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fletch_man Senior Member Offline When the Guns are Gone Posts: 364 Gender:	sling in the movies Mar 16^th, 2012 at 6:49pm Based on a pm I got from GreenMan, I got to thinking. You know how stuff gets real popular if people see it used in the movies? Well, What movie personality would you like most to see slinging in the movies? At first I thought it would have to be Chuck Norris, but now, I'm thinking Salma Hayek..................
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Re: sling in the movies
Reply #1 - Mar 16^th, 2012 at 6:53pm

Slings have been in plenty of movies, just not enough. I would like to see it in something that is designed to sell towards young adults. I'm sorry to all you old geezers, but a lot of advertising (and therefore popularity) goes to teens. I mean, who the hell else has money to spend and no bills to pay?

Of course that would also mean crappy love scenes and bad acting, but hey, beggars can't be choosers.

If not that, then Jackie Chan or Russel Crowe.

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fletch_man Senior Member Offline When the Guns are Gone Posts: 364 Gender:	Re: sling in the movies Reply #2 - Mar 16^th, 2012 at 7:06pm If only they had used a sling in that movie "Twilight"...........................
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Re: sling in the movies
Reply #3 - Mar 17^th, 2012 at 10:21am

No fletch man, that would have ruined that would have really marked the sling forever, then we have a bunch of twilight fans, and then we would have a whole bunch of debates between the creepy pale "old" guy and the queer looking spanish guy. Angry

I would have loved to see the sling used in the "Hunger Games" trilogy most likly in Catching Fire. That way you can have an incredibly popular book series and movie series. I believe Catching Fire is supposed to come out next year. I could see one of the previous victors that grew up in agriculture some where weilding a sling quite effectively. Plus, All you would need is a bundle of cord and a knife and you could make one the first night out and dominate the Games the rest of the time. Espicialy if you were playing in a moderately open arena. And you have the knife if things come down to melee. That's what I would do at least. Cool

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Rat Man Slinging.org Administrator Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 13684 New Jersey, USA Gender:	Re: sling in the movies Reply #4 - Mar 18^th, 2012 at 8:46am How about in Star Wars instead of light sabres use some kind of high tech sling that shoots electric fireballs, like those associated with thunderstorms. Imagine the sling battles Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader could have had.
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Morphy Slinging.org Moderator Offline Checkmate Posts: 8102	Re: sling in the movies Reply #5 - Mar 18^th, 2012 at 1:59pm Slings that throw ball lightning? How cool would that be? I like the way you think my good man.
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Reply #6 - Mar 19^th, 2012 at 8:21am

Somebody is holding the rights to movie or miniseries "the eye of the world" ( the first book in the wheel of time series) and in that book the sling gets a fair amount of time being used to hunt and as a weapon. So if that ever gets made we might see the sling in a popular book series adaptation

I'm not holding my breath though.

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Re: sling in the movies
Reply #7 - Mar 19^th, 2012 at 11:23am

Dan wrote on Mar 17^th, 2012 at 10:21am:

No fletch man, that would have ruined that would have really marked the sling forever, then we have a bunch of twilight fans, and then we would have a whole bunch of debates between the creepy pale "old" guy and the queer looking spanish guy. Angry

I would have loved to see the sling used in the "Hunger Games" trilogy most likly in Catching Fire. That way you can have an incredibly popular book series and movie series. I believe Catching Fire is supposed to come out next year. I could see one of the previous victors that grew up in agriculture some where weilding a sling quite effectively. Plus, All you would need is a bundle of cord and a knife and you could make one the first night out and dominate the Games the rest of the time. Espicialy if you were playing in a moderately open arena. And you have the knife if things come down to melee. That's what I would do at least. Cool

I never thought of that, but, it brings up another question. Who would be better with a sling, a vampire or a werewolf? 'Course, the woofs don't have that opposing thumb................

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Re: sling in the movies
Reply #9 - Mar 19^th, 2012 at 11:30am

xxkid123 wrote on Mar 16^th, 2012 at 6:53pm:

Slings have been in plenty of movies, just not enough. I would like to see it in something that is designed to sell towards young adults. I'm sorry to all you old geezers, but a lot of advertising (and therefore popularity) goes to teens. I mean, who the hell else has money to spend and no bills to pay?

Of course that would also mean crappy love scenes and bad acting, but hey, beggars can't be choosers.

If not that, then Jackie Chan or Russel Crowe.

According to "Horror Movie Rules" all teens in love scenes get killed, you know that. And besides that Justin Beiber guy can act his a$$ off from what I understand.

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benkolmer Senior Member Offline Stone re-allocation specialist. Posts: 369 Gender:	Re: sling in the movies Reply #10 - Mar 22^nd, 2012 at 8:57am So I was watching episode 5 of A Game of Thrones online yesterday, and there was a sequence where an ambush was initiated by slingers. Quite well done in my opinion!
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Re: sling in the movies
Reply #11 - Mar 22^nd, 2012 at 5:10pm

perpetualstudent wrote on Mar 19^th, 2012 at 8:21am:

Somebody is holding the rights to movie or miniseries "the eye of the world" ( the first book in the wheel of time series) and in that book the sling gets a fair amount of time being used to hunt and as a weapon. So if that ever gets made we might see the sling in a popular book series adaptation

I'm not holding my breath though.

As much as I love the series part of me hopes that never happens. I can't imagine Hollywood could ever do that particular series justice.

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Yurek Funditor Past Moderator Offline The best thing, is a good sling. Posts: 942 Poland Gender:	Re: sling in the movies Reply #12 - Mar 22^nd, 2012 at 5:36pm Only the oldest dinosaurs could remember that movie - "Thierry la Fronde". As a young boy, before watching the film I hadn't knew the sling. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSDQSqe6T_E
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Re: sling in the movies
Reply #14 - Mar 23^rd, 2012 at 2:28pm

Morphy wrote on Mar 22^nd, 2012 at 5:10pm:

perpetualstudent wrote on Mar 19^th, 2012 at 8:21am:

Somebody is holding the rights to movie or miniseries "the eye of the world" ( the first book in the wheel of time series) and in that book the sling gets a fair amount of time being used to hunt and as a weapon. So if that ever gets made we might see the sling in a popular book series adaptation

I'm not holding my breath though.

As much as I love the series part of me hopes that never happens. I can't imagine Hollywood could ever do that particular series justice.

I think they did it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV8sQrJa59I

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