School for Scoundrels movie

[UnderCurrent]

I think this belongs in paintball talk?

(Im sure this is already on PBN)
Anyway, has anyone seen this trailer for the movie "School for Scoundrels"? It shows a group of guys standing around with paintball guns without masks, and then they start shooting eachother at point blank. This seems like more bad movie publicity the paintball community doesnt need.

[going_home]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0462519/trailers-screenplay-E28588-10-2

[Glickman]

cant wait till someone gets a darwin award for something like this

(for those who dont know, thats when you cause yourself to become impodent by a stupid action; benefiting mankind's gene pool)

[pennywise]

(for those who dont know, thats when you cause yourself to become impodent by a stupid action; benefiting mankind's gene pool)

What exactly does that word mean? Even if you are/were trying to say impotent, it still wouldn't make sense--you don't win a Darwin Award for not being able to get an erection...

[Glickman]

What exactly does that word mean? Even if you are/were trying to say impotent, it still wouldn't make sense--you don't win a Darwin Award for not being able to get an erection...

sterile, whatever.

[Hexis]

How does anyone still think stupid portrayals of paintball do anything to the sport? It doesn't matter how dumb they are in the movies, no one is going to take something in a silly movie as realistic and base their judgement on that.

I'll use my old example, do you see people calling for a ban on shopping carts after Jackass started airing? That was a very bad portrayal of how to use shopping carts. Didn't effect the shopping cart industry very much, did it?

[Glickman]

How does anyone still think stupid portrayals of paintball do anything to the sport? It doesn't matter how dumb they are in the movies, no one is going to take something in a silly movie as realistic and base their judgement on that.

I'll use my old example, do you see people calling for a ban on shopping carts after Jackass started airing? That was a very bad portrayal of how to use shopping carts. Didn't effect the shopping cart industry very much, did it?

did shopping carts have an iffy image from the start though?

what about paintball guns?


as far as i see it, paintball is battling more for creating an image; influanced greatly by the media

[Hexis]

Go ahead and keep getting worked up over nothing then. Much ado about nothing will only get you much ado, and nothing else.

[Glickman]

Go ahead and keep getting worked up over nothing then. Much ado about nothing will only get you much ado, and nothing else.

cause you know, theres never been any bills put forth to ban paintball...

oh wait....

[Hexis]

And in each case, do you really think a goofey movie had anything to do with those proposed laws? Get upset about the media's unfair portrayal of real paintball events. Oh wait, it's actually been pretty fair. Stupid kids doing stupid things that invloce paintball guns stories have focused on stupid kids, not on how paintball is evil. Quit getting worked up about fiction. It's fiction. No one in their right mind sees it as anything else. For the small set of people out of their right mind, well they are just plain crazy.

[Glickman]

No one in their right mind sees it as anything else. For the small set of people out of their right mind, well they are just plain crazy.

those would be our senators and commitee chairmen/women

[Hexis]

Yeah, well nothing I can say to dispute that truth.

[Lohman446]

In Casino.. this dude used a baseball bat. Lets ban baseball... and bats... and stuff

Have to agree with Hexis on this, get over it...

[CKY_Alliance]

If you really wanna do something about it...find out the email addresses of the producers making movies with false portrails of paintball and just movie producers in general...and go on every paintball forum and have people emailing them and explain the situation..i gurantee they will start to portray paintball as a safe sport....believe me it works...finding the emails might be a challenge but im sure you can find there agencie or organizations email....dont be rude about it but just explain your situation and tell them about the saftey percautions that are taken in the game... and have 100's of others do the same....and if they do make another movie that portrays paintball in a negative way..you email the piss out of them again, this time not so nice....seems uncapable..but it works ask ISLAND/def jam records..

[SCpoloRicker]

In Casino.. this dude used a baseball bat. Lets ban baseball... and bats... and stuff

Have to agree with Hexis on this, get over it...

I work for banning baseball bats, so I'm really getting a kick out of a lot of these comments?