audition_audio, if that was directed at me, I was being sarcastic.
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Actually, the ones who walked off the job were camera crew members. Guns "accidentally" went off twice already before the incident.The armorer was a non union member and got the job because she was related to another armorer. A 24 yr old "local talent" who previously admitted that she was uneasy working with blanks and had limited formal training other than that nice photo of her with a gun and holster slung over her shoulder. She kept a duffle mixed with blanks and live rounds. As for pointing a gun at someone and pulling the trigger in a movie, it’s done all the time. Ever been to a movie? Under union control, there’s always a bullet proof screen between the gun and the camera when they need to have the perspective of looking down the barrel of the gun. This was mostly a non union shoot meant to save money for the backers of the movie. I believe it had a budget of no more than $7 Million. Looks like you get what you pay for. All the best, Nonoise |
nonoise7,775 posts10-28-2021 8:53amActually, the ones who walked off the job were camera crew members. Guns "accidentally" went off twice already before the incident.The armorer was a non union member and got the job because she was related to another armorer. A 24 yr old "local talent" who previously admitted that she was uneasy working with blanks and had limited formal training other than that nice photo of her with a gun and holster slung over her shoulder. She kept a duffle mixed with blanks and live rounds.I know who the armorer was, she failed miserably. So did everyone else that touched that weapon (which should have been no one else) There shouldn't have been a live round anywhere on location. And no, they don't point guns at people all the time on movie sets, that's old school. But they make it look like they do. Plus, nothing was being filmed when Ms. Hutchins was shot and killed. This has nothing to do with money, it's about ignorance, and poor safety practices. |
Correction in my previous post, not Roy Gregory, but Alan Sircom, who was lovely...Alan did a lovely piece in HiFi+. He’s quite a funny, smart fellow.@whart — Sorry, but Alan Sircom SUCKS as a reviewer IMHO. Read his reviews and there’s nothing to them. Seriously, you don’t even need to listen to a piece of equipment to write what he writes — it’s that useless. And the coup de gras is he NEVER compares the piece he’s reviewing to anything else AND, as far as I recall, doesn’t even list the comparable piece of equipment in his review system so there’s absolute NO reference for comparison or what he’s basing his “opinions” on. The beauty of his “reviews” are that there’s much less effort involved and virtually no accountability for what he says, and the bonus is he can therefore crank out many more of these absolutely useless reviews because he cuts out one of the most time-consuming and labor-intensive — oh yeah, and the most useful — parts of the review process. I gotta hand it to him, he’s found a way to make some good coin for doing very little work, but anyone well versed in audio or writing a truly useful review would recognize his reviews as the useless trash they are. I actually brought this up to him once via email and he said that since there’s little chance someone would’ve heard whatever he compared the review unit to there’s no real value in doing comparisons. REALLY? Such a lame excuse for absolute laziness and being a total coward. The worst thing I can say about Sircom’s (and most TAS reviews actually) is that after reading his review I still have little idea what the subject of the “review” actually sounds like or if I’d like to consider it myself. What else is a review supposed to be if not that??? TAS and HiFi+ are hack publications IMO, and the only reason for reading them is for entertainment and exposure, but I can get that from an ad or a company’s website, so again — useless...utterly useless crap. |
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