Nintendo Kills Zelda Fan Film

that link is not a man, NAY

I'm not surprised with Nintendo shutting down a fan-made movie but it's obvious why they won't touch doujins with a ten-foot pole.

Just imagine the headlines:
"Nintendo Cockblocks Link in lastest Zelda Porn Crackdown"

Talk about tarnishing their "family-friendly" name...

>Nintendo generally leaves doujinshi and other such unauthorised derivative works alone

link plz =D

>Nintendo generally leaves doujinshi and other such unauthorised derivative works alone

link plz =D

Change the names to Zolda and Lank and re-release it, problem solved.

That looked pretty good. Especially for a fan made movie.

Of course Nintendo will try to screw up as many fans-- err, I mean copyright violators as possible as long as it doesn't give them overly negative press (which banning any and all forms of fan material in Japan would most probably cause).

Why should Nintendo be faulted for shutting it down?
They have every right to.

Besides, this "film" looked like crap anyways.

Just to piss of Nintendo, can someone tell me where can I download ROMS?

Trailer looks rather poor anyway. Perhaps Nintendo were embarrassed with the quality?

I would've told nintendo to go fuck themselves and just leave the video up..

so if a famous hollywood directer wanted to shit on a franchise im sure nintendo would not only jump with glee but would also spend millions of dollars to produce it.

the chun li movie rocked btw :p

Who cares, it's shit...
The April Fools trailer from a few years ago looked awesome, they should make that

another example of Nintendo just being ass hats to the western market. if this was doujinshi in japan they wouldn't give a shit. but once you get a group of american white dudes doing their own thing, they drop the hammer on them.

Pfft, I would've told nintendo to go fuck themselves and leave it posted anyway.

I think it's dumb of Nintendo to do that, even if the fan movie sucks syphilitic donkey dick.

"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" it's a French saying, but also used by George Lucas.

First, he dealt with "Turkish Star Wars". The people of Turkey wanted "Star Wars" imported, but their government wanted to keep their culture "Pure" so they commissioned their own version of the movie. Kind of imagine "Land of the Lost" meets 70's "Martial Arts" movies and has some Star Wars footage and the Star Wars and "Indiana Jones" music put in...

I've heard that in "Turkish Prison" they offer it as "rehabilitation" to very vile criminals, like ones who kill and rape little girls or drink alcohol in public... The fools usually accept: "I can watch a stupid movie for three hours, beats twenty years in torture chamber!" Then they get strapped to a chair, "Clockwork Orange" style and watch the movie. In the main dungeon, the torturers hear their screams and pause from their ghastly work, shuddering with guilt and fear.

---Think I'm joking? Watch it on YouTube

Now, of course, George Lucas had nothing to do with this. He heard about it, got a copy and watched it. He said, "Well, I couldn't sue them even if I wanted to. Turkey has no copyright treaty with the United States... And, well, imitation is the highest form of flattery, so I can only forgive." he looked stunned and mentioned he'd like to communicate with them, that if they wanted to make any more movies he'd have his studio help at very reasonable costs...

Later, when computer technology made digital movie making accessible to most people, a few "Fan Made" Star Wars movies came out. Likewise, George Lucas said he'd accept them as long as they made no money from it. His rationale on copyright is 70s and non-mickey mouse. He's against copying the star wars tape and giving it to friends, but making your own stuff on your own time, well it's flattery and if anything free advertisement.

Wait, so Nintendo lets Wand of Gamelon and Faces of evil get made and, adding insult to injury, distributed, but a FAN FILM get's canned?

What the hell, Nintendo? What the hell?

Take that! Fans of our franchise that you helped support. We don't take kindly to folks that take kindly 'round here.....Oh, It sucked?? Vault that shit then.

Reminds me of how Square axed Chrono Resurrection back in the day :(

Seen the movie, not the best piece of fan made movie I've seen, they could have looked for people who can act but I don't think Nintendo was right to shut them down. Then again the horror that was Mario probably still haunts Nintendo to this very day.

Thank goodness it wasn't Legend of Neil.

Don't know about you guys but the trailer looks like a B-movie? But still there are budgeted game movie for you guys can enjoy like Metal Gear:Philanthropy you can watch this at
http://www.watch-movies-online.tv/movies/metal_gear_solid_philanthropy/

Call it something neutral and give Nintendo the Finger. But since I know how Law works they would have needed some major money just to keep Nintendo off their back in court even if it was not based on Zelda.

The real world is so cool with all these fools in it.

I personally loved the trailer and wanted to see the film so badly. It looked like it had a good story and decent effects (for a fanfilm that is) and I'm a fan of Zelda (not so much the newer games, really) so when I first saw the trailer, I nearly had a nerdgasm. I'm still a fan of Nintendo, even though they commited possibly the biggest mistake they have ever made. And I noticed someone mention the Megaman film in one of the above comments... that film was actually decent, and actually had Asian actors (oddly enough, though, they all played the robot characters).

The Legend of Nelda: Times of Copyright

Should of produced it under that name.. would of made it...

Of course they are going to shut it down, looks like they have a sweet deal with other people to make a live show.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2015/02/06/netflix-may-be-making-a-live-action-legend-of-zelda-show-with-nintendo/

Its about the $$$$$

"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery"?

Seems like N*ntenDONT was too proud to let this movie off the hook. Perhaps making a movie (in comparison to "smaller", more "subtle" doujinshii) based on a certain (very) famous character is crossing the line in this one? I think if the movie were to be made by Japanese, it would've encounter the same fate, no?

Like other commenters say, sooner or later, the movie will be available to curious ones out there. In Internet, resistance is somewhat futile?

ow come on
cant your fans dream a little?
if you dont wanna make a movie, just let the fans make it theirself...

Just another reason why copyright needs to be changed.

why the F does every one think the movie was bad do you want some uwe bol person to do it i think not.
It's decent it drags on allot but once the movie gets to its climax its great the swordfighting etc. it just really bugs me.
Dont judge a film unless you have a valid source or you have seen it.

Lol i saw this movie bout a week ago. it wasnt too bad for a fan fic, i've defenitly seen worse.

This movie happen right after the Super Mario Brothers movie. It leaves off where the movie ended and the Marios make a camio

WHAT THE HELL IS THAT! MAN OR WOMAN? ANIWAY... MINE!!

COWARDS

lol, did any1 else notice "link" did'nt say a single word in the ign trailer? :P

The last time I heard, parody works and copyrighted characters were allowed to be used as long as:

1. You say flat out that you are not connected with Nintendo in any fashion or any other copyright-owning company.

2. The work is tasteful to the objective observer if released on a website where anyone can get it if they wish to (I.E. no sex stuff unless it's on a site with parental controls and a password login needed).

Now, that is American law.... I'm not sure if the laws are different where this guy is living, but most times in the rest of the world, the laws are even more lax than they are in the United States when it comes to parody and fan-made stuff.

Dude, this film really sucks.

Thank god NIntendo shut down this shitty movie. Bad movies like these ruin the image of great games.

Nintendo sucks dick!1 I wanted to see this shit but NOOOOOOO!!! family friendly dicks. They let every single hentai manga slide, no problem. But a fan film that looks kickass, they hop on it like rednecks on their cousins.

The one on youtube looks better than this one. the one that nintendo made on april fools day. If you havent seen it go to youtube & check it out.

The trailer was great! It made me laugh for the fail that was filling up the screen! It's a great comedy!

Maybe Nintendo thinks the movie is screwing up their sales because people are losing faith in Zelda after watching the film

Nevertheless, the movie sucked. But it is a kick in the balls to get something offline when you worked years on it.

In my opinion, Nintendo should leave it online, even though it is crappy, and even though it might damage the image Zelda has created.

It's not like that this movie will ever make it into the cinema, nor gain popularity. So what does it matter?

"Curiously, Nintendo generally leaves doujinshi and other such unauthorised derivative works alone in Japan, where even semi-commercial fan-works with purely pornographic intentions pass completely unmolested, with the relationship between fandom and publishers understood to be a symbiotic rather than adversarial one."

That matter, I do understand. This movie can be seen everywhere online. However, the doujin policy is quite strict in Japan. You need to really SEARCH for it if you want to see it. That means that you choose for it, to have another view on Zelda. That's not the case with the movie.

Also, another fact is that the creators already know that somewhere on the internet, someone already saved the movie, and probably will put it online again. It's not like a word of Nintendo will stop trivial stuff like that. Otherwise, the whole pirating industry would be down already.