The only bizarre thing is that the investigation is being carried out in a very public manner, and that Baldwin, Baldwin’s lawyers, and Guttierez-Reed’s lawyers have decided to engage the media at every opportunity. Usually the parties to a lawsuit and incident with potential criminal consequences are less chatty.

I compare it to being handed a gun at a party, and being told it’s safe, and it goes off and kills someone. It’s shared blame, both by the owner who failed to check, and me, who assumed it was safe and abrogated my own duty as a person possessing common sense skills. And I say this as someone who has been on numerous…

Agreed 100%, with the added point that it’s extremely unlikely he was that kind of producer - odds are he held that title just so he could script-doctor/offer some creative input here and there.

Agreed 100%, with the added point that it’s extremely unlikely he was that kind of producer - odds are he held that title just so he could script-doctor/offer some creative input here and there.

Not really strange. Alec Baldwin says that it was a misfire. That he pulled the hammer back and it went off. The investigation says he pulled the trigger. Neither action really changes an actor’s culpability in a prop gun accident.

Alec Baldwin is a huge douche in many, many ways.

Personally, I blame whoever gave him the gun and told him it was “cold” (I think it was the AD). You’re not supposed to say a gun isn’t loaded if you haven’t made sure of it yourself. That’s the protocol.

The argument would be that as producer he should have hired a competent armorer, but nobody has really confirmed if he was “that kind” of producer. Of course the follow-up is that he’s Alec Baldwin, and if a gun misfires on set twice that week, he should talk to whoever is “that kind” of producer to tell them to find…

Here’s the thing, even if Baldwin pulled the trigger and fired the gun, he’s not 100% responsible. Actors are handed weapons all the time under the assumption it’s been checked multiple times. How many times has he held a prop-firearm without issue? Actors don’t clear the rounds and inspect each one themselves. That’s…

Yeah, I remember reading the same thing. That NM police managed to replicate the firing of the gun without pulling the trigger. Would like to know if it was the same gun though.

They weren’t even really rehearsing, they were discussing how they were going to film the scene. As I recall, Baldwin was literally explaining his steps aloud as he was doing them, and then he went through the whole motion again, and that’s when the gun went off.

Yeah, that’s just weird / gratuitous. Like, Nobody I kind of get, he’s a working stiff, but wasn’t the whole point of John Wick that all the assassins move in a hyper-elite secret upper class with fancy hotels and their own gold currency and everything? And IIRC pretty much all the others are all stylised and fancy…

Do we still use that word at all anymore?

Would absolutely LOVE to understand the use of "working class" in this review.

This is really starting to drive me crazy. Can’t they at least put the info somewhere at the beginning.

Oh you sweet summer children. Have you all not realized that the current version of the Avclub is nothing but a protest against the Gregorian Calendar?

To the site’s very minimal credit there is a Netflix logo on the trailer, but I think we can all agree that it’s just luck that it was there.

Oh, come now. You can’t expect a mere movie website to know the release date of a movie. That’s highly-privileged, jealously-guarded information that no producer wants out in the open. Good heavens, do you think studios want people to watch their movies or something?

On fucking Netflix August 12

I’m surprised OnStar is still a thing. I guess it was novel when it was new and cell phones were a luxury that you could have this connectivity in an emergency. But today, who needs it?