My stages of watching this:
Link better be canonically a femboy, else I’m gonna do some serious gamer shit and complain about “accuracy” on Twitter while review bombing wherever I can.
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There is zero chance Hollywood would allow that.
Me learning there's gonna be a Zelda movie: 
Me learning it's live action: 
Welp they managed to bungle it from the start. Maybe they can screw it so bad it's good.
WEEEEEE!
live-action
It's ~~morbin'~~ zeldin' time!
My favorite part of the movie will be when Link says "It's Zeldin' time!" and bombs some dodongos. 
My favorite part will be when the movie stumbles out of the gate and calls Link Zelda by mistake like an out of touch parent
The Mario movie was pretty good. This will probably be pretty good too. Which is sad because it being terrible would end up being much more intresting. We have remembered the first mario movie far longer than we will remember the seccond you know.
I don't really consider LoZ to have a canon, so I think I'll be okay just ignoring this movie (since it can't get anything 'wrong' per se) and hoping it bombs.
By God if they so much as think about a Metroid movie though
I don't really consider LoZ to have a canon
I wish most fans felt the same way but The Prophecy(tm) tends to lock things into an eternal recursion of events involving the same three people (with gender-coded essentialist roles) all throughout it because a game in the 90s said so once. 
True, but I can point to many games in the series where that trichotomy is broken so I gotta say smh fake fans 
I'd enjoy it if more Zelda games continued what prior games started in direct lines and built things up instead of rebooting/resetting/destroying Hyrule over and over again. The one where you build trains seemed to have the right idea. 
this could have easily been an animated (mini or otherwise) series in the vein of samurai jack and it would probably clean up
i swear some people just hate money
Holy shit, it's like they want it to fail for the insurance money or something
I liked that show more than I'd like to admit lol
Zelda fans: This movie fucking sucks. None of us asked for this shit.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I'm hopeful.
I'm... oddly hopeful.
I love The Legend of Zelda and I'm hoping that they'll get the aspect of the dungeons right. There are many avenues they can take that will make it a great movie, at least potentially, but the people behind this venture are, well, mixed in terms of know-how; even their record is mixed.
The problem is not that Link will have to be speaking but that it will be a film that's around two hours long, maybe two-and-a-half at best (but that will never happen). Even with movies like Killers of the Flower Moon and Oppenheimer, making movies extra-long (in any way from the two-hour mark) just doesn't happen enough. It should. But it won't in this case; it'll be marketed as a blockbuster film.
Oh yeah, and they might make it too Lord of the Rings-esque... which may also be the only way they can do it, but the "whimsical" nature of Zelda and its best lore would be lost in the translation to film.
Honestly, there's a lot of ways they could take this film and that's what has me excited, but of course, the people involved would have to be on their A-game.
I really don't like the Hollywood royal court that decided through a series of whispered favors and backroom deals that the producer and writer should both be clowns, but if it's actually good and you're happy, I'll be happy for you.
The producer... I could care less about.
The writer? Now there's the rub...
It needs good writing, but honestly, the fact that it's not animated really limits the whole thing...
The problem with a bad producer is that they have backroom influence over the entire production, from who gets hired to how people there get treated, and it can have subtle but profound effects on the finished work.
Huh.
In many ways, I always assumed that a "producer" was a glorified position.
that's usually "executive producer"
