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I think a live-action Legend of Zelda movie has, at least, the potential to be way worse than the live-action Super Mario Bros. movie ever was, simply because they probably are going to be trying so very hard to make it be "authentic," which was something they obviously didn't even attempt to do with the live-action SMB movie. The live-action SMB movie certainly wasn't Super Mario Bros. in any "real" sense, but it was still an... interesting movie on its own merits, even if not actually all that good. Even though I liked the live-action SMB movie well enough, I still don't think it's a good movie. However, a very "by-the-numbers" attempt at a live action The Legend of Zelda movie, to me, just seems like it could be the blandest, most milquetoast thing possible. But then, if they don't do that and try to make it actually unique and distinct from the games in some way, we'll just get the same complaints about it that were made about the live-action SMB movie, that it wasn't enough like the games.
But, really, what even is "authentic" when it comes to Zelda? I mean, compare, say, Wind Waker Link to Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom Link to any other Link you care to name. Hell, throw in Super Mario Bros. Super Show Link or CDi Link, too, if you want. No two Links are the same[1], and that goes for Zelda and Ganon(dorf), too. Hyrule itself as a whole isn't even consistent from game to game (and that's assuming the game in question even takes place in Hyrule at all, since several of them don't). It isn't like the Mario games, where Mario/Luigi/Peach/Bowser/Yoshi/whoever are pretty much the exact same characters in every game.
And yeah, nobody that they cast as Link is ever going to be "acceptable" to the vast majority of fans, even if they end up doing a relatively passable okay-ish job (like what Chris Pratt did as Mario in TSMBM). It's like that whole "the elves aren't pretty enough" complaint I once heard about the Lord of the Rings movies. Basically, the point was that no matter how pretty Liv Tyler or Orlando Bloom were, they were never, as mere humans, going to be "elf-pretty," and I can understand that.
[1] - Well, aside from the ones in direct sequels to previous games, like Majora's Mask or Phantom Hourglass or TotK.
