• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 days ago

    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.

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      Ugh, I just had a visceral reaction when you said “Maze Runner.”

      I watched all three films back-to-back once, not out of interest or curiosity or commitment to the plot, no. It was out of masochism.

      I knew that they were terrible movies all along, and yet I couldn’t stop watching because I knew I deserved the misery and self-loathing that it was causing me…

      And it wasn’t even in a campy way that you could just laugh at and have a good time. They were just bad.

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      7 days ago

      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.

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      8 days ago

      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

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        7 days ago

        You mean like the kid fron We Are the Millers who had freshly tweezed eyebrows in every scene of this supposedly post-apocalyptic survivalist future?

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    8 days ago

    Still wish we got Hunter Schafer cast as Zelda.

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      8 days ago

      Casting a girl as Zelda? When will the woke mob stop gender swapping characters??

      Next thing you know, they’ll cast Margot Robbie as Metroid. Smh my head.

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        I know you’re joking, but I’m not.

        No no no.

        Not her.

        Not Margot Robie.

        Her.

        Olivia Thrilby.

        It’s only fitting for her to get a movie where she’s the one behind a helmet this time.

        Tell me she would not be a perfect fit as Samus.

        You can’t.

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      I don’t know who Hunter Schafer is, but how about Hunter Biden as Zelda? Or Hunter Hearst Helmsly as Zelda?

      Or you can go the easy route and pick Zelda Williams as Zelda…who does a lot of impressions of Genie from Alladin for NO REASON!!!

      You ain’t never gonna have a friend like me!

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    8 days ago

    Should’ve just hired studio ghibli to animate a beautiful and poignant anime adaptation. Might be okay. Likely gonna be garbage.

    The Netflix one pice gives me hope but also that in itself is pretty cringy campy nonsense at the end of the day (but incredibly well done).

    Just waiting for the line delivered in a fake English accent more or less to the tune of “you’re a legend… Zelda!”

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    8 days ago

    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.

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    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.

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      7 days ago

      Same as the Mario movies.

      I assume you’re not including SMB93 in this, because NO ONE can forget that masterpiece.

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    People seem to be confused about why they thought this is a good idea, but to me this is expected.

    I don’t follow what Miyamoto does much, but based on what I heard (like Chris Pratt Mario…) I feel he’s a showoff who probably wants ANY live-action movie of a Nintendo IP because it’d be cool. Zelda is the best one to qualify, maybe Metroid or Xenoblade (both of which are way less popular). They even tried more realism back with Twilight Princess.

    I actually expect it’ll be more or less like the Mario movie again, an unimpressive but solid success.

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      I would love a Metroid film, but one that takes its cues from Moon where Samus is basically alone, but she has some kind of JARVIS-like companion with which to speak. Just big, abandoned spaces, punctuated by action set pieces.

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        He (or anyone from the Japan branch, I think) didn’t have anything to do with the last one, so it didn’t matter. It’s only recently that he started getting interested.

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    And now they need a few years in the special effects department to apply the classical 8bit charm.

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      7 days ago

      this is so stupid

      Open to interpretation, you’re neither right or wrong I suppose. I don’t agree.

      why make this

      Because Nintendo are starting to do movies.