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Thats some straight blockbuster movie sh-t. They deserve it if they pulled it off.
What's the meaning of straight here? The comment was made in response to a news article on a bank robbery in which the robbery was done by the robbers professionally dug a tunnel underground through to the bank's vault.
Unadulterated, pure. There is nothing to it that is not "blockbuster movie sh-t", for it does not deviate from the straight path of "blockbuster movie sh-t" but at all times keeps to being "blockbuster movie sh-t".
(Even with the censoring, that was a fun sentence to write).
The comment could be rephrased as
Such a stunt looks as though it's straight out of a blockbuster movie.
Straight is slang for "complete" in this case, so it could also be read as
That's complete blockbuster movie sh-t... they deserve it.
The comment's author is probably impressed with the robbers.
It's a shortening of straight up, which in this context means pure or honest.
