Automag on Malcom in the middle

[Jazzman]

Originally posted by p8ntball72
id like to see THE Mighty Ducks movie made with the kids playing hockey with no gear on.

I'm pretty sure that in the first movie, the goalie didn't have any gear. He had newspaper wrapped around his legs for goalie pads.

Sure, this was to show how much of an underdog there team was, but still. There was an episode of "King of the Hill" on last week, in which Bobby and Hank compete in the Father/Son shooting competition. Though some of the events they did were unsafe, they did wear ear protection and shooting glasses the whole time. I wish I could say the same about the episode where they played paintball.

[GhillieGuy]

In most all of the football movies i have seen the players dont wear mouthpieces so they can hear em' talk.

[Python14]

but ya see, everyone knows about football. They know what it looks like, how it is played, and what goes on. Paintball is different. A small percentage of people know about it, and a smaller percentage know the truth. It is easy to see paintball played incorrectly and think that is what it is really like. Paintball is too young and feeble, unlike football, baseball, soccer, curling, shooting, etc. If they are portrayed incorrectly, everyone knows how they are supposed to be played.

[Mav D MagMan]

I'd like to challenge that there are so few people who know about paintball (much less understand it).

It's more like it is rather popular (and growing, especially in my area) however adults aren't part of the pop culture and therefore are not exposed to it (except in what are probably the most negative of ways, TV and News).

That is where our bad rep comes in, it doesn't matter what 16 year old is describing that we use safety devices, the mom sees militaristic and violent teens running around playing shoot 'em up!

Mav

(In case my other post has convinced you otherwise, I am very against the poor image provided for our sport, now if I could just catch every kid that has ever shot up a street sign...)

Edit: Another thing about our poor image, the minority can ruin it for the majority, before Skateboarding became prime time (for that short while) what was everyone's opinion of skateboarders? They were punks with spray paint running around vandalizing and stealing. Now Tony Hawk is doing Dorito commercials!

You can see the same thing in paintball, we have kids running around shooting each other without the proper gear (as well as vandalizing defenseless street signs etc.) How are we to be percieved?

[Benfica4ever]

Originally posted by acecl22
it was like the best one you could buy.

Best one you could buy? Yep it must have been a mag

[Brett23]

Hell the only 2 times I've ever seen paintball done right on tv were Insomniac with David Atell (think thats how you spell it) and on the Man show. Odd how comedy central can get it right but no one else can. Oh and screw that whole "they dont wear full masks because you wouldnt be able to tell who the actors were". David Atell wore one and you could pick him out of a crowd just by his voice. If it came down to it though; put the characters names on their clothing. Problem solved

[halB]

Originally posted by Miscue
I think they do that so you can see the faces of the actors. They don't want to cover them up with masks.

if mtv can deal with it at my field, then so can malcolm in the middle

[Brett23]

Amen, friend.

[GhillieGuy]

Hey, iv'e seen paintball a couple of times on mtv... If i can remember correctly they displayed it well becouse they played it for real...