Not having mine in rentable condition is an easy out for me, fortunately. If it were finished, I'm afraid the repaint clause would probably still be a deal breaker.
Maybe PB's cash bond would sway me.
While our one 'big' movie experience with Paramount was good, as in they paid a lot of money and treated us and the trucks very well, I tend to think that may be the exception to the rule. I have a friend who rents to movies regularly (with beater deuces, etc) and he will tell of mainly unpleasant experiences.
You do have to watch your stuff carefully. In just a few short minutes, one little swine of an extra got in my cab, cracked the new windshield (of course. He couldn't break the other one that I needed to replace anyway) trying to push it open further, and pulled my magnetic Marine emblem off the inside of the door and chucked it on the ground. That last one made me madder than the rest, and likely would have resulted in him accidentally falling out of the cab a couple of times, but he saw me coming and proved to be a remarkably fast runner for a well-fed kid.
Oh well, Paramount sighed and wrote another cheque to cover the windshield and labour to replace it.
When the movie finally came out, Sarge and I dutifully suffered though watching it.
Me- "Hey, there's the wheels of my M813, you can just see them out the window. Where was your truck??"
Sarge- "Ach und bugger!! Grumble, grumble..."
I hope we didn't get walked on
too much on the cutting room floor....
Mark, if it makes you feel any better, I only got one of those cokes too!
Cheers
