In the past few years, well, decade I guess, the trend in Hollywood has been to make nostalgic movies. Movies for adults about characters they grew up with as kids. At first, these movies were targeted for all audiences, but lately they've gone more to just adults. Movies like The Drak Knight and Wtachmen especially. There've been movies about comic book heroes, cartoons (Transformers, G I Joe), and video games (Doom, Final Fantasy, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter). My question is where is the Legend of Zelda movie?
It seems painfully logical to make such a movie. The stories are basically written out for you within the games. Fantasy movies like LOTR have gotten great success. With all the volumes in the Zelda series, it could become a franchise. I don't understand why it hasn't been don yet. You could take almost any game and make it into two, not one, movies. Like Ocarina of Time could be split into a young Link and adult Link movie. Link to the Past could easily be done with part one being the quest for the Master Sword and part two being the journeys in the Dark World. Each game has a great story written out perfectly. All that needs to be done is to have it adapted.
So why hasn't it been done?
1.) N.O. Saints
2.) Indy Colts
3.) Minny Vikings
4.) N.E. Patriots
5.) Pittsburgh Steelers
6.) Cincy Bengals
7.) Denver Broncos
8.) Dallas Cowboys
9.) S.D. Chargers
10.) Philly Eagles
Week 9 Thoughts I Think I Thought About Thinking
1.) and 2.) Everyone's focusing in on the conservative play calling down the stretch of the Giants - Chargers game. A game the Giants had to have. Up by three, the defense picked Rivers off and returned to the Chargers four. From there the Giants ran four plays. The first one, a run that took the ball to the one, was penalized for holding so it became first and goal from the 14. From their the Giants ran the ball three times, forcing the Chargers to burn two timeouts. Giants kicked a field goal and gave SD the ball with over two minutes left to play. They proceeded to march down the field and score the winning TD. The play calling issue arises with the three runs. Manning had been playing a very good game, so why not give him at least one shot at the end zone to put the game away? That's playing not to lose in a near must win game.
That's the issue most people are bringing up. My issue is with the coaching handbook that everyone seems to follow. This might sound crazy at first, but my issue is with the fourth down play call. In my opinion, that was a four down situation. Eli Manning said after the Super Bowl that in a game winning drive he'd rather be down by four than three. The reason being that down by three you tend to get safe once in gield goal range and play for a tie. The same could be said about six. If an offense would rather be down by four than three, then they'd rather be down by 6 than 3. It's the same thing. So on fourth and goal at the 4 you go for the end zone and the win. If you fail, you give the opponents the ball at their own four down by three. They're looking for a field goal. That's it. Of course, if there was under a minute left, you kick the FG, but over two minutes with the opponents holding one more timeout. I say you go for it. The risk/reward factor is worth it. If you fail, you'll get ripped in the media, but that's the problem as well. Too many coaches play it safe so they won't get ripped in the media.
3.) Another thing that came out of that game was the re hashing of the 2004 draft and who made the right move and who's the best QB. The three QBs in question all have different skill sets. Ben is the most physically gifted of the group; strongest arm and scrambling. Rivers is the most accurate of the three, but is a statue. Manning is the headiest QB of the group, sets protection calls out blitzes and audibles as well as anyone in the game not named Manning. As for which teams got the right guy and who got the wrong one, I think the way it broke down, each QB went to the best situation for him and each team got the right QB for their organization.
4.) I was going to say how dumb it was for Tampa, a winless team at the time, to wear throwbacks to a time when they managed to go a whole season winless, but they won. That shut me up. Maybe they should wear those until they lose.
5) I seriously hope that there is no punishment for Ochocinco for trying to "bribe" the refs. Ochocinco gets annoying at times, but he was just goofing around. No harm done.
6,) I've come 180 degrees on the Wildcat. Sort of. Only with the Dolphins. Most teams use the Wildcat as trick plays, but Miami keeps it as a key part of their offense. Also, they've got it mastered. They're willing to use it on any situation and use it effectively.
7.) I'm hearing a ton of praise for the job Jim Caldwell is doing for Indy and I'm not sure I agree. The more I see of the Colts, the more I'm convinced that the entire offense is run by Peyton. The defense is not too good. The whole team is the offense and the whole offense is Peyton so the whole team is Peyton.
8.) This makes me wonder how good a coach Tony Dungy actually was. I've always found him a bit overrated. I've heard people argue that Jon Gruden won in Tampa with Dungy's team so that's a win for Dungy, but I'd argue that if that's true and the only difference in the team not winning one year and winning the next year was the head coach. Then the problem was probably the head coach. Then he goes to Indy, a team ready to win. A team with one of the greatest QBs in NFL history. A team's whose only weakness was defense so they bring in a defensive minded coach. Defense does not improve and they manage to win only one SUper Bowl though having the best team in the league for a few years. I think Dungy gets HOF credit because everyone wants a great black head coach so his credentials were inflated. Luckily though, there is a great black head coach in the NFL, he's in Pittsbuirgh. And there's another one growing in San Francisco.
9.) Cornerbacks do not make enough money. Simple. That's the reason there's such a short supply of great ones. If a guy with that much athleticism can catch, he plays reciever. They make more money. It's only if his hands aren't great that he goes to DB. If, however, DBs were given more money, money that they deserve because great DBs change a game, and publicity great athletes would jump on that side as well because there's less competition there.
10.) I'd sign up for a Colts Saints SB right now.
Limerick of the Week
The 08 Lions have nothing to fear
They're drinking champagne or beer
Tampa one their game
To avoid their shame
0-16 is safe for another year.
Peace
not sure how i missed this post last week...but maybe it's better legend of zelda hasn't been made into a movie. have you seen the crap movies they've made out of most video games?? do you not want your kids, and your kids kids to be playing zelda?? a movie would ruin the game for...life.
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