He's on a never-ending quest to save his girlfriend.

That looks amazing!

For the love of all that is holy that makes me want to dust off my old N64

Although it looks a bit cheesy, good for them making something as epic as this in their spare time.

That is impressive, although I'm a little tired of everyone doing 'Ocarina' story again and again. Don't get me wrong, it's a solid story but what is this? The seventh time? It's the first full version, true. But it's the same story again.

At least it's not Adventure of Link...
I AM ERROR!!

I remember watching the trailer for this years ago. I always thought it was abandoned. Apparently not.

Does anyone else think that the princess looks really cute?

How the hell did they get her to do this?

Hey, Link's not mute! He says stuff, mostly unintelligible...guess he just has a bit of a speech impediment.

That's so much better then anything I could hope to accomplish. And yet it still looks somewhere between a Sega CD game and a really shitty Sci-Fi Channel original.

the film makers did a good job from the trailers. going to have to check out the whole film even though the actor playing link looks a little like he should be doing cartoons or hot wheels commericals a little young for link

This is horrible. But horrible in that sort of unintentionally hilarious way.

But make no mistake about it... this looks horrible.

One of the most common misconceptions about making a video game film is that it's only good if it's true to the source.

And then there's this. Which proves, undoubtedly that when something like The Legend Of Zelda is made into a movie, and it's "faithful" to the "source", it ends up looking even more incredibly stupid than humanly possible.

This is the most awful looking, cheesiest, and most embarrassing piece of crap it has ever been my misfortune to waste my own time staring at. In disbelief, mind you.

In all honesty, the Legend Of Zelda should never. NEVER be attempted in real life, or in live action. EVER. And looking at this, it's just so ridiculous looking, that it's hard to keep a straight face at it.

What's even sadder, is that the people behind this are obviously so serious about this.

Which is all the more sad, considering that this really just looks like a horrible looking, over-produced, sad gathering of cosplay nerds who can't act to save their lives, running around in horrendous costumes and embarrassing themselves for all the world to laugh at.

This is why fan-films fail.

I mean on one hand you have hollywood films that change some elements and end up with a silly, cheesy film, but at least even if it comes out like garbage, hollywood filmmakers have enough sense and distance from a production and it's source to realize that being excruciatingly "faithful" the the material, looks stupid as all living fuck.

People who waste their time on this crap, don't even have that. They have their noses shoved SO FAR up LoZ's ass, that they are absolutely unable to see that this just looks horrendously ridiculous and stupid on every conceivable level.

And that's all there is to say, really. It just looks stupid. A "real" Link with his costume fully accurate looks STUPID. A fully accurate Gannondorf looks STUPID.

For fuck's sake, you can't just transfer something literally from one medium to another without some adaption. If that's the way things were done, The Lord Of The Rings films would have been laid out exactly like the Tolkien books.

A horribly paced, and utterly confusing mess of unbalanced sloppy time management and a schizophrenically distorted view of plot elements. All things that Peter Jackson had to re-edit into a more coherently laid out plotline. For instance, I always hear all of the fans of the book bitch and moan about how he "changed things", but listening to the commentary for them, really shows how much better and logically coherent Jackson's version of the story plays out.

Except that here, we have, not a story dilemma, but the fact that The Legend Of Zelda looks godawful in live action. Just the costumes alone. But the fact that the ONLY reasonably talented person in this at all, seems to be the person doing the effects editing.

The acting is wretched, the costumes are laughable, and simply put.. these games are not something you can faithfully adapt, without looking really fucking dumb.

It just isn't doable, but more than that, they've chosen to do this in the most embarrassing way possible.

I feel sorry for these people. I really do. Imagine working so hard just to embarrass themselves on an amateur production of a bad idea that was doomed from the start.

That's this in a nutshell.

I laughed my ass off! I need to see this, it's cheesiness looks awesome. Trey Parker playing Link, the green screen effects this is a must see. I love when fellow nerds udder nerd speak about elementals and such...

Ok. I'm stuck on the fence between awe and incredulity.

But, honestly, there's something hilarious about this. And that something is David Blaine. The only way it could be more funny is if he played ALL roles. I would pay to see that.

Reminds me warmly of the old Hercules TV serial, noice!

Kudos for kicking ass as such, what an amazing accomplishment that clearly is more coherent than well and officially funded discombobulated adaptations like Transformers 2 or that last Dungeons & Dragons flick!

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Gotta admit I laughed my ass off. I don't think it's possible to make LoZ not look cheesy unless you have a budget or just approach it as a comedy (or a kid's film).

OK, I gotta say I spent well over 100 hours playing this game, and I could barely spend 30 minutes watching this before I started fast forwarding.
Having said that, 1) the girl playing the Sage of Fire has some serious chops. I hope she finds work soon. I'd like to see more of her.
2) The production values were around the level of your average porn film, but the special effects guys did a fairly decent job. I'd like to see what they could do given a budget.
Finally, having sat through to the end, I can't help but think given a decent budget and a good director, OOT would make an awesome film. Which is why it'll never happen. Guess I'll just have to pop in the game disk and run it through again.

Don't get me wrong, I met these guys as I live in Atlanta and work in film too, and I will give them credit to hell and back for making a film this epic over such a timescale. It was a labor of love and that definitely shows.

That being said, this film looks TERRIBLE. Bad acting, bad effects, ok music, faithful yet terribly misguided costumes (these characters don't do laundry too often so why are their clothes so damn clean?), and a lead actor who looks and talks like they just pulled him out of a hackysak game on the quad of the local junior college.

I understand they were working with what they had but most of the time, you should adapt what you're making to what you have available to you, not just put things that don't work together and call it a day.

And before anyone says "Where's your movie?", I would love to make a fan film but without even a modest budget, it's gonna turn out like this thing every time.

I'm not saying they shouldn't have tried, I'm just saying their decision making process and creative abilities are out of sorts.

But like I said, kudos to them for doing the damn thing.