Damn, that movie is going to be awful.
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Based on these images?
Based on it being a live action movie of a video game, which historically never do very well, and are never written very well, and the fact that the 2 characters in these images are wearing outfits from different generations of games?
I would say it's a good bet the movie won't be great.
Little known fact: You can determine the quality of an entire movie franchise from untouched principle photography. See how Mr. Zelda sort of looks like if a young Hayden Christensen and Leonardo Dicaprio had a baby? That's all you need to know.
"Well ex-cuuuuuuse me, princess!"
I sincerely hope he says that line in the movie
Given the rest of the comments in this thread, here's a controversial opinion: Imma reserve my judgement instead of judging a book by its cover.
I find it hard to tell if a movie - especially its plot - is good or bad based on just 3 images.
The only thing about this so far that I dislike is that they didn't find a fully blond guy to play Link. The fake blond look is not a great fit.
His hair is brown in many early incarnations, and went brown-blonde before full blonde. Personally think this colour in the image is peak OoT link hair shade.
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why blond? Links hair can be Brown, Blonde or even Pink.
IMHO his hair should have been Pink or Brown.
This is what it feels like sometimes.
Live action is a mistake.
Yeah, we need studio Ghibli to do it!
Does Link have dialogue?
He only repeats one line over and over: "Well ex-cuuuuuuse me, princess!"
That would actually get my butt to the cinema bench. Especially if he "flies" by jumping on bomb blasts with his shield
I'd also accept if he was essentially Beavis ala The Legend of Beavis which is one of the funniest things on YouTube.
That was pure art
I think I’ve seen this. He just says “As you wish.”
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I have zero hopes they can pull this off. Links game personality doesn't translate well to film. Nits just gonna be a teenage fantasy romance.
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The trailer hopefully will show:
- Jack Black as a Goron king wincing saying "ooo right in the dekus!" after Link gets hit in the groin by a slingshot and crosses his eyes before falling backwards
- The Rock as Ganondorf doing the eyebrow raise, and saying, "can you smell what the 'dorf is cooking?"
- James Bautista sneaking into a Gerudu camp wearing a lacy tube top, face covering, and flowing pants
- Link's horse making a suggestive whinny and pushing Link closer to Zelda played by Zendaya
I didn't know I needed more Jack black after his last few movies (god borderlands was awful)
But this would be hilarious.
It would be bad, but funny.
If they wanted to make a parody movie about Zelda then definitely and I'd watch it and have a good time, but too many movies parody themselves and it's not to my taste.
I like my parodies funny and my action dramas serious. No need to wink at the camera after every lame joke
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They really cast the best looking actor for Link's role. He really looks like the most recent iteration of the character in the video game.
Does Zelda every use a bow in any of the games? I always thought she was more magic-oriented
She uses light arrows against Ganondorf in Wind Waker. I kinda wanna say BotW too but maybe I'm misremembering
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Link is not nearly femboy enough. I give it a 1 out of 10.
seems fine, but i still can't believe they didn't partner with Ghibli for this.
Those two look perfect for the role. I don’t think I have seen him in anything but I saw her in King and Conqueror and she is great
"The Lord of the Rings" is a multimedia fantasy virus isn't it. Just gets into everything.
Check out the Shannara live action series, the stills kind of reminds me of that (even though I only watched 1 episode)
I see it, maybe a little more post-industrial. But if you'd told me these were stills from Rings of Power (especially the last one) I would have accepted it without question.
Also, how have I missed out on Shannara? It looks amazing, glad you mentioned it ❤️
The books are really good (to a point), the show was not bad and starting to get good when it ended.
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Neither of these people are ethnically elfish. Immersion absolutely ruined. FFS, Mr. Zelda looks downright Norwegian. Not a drop of Hyrulean blood in his veins. I'm boycotting this movie. I'm boycotting it!
Hmm I don’t mind Link’s look, actually I kind of like it. I would’ve liked Zelda to look more elf-ish or fairylike.
Also shouldn’t her hair be more blonde?? Like can’t she wear a wig or dye her hair a few shades lighter lol
Also shouldn’t her hair be more blonde??
Reddish brown in the OG, blonde in art but brown in game in LttP, brown in TP.
Partner and I will probably go see it.
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