"In Your Face" paintball movie

[CRog075]

Originally posted by DiRTyBuNNy
I think the whole cast needs to go back to remedial paintball school..most of those noobs can't even hold their markers right...they look like a bunch of 12 year olds at a birthday party playing recball...

lol i know. And they are all diving and shiznit like this is the military, and if they drop there gun, it wont hurt it.

[CRog075]

Originally posted by adam shannon
that is sooooo sad. i am really glad to see that that waste of celulose production was given a blue warp fed X-mag...no wonder i cant get one, they are all going to movie crews that want to set paintball back 10 years in the eyes of the public.

you can see the x-mag in the first trailer where the guy holds his teammate as a shield.

LOl yeah that sucks. Budd Ore and Tom Kaye were like in it too and gave them cockers and mags.

[DiRTyBuNNy]

right now I couldn't even see Blockbuster carrying this movie..I mean...jeez..you can at least get the Dolph Lundgren Punisher Movie for rent at blockbuster..but this thing...sorry...horrible story with even worse execution..it's ol' yellar time for this baby..

[paintslinger]

oh this is the movie that tom said he was in...well atleast here are hot chicks in it...i might buy it for the hell of it.

[CRog075]

Originally posted by paintslinger
oh this is the movie that tom said he was in...well atleast here are hot chicks in it...i might buy it for the hell of it.

No you must not. Seriously, no one should buy it, if people buy it, the company might think its good and make a sequal.

[DiRTyBuNNy]

No..we must bring these hotties to Ao and show them what real paintball is like..yes..that must be done...*goes back to hatching his master plan*

[CRog075]

Originally posted by DiRTyBuNNy
No..we must bring these hotties to Ao and show them what real paintball is like..yes..that must be done...*goes back to hatching his master plan*

LOL

[AGD]

Nice job guys!! This is PERFECT!! You should go ahead and trash it because that way no one will ever invest in paintball movies AGAIN!

If you want paintball mainstream I guarantee you Mel Gibson is not going to step up and do one without seeing it make money somewhere else.

Sure you have the right to diss it if it sucks but don't complain if its the last one you ever see.....

AGD

[CRog075]

Originally posted by AGD
Nice job guys!! This is PERFECT!! You should go ahead and trash it because that way no one will ever invest in paintball movies AGAIN!

If you want paintball mainstream I guarantee you Mel Gibson is not going to step up and do one without seeing it make money somewhere else.

Sure you have the right to diss it if it sucks but don't complain if its the last one you ever see.....

AGD

Come on tom, we know you were in it. But if you werent, and you saw this like we are by trailors, wouldnt you think it sucks?

[lopxtc]

People trashed SW: Episode One and yet they went and made Episode Two ...

Honestly though I dont know any movie about a specific subject that actually survies interrogation by people who are familiar to that subject.

Like I said prior, when rollerblading was big they made several movies about it which most people who bladed thought sucked.

From what I have seen in the preview the movie does appear to be a joke ... akin to the likes of Hot Shots, Airplane, et al. I will hold full comment till I see the full movie. There are scenes of one character using another as a human shield?!?!?! Oh yeah just what I want the mothers of America to see before deciding if their son/daughter can go play.

There are several scenes of unmasked people with un-blocked barrels, looks like people using their backyard kids toys as bunkers without thought of the surrounding houses, etc. While I am for a movie that has paintball as part of it, they should really give more thought to the technical advisor then they usually do. Like they did with Saving Pvt. Ryan, which got a very good and very detailed military advisor for the whole movie. Companies should invest in a good paintball advisor, not so much for the gear, but for the safety aspect.

Overall I think this is a movie that isnt going to benefit the culture, and until they can make a movie that does I purely happy with www.forceofnature.com movies of games.


Aaron

[Army]

I do own it, Sarah and I suffered through nearly 1.5 hours of it, and now we are more dumb because of it.

Sorry Tom, but this will do nothing to promote, nor encourage any more films on paintball. The premise, while standard fare, was poorly executed with plot lines that never built the characters, among many other flaws.

The poster shows the main character, Todd, coming off their outlaw woods field, the face at the top left is the antagonist, and the face at top right is the ex-British SAS hero who shows the rookie team how to use their inner strengths to defeat the uber-cheater-wipers-local-store-sponsored team. The "bad" team are all rich snobs, the leader of which has that aforementioned 'Mag with blue halo and Warp, the rest have an assortment of 'Cockers and, I think, an Impulse. The "good" team all have Spyders or Tippy's.

The rookie team plays and practices in one member's back yard in town (here's where it starts to get bad), with NO netting or anything to stop balls from hitting the very near by houses. The first game is quickly over, after one boy is hit in the crotch (with the expected slow drop moan to the ground), and a very silly chase around a childs plastic slide set. As they are discussing the upcoming "big tourney", a shot comes from nowhere, hitting another boy. This comes from a girl that wants to be on the team, but isn't allowed because she is a girl so she can't be serious. Tired plot line.

As they are practicing one day, a "mysterious stranger" shows up and takes them all out, by magically appearing where they least expect him to. Yet another tired plot line. Being an ex special forces soldier, he shows them how to snap shoot, move like the wind, use the terrain to their advantage, and to do cool Ninja rolls into the bunkers, all the while speaking in a sexy Aussie accent, while claimning to be Brit.....sad....and a tired plot. (I won't mention the inevitable love plot between the Brit and the hero's big sister)

Of course, comes the day of the tourney (winning team gets 100% sponsorship), there are "xen-moments" of conscious and conviction, but get together at last to pull of a slim victory..did I mention that's a tired plot line? The victory is shortlived however, as the anti-hero emerges totally clean, after a 3 hit with orange paint, shoots the hero, and is declared the winner....yes, the refs didn't see the hit, even though only three player were left. The tourney sponsor DID see the hits AND the wipe, and declares the rookie team the winners during the awards ceremonies, much to the anger and chagrin of the snob team, who only NOW thinks the bad guy is a jerk, the final tired plot line.

Throughout the entire movie, is an almost non-stop string of profanity, including from the "younger brother" who is praised when he calls the bad guy a nasty name. The foul language just wasn't needed, and will be one of, if not the real reason, that most parents will be shocked that their little johnny plays such a dirty game. The entire movie is shot on video (the trailers not only look cheesy, but are excerpts from the actual movie), giving it a very amateur look (however, the video editing was done rather well). The shot on video is another reason why people will question the $20 price tag, when you can now get "We Were Soldiers" for $9.99.

The tired plots, semi-pro acting, poor choice in videography, extensive cussing, all too many safety violations, and being way too expensive, will keep this film on the joke list.

However, Tom and Bud's cameos were OK, 'cept Bud sounded scripted. Tom took to his other personna, "Mr. Microphone-Man", with ease. So if you want to get it just to have a small piece of AGD history, cool. But avoid this poop pile for any other reason. It doesn't promote paintball, it laughs at it.

[CRog075]

Thanks for the info army. Even at the trailor, all i heard was the "b word" this and the "b word" that. This does look like an immature movie, and shouldn't of been made.



(*EDIT* Didn't need the quote, my post was big enough as it is! Army)

[DiRTyBuNNy]

I haven't seen much more than the trailer, and well, it's all I have to go on. It looks horrible and I'm sure they had the best intentions but it just looks like they have no idea whatsoever about paintball. I'm sorry that the movie turned so bad it reminds me about the early skateboarding movie, Gleaming the Cube, with Christian Slater. They could have just as easily made this movie about an other "extreme" sport but chose paintball because they would be first.

[BobTheCow]

obviously, AO as a whole is against this movie, simply cuz it sux (or so i'm hearing). wut's funny is, on LiveJournal i am hearing pretty much good things, altho none of them have seen it. they say it "looks good." i can't judge the trailor for myself, i have only 56k. and i obviously haven't seen the movie...so i'm assuming those pour souls over in LJ-world are just...well...WRONG??!!

[BobTheCow]

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come on guys, hasn't ANYBODY else seen it, or at leat heard about it, that can vouche for it??