Airsoft guns have been staples in creating films nowdays being low-cost and safer props, with indie filmmakers such as Beat Down Boogie, Freddie Wong, and others creating short video clips all loaded with action and airsoft guns and uploading these to YouTube. Coupled with movie effects software and cheaper HD DSLRs and camcorders, they can now make low cost movies which before was difficult to do without a good budget. And what usually make some of the most viral movies in Youtube is more of writing, and lots of creative imagination.

And that's what Clinton Jones, known as the PWNISHER at Youtube, has a lot --- creativity. Add more volunteers and he gets to have the right ingredients for some of the most viewed Youtube movies. Cardboard Warfare was very much well-received with almost 5 million views in the span of one year. It was a very short film, just over three and half minutes, but everyone who viewed it went just went nuts whilst watching it. He may not be as very prolific as Freddie Wong, nor as funny as the Beat Down Boogie guys, but he builds good drama with his short action flicks.

With the use of cardboard, lots and lots of cardboard, he was able to reduce his action movie costs even further, and devoting most of his budget to costumes and more equipment (Red Rock Micro products are not cheap). Even with the use of cardboard as props, especially as firing props, ludicrous you will say, he still projects the violence that he wants to show to his audience, and they lap it up.

With Cardboard Warfare 2, Clinton Jones just made one of the most epic made for YouTube movies so far, and goes beyond what the original Cardboard Warfare accomplished --- a "longer"  short film that hits the 24 minute mark, and the effects he used with cardboard to create a World War II D-Day airborne invasion, taking its inspiration mainly from Band of Brothers, were just surreal. It took him and his crew over 5 months to create this movie and when they released it at YouTube last 26 September, it immediately hit the 1.2 million views mark in less than four days, a no mean feat for an indie filmmaker competing for eyeballs at YouTube.

Whilst there are some lapses in acting, the movie is indeed a pleasure to watch, but I am no professonal film critic. I still prefer the acting at KillZone Extraction HD, another Clinton Jones short film, and it is more intense . It may not meet yet the standards of Sundance Film critics, but for the millions of Youtube viewers, it is something that they love and have been sharing it to other internet users. So for your weekend entertainment, I present to you below Cardboard Warfare 2.