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Miscellaneous => General Chat => Topic started by: Linkin800 on April 01, 2008, 03:17:44 PM
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Sorry for posting another Topic on this thread but this is important sorta.
THIER MAKING A LEGEND OF ZELDA MOVIE! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
http://movies.ign.com/articles/863/863492p1.html
Please god let this be a awful prank IGN is doing.
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...yes. It's a prank.
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Obviously a prank.
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Ganondorf is ugly as crap.
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Anyone who didn't immediately think this was part of April Fools Day has lost my immediate respect.
Although the people didn't look anything like their Ocarina of Time counterparts, I thought the CG effects were pretty well done.
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Whoever made this has FAR too much time on their hands.
Also, something about Zelda's face just didn't look right... I can't quite pick it...
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IGN made it.
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I like how the dude tells Link to speak to no one and then he doesn't.
Trailer gets my approval for staying true to the games.
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I haven't watched this yet, but it sounds like they did a pretty good job.
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All it needed was direction from Uwe Boll and it would'vve been complete.
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The peahats amused me.
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Apparently this movie is the Wii version: mirrored.
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For an amateur project, the Special effects are prooty good. Too bad it's only a joke :(. I almost got my mom to believe it, but the video stopped and I had to fix it, but I couldn't hold back the laughter any longer. Oh well.
With that out of the way...
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My one friend IMed me earlier today saying "OMG THERE'S GONNA BE A ZELDA MOVIE", all excited for it.
I think I broke his heart.
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Ganondarf's hair is so darn fake looking and Zelda's voice...
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Anyone who didn't immediately think this was part of April Fools Day has lost my immediate respect.
Anyone who pulls April Fool's Day pranks loses my respect.
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^ I know... I can't stand to do them. There's already enough people trying to trick us and lie to us enough times the other 364 days of the year.
Apparently this movie is the Wii version: mirrored.
LOL
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Anyone who pulls April Fool's Day pranks loses my respect.
I was going to prank call my friend with a Mario sound board the other day, but I didn't.
EDIT: I saw the trailer on YouTube today. I saw the date it was uploaded, and I knew that it was obviously a prank. It's well made, though. I hope they never make an actual Zelda movie. If they do, I'll see it, but probably wouldn't be any good. Video games do not make the best movie adaptations.
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Yeah, Yeah I knew this was fake when I posted it. I just wondered what you guys would say about it. Oh and this joke was sorta funny also.
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/wrath/features/bard/bardclass.xml
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That movie looked simultaneously awesome and stupid. Seriously, I want to see it. The thing with Link not talking is pretty cool. Now we need a fake Half-Life movie trailer and we'll be on the awesome train.
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It sucks how everything that would be tottally awesome is already been coined for an April Fools' Joke.
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Well, that's the whole point--most April Fools jokes prey on the things we all think would be really cool or desperately want.
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The problem is, an IGN/fan-made film is probably going to be truer to the games than a Hollywood adaptation ever would be.
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The problem is, an IGN/fan-made film is probably going to be truer to the games than a Hollywood adaptation ever would be.
^ Totally.
Saw it. Loved it. Pranked a friend (sorry... couldn't help myself... but it was today!). Coolest thing I've seen since ever, but the actors could've been better.
I almost got my mom to believe it, but the video stopped and I had to fix it, but I couldn't hold back the laughter any longer. Oh well.
I had a similar problem, but my friend just got wise ("Why would they do that to people!?") when there was a lull in the action when it messed up (IGN's vids are always that way, it seems...)--so I switched over to a YouTube version linked from GoNintendo.
And I wouldn't necessarily call it an ameteur project. I mean, IGN is a pretty big company, and have you seen the "Making Of" video?
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The problem is, an IGN/fan-made film is probably going to be truer to the games than a Hollywood adaptation ever would be.
Of course! All of Hollywood'$ movie$ are made for a $ole purpo$e... and guess what it is? ;)
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I wouldn't say IGN made it. Rainfall Films did. Sure, the actors are a bit off (can't really believe that lead guy to be Link, although he totally nails Link's vacant stare from the N64 game).
I thought the trailer was amazing, unusually well-done for a prank. And exactly, a film done with the purpose of being as faithful to the videogame as possible would, well, be more faithful to the videogame. It would please fans of the game. But then the differences between videogames and movies would probably hurt the film (if you don't enjoy watching a friend play the game, you won't like watching a film about it either). Critics who have never played recent videogames will likely say nasty things about it, although I'd be interested in a Metal Gear Solid movie just to see if the hours of cinema scenes end up being a passable movie when combined. Plus, Roger Ebert liked the movie version of "Hitman" for some reason.
Also consider that when playing a videogame, you sometimes wonder about the parts of the story that aren't in the game. Or wish to change existing cutscenes. You may have dreams about these alternate sequences. So fans will want to see these extra little things, otherwise it's not much more than capturing gameplay from the game.
And fans don't want to see the parts of the game that just plain didn't work out. I don't want to see Darunia shaking his groove thing on the big screen.
So the movie has to be different in any case. Catering to fans unfortunately means the audience will mainly be fans, and that's too small an audience to cater a movie to. To people who never knew what a Goomba or a Koopa was in "The Super Mario Bros. Movie", they enjoyed the film more than fans who went bat-crazy nitpicking over all the mistakes (never in a million years would I accept a Goomba as being six feet tall. But other people will think "goomba = mafia guy" and it's no problem to them. And they don't know or care that Yoshi is supposed to look very different). If you cater a videogame movie to videogame fans, then the mainstream won't quite understand why we have to watch Link painstakingly grab three jewel/emblem things just to get to the Master Sword. Ash from "Army of Darkness" would just chant a few magic words, forget the third word, cough through it, then grab the book and get out of there.
That said, a Prince of Persia: Sands of Time movie would be cool. Had a great storyline, had lots of action through fancy acrobatics, get to throw in the special effect of going back through time. I don't see how it'd be impossible to make a good movie out of that.
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Why is this thread still alive
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Because people like talking about videogame-related movies.
A better question: why did you make that useless post? STFU, man.
-Lizard Dude
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I fell asleep at "IGN".
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It was a stupid April Fool's joke that needs to die now because April Fools Day ended 8 days ago.
LD needs to stop being a jerk. We know you didn't like being fired from the TMK staff, but you need to get over it now.
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It's not your board any more than his. The discussion was valid and your post was not appropriate. Stop being a jerk yourself.
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It was a stupid April Fool's joke that needs to die now because April Fools Day ended 8 days ago.
In that case, why don't you make one? All you have to do is prepare almost a year in advance, get a bluescreen, computers, makeup/costume artist, casting director, fight choreographer, professional cameras, shoot in California...
C'mon, it doesn't matter if they made this for Columbus Day. It's still awesome.