In the Movies

Paintball has been featured in many movies to date. Unfortunately, a lot of security and safety features as well as rules were neglected.

• In 1985, the movie "Gotcha!", starring Anthony Edwards as a college student who was part of a game where several college students hunted one another around campus with paintball markers.
• In 2005, rapper B-Real (of Cypress Hill), wrote the song Play it for Real about the sport of paintball. B-Real currently plays competitive paintball and has contributed to the Greg Hastings' series of Paintball Games.
• A simulation of the sport of paintball, using NPPL-like tournament play, and featuring actual professional paintball players and licensed-equipment from actual paintball manufacturers, was created by game developer The Whole Experience. The game, Greg Hastings Tournament Paintball, was released in 2004, and a sequel of the game, Greg Hastings Tournament Paintball MAX'D, was released in 2005.
• The independent film Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story was about paintball, and brought some interest and attention to the sport from the outside community. It was one of the first widely released films to be primarily about paintball.
• ESPN2 has broadcast the 2005 U.S. Paintball Championships, also known as the NPPL Super 7, in what has been widely considered the best showing of paintball on television to date. The U.S. Paintball Championships was filmed at the Miami leg of the NPPL season.
  The first big time Movie/DVD of paintball, "Push", chronicles Team Iron Men, Avalanche, Aftershock and other popular players. The movie was put out by Dye and chronicles the hunt for the elusive World Cup Championship. This movie set the standard for future paintball documentaries and movies.
• The 2006 movie "Failure To Launch" featured a substantial sequence in which characters played by Matthew McConaughey and Sarah Jessica Parker and others compete in a speedball game. Although it shows the positive aspects it also shows unsafe procedures (such as uncovered barrels in the staging area and removing masks on the field), that could lead to serious injury.
• William Shatner is an avid paintball player, and has hosted and promoted large paintball events that support his charity, Ahead with Horses.
• Several televised comedy and cartoon series, such as "Spaced", "The Simpsons", "King of The Hill", "The King of Queens", "Greg The Bunny", and "The Bernie Mac Show", have included paintball story lines. Depictions of the sport on television may not be accurate, however, especially in regard to safety rules.
• The 2006 movie "Man of the year" featured a paintball scene in a woods setting.
• The 2006 movie "School for Scoundrels" featured a paintball scene in a woods setting. It should be noted that the players in the movie were not demonstrating proper safety. Their markers were live and had no barrel bags on, and no one was wearing a mask.
• Special Ops Paintball is producing a paintball TV show titled Armchair Commandos, and it will air late 2007, early 2008.
• Jackass: The Movie features several scenes where various cast members, wearing masks, get shot at close range by paintball guns. One scene involves one of them spinning around on a giant dart-board while being shot at.
• In the movie RV, the Gornickes aim paintball markers out of the bus to try and stop the Monro family, who react by swerving off to an exit.
• The Guys from the TV series, American Chopper, played a woods game in one of their episodes.

You shouldnt be mislead by the movies featured in red fonts. The director/scripwriter didnt do their homework thoroughly.