Now that the dust has settled, can we admit it was a good stand-alone

No.
American live action films do not belong on /a/, regardless of their source material.

>>161797892
Holy shit, Light really looks like a complete retard.

>>161797949
According to the rules, it's a-okay

>>161797949
>The discussion of "live action" television shows is permitted so long as they are distinctly rooted in, or based off of an anime or manga series.

Literally can't read the rules of the site. Even though I utterly agree in this case. Death note movie was stupid as hell and somehow made Light look even more like a complete retard. He had something like two dozen ways to end up winning in that movie and didn't use any of them.

>>161797892
Fuck off.

Post the chad vs virgin edit

>>161797968
That's a pretty bad shot of him, yes. This is where he meets Ryuk for the first time and shits his pants. And he has a black eye from his fight with a bully, too. Light looks like crap here, why couldn't Netflix pick a more flattering shot of him to advertise the movie?

>>161797892
I don't think it's possible to look at this shit without comparing to the original manga.

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>>161798039
Say no more

Fuck off.

>>161797892
it was shit

>>161797892

On its own its terrible.

Why the fuck does every anime adaptation have to focus on revenge or some kid getting bullied? Are anime concepts so high brow that they have to be changed into not even shitty versions of themselves?

Edge of Tomorrow was great, probably even better then the light novel or manga. Adaptations can be good, directors are just too worried about making their next pay day so they try to appeal ot the lowest common denominator.

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>>161797892
Do you think they'll make the sequel?

>>161797892
No. Even if you want look at it as stand-alone, all the major players in the "game of wits" are dumb as shit and do bizarre, stupid, illogical things. Light is as dumb as a brick and lets Mia manipulate him, Mia manipulates Light into doing dumb things when she's not taking the reins and doing dumb things herself, and L's deductions are based on faulty claims or even made up whole cloth. It's shit.

>>161797892
No, it was just a terrible movie.

>>161797892
Even on its own, this movie is shit.

>>161797892
This is supposed to be a teenage boy?

>>161798016
Why don't /v/ or /lit/ have a similar rule then? Why is only /a/ that is forced to endure those shitty thread when they obviously belong in /tv/ or /trash/

>>161797892
>a good stand-alone movie
I watched it with that mindset and it was still pretty bad.

>>161797892
no

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>American highshcool angst
>PROM NIGHT LMAO
>Cry Baby L

This alone makes it a generic highschool horror angst and pretty much shit

no, it was pretty bad as a stand-alone movie, but also not bad enough to be enjoyably bad, so i wouldn't recommend it to anyone for any reason whatsoever

>>161797892
It was fun but I wouldn't go as far as calling it "good". It was stupid and cliche as fuck. Better than I expected though.

>>161797892
The gore was a nice touch, but I like splatterfests in the first place.

>>161797892
>can we admit it was a good stand-alone movie, just not a good adaption of the original manga?
Fuck no. It was shock full of cringy as FUCK teen romance shit, Light is dumb as fuck and a massive wimp and wholly unlikable, and the whole thing is edgy as fuck and relies on Final Destination tier deaths and gore to keep you interested.

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>>161797892
hmm

>>161797892

>now that the dust has settled

>can we all agree

I will never agree with your shit opinion, and stop speaking in "we".

>>161797892
No, fuck off. It was shit.

>>161798399
i don't know about /v/. But basically half of all movies that exist are based on some shitty novels, so /lit/ would become /tv/ 2.0

No. It was cliched. It was badly written. It wasn't even remotely impressive cinematography wise, for fuck's sake there was a part where I could hear someone fucking cough.
So how about this, just say it. Say that you, personally, fucking like it and I won't judge but can people please stop thinking liking something == something being good.

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>>161797892

>>161797892
American adaptation of anime are garbage. Pure. Utter. Garbage.

Fuck off. >>>/tv/

>>161797892
even as standalone it's too retarded to be considered good.

>>161799261
I actually like the scene where L gets knockout by that indian cook. And his is like "Lord Kira?"

>people worried about race of L and Light
>instead the real problem was the characterization themselves
>emo Light and retarded L
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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i actually thought it was ok like a 3.2/5 (=higher than average)

weeaboos are just mad that it doesn't ape every line and characterization from the anime. DN was my babbys first anime 6 years ago so it holds a special place in my heart but as a fa/tv/irgin i can appreciate it as an independent derivative work of art.

it was fun, it had a delightful, edgy, american high school atmosphere and margaret a cute, also I quite liked L as a character even though i thought I would hate him because he's a nigger

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Could Ryuk do anything remotely close to this in the manga? I forgot.

>>161797892
it was really bad but enjoyable

whoever MIa was was really cute. i fapped

>>161799261
Why the fuck is their a chase scene between L and light?

>>161799973
He couldn't even do it if he used the Death Note, there is an entire rule saying you can't use it to get the person you are controling to shorten someone elses lifespan but even that would of been closer to the source material than just giving him fucking magic powers.

>>161799931
The music was often terrible and out-of-place.
L makes ass-pull deductions like that Kira needs a name and a face, and bases this on the fact that he remains alive after going on live TV, when it could just be that Kira doesn't want to kill innocent people (this is then proven wrong when Mia kills the investigators, but L's speech was before this). He also doesn't even hide Watari's name or face.
It was dumb that Light revealed the Death Note to a girl, after having a conversation with her for like 1 minute. For all he knows, she could have called the cops. After all, she fought against the bullies, and called a nurse to help Light earlier in the movie. So she looked to be a good girl, and you would think that she wouldn't approve of literal mass murder.
I don't like that the movie is open-ended.

>>161800343
for the related webm i would bring out the rule that just says "you can't force people to do something that's impossible otherwise they will stop and die of heartattack" i think it was even mentioned in the movie, but apparently it's ok to write "ferris wheel somehow collapses for absolutely unknown reason".

>>161799973
Ryuk took a much more passive role in the anime/manga as he was a bored death god.

The movie version is just garbage, made to appeal to the "evil death god" good/bad supernatural shit that Americans like.

>>161798399
It wouldn't matter anyway since anything goes on /a/. 400+ post /pol/ threads are not unusual, since all that's required is including an anime picture and some text that weakly relates it to anime. In this case all OP would have to do is change the picture.

>>161800417
Was everyone who was on the wheel's name wrote into the notebook?

>>161800477
wheel had to be empty and there had to be no one in its vicinity for it to make any sense.

>>161800649
Yep, add that to the bullshit that makes no sense counter. What kind of retarded ass research went into this? I read the manga years ago and even I can remember basic shit like this.

>>161800265
to show that nigga can outrun white

>>161800704
We have the Olympics for that already.

>>161800649
>>161800700
The rules are clearly different here. The anime/manga tries to be as realistic as possible, except for the existence of Shinigami and a magical Notebook.
The movie leans more towards the supernatural side. That's why Light was able to write in the Notebook that the page with his name on it would conveniently land in fire and burn, and that he would conveniently land in the water and survive. This wouldn't make sense in the manga/anime, because the Death Note can only control the victim's action, and not random shit like a page of paper burning.
On top of that, the rule about burning a page never existed in the manga either, and you can control people for only 2 days, instead of 20-ish days like in the manga.

>>161797892
>Now that the dust has settled
>>>/v/

>>161797892
No, because it has plotholes, poor acting and terrible quality checks.
You can even hear the cameraman coughing in one scene.

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>>161797892
THERE ARE RULES LIGHT

>>161802241
Which scene

>>161802320
TL;DR LOL

Terrible writing, terrible direction, terrible cast, terrible everything.

How they managed to fuck up adapting the most normalfag-friendly anime to a movie is beyond me. Even the Japanese movie was better which had a budget of about 500 dollaridoos.

>>161802383
I think it was about a third or fourth into the movie.
He was talking to Mia about "Like,"we"...as in us?"

Turn up the volume a little and you can hear it loud and clear.

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Also, remember that Watari is just an alias, yet it worked when writing it?

Someone was asking on Twitter about it.
This was the answer.

>>161802482
I liked William Dafoe as the voice for Ryuk. I thought that was really fitting. But visually, something about Ryuk was off-putting. It's like his face is CGI, but then you can see his ears and they look like a real person's ears. It's weird.

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>>161802559
This guy is an absolute dick by the way.
He legit considers himself a winner with the movie and that all criticism it receives are trolls.

The dude is praising himself on twitter and goes on how we can't appreciate his work cause he is an artist.

>>161798399
>Only /a/
Clearly you've never been to /co/
Poor bastards suffer this 6+ times a year with all the cape shows/movies.

>>161803212
But they deserve that shit for enjoying cape shit.

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>>161803283
Yes and superheroes were never popular in Japan.

>>161803393
Literally just parodies.

>>161797892
In this frame he looks like a different person
Looked like a killer to me

But then when his face is focused the dude looks like a bitch

>>161803472
Hero Academia is less of a parody of superheroes than Marvel and DC are.

>>161803472
So's Watchmen. Still counts as cape.

>>161803472
OPM is a parody.

MHA is just OPM: Super Serious Naruto Can You Believe It? Edition

>>161803043
that made me check his twitter, what would you expect, it was full of retweets praising his work, it's really fucking silly.

>>161803593
Go back a bit, you should find the one where he calls himself an artist who won with the movie.

>>161803674
you mean the one "Sorry trolls but the artist always wins"?

>>161797968
But Light was always a complete retard.

>>161800265
to cash in on the late heavy rain hype

>>161799261
>pushing a guy's face into his soup
Why you gotta do that

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>>161798399
Daiz paid admins to add the rule in his quest to destroy /a/ and anime.

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There was absolutely nothing redeemable about this.
2/10 on the moist meter.

>be world's best detective
>"I'm sure Light's gf has no involvement in this"

>>161806187
>be world's best detective
>"I wonder where Watari might be, right after I showed Kira my face, and I already deduced that Kira needs my face and my name"

>>161797892
>can we admit it was a good stand-alone movie
No, because it wasn't. There were far too many plot holes and so many times the characters did things with no sufficient motivation or reason. It's only made worse by being an adaptation.

>>161797892
lo no, it sucks as a standlaone thing and as an adaptation

>>161797892
>we
You can fuck off.

>>161800477
There was no one on the wheel they had just closed the ride down before light and forced them to start it is by threatening to shoot it's operator

>>161806664
>Light runs along a pier at brandishing a gun and then forces someone to operate the ferris wheel
>isn't under arrest when he wakes up

>>161797892
>a good stand-alone movie
Plotwise, no. It progresses too fast, as if was a recap. Light makes stupidest decisions like getting Watari into his call history for the world to see. Random bullshit like a person walking on L catching Light, suddenly bying into L's screams of Light being Kira and suddenly turning out to be a Kira cultist. There is a sequel hook, but they have already destroyed the possibility of any continuation by killing Misa and Watari, now they will have to make up new characters for Light and L to converse with and drift even further away from the original.
Visuals are good, I guess. I don't get what were they trying to say with all those dutch angles and other artsy shit, but I see that they put a lot of work into the visual direction.
Nice parcour chase at the end.

>>161807406
Parkour? They were just running normally, they even used the stairs as fucking stairs.

>>161799973
They changed how death note works. In the manga it affects only the person whose name is written. In the movie it gives directions to Ryuk and he manipulates the person's surroundins in Final Destination fashion to kill them.

>>161797892
Death note needs, at a minimum 5 movies to cover all the content and change shit for western audiences. Done right it should have been:

>First movie can be finding the Notebook. Set up L as the "main threat" or brains for catching Light. Raye Penber is the main antagonist of the movie.
>Second Movie shit gets real as the pressure gets intense. Light continues his plan, Misa takes notice (They'd likely make her not as stupid since the west doesn't like stupid women) and becomes devoted to 'Kira' trying to find him. L does shit, Light does shit, Misa does shit, shit happens, introduce Mello and N as his successors.
>L befriends Light for his investigation keikaku, Light plays along. Misa almost fucks it all up. L dies. Rem dies.
>Light infiltrates the government as L for information on criminals, Mello and N are unknown to Light and are working against him. His investigation squad begins to doubt him.
>Mello and N work to Take down Light and Misa in a game of mental chess using the clues L left behind. Light dies.

>>161800649
Actually the wheel was empty. It was being closed for night and Light threatened the attendant with L's gun to get on.

Willen Dafoe was the only good thing.

>>161799973
Tbh we've never seen Ryuk use any powers because he always had his second death Note, which he doesn't seem to in this so maybe Shinigami do have supernatural abilities. Still he could have flown up there and ripped them apart himself if he has so much strength.
>>161808116
When was it mentioned or shown that Ryuk was manipulating the surroundings? As far as I saw things just happened on their own like the anime.

>>161799921
It sucks, too, cause I was worried about L being black
Then it turned out that the actor was pretty good but he got fucked by the script

Watched a clip of a Ryuk speaking, he's actually pretty good but Light is horrible.

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>>161802559
>Tfw the man with a boner for sleeping was just an android

>>161798078
t. i'm too stupid to understand indirect manipulation and deception

go eat a burger with your black L, m8

What does /a/ think of the ending?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfWEOLIF2eM

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>>161808813
>tfw too retarded to use an anime reaction image on an anime board

>>161800343
But Light didn't shorten his own lifespan with that ferris wheel crap.

You guys are pretty tainted by expectations.

I have never seen nor desire to see the original anime or read the manga. It's simply not my type of series. I ended up watching the movie with my roommate last week. It was pretty good. Not perfect, but good.

People who haven't seen or care to see the original anime or read the manga will probably like it. Too bad for you /a/. Too bad for you.

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>>161808904
So sorry
>Tfw the man with a boner for sleeping was just an android

>>161797892
The movie was boring as fuck and basically everyone behaved like a retard instead of thinking for a moment.

>>161808843
t. I think I'm smart because I watched Netflix Deathnote and understood everything that happened. Those people that criticize what happened in the movie do it because they didn't understand it, wow they sure are retarded.

Adam Wingard, please.

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>>161797892
>can we admit it was a good

No

>>161809353
It's better with sound
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPulAk0nuT4

>>161797892
It's just another turd that will turn off normies from the medium and make us look like retards for appreciating anime. Hurray.

>>161809455
That's a good thing, dumbass. More people liking something is almost always a bad thing.

>>161809896
Well, you're not wrong. Still I would have appreciated watching a Death Note movie faithful to the original with Hollywood's budget. But now we'll never know what that could have been like.

>>161808470
>>161799973
here, for example. it doesn't happen every time though, like when kenny is kill, ryuk is watching it with light so i see why you didn't notice it

>>161809080
This. I'll take this Death Note as "what would have happened if an American got the Note", and it all clicks.
Just watch it as parody.

>>161808874
The final plan was the first vaguely inteligent scheme Light did in the entire fucking movie.

I completely forgot that Mia was supposed to have a Shinigami and DN too

>>161808874
literally just play the damn thing without any music and it's better what the fuck

>>161811040
So like how the 90's godzilla got a reference in the Japanese films?

>>161797949
Fucking idiot.

>>161797892
>Now that the dust has settled,

Someone ban this man.

>>161797892
I enjoy

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>>161797892
>country known for their police/crime dramas
>manage to fuck up a basically CSI + supernatural series

>>161812413
People were so busy whining about L being black they didn't realize the biggest miscast of this movie was its genre.

>>161812019
>that ending theme & blooper reel

>>161798076
absolutely

https://mixtape.moe/404.php

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>>161797892
What are you talking about?
None of the modern adaptations that nobody wanted are actually good stand alone movies.
Pacing, characters and their motivations, plot, all bad. The only thing they did that could've been good was not well used because of the rushing, which was the demon being an evil instead of a spectator.

The last anime adaptation I saw was (a few episodes of) the Sailor Moon live action show. Why would anyone willingly subject themselves to that torture?

>>161812413

except all of them are shit? those CSI shows are basically a fucking grinding machine, its the same every episode.