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john wick is dystopian lol

alec baldwin being a hypocrite (he is, and there's a lot of irony in it) is totally different than the assertion that putting guns in movies is hypocritical if you are pro gun control. is caraveggio a hypocrite for supposedly being anti-murder but then painting the beheading of st. john the baptist? is rob reiner a hypocrite for thinking kids should resolve conflicts peacefully but featuring kids in fistfights in stand by me? do you see how ridiculous this gets when you frame depiction as action? it's foundationally dumb. and you know it

crushing

lol

i agree that you can't argue your dumbshit point on merit so you're trying to back away

lol

everyone is. the entire industry is outraged at that production's fugshittery. your point was still really dumb tho

I just wrapped up production on a feature film set during world war two. It was a scale or two below RUST; I'm guessing that was a ~5MM production but there are some structural similarities. Couple of decent-sized names as leads - we had Arnold Vosloo, Michael Ironside, and a few others to sell the picture - and going with non-union crew to save a buck (ours was done out of absolute fiduciary necessity as above-line costs ate up the majority of budget and I'm also a nobody who needs to crank out a good return to cement a career in the industry.) My film had a lot of guns. Arnold Vosloo fires a Luger at a bunch of downed American aviators. Germans are firing full-auto machine guns. The film's lead goes HAM at the end of the movie with a German machine gun emplacement. Dozens of rounds fired from a .38 special, a car chase with guys leaning out the windows with full auto MGs and a MOSSAD agent with a full auto Uzi letting rip from the back seat of a sedan. Tons and tons of guns. We didn't have any accidents because despite being non-union I hired a competent armorer, hired a stunt coordinator who worked with him hand-in-hand, and ensured (along with my production staff) that we had a specific protocol for handling weapons. All weapons (blank firing or dummy) were stored in a vault in his locked vehicle which only he could access. Any time Arnold got handed a pistol for rehearsal the armorer cleared the gun, showed everyone on set it was empty, verified with Arnold, and then went through with the rehearsal. That was a real pistol with blank rounds used. The other ones were all BATF approved blank-firing weapons props and we utilized the same protocol (those rounds can still spit shrapnel on forward-venting weapons.) No accidents, not even close. On a margin of the RUST budget we were far safer, far better equipped, and the results showed. Here's the thing with Alec Baldwin. He's a producer on the project, so whether he pulled the trigger or didn't (he did lol) whether it was his fault or not as a performer (I'd argue it wasn't, if my armorer stuck a hot pistol in my lead actor's hand and yelled cold gun and he pulled the trigger, he's not culpable in the same way because while not personally checking it was dumb, it was a reasonable expectation in this line of work that the pistol was in fact cold. Negligent? Sure. Criminally liable? ...that gets muddy.) But regardless of whether he's culpable as the trigger man (I'd argue he's not) he's absolutely culpable as a producer. RUST had long-standing issues. Guns had gone off before. The camera department walked off set over it a few days earlier. And this was all part of a larger pattern of putting the bottom line over safety. With the industry then in the middle of grappling with how union productions should provide for their employees, this production (union cast but not union crew) tone-deafedly made their crew, who were working sixteen hour days, drive fifty miles to and from the hotels each day because they were able to save a few thousand on lodging by keeping them out of nearby Santa Fe. People were falling asleep on the way home. The producers cared more about preserving their seven-figure bottom line than marginally carving into it to keep the people making them rich safe and cared-for. It's unconscionable, and in this case, I'd argue, criminal. Alex Baldwin the actor is an idiot but criminally innocent; Alex Baldwin the producer is an asshole and criminally guilty. fug Alec Baldwin and fug productions that put profit margins over the people allowing them to profit. Oh yeah and why the fug is a first AD handing out the weapons? That makes zero sense. First ADs don't do that. I hope that's a weird missed detail by reporters who got their wires crossed. If his production was letting a 1AD handle firearms in the chain of custody that's another black mark on Baldwin (and the other producers, and the armorer who should've put her foot down, and the first AD himself, who apparently has a rep for being a real piece of poo.) Anyway your comment on Hollywood using guns in movies being hypocritical is the profoundly stupid take. As an anti-racist am I hypocritical for having Nazis in my movie? As someone who opposed to big tobacco am I hypocritical for having my characters chain smoke? As someone opposed reckless driving am I hypocritical for writing a scene where the film's protagonist hauls ass down a dirt road swerving around without a seatbelt? No? Good, don't die on that hill

profoundly dumb take

can he play tackle

rumor is rhule showed up to help decorate but immediately dropped the ball

i'm basically traveling til the super bowl. no more streaming games for me

i hope OP never encounters real adversity in his life

that was the weirdest looking football i've ever seen

the dolphins offense is a fuging abortion. zero excuse to be getting flattened by these scrubs

read the sidelines. every player on this team has given up. you can see it in their eyes, their gait, their posture. still in playoff contention and they've given up. that's coaches. i won't hate it if rhule gets one more year but i'll also be thrilled if we gut the staff.

not a fan but he needs one more year and an actual offensive line

this was a really stupid idea

just touched down in thailand, haven't slept in two days, staying awake and streaming this thing anyway. let's fugin goooo

yeah i was in 514 as well and couldn't hear a damn thing. balance is way off

heineken made some legitimately ridiculous throws into tight windows. he might just be a really good quarterback

i'm optimistic! with cam anything is possible

penalties = lack of discipline = bad coaching