One thing I didn’t like about Rust was how it leaned so heavily on familiar Western clichés without offering anything new—predictable plot, flat characters, and a climax that felt more drawn out than dramatic. Visually it was impressive, sure, but the storytelling just didn’t deliver any real emotional punch. Did the movie work for you?
The film’s elder protagonist, Harland Rust—played by Alec Baldwin—is introduced as an aging outlaw seeking redemption and reconciliation with his past
Huh, good luck with that.
However, the execution falls short
I think we can agree to disagree here.
The climax—a gunfight finale—strikes a discordant tone
I can see this.
Problem with this movie is when I see it in my feed I think its about the programming language.
I think the filmmakers would be delighted that its the programming language you think of when you hear the movie and not the whole…thing.
thought it was the game
well, that, and there’s no way this is memory safe.
The part I didn’t like was when that guy killed someone, blamed an inanimate object, and then got away with it.
Sure must be nice to be rich enough the law doesn’t apply to you.
why were there live rounds on set anyway?
Fair question, but the point remains. If you accidentally cause a person’s death, that’s manslaughter.
Furthermore, if there is enough evidence to convict one person, how isn’t there enough proof to convict the person that aimed and pulled the trigger?
Sure must be nice to be rich enough the law doesn’t apply to you.
I don’t disagree, but also add in powerful friends, a good defense team and incompetent prosecutors as evidence were withheld Source - https://www.nytimes.com/article/alec-baldwin-rust-trial-involuntary-manslaughter.html
Hey, it’s not the actor’s fault! Blame the producers who cut corners on the crew and disregarded safety regulations.
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It’s 100% the actors fault, if you follow basic firearm safety, that would have never happened.
It’s by definition, manslaughter. And if there was enough of a case to put the armourer in jail, there’s enough of a case to put Alec Baldwin in jail too.
It’s 100% the actors fault, if you follow basic firearm safety, that would have never happened.
The fuck kind of basic firearm safety can you follow on a movie set?
3 key rules:
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Finger off the trigger till not: you’re going to need to look like you’re shooting
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Don’t point it at things you don’t want dead: the character wants to make things dead
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Treat every gun like it’s loaded: this was the mistake.
For 3, the story is (and I think it’s not perfect) that actors are supposed to trust the armorer.
This whole thing seems like the wrong person got a functional firearm, from this Alec Baldwin should never be allowed a gun since he doesn’t respect it.
But it’s his job, and he wasn’t expected to ever have a functional firearm.
Gross negligence without any question.
More importantly, as a producer he should have been wary of the previous complaints on the set, those are his responsibility.
I’ll concede it’s pretty hard to act like you are shooting without pulling the trigger, but the vast number of other safety issues they had, and that as a producer he was most likely aware of, he was still negligent.
Treat every firearm as if it’s loaded, definitely didn’t do.
Don’t point at things you don’t want dead, pretty sure cameras still work if no one is standing behind it.
For anyone reading, if someone hands you a firearm, point it in a safe direction, open the chamber to make sure it’s unloaded, and then keep it pointed in a safe direction.
Pretend like bullets are little chamber seeking missiles that are going to sneak in when you aren’t looking.
I imagine actors on set treat what they’re handed like props, similar to kids treat toy guns.
In that sense, familiarity breeds contempt.
I think this is more of a wake up call.
We need to never allow functional firearms on sets, there have been too many mistakes already.
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You’re being downvoted because the actor, Alec Baldwin, is also the producer, Alec Baldwin.
Agreed. Don’t play with guns unless you are going to take it seriously.
