It looks like crap in CGI. You have every actor giving their personal interpretation of a pew pew motion and some don’t pretend to have recoil at all. Then it just gives permission to continue to lower the production value until everything looks like a netflix teen drama.
They suggested using a gas-powered gun which simulates recoil, the actors would not have to pretend to recoil
That + squibs would be good.
I for one sorta like how hollywood has this other side where it’s treated like a small country and allowed to screw around with things like live guns and explosives and stuff. I think its sorta fun and wild-westy and I think there’s room for danger to still exist in the world. It is fucking terrible that a scab loaded a gun with a real round and caused Baldwin to fucking kill a woman.
I think one of the divides on people’s takes with this is “gun users” vs “non gun users”. I think all my gun-owning friends are on the same page, that it doesn’t matter what the expectations are on a movie set with a full time paid armorer might be - gun safety is the same in every situation. If someone hands you a gun and says it’s safe, you check to ensure they’re correct. Every single time. When bullshitting with friends, if I go get a gun to show them, I will rack the slide or operate the bolt to show it’s clear, then hand it to them, then they’ll do the same thing. It’s an automatic habit, like putting on a seatbelt when you get into a car.
