gun deaths in the country during the pandemic

[–] aceslip@lemmy.zip 125 points 3 days ago (3 children)

It’s like they’re channeling the ghost of Goebbels with this level of absurd propaganda

[–] OleFoFa@lemmy.world 42 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Trying and failing. Leonie Riefenstahl created freaking works of art compared to Ben Shapiro creating works of wet fart

[–] Akasazh@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

At least Goebbels was good at his job

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It reads like Quenton Tarantino smoked crack with Elon Musk and Pam Blondi before collaborating on it

[–] CedricWhaley@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Quenton Tarantino

I don't see anything related to a foot fetish in the summary.

Wrong gimmick. Every third word is the N word for some inexplicable reason.

At one point the movie action gets pretty meta and they start asking why they keep saying the N word.

[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.today 71 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Conservatives have the creativity of 9-year-olds. Which might explain their attraction.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 3 days ago

Lol don't be silly, it was written by llm

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 50 points 3 days ago (1 children)

ben shapiro failed at being a hollywood nepo baby. that's how bad he is.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The failed screenwriter to rightwing grifter pipeline is very, very real

[–] Taldan@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why do they go from wanting to be artists to wanting to be fascists?

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

"I feel like misunderstood artists. I'm right, everyone else is wrong. I will now make a podcast about the woke agenda ruining Hollywood"

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 days ago

Like failed musician to christian rock.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 34 points 3 days ago (2 children)

God Awful Movies literally just reviewed the last stupid film these guys did about pro-Palastinian protesters getting used by Muslim terrorists who take over a school.

It's an incredibly dumb and hateful movie worth laughing at, and I'm sure this one will be too.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

God Awful Movies literally just reviewed the last stupid film

Every podcaster jumped on this movie, because it's so easy to tear apart. Idk who else bothered to watch it, outside the die-hard incels that give Ben Shapiro money to hear him speak.

It’s an incredibly dumb and hateful movie worth laughing at

The irony of the movie is that conservatives sympathize with their fantasy Muslim terrorist. The bad guy just stands up and says all the things Benny Johnson and Ben Shapiro actually believe.

No Jewish person ever dies in the movie. No chud dies. Only the Stupid Leftists ever have anything bad happen to them.

Jihadism is like Noah's Flood. It's a divine punishment that only hurts those damned leftists.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Now that you mentioned it, it did just came out. Although at some point you'll die by contact damage just by listening to too many podcasts reviewing it, haha.

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[–] Hermit_Lailoken@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago

Channeling The Birth of a Nation 1915, no doubt.

[–] DaveyRocket@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

“Blast NPR”

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The first shot takes the [sic] Melanie in the neck

kirk lol

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 31 points 3 days ago

Filming hasn’t gone totally quietly in Livingston, Montana, the small town where Pawn Shop is being shot. Locals got their hands on the script, too, and started honking their car horns and attempting other small-scale disruptions to the shoot.

“We want them to know: Don’t come do this shit in our town,” one protester, who asked not to be named for fear of online retaliation, told me.

Always nice to hear about local actions like this.

[–] DrSleepless@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Is Armie Hammer in this one too?

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

Depends on who's running craft services.

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[–] JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip 21 points 3 days ago (9 children)

“MELANIE (40), a fat blue-hair,” the woman, blasting NPR, revs up again and fatally hits ICE agent

If they don't blast the "All Things Considered" music in that scene then they have no sense of comedy.

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[–] BillCheddar@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The Notebook on molly isn't anywhere near as sad as conservatives trying to be creative. Fuck's sake.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 5 points 2 days ago

Creativity is the height of Cool, and nobody is less cool than a MAGA. They really are pathetic, made more so by the fact that they actually believe THEY are always the coolest, smartest guys in the room, when EVERYBODY else in the room recognizes them for the complete Putzes they truly are.

[–] Nouvellalia@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago

Every day they are being told they are going to have to kill their friends and family who disagree with them. They have been told this might happen, by the church since they were born. They are being told this will happen, now by the magat machine.

Everyone would do well to listen to this that is being said to them over and over and over.

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

They haven't set enough money on fire?

[–] Pratai@piefed.ca 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

If people would ignore this dumb shit like it deserves. It wouldn’t be a big deal. They do this shit on purpose.

[–] groucho@retrolemmy.com 16 points 3 days ago (23 children)

Yeah they've fucked a small town. They took over the block with their only food bank. Their armed guards are scaring people away from getting food. They don't have permits and they're too chicken shit to actually do it in Minnesota. Amplify away. Bullshit is happening and it's affecting people.

The locals have every right to butcher these fuckwits in my opinion. Fuckem.

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[–] impairedimperator@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 days ago (5 children)

That's why they leaked the script, too.

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[–] DataCrime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago

Where do _I _ get a sweet-ass I'm Antifa hoodie???

(Just kidding, I'm going to Google it in a second just to make sure I'm on the correct list 😂)

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

Did that guy always suck this bad?

This is irrelevant propagandist drivel, as always. Do not give it more attention than it will already receive. You do nothing good by even bringing it up.

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