I was really sad to hear about this, though it’s obviously been coming for a long time.

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But he wasn’t a gun handler. He was playing a gun handler, and the incident set off a debate about the use of real, operating guns on film sets.

“Should a guy who gets drunk and hits and kills a child be let go free because other drunks didn’t run over and kill children?”

“You make an interesting point. Should a guy who gets drunk and hits and kills a child be let go free because other drunks didn’t run over and kill children?”

Per union rules I’m not allowed to inspect my own condoms, and my wife and I always wait for the explicit go ahead from our condom supplier before engaging in each sex act.

No, it means that it cannot be refiled. I hope my sharing of knowledge helped.

Absolutely not. It’s SAG rules that the armorer and ONLY the armorer is responsible for the safety of all weapons used on set. This is to prevent the nightmare of dozens (or more) actors tampering with the weapons on the set of a movie.

It’s for the ACTORS’ safety that they’re not allowed to ‘check’ the guns in use. Do…

I would argue it means the exact opposite. 

The thing is, most people probably don’t even do a cursory check on their condoms before using them, and checking them in a more than cursory manner might actually lower their effectiveness. Condoms have a 98% quoted efficacy rate, and I’d wager less than 10% of users do anything more than check the expiration date,…

If I bring my car to my mechanic to get my brakes fixed and then I immediately run someone over because my brakes decidedly don’t work when I’m pulling out of the lot, am I supposed to stand trial for not checking over the work of the person I paid because they had the experience and qualifications for that thing?

He wasn’t expecting the gun to fire, but had taken no measures to ensure that it was incapable of firing.

It is a movie set, there are a different set of rules. That has been well established. 

He had no reason to believe the gun wouldn’t fire. It wasn’t supposed to be loaded with live ammunition, period. The responsibility for ensuring there was no live ammo on set and in the device designed as a lethal weapon that was in perfect mechanical condition fell to the AD and the armorer, not Baldwin. SAG-AFTRA…

Amen on the marketing. Without broadcast TV ads or newspaper listings, there’s virtually no way to find out about a movie by accident. We only learn about the stuff that’s already targeted to us based on our previous clicks. I found it particularly aggravating last year that, even after the Academy Awards, my fellow…

How do you get Jeffrey Combs for the project, but not have him voice Rorschach? Dude was the Question in JLU, which is the whole basis for Ror in the first place...and it’s not like Titus is a voice/name that brings in more viewers.

To a certain extent Netflix, with their shift to original programming, did spark the massive escalation that’s now a problem- it’s not just that everyone put out their own streaming service (itself not a great idea) but they all felt compelled to spend absurd amounts of money on original content exclusively for those…

You need a drink, this was an aggressively over the top response to the other dude’s reasonable opinion. Calm down, man!

and i think you got so horned up to dunk on me you stopped reading what i was actually saying.

Standard Raimi