I hope its better than the last 2 mario movies. They were OK for my son, but I would recommend them for anyone but kids that are mario fans. This could be a crowd pleaser if done right.
I don’t know, they were pretty much the best you would expect out of a movie based on a game like Mario. They weren’t breaking new cinematic ground, but if that’s what you were looking for in a Mario movie then that seems like a problem with expectations more than the movies themselves.
Uh, given the recent spate of … Nintendo movies… and fantasy shows… and the fact that Link is a silent protagonist (aside of basically grunts and exclamations of various emotional tones)…
I really don’t see any possible way this could be good.
Brought to you by the director of ‘Maze Runner’, which currently has ~66% critic and user review score on Rotten Tomatoes.
Well EXCUUUUUUUSE ME! Princess…
☝️😮 <( M’boy )
I actually liked maze runner (the first one), and I don’t think the director was the problem(s) with it more than the story and a few of the actors were
But yeah no shot a Zelda movie is decent
while I agree with you, I’m hoping they pull it off somehow.
some…how…
Somehow, good critic reviews returned
Now you are going to start a nerdy discussion whether Link really can’t talk, doesn’t want or like to talk or does indeed talk, even though not directly shown usually in the games.
There is plenty of reason to assume that he actually can talk fine, it was just omitted for convenience or immersion in the games. It was implied often by the dialogues thoughout various games.
Official mangas show him talking, dialogue options, or that e.g. Zelda learns Links name when asking him in OoT imply this as well.
I just hope there’s as much dancing as Link did in the 90s
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And now they need a few years in the special effects department to apply the classical 8bit charm.
Maybe they’ve cast Jack Black as Ganondorf lol
No no no. Jack Black played Bowser.
OBVIOUSLY they cast Weird Al Yankovich.
🥵
His Bowser was the best part of the animated movie.
Was it? I’ve found Jack Black annoying in everything he’s ever done. I do not understand the hype people have for him.
That’s his character though - annoying, but loyal loser struggling to make it Ina cruel world. It’s what he does.
I don’t hate him but he can’t be anyone other than jack black. Every appearance I can only see him as jack black and not the character he is supposed to be acting as. He replaces the character.
That’s the sign of a bad actor. It’s like reverse type casting.
Same way you watch 1989 Batman, and you see Jack Nicholas in face paint.
It wasn’t a high bar.
How much we want to bet the first big budget live action movie from the Zelda franchise will not feature Link as the main character or hero but will put the princess as the hero, main protagonist and will have to save Link from himself at some point?
I think that’s pretty unlikely, Link is the iconic Zelda character. It’s more likely they will go down the direction of making the two co-leads who meet early in the film and go on an adventure together to save Hyrule. I don’t think the old trope of “hero saves the princess”, or the modern reverse of that, will be a central part of the plot.
Why the photo of Zelda with a quiver then?
How does that contradict anything I said?
You said it’s unlikely but the article has Zelda as a protagonist, suggesting it’s quite likely.
A film can have more than one protagonist. It’s actually very common to have co-leads.
EDIT: Maybe you haven’t been following this film at all, but the singular photo in this article was from a much earlier photo shoot that had the two leads standing side-by-side. It’s not an indication that Zelda is the sole main character of the film.
As much as I want this to be good, I have a strong feeling it’s gonna be mid at best. Not a great director, screenwriters aren’t hitting, they have only released two actors names, and the producer is a mixed bag. I’m really hoping they can pull it out… but I’m definitely gonna keep my expectations low.
I think mid is the best we can hope for. The only way it comes out great is it they go weird with it and tell a story like Majora’s Mask. By all accounts it looks like we’re going to get a Breath of the Wild type story, which is safe and fine but as a film isn’t anything above mid.
I’m hoping they tell a weird story.
So Mario Movie 2.5 then in terms of quality.
I really hope Eiji Aonuma was consulted for this. But nah, Miyamoto will have his whole liver-spotted hand in the pie and the story will be a total afterthought. Another “point-and-oooooh-I-know-that-thing!” movie.
Of course it’s going to be mid, none of the Zelda games have anything other than a boilerplate storyline except for Majora’s mask. They’ll have to make shit up and that almost never goes well
I am very scared it will look like cosplay.
so, even worse than Wheel of Time stuff, then. I don’t really remember the costumes for that but I do remember they weren’t the main problem with the show, aside from being pristine. at least they weren’t low quality
is that show even still on? I don’t think I even made it through the second season because of how goddamn clean everything was. looked fake as shit
No, it was cancelled after the third season.
god that was such a disappointment
we could have had something so great
Well, guess what happens when you let amazon of all fucking companies produce a tv adaptation of an influential/cornerstone fantasy book series…
What sucks is they probably own the license now, so no one else can do a better job…
Legitimately, why do you hope it’s good? Why do you even care? Even if you like the games, this is not part of that. It isn’t interactive. Honestly, I don’t see why it exists, except that certain people will give them their money for any piece of garbage that has an IP they’ve attached themselves to for some reason.
Because I want more things in my life that bring me joy? Seeing something I love from a new perspective sounds like a fun experience?
I’m not saying to not enjoy this, or other things. I’m just saying that people mindlessly consuming any slop that has an IP attached is how we ended up in this situation. There’s a lot fewer good and interesting things made, which actually have a hope of being good, because it’s so much safer to make slop with existing IP. Even if it’s bad (it almost always is, because they’re making it purely for profit, not because they care about the IP like you do), it still prints money.
Anyone else feel like the time for this was 2008? Circa Twilight Princess? Fans were clamoring for a movie back then because the games hit peak “cinematic” around that time, TP directly references events of OoT, it feels like a continuity, a single story.
Now? They’ve done so much with the franchise that it’s become a paint color like Star Wars. Is there an appetite for it like there was 20 years ago?
Twilight Princess…20 years ago…
No. That can’t be right…
checks calander
…father time, you dick!
How’s your back?
It’s painful, and making me captain aggravated!
My back pain is why I lost my mind.
It’s like it’s just saying “HEY LISTEN” over and over?
There’s arguably a larger appetite now, the popularity of the Switch has brought the series to a massive new audience. I understand your point though, Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword were really the peak of the linear, story-driven epics. The newer games have moved away from that formula a bit. I suspect this first film (there will be more if it is well received) will tell a very classic Zelda story that references many core elements of the series (similar to the first Mario film).
There’s more appetite now than ever before. Over the half the total sales of the series are BOTW and TOTK. There’s a whole generation of fans for whom this era is the definitive era of Legend of Zelda.
That’s kind of my point. in BOTW and TOTK, the story is thin on the ground.
Literally. It’s thin, and it’s on the ground.
I’ve watched streamers who played BOTW first then play earlier games, and reacted with surprise at how much lore was in them.
I don’t see it failing, sheer force of brand recognition will fill theaters. I’m just not sure they’ll get anything good done.
I’ve watched streamers who played BOTW first then play earlier games, and reacted with surprise at how much lore was in them.
Meanwhile, the lore:
I mean, that game contains the in-universe creation myth, the origin story of the series’ main villain, the establishment of four recurring in-universe races of people, and a host of ideas they’re still riffing on to this day…but this is Lemmy, no non-existent homoerotica will be left uninvented.
Okay, that is some pretty deep lore.
But I just can’t resist shitposting about femboy Link…
(Funny thing is, most of that is from ALttP’s manual. If you haven’t, go find it and read it, the first 4 or 5 pages read like a design document for the rest of the series)
Funny you should mention a Zelda movie 20 years ago:
They really captured the walking into lordaeron vibes (not to mention emo link)
I’m expecting a mediocre movie that’s an enjoyable watch, but ultimately forgettable. Same as the Mario movies.
I’m expecting Zelda will play just as large of a role in the film as Link.
Same as the Mario movies.
I assume you’re not including SMB93 in this, because NO ONE can forget that masterpiece.
I hope they used Link’s lines from OoT, I think it’s some of the best writing they have ever done
“Well HYAAAA me, Princess.”
Uh, why? The art style is part of Zelda.
I was about to say she’s got way too many pixels.
I really hope Link is going to break some pots.
wait wait link gets really high and scene cut to a bunch of pottery breaking sounds
Wtf is this absolutely cursed image.
i dunno the dog looks high to me when you give him a beard
That dog looks high even without the beard 😂
Scene: storeroom, deep beneath Hyrule castle.
Link: bumps into a ceramic pot, knocking it to the floor, shattering everywhere. Mixed in with the shards of pottery are several rupies.
Zelda: look of shock at what Link did.
Link: looks at pot, scared, then slowly looks up to Zelda.
Zelda: her gaze changes to a mischievous ear-to-ear grin.
Scene: pottery breaking music montage - everything in the storeroom is laid to waste.
More Lindsey Stirling as Link
Oh for fucks sake, they made Zelda a girl. Tired of this gender swapping woke shit. /s
Don’t worry. They already confirmed they’ll do reshoots with Chris Pratt as Zelda.
I just want Yoko Ono to play Navi, and yell HEY!!! LISTEN!!!
I know this is facetious, but the mental image of Yoko Ono trying to act in a movie is making me upset for no understandable reason. Is like my unconscious hates her, for no reason I know or understand…
I don’t think Yoko Ono would act, but it would be a performance nonetheless.
And that mental image in itself is deeply disturbing
Bjork could do it though, and her screams are way less annoying.
And the page is bugged. I keep clicking on the Link to like and subscribe but it does nothing.
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Princess Zelda has always been a girl. You might be thinking of the series main character Link who will be played by male actor Benjamin Evan Ainsworth.
This must be a bot ^
Nintendo desperately trying to keep their IPs relevant instead of releasing good new games.
I had no idea game developers filmed movies these days /s
I have been dreaming of a TLoZ movie since I was a child. However, as most video game adaptions, I expect this will be rather shitty. At least I try to. To keep the level of disappointment low.
