Who the fuck thought that L holding a press conference out in the open was a good idea? The whole point of him was that he did everything secretly.
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He sounds whiny too. Who would have thought that the world's greatest detective would sound as whiny as what i though the edgy main character would have been.
Still probably won't be quite as bad as that live action TV version, but goddamn.
I don't like the casting of L in this movie at all.
wait, the black guy was L?
Seeing the original trailer for this compelled me to watch Death Note myself. I'm not a huge anime guy at all so there was a "cringe factor" to overcome, but I found myself thoroughly enjoying it for about 11 episodes.
I really like the concept, and honestly my biggest concern with this movie is them not taking [I]enough[/I] liberties. I don't mind the weird casting for L or the fact that it's an inherently japanese story taking place in america, but I'm not a fan of the original anime either. Those first 11 or so episodes would make an amazing live action movie, I think. They wouldn't even need to include the death god shit or anything and I'd be happy.
While I'm probably alone in this, I'm actually pretty excited for it. I'll be giving it a watch for sure - as long as the movie cuts it before the source material started to get [I]weird.[/I]
So he just shows himself but with the mouth covered? What the fuck.
13 reasons why meets final destination
im still gonna enjoy it i feel
[QUOTE=Antimuffin;52414478]So he just shows himself but with the mouth covered? What the fuck.[/QUOTE]
I can only imagine his reasoning/situation is vastly different in this heavily americanized version of the story. The overly convoluted schemes and situations L sets up wouldn't really work in the movie.
Who knows, the weird eye-super powers Light keeps getting offered might not even exist in this movie version, so L showing up himself might not be a big deal.
They seem to be changing the foundational character traits of the main characters. I mean, it's kind of funny that they casted a black guy to play a character whose main physical characteristic is being super pasty and pale because he's inside all the time. It doesn't really matter, it just seems odd that of every character the one that is partly defined by paleness is black. Light also seems a lot less controlled and precise.
It looks...I don't [I]hate[/I] it.
I'll give it a chance. I have a gripe with most real life adaptions of anime because they seem to be so...what's the word, like they try to reenact the things about the anime such as over expressions or stuff like that and it always just comes across as...weird. As if the only point of a live-action anime flick is the novelty of "oh hey it's those anime characters except real" and that's all you need to make a few bucks off it.
This trailer strikes hopeful tones that it might be good in the way that they take the story of Death Note and run with it to be a good story first, real-life anime syndrome second.
L being black isn't weird at all. Nothing about his race is important to his character. [sp]Literally from an orphanage IIRC?[/sp] The only thing that makes it weird is that they clearly struck true to Ryuk's visual appearance 100%. So if that was important why didn't they go for a similar matching true-to-source aesthetic for all the major characters?
Yet a Death Note Live-Action show irks me as much as an animated reboot. Has a similar Cowboy Beebop feeling of not really needing a new spin or recycled live-action version since the source material is pretty timeless.
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As in: I'm pretty sure the Death Note anime is as good as Death Note is gonna get. It's sad we have an obsession to dig things up and either re-do them, or [I]do them again[/I] instead of respecting that it was a really good thing on it's own right.
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But by that same logic, why not? This show bombing does not hurt the original. Why not give a spin that a few fans might enjoy?
I am very conflicted about this.
I imagine it'll turn out like the Ghost in the Shell movie. As in, not terrible, but just bland and mediocre and doesn't really add anything noteworthy to the source material, and thus will be viewed as having no real reason to exist.
I hope for it to do better than that, but this is pretty much what I expect.
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As in: I'm pretty sure the Death Note anime is as good as Death Note is gonna get.
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I mean, is it? It was a thoroughly enjoyable watch and I can't in anyway justify calling it [I]bad,[/I] but it's a pretty cheesy anime that completely falls apart half way through. Like seriously I personally haven't seen a show take a sharper dip in quality than Death Note did.
I think condensing the overarching story into a feature-length chunk would be a refreshing way to look at the series, live action or not. Though I think they may have already done this, I'm not sure.
Either they just picked some really bad lines for this trailer, or L's actor isn't very good, because when he speaks it's almost jarring how stiff and robotic he sounds.
I started rewatching the anime some weeks ago, little over half way through.
And this shit is just sad americanized bullshit.
The main character isnt even the same. In the anime Light finds the book, tests it a couple of times, THEN later the shinigami comes and finds Light, but Light has already filled out several pages.
Where is this character??
The American tropes leaking into every nook and cranny are really confusing and give me a heavy B-movie feel.
But is the soundtrack going to be just as shivering as the original because i would get goosebumps as soon this started to play
[video=youtube;UaIoK3Bf6lk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaIoK3Bf6lk[/video]
trailer looks to much like an action movie when the original manga/anime was anything but
[QUOTE=Lazore;52414561]I started rewatching the anime some weeks ago, little over half way through.
And this shit is just sad americanized bullshit.
The main character isnt even the same. In the anime Light finds the book, tests it a couple of times, THEN later the shinigami comes and finds Light, but Light has already filled out several pages.
Where is this character??[/QUOTE]
there seems to be a heavy difference in light's character, particularly with the one line that jarred me: "We aren't the good guys anymore"
it seems the movie might make him into more of a redemption story where he "learns from his mistakes" or was even manipulated based on the girl's comment of "you aren't crazy enough, we can change the world".
it's a sharp turn from light's initial characterization, where as you said, he had already made heavy use of the book before even investigating any consequences the shinigami might have. furthermore, [sp]he never backed down and only grew more entrenched in his ideology up until the very end- past the first few episodes he never shows any regret for what he's done and intends to become a god[/sp]
As someone who couldn't make it past one episode of the anime, this looks somewhat appealing.
[QUOTE=WillerinV1.02;52414475]Seeing the original trailer for this compelled me to watch Death Note myself. I'm not a huge anime guy at all so there was a "cringe factor" to overcome, but I found myself thoroughly enjoying it for about 11 episodes.
I really like the concept, and honestly my biggest concern with this movie is them not taking [I]enough[/I] liberties. I don't mind the weird casting for L or the fact that it's an inherently japanese story taking place in america, but I'm not a fan of the original anime either. Those first 11 or so episodes would make an amazing live action movie, I think. They wouldn't even need to include the death god shit or anything and I'd be happy.
While I'm probably alone in this, I'm actually pretty excited for it. I'll be giving it a watch for sure - as long as the movie cuts it before the source material started to get [I]weird.[/I][/QUOTE]
Honestly what makes Death Note is the ending.
what if the plot twist is that L is white.
[QUOTE=Ithon;52414836]what if the plot twist is that L is white.[/QUOTE]
cant do that gotta fill that diversity quota
Looks really lame. Light looks like a generic little binch.
[QUOTE=Exooodus;52414880]Looks really lame. Light looks like a generic little binch.[/QUOTE]
Light's design wasn't exactly groundbreaking in the original either
[QUOTE=chuck14;52414699]there seems to be a heavy difference in light's character, particularly with the one line that jarred me: "We aren't the good guys anymore"
it seems the movie might make him into more of a redemption story where he "learns from his mistakes" or was even manipulated based on the girl's comment of "you aren't crazy enough, we can change the world".
it's a sharp turn from light's initial characterization, where as you said, he had already made heavy use of the book before even investigating any consequences the shinigami might have. furthermore, [sp]he never backed down and only grew more entrenched in his ideology up until the very end- past the first few episodes he never shows any regret for what he's done and intends to become a god[/sp][/QUOTE]
Oh yeah good point.
I can't even think how you could fuck up Death Note more than to make Light have a redemption arc. His progression into the character he becomes is a cornerstone if not the [I]main[/I] selling point for what makes Death Note an interesting.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/FLiwNNL.png[/t]
who the fuck sits like this
[QUOTE=psychofox67;52415004][t]http://i.imgur.com/FLiwNNL.png[/t]
who the fuck sits like this[/QUOTE]
that's a thing the character does in the original, he says it makes him smarter or some shit
[QUOTE=Downsider;52415016]that's a thing the character does in the original, he says it makes him smarter or some shit[/QUOTE]
Ah yes, the ancient slavic squat position. Cuts off circulation from your feet, so your blood would go to your brain and make you smarter.
[QUOTE=Ithon;52414836]what if the plot twist is that L is white.[/QUOTE]
Maybe this L is a decoy from the real L.
[QUOTE=Cliff2;52415071]Maybe this L is a decoy from the real L.[/QUOTE]
I don't think the creators of this show are that smart
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