[QUOTE=Robman8908;52617356]From someone that's not a big anime fan, and never saw the anime... I enjoyed it for what it was.
They definitely tried to fit too much into too little time, but it really isn't as bad as people are saying. I think most of the people that hate it are fans of the anime and expecting it to be 100% the same or total shit.[/QUOTE]
I think it's more that the characters are attempting to be the same, but are different in basically every important way.
I wish they had just done their own thing with a new character having the death note.
Is this the one with Williem Dafoe as Ryuk or something else? I was led to believe there was a TV series and a movie of Death Note on Netflix.
I liked that it wasn't 100% copy of the anime like the Japanese movie, but it felt too short (but at the same time there was too many scenes).
[QUOTE=maddogsamurai;52617470]Is this the one with Williem Dafoe as Ryuk or something else? I was led to believe there was a TV series and a movie of Death Note on Netflix.[/QUOTE]
This is the one with Willem Dafoe, it's a film.
There's also a Japanese live action film series and TV series, but neither are on Netflix.
[QUOTE=MisterSjeiks;52415127]They're taking the concept and doing their own thing with it. I'd rather have that than trying to remake the Anime in Live Action form. If I wanted to watch the original story I can just rewatch the Anime.[/QUOTE]
To update, I watched the movie. I actually liked some of the changes they made. I believe the biggest downfall was the runtime, it was way too short to fit all the stuff in.
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I also heard of a lot of complaints about the ending but I actually liked that too :v:
yeah the ending was kinda sick [sp] when they showed Light's full intelligence. And the little cliffhanger whether he dies or not [/sp]
This was way too condensed of a movie. If they stretched it out to 2 hours and made it the first half of a story like the Japanese movies, it could have been good. This adaptation of Death Note just needed another rewrite or two and it could have been at least passable.
It did have potential.
A few friends and I watched this movie last night. I don't know jack about Death Note, never saw any of the original material.
It was hilariously bad. It felt like a Twilight movie trying to be Drive. Nothing made sense. If you blinked, you missed essential plot points.
Definitely watch it for the comedy of the year.
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[QUOTE=green bandit;52617600]yeah the ending was kinda sick [sp] when they showed Light's full intelligence. And the little cliffhanger whether he dies or not [/sp][/QUOTE]
No, I'm sorry, that ending was dumb. Light might as well have written [sp]Mia will be on top of the ferris wheel, and she takes the page with Light written into it and folds it into a paper plane and throws it. A butterfly will flap its wings in Australia, causing a chain of events that causes the wind currents to carry the page several states away into a forest fire, burning the page. The butterfly will die in a tragic electric fence accident.[/sp] Get that shit out of here.
It definitely wasn't Evolution bad but it definitely wasn't Rurouni Kenshin good. It was somewhere in the Ghost in the shell area. William Dafoe was by far the best part of the movie though. Also not pulling any punches with the death scenes was nice.
5/10 it was meh
It felt like they tried to fit an entire season of a tv series in to 90 minutes.
I'm not surprised at all to see the movie getting blasted all over the internet, but I didn't think it was that bad. Like, a solid 6/10 all up maybe. Pretty nice cinematography gets you through the honestly awful first act, then the movie distances itself from the anime and starts doing it's own thing.
That's the only time this movie is truly good, in my opinion. Surprisingly, L was one of the better things about this movie. Funnily enough, despite being one of the more drastic changes, I swear his actor is the only one who's even watched the source material. He get's L's mannerisms down pretty well.
The most memorable moments were when deckard's gun suddenly shows up and the [sp] super unfitting music playing after the Ferris wheel collapses[/sp]
I found the lighting and sets was fine at some points then other times it looks blatantly like a set.
I loved that music - made the scene feel like some set up comedy scene. Considering the twist at the end, it was probably intentional.
It was a cute movie. Sure, I mean, not great - kinda just Netflix schlock, but I wouldn't call it [I]bad.[/I] I had fun watching it, even if Death Note is something you just really can't condense into 90 minutes.
I think the comedically over-the-top gore and the random Blade Runner gun really took me out of it more than the weird plot rewrites, though.
All of the intrigue from the source material was thrown right out the window.
Downgraded itself from the classic convoluted circus of deception/mystery between the main characters and finished as a generic piece that looks at "good v. bad" and high-school kids doing dumb things with even dumber motivations.
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Not even Dafoe could save it because they barely gave him any good lines. That entire aspect of interacting with the death god was almost completely ignored.
I thought it was alright. It felt like the movie actively despised Light and Mia, which made it a lot more entertaining for me. That's and Light's cowardly screams.
I just watched it last night. It was an alright movie but I just felt the motivations for characters didn't make sense half the time. The jump from kid who gets bullied to decapitating the bully felt way to rushed and extreme.
I thought it was alright as its own thing. Doesn't stand up to the anime by far, but it was a fun enough dumb movie to me. Only thing that really jarred me was how they seemingly went for a different story and different characters but still just jammed some things taken directly from the anime into the movie. I actually appreciated that L and Light were noticeably new characters, but then why'd they still have to have those names and why did L have to have the exact same mannerisms? The anime itself already established that there can be more detective characters and the only thing that's constant is that they're eccentric and have quirks - would it be so hard to come up with a different name and some different quirks for Movie L?
[QUOTE=Jackald;52620221]Yeah, L was absolutely great, it felt like he nailed his portrayal. Well up until [sp] He stole a cop car and started fucking running after Light with a gun shooting wildly[/sp][/QUOTE]
Probably one of the better aspects of the movies tbh. It doesn't exactly fit with his original character but [sp] it's a character conflict that so clearly makes sense for L's character that the original didn't really explore. it's all good and well to see L calm and collected all the time but what happens when you "push" him? does he have a line, like Kira?
The whole chase scene + the end scene really contributes to this idea of a conflicted L, an L that wants to be 'justice' like he self-describes but can't stop himself from getting emotional over Watari's death. in my opinion, that dynamic was far more interesting than L ever was in the original story. That dynamic is the only reason the cliffhanger ending even works. You actually don't know if this version of L would kill Light, it could go either way.[/sp]
You're not wrong, I'm not even a huge fan of the anime and I was a bit sore that I never saw the two characters get chummy. But that possibility went out the door once they established that this Light was actually rather cowardly, much more 'average' than the original Light. You couldn't really imagine this Light getting along with this L in any circumstance.
At that point you have to ask if that change to Light was worth sacrificing his original character potential. To most fans of the original I'm sure that it wasn't a worthy change. To me, it was very worthwhile. Cowardly/moral Light was one of the better angles for the movie to explore imo.
and [sp] yes lol what the hell they didn't even have a scene addressing that. if "watari" works as both a first and a last name surely "L" would work too. [/sp]
[QUOTE=Jackald;52620242]But it also completely by-passed the whole Light / L friendship thing, which was a crucial component of both their characters. Honestly, they barely even interacted with each other. I'd argue that the cat and mouse game they play is one of the pillars of Death Note, so to see it so absent was disappointing.
Also [sp]Watari's name is just fucking Watari? lol. [/sp][/QUOTE]
iirc Light wrote a lastname, though I dont remember what it was/it was too fast/blurry.
Watched it again with my dad. Boy, did it get worse with a second viewing. Not quite Dragonball Evolution levels of bad, but it's still not good.
And if this does get a sequel, i can kinda see where it would go.
[QUOTE=FreeHat;52620726]iirc Light wrote a lastname, though I dont remember what it was/it was too fast/blurry.[/QUOTE]
Nope, he writes [sp]"Watari becomes [...]"[/sp]... Pretty big plot hole to be honest, isn't it supposed to [sp]be a pseudonym[/sp]?
It also really bothered me that when Light threatened to put Ryuk's name in the notebook, Ryuk responded by saying that no-one has gotten more than 2 letters. Pretty sure death gods can't be killed by the notebook? And also pretty sure there'd be at least some dude somewhere in the world with a name that starts with the same letters, so you could just straight up kill Ryuk by pretending to write that name and stopping after those letters.
[QUOTE=megafat;52620859]Watched it again with my dad. Boy, did it get worse with a second viewing. Not quite Dragonball Evolution levels of bad, but it's still not good.[/QUOTE]
Frankly, I think another anime movie being as bad as Evolution will cause us to get swallowed up by a wormhole.
[QUOTE=Sherow_Xx;52622824]Nope, he writes [sp]"Watari becomes [...]"[/sp]... Pretty big plot hole to be honest, isn't it supposed to [sp]be a pseudonym[/sp]?
It also really bothered me that when Light threatened to put Ryuk's name in the notebook, Ryuk responded by saying that no-one has gotten more than 2 letters. Pretty sure death gods can't be killed by the notebook? And also pretty sure there'd be at least some dude somewhere in the world with a name that starts with the same letters, so you could just straight up kill Ryuk by pretending to write that name and stopping after those letters.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, the very first rule, that was read out loud in the movie, said that the owner can write a HUMAN'S name.
i kind of had higher hopes for a condensed Death Note movie but this was just disappointing. I guess i'd like to know what the majority opinion is of this movie with people that aren't at all familiar with the source material. I just found myself disagreeing with the direction and I feel like since it was missing the light vs kira cat and mouse game it was missing one of the most interesting things in death note.
Also they should have really considered poking fun of that dumb/cool as fuck chip scene. I can't believe it wasn't included.
what's funny is there is a movie-length condensed version of the anime already, Death Note: Re-Light Visions of a God. Which is just the story from Ryuk's perspective. They literally could have just done that and it would have been better.
Light was so dumb in the movie. That's my biggest complaint. They could have done their own thing with the source material, but changing Light's character doesn't make it work.
If I didn't know the source material I would still question it. Like discussing/reading it at school. That's really the only thing though, It kept me entertained, but the first half of the anime is still the best material.
[QUOTE=bananaslamma;52617683]It felt like they tried to fit an entire season of a tv series in to 90 minutes.[/QUOTE]
so long as it does it even slightly better than Avatar: The Live Action it'll be watchable.
Not good or bad, just watchable
Avatar was a trash fire of a shit-show
[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;52629413]I liked the movie, never watched the original series but it could be a 6-7/10[/QUOTE]
Watch the Anime and try to give that rating
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