Paintball goes hollywood

[Kitch]

Movies called Failure to launch, Watched it last night wasn't too bad for a romcom. A nice bit of exposure for paintball despite it's goggles and smoke grenades bit's, after all people pay to see the stars of the movie not them in goggles but hey I expect over on the WW2 re-inactment forum there are still picking the dirty dozen to bits

 

[Brightley]

Originally posted by Snap Shot 01
I thought the film was good, i agree the scene was over the top, but it may intise people to try the sport and when they do they will realise how good it is.
Personally i think it is good that Hollywood is recognising paintball and not just letting it pass by in the shadows!!!

Luke...

HOW??? how can you find that good? its a load of s*** and makes paintball look like a joke. Possible the worst paintball vid ever.

 

[Matski]

It's still good placement for paintball, that movie is 2nd in the US box office charts at the moment...that's a huge amount of people seeing modern format paintball.
People don't expect that kind of movie to be factually accurate, all you need to do is trigger interest and people will find out the bigger picture using the internet.
At least it wasn't shown as a military senario game, and modern equipment, format, and brands were shown.

Someone getting shot in the eye - maimed or killed with a paintball marker in a movie would be bad publicity. Something that at least shows a modern representation and 'fun' can't be bad at all.

 

[Rosie]

Originally posted by matski
At least it wasn't shown as a military senario game, and modern equipment, format, and brands were shown.

Yep totally agree, loads of people know about paintball, but thats all they think it is- in the woods playing soldiers, at least this shows the modern version. Be nice if it showed a proper tourney or something, or if they didn't lift up their goggles but it's positive publicity at least

watch the HB03 video streaming on the NPPL site
https://www.surfinglive.com/events/nppl_super7_event1/index.jsp
that guy says 'no never knew it existed at this level', any tourney publicity is good publicity

Originally posted by matski
Someone getting shot in the eye, maimed or killed with a paintball marker in a movie would be bad publicity. Something that at least shows a modern representation and 'fun' can't be bad at all.

CSI a few weeks a go showed a tramp dying after being drive-by shot with a marker

 

[Matski]

Plus

Who can say that their very first interest in paintball was to take up a serious sport? People first go for a fun, different day out..Even players like Oliver Lang started out that way.

Rosie - that's a shame, but at least positive representations of paintball in big budget movies such as this can help out-balance that sort of thing...

 

[Rosie]

Originally posted by matski
Plus

Who can say that their first interest in paintball was to take up a serious sport? People first go for a fun, different day out..Even players like Oliver Lang started out that way.

Rosie - that's a shame, but at least positive presentations of paintball in movies such as this can help out-balance that sort of thing...

Probably a lot of people would be kinda put off if they saw the video of Ollie & the Ironmen shouting & screaming & getting hyped up- but maybe some of us could relate to that, yeah you're right no one gets into it aiming to be a serious player straight away, even Robbo started out by going on a stag do.


Yeah, there's more postive than negative stuff about it so it evens out

people aren't going to watch csi & think we're either all yobs or that the sport is dangerous
but they might watch the film & think it looks like fun, I might have a go at that

 

[ChiZZerS]

Originally posted by Snap Shot 01
I thought the film was good........

stop right their... *slap*... ok carry on