Death Note

I'm about to watch it tonight. What am I in for?

>>86877716
A bad movie.

>>86877716

L was not this meme /tv/ made him out to be

Light was not this wussy faggot /tv/ made him out to be

The character Misa is more vicious than in the anime

>>86877702
the movie was fucking hilarious if youre going into it as a comedy. the death note movie is to the original manga and anime the same way life of brian is to the bible

>>86877702
possibly one of the worst movies I've seen

>Netflix shills aren't real they said

>>86877772
N was some punk from san francisco that sits weird, doesn't sleeps and eats icecream. How is he not a meme? If anything, the fact that they push dumb anime quirks into a live "more grounded, less meme" movie, makes it jump out and be a complete mess.

light was very much a wussy faggot from start to end.

Proof: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPulAk0nuT4

mia was the real light.

>>86877716
If you watched the anime then it's slowly going to dawn on you that they got it all wrong. Then you'll be back here to complain a bit about it, be baffled at the people defending this shit and move on with your life.

>>86877702
I was surprised as well. Went in thinking it was going to be a train wreck. Ended up kind of enjoying it.

>>86877716
For this:
https://my.mixtape.moe/eoekkw.webm

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>>86877702
I tried so fucking hard to not compare it to the manga/anime, and even then it's a disaster. Everything to do with what it means to be 'moral' and 'just' were thrown out the window completely. Instead of a intense battle of the wits we get a completely cucked edgy high school student, a barely competent 'Misa' who went full retard from the beginning, and an L who was probably the only decent part of the film next to Ryuk. Unfortunately, they blurred up both L and Ryuks characterization with their own and lost any sense of why those characters are interesting or empathetic. Ryuk is essentially evil while L is impulsive and emotional.

Fuck Adam Wingardium Fagiosa, after Blair Witch and this blunder I hope he's never given someone elses intellectual property again.

>>86877716
And this
https://my.mixtape.moe/zomjfv.mp4

L was okay Ryuuk was alright, but the writing was garbage and the characters were dumbed down.

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Light should've been a chad thundercock if they wanted to adapt the character in America correctly.

>>86880153
Well, initially everybody talked about Zac Efron playing as Light, which would have been much more convincing than the emo teen option

>>86877716
This is my favourite, so many things wrong
https://my.mixtape.moe/ckhdzz.mp4

>>86877702
I'm still upset about casting. The movie was a fuckin joke. I'd rather watch the J adaptation.

>http://original.livestream.com/hueythelastnacho/?rt=2&ra=67917

just started stream of it

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>>86877716
A mediocre film with great cinematography.

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>>86880230

>>86877702
Is it bad because it's an adaptation of animeshit or is it bad because it doesn't conform to the expectations of the mouthbreathers that unironically view the original as high art?

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>>86877702
>Misa (Mia) is not anymore a groupie of Kira but just a teenager tired of her Pom Pom Girl life because it's boring and Death Note would have make her life more interesting
FUCKING FINALLY AN IMPROVEMENT FACE TO THE ORIGINAL!!!

Also, Light is not the character I wanted to push in his face to be so fucking arrogant but just a teenager making mistake. Still, the biggest problems of the movie are the fact it's a Teen movie genre and not enough which it has as consequence the first act is too short.

>>86880268
80% because it's a BAD adaptation of animeshit, with bad acting (save Dafoe and Nakauchi), characters, plot, pacing, ending, and 20% because of the mouthbreathers
Seriously, you're defending this?
https://my.mixtape.moe/odeezp.mp4

>>86877702
The Ferris wheel scene went full retard.

>>86877702
It was pretty bad though
The only good thing for me was L, probably because he's the only guy you can root for, even if it annoyed me that they actually made him have his autistic quirks and not a lot is changed except that he's far more emotional, I don't remember anime L being like that, but I barely remember the anime. I do remember that you can root for both, Light has a sense of evil in the anime but you can root for him, he's not a dumbass who gets controlled by his roastie gf

The movie has an interesting but pointless twist though, at least I thought it was a twist, spoiler Interestingly Light is not a full on psycho, in fact he's a fucking dumbass pussy and his gf (mia) is the real psycho, but at the end Light has the high ground on everything Was it a twist? I mean it turned in the last 20 minutes to give the OH MY GOD reaction, but seriously it felt so fucking cheap and stupid

One thing that was for the worse was Ryuk, he was a fucking asshole in this honestly, just like Light and Mia, completetly unlikable, although Ryuk didn't have enough screentime, we didn't see him as the scary funny demon who's there to enjoy the show, he appears rarely and every time he comes off as a devilish cunt

Also what the fuck with the ending, what was that, not only does it end in a cliffhanger but the credits have FUCKING BLOOPERS, is Adam Wingard fucking with us? is this whole movie a joke?

I just finished watching it, so I don't know, but honestly it was not good

>>86879927
All bullshit aside, i know the altcucks here would have sperged to no end, but i would have loved if the movie ended with Mia killing Light and taking the DN and the next one would have been her vs L.
Light was a super faggot in this.

>>86879927
this part was unironically great

>>86880230
Calling the cinematography "great" is overselling it. Wingard just copy-pasted the same aesthetic he used for The Guest, but done worse.

>>86877702
it had a good synth soundtrack i'll give it that

>>86880230
a handful of pretty screenshots doesn't equal great cinematography you fucking memelord

>>86879927
lamo wtf

>>86880230
cinematography != pretty pictures

Get off this board.

>>86877702
>getting a guy to play L that literally cant do the L squat/sit

Why is L. such a bitch ass nigga? He looks like he about to cry in 90% of his scene, lmao

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Just started watching, this must be the ugliest nose I've ever seen.

shyyyeeeet, Max Landis is now an actor? Fucking nepotism

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>>86877702
>despite it all, american Light was still less retarded than Japanese Light

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>>86881575

wrong pic

I genuinely thought L wrote the dad's name and that he was about to die after confronting his son (confrontation being a part of what L wrote).

It's incredibly cringey

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>>86877772
>all these people complaing about L's race
I thought L looking like a trap or young boy was a plot point for later eps when he got replaced with those other Fuccbois?

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>>86879927
>N
Cheeky

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>using the Death Note in public
what the fuck, isn't this kid supposed to be smart

>>86879357
bwahahaha

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>it's the power of love

why are girls obsessed with death so fucking hot. Mia new waifu

>>86884266
Mia's a fucking cunt and Light should have killed her off way earlier.

If anything, this just made me want to watch the original again.

>>86884413

but i want her to step on my balls

>>86877702

>black L

get out

>>86884483
You first, bitch nigga.

>>86884475
She'll make you give her your credit card and then go out with her asian boyfriend. Then she'd kill your dad for telling you she's not good for you. She's a fucking piece of shit.

>>86884563
that first part actually happened to me, so I'm strangely racist toward gook cunts

Why are normies more upset about Light being white than L being black?

>>86884583
Did you kill them?

>>86884608
nah she's a stupid weeb slut so it's not worth the ink

>>86880268
Both

>>86880268
It's bad because it's fucking bad.

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>>86877772
>>Light was not this wussy faggot /tv/ made him out to be

>YOU CAN'T HIT ME BECAUSE IT WILL CLASSIFY AS CHILD ABUSE REEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>NO DAD YOU JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND ME
>HEY G-GIRL I TRIED TO DEFEND, L-LOOK AT MY NOTEBOOK, YOU IMPRESSED YET?

No he was a total bitch.

>makes Mia touch the notebook so she can see Ryuk
>surprised it doesn't work

What made Light think this was how it works? It's not like Ryuk instantly appeared to him when he first touched the notebook.

>>86884483
This. Why the fuck did they have to change L's race?

Anyone know a good streaming site that has subs? I just got to the part where L first appears in Japan but the subs weren't showing

>>86884679
That was all in the first 10 minutes, are you posting to /tv/ while "watching" something? Jesus Christ

>>86885110
That's the only scene where they speak a language other than English anyways.

>>86885209
The dialogue is baby Japanese too, if you didn't understand it you're the reason this thing is the way it is

>>86877772
>C-Can I kiss you

Light Turner was absolutely a bitch ass lil faggot and it was completely intentional. The movie is a "what if" story about what happens when an edgy Hot Topic shopper actually gets the book, and Childish Gambino because such a threat he turned into an autist.

Things that were worse than the original
>Light being kind of a wuss
>Ryuk's face oh my god what is wrong with your faaaaaaaace

Things that were better
>Plot twist of thinking Ryuk is the antagonist when it was really Mia
>L being much more aggressive
>The plot of Watari being used
>Light's father

So overall I think it was better considering how condensed it was compared to the show.

>>86885341
Childish Gambino as L would have been the DOPEST SHIT EVER

>>86885297
do you have any idea how much of a pretentious tool you sound like when you say shit like "if you didnt understand the basics of a foreign language youre the reason this movie is a trainwreck"
boy i live in america, why the fuck should i learn moon?

>>86885503
This Netflix release (nb: not a feature film) is based upon a manga and anime, despite several repulsive revisions attempting to make it beautiful to the American mainstream. The pretense is actually the revisions. It's pretending to be an American story. Really, it's Japanese. Since it's terrible, pretty much the only ones interested in it will be those who were interested in the manga and anime. In closing, you're the poseur, and you also seem dumb. I bet I could beat you in a fight irl too.

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It was not a bed movie from the type of that goes in the background when you are doing something else and afterwards you forget you ever watched it in the first place. What I love to see adapting those those battle of intellects bound by rules explained to the audience like in manga. It was almost non existent in this production.

>>86885041

>This. Why the fuck did they have to change L's race?

Because it's inconsequential to the movie?

>>86885041
they changed everyone's race, so why are you only bitching about L?

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>>86885677

>>86885667
L eats candy all the goddamn time and every time there's a zoom in on his lips

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>>86877716
Here's a non meme answer: it's Death Note filtered as an 80s film, with Sam Raimi camerawork and synth soundtrack by based Atticus Ross. Dafoe is godtier, L is bretty faithful, and overall the rest of the cast (Light dad is great) gets the job done and then some.
Is it perfect adaptation that fleshes out the themes of the mango? No. But it's a cool movie, not a flick, kino, cinemo or film but movie

>>86885687
And L ate candy and sweets all the time in the anime. What's your point?

>>86885687
>L eats candy all the goddamn time and every time there's a zoom in on his lips

Ok?

>>86885677
Everyone is bitching about how terrible Nat Wolff was in his role too.

>>86877702
The entire anime is premised on the fact that Light is barely outwardly emotional and L never reveals his emotions, so when the first scenes with Light and L have them sperging out in their own ways you know something is up

>>86885698
I'm not going to tell you. Or the guy who posted "Ok?". As far as I'm concerned, you can figure it out for yourselves. For fans of awesome detective shit you sure don't seem to be able to identify shinola.

>>86885755
Oh I get it, I just want you to say it. Come out with your bias instead of hiding behind some kind of "artistic integrity".

>>86885776
I already said it, quite clearly in fact. Also, I don't believe you "got it". You're just a reactive poster, and I've dealt with your type before. You didn't get it, and you're trying to save face by claiming you did. Good bye, forever.

>>86885755

Stop pretending Death Note is anything more than trash, the source material has a cool concept but shits the bed almost immediately.

>>86885809
>Good bye, forever.

I accept your apology. Please be trying again.

>>86885736
>The entire anime is premised on the fact that Light is barely outwardly emotional and L never reveals his emotions, so when the first scenes with Light and L have them sperging out in their own ways you know something is up

FUCKING THIS
Light and L are supposed to be cool, calm, and incredibly smart. They never give off any hint of an emotion that would lead to suspicion.
Half of the series is L being unsure if Light is really kira and then having a great back and forth battle
Light being an absolute pussy and wearing his emotions on his sleeve the entire time was unforgivable
L did a good voice but for the last half of the movie he totally went downhill by sperging out about everything

>>86877716
A character driven movie that forgot to make the characters any compelling.

>>86885825
Youre wrong
The first half of the anime is fantastic

>>86885866
Everything up to L dying is great.

>>86885825
Stop posting a space between the link to the post you're quoting and your text, trash man.

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>>86885866

>The first half of the anime is fantastic

>>86885881

>Stop posting a space between the link to the post you're quoting and your text, trash man.

>>>/reddit/

>>86885866
Unfortunately they could never adapt such great scenes like the tennis match to live action
>>86885884
Its literally one of the highest rated anime you just want to be contrarian

The worst thing about it isn't the poor adaptation, it's the pacing

>>86885919

>Its literally one of the highest rated anime you just want to be contrarian

And?

Tired of all this argument. I won.

>>86880549
I liked seeing william dafoe act in the bloopers
But yeah the whole thing was really awful

>>86884483
He was in that.

>>86880549

There are no blooper in the credits. Fuck off liar.

>>86879357
I just saw the decapitation and seriously fucking do this.

That shit was great and hilarious. It's almost like they made it as a horror comedy.

Willem Dafoe was the only good thing about this

>>86877702
the entire premise of the original death-note was two different views of justice held by two different but clever people. This L is dumb, nothing more can be said about him.
Should have made it a sequel, based on what would happen if someone else got the death-note. then it might have been not shit.
And before you start with that shit, an adaptation doesn't have to cover everything of the original source material, movies don't have the time and have to leave some things out, but an adaptation at least gets the characters right. For instance an adaptation of The Brothers Karamazov would be shit if they all where downies, although You would still watch that.

>>86877702
definitely not worse than DBE like some retard reviewer said

As someone who was a huge fan of the anime I expected it to be terrible and was surprised to see it wasnt THAT bad. The pacing was weird because they should have made it a 10 episode series type thing instead of a movie.

I thought both Light and Misa were great, Darius as L wasnt too bad but it would have made more sense if he was a Japanese guy.

Somehow, L even thinking of writing Light's name down was worse than him being played by a nigger.

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>stumble upon the Polygon review
>top comment is a complaint about whitewashing
>no mention of L

>>86886162
What's with people posting to /tv/ deathnote2k17 threads when only being 10 minutes in?

Really weird film.

There are some really kino scenes such as:


>Light becomes kira
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1XeLsh7Avk

>intro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJxfKaeAWz0

>ending
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggG183MxMKQ

>>86885866
No. It's not. It's a plot driven show that only seems smart because turning your brain off is the only way not to realize how arbitrary everything is.

>>86886226
He was a weeb.


All in all it wasn't bad, but it ended at what I would consider the 60% mark.

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So many assumptions in the movie
No real battle of wits
No real plans
Just lucky assumptions L made that happened to be right.
First L assumes that a hostage taker who committed suicide must've been killed by Kira because....he wasn't on drugs before he died.
From this he assumes Kira is in Seattle because nobody outside Seattle could have been watching that. Even though this Light got this news on the internet, not tv, so it was NOT only in Seattle. And the heart attack thing is gone, so there's no linking cause of death thread like in the anime.
Then he assumes Kira needs a name and face because EVERY criminal who died fit that criteria. Even though surely tons of people must have died in those few days who don't fit that.
Then he assumes Kira is the type of person to kill people being aired on tv. Twice. Even though he's never done that before, and never does. Funnily enough, Kira really isnt the type of person to do that, so L actually assumed wrong. At this point, L shouldn't really even for sure if Kira even can do that.
Then he assumes Light must be Kira because Light didn't kill his dad immediately. Even though its entirely possible that Kira would have known not to be provoked, or would have no problem implicating someone else.

Luckily none of these stupid assumptions matter because when L meets Light, Light just goes ahead and basically admits he's Kira.

>>86880107
thanks for nailing it so I didn't have to type out a paragraph about this shit

>>86886371
Its interesting and fun to watch.
I dont care how super smart you think you are or if you saw everything coming cause a lot of normal non autists werent able to predict the dialogue between light and L

>>86886319
I don't know asshole I wanted to comment. The fuck do you care

>>86881683
That would have made the movie slightly better

>>86886412
>No real battle of wits

Seriously? That was the whole fucking point.

>>86879357
It was a comedy. I realised it on L chasing Light when they keeping up hilariously pushing people and break stuff. Movie makes sense when you realise that creators were ironic

Fuck. Fifty five minutes in and Light just gives himself away to L. No mind games or anything. He just willingly does so.

>>86880153
Why is this image on your computer?

Is it better than Ghost in the shell?

>'genius' deduces that since he didn't die after a public speech dissing Kira, it means he can only kill by knowing names
>it's entirely not in the realm of possibility that the guy who only killed most wanted criminals (to his knowledge) doesn't want to kill what's basically an innocent civilian
Does this make more sense in the animes? Because that scene was fucking retarded

>>86886451
This. Death Note is the japanese Sherlock. It may not be a "smartly written series about smart people for smart people", whatever that means, but in its prime, before L's death, it was always entertaining. The Netflix's film is not.

The twist at the end that revealed that Light planned the entire climax (including Mia's death) made me respect the movie a little more than before. It's still bad, but at least that was cool.

Still, they dragged on the explanation and he didn't kill his dad so that was pretty fucking dumb. If he just broke into an evil grin when he got the Note back and the movie cut to black there it would have been more satisfying

I can't believe that Japan would put their faith in a black L, no matter how intelligent he was supposed to be.

is the anime worth watching?

>>86886553
Yes. In the anime the real L has a criminal pretend to be him on live television, and then Light kills him in a fit of anger. That's when L reveals that the guy Light killed wasn't him. Then he challenges Light to kill him, Light can't, and L's deductions are proven correct.

It's done far better.

>>86886553
In the anime, Light kills a decoy who provokes him on tv. Immediately after, L appears and asks Kira to do the same thing to him. Since L just learned that Kira DOES kill innocents, and not killing L would just give away that he has limitations, this is what tips L off.

The movie has no decoy, and Light never kills any innocent people on tv, so both times L was relying on Kira to kill someone on tv were dumb.

>>86886553
>Does this make more sense in the animes?
No. Light just instantly kills supposedly innocent guy literally only because that guy calls him evil.

>>86886621
Yeah, if you like watching crazy plans unfold and get thwarted by even crazier plans, it's a fun time for sure. I highly recommend it.

>>86886660
Light has a god complex, anon. I dont know how you missed that.

>>86886660
Because he's childish and wants to prove himself as a God. This is made abundantly clear about his character several times before this, and throughout the series afterward.

>>86886506
And....what? That makes it good?

>>86880107
>Fuck Adam Wingardium Fagiosa, after Blair Witch and this blunder I hope he's never given someone elses intellectual property again.
he is currently directing KING KONG VS. GODZILLA with a reported budget of $200 million

>>86886633
>learns that he kills innocents
>learns about his limitations in a believable way
That sounds way better than the movie, I probably would've had a stroke already if I knew anything about the anime.

>>86886681
>>86886695
He was literally triggered by one word. It's retarded, i don't why you justify that

>>86886451
It's not about seeing things coming. The problem with it is how the writer would manipulate the plot everytime he wanted something to happen. It gets tiring when he keeps throwing in plot devices from nowhere to keep things moving on. There are entire characters that are not characters but plot devices, like Misa. It's lazy. It's fun at first, but it gets boring very fast.

>>86886743
I recommend watching it, it's pretty good for a Japanese cartoon

>>86886743
Here's the scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yIAey8Vg4w

>>86886608
Japan actually loves black men. Have you ever seen any hentai? The big guys are always black/brown.

>>86886744
It's one of his character flaws. You know, like well written characters have? I don't get why you have such a problem with this. He's trying to justify that what he's doing is right, and then this guy is telling all his potential subjects that he's evil. It's totally believable that he'd use his ultimate power against this guy, especially as an immature high school student.

>>86886771
The first half is pretty good anyway. The only really stupid part there is the bag of chips stunt Light pulls.

>>86886744
People like that think they're the center of the world man, it's not outside the realm of possibility to think they'd have an outburst when someone insults them, ESPECIALLY if they think they're doing the world the biggest favor in history

Add to that the power to kill people in a seemingly untraceable way and you've got a guaranteed bite to your bait

>>86886746
Just because you didn't understand it doesn't mean it's boring.

>>86886743
More importantly, Kira kills criminals with only heart attacks, to let everyone that a person is behind it. This made it a lot easier for L to research criminals who died that way and find that they all had their names and faces revealed.

In the movie, deaths are random, so for all L knows, many criminals who WEREN'T broadcast on tv who died during this period could've also been killed by Kira. But he just assumes every death that had their name and face was Kira. I mean, he assumes right, but L had no REAL evidence.

>>86886820
That scene was great.

>>86886820
hahaha well only because they portray it in a really over the top way, yeah.

>>86885175
Are you blind or just plain idiotic? He tried wiggling out of killing watari and even tried to work with L and even get rid of using the notebook. The rat bastard had to think twice about killing his dad, anime Light used his father's death to lower suspicion to being the culprit.

>>86886744
Your retarded in the anime light got too overconfident at not getting caught, he mainly kills people by heart attacks. So he gets triggered by his god complex and recklessly kills him only to get his shit pushed in immediately by L
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcdDL_wuyPM

>new Netflix thing comes out
>suddenly shitloads of threads saying that it's not as bad as expected
>the usually incredibly negative trolly /tv/ userbase are strangely positive and accommodating
>a few months later everyone thinks it's shit

I can't work out what's going on

>>86886850
Someone needs to overlay the original Death Note soundtrack over scenes from this movie. It'd be hilarious hearing the orchestral tracks while Light spergs out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81D8CCguW4g

>>86886935
> /tv/ is a single person

>>86886935
Everyone is saying it's terrible. It's just not a steaming pile of dogshit. Honestly that's even worse, since "just average" is way more boring than "so bad it's funny"

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>>86880230
>high contrast blue/red meme lighting
>great cinematography

>>86885835
Fucking this

Last act turned into some generic thriller garbage

>>86877702
If you didn't put "Death Note" in the title, i would have no idea what i was looking at.

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>>86886981
I thought the chase sequence was so bad it's funny.

>>86886998
There were well executed dutch angles, too. The cinematography was the only thing the movie had going for it.

>>86886746
Yeah i hated misa. Took away from Light and L adventures

>>86886875
>he mainly kills people by heart attacks

This makes more sense than the movie and even still there was a line in the movie about "gangsters getting heart attacks" when all we've seen is gruesome gory death.

>>86887036
haha yeah well certain parts were that bad, sure. I meant overall.

>>86887036

The Virgin Run

>>86887041
Misa was fine for the arc she was introduced in. She complicated things for Light while at the same time being his opportunity to win. She had no real purpose past L's death.

>>86880668
>>86880845
>>86880862
>>86886998
t. brainlets who don't know anything about cinematography.
The cinematography wasn't THAT amazing, but it was great.

>>86886935
People create threads with the opposite opnion they have to spur conversation
The movie is bad

>>86886302

Blackwashing is just reparations cracka.

Morally wrong = white + man.

Light has ONE stupid gambit and its one that wouldnt even work in the anime. In the original, you can't make someone do something they have no knowledge of, or something they would have no reason to think to do, so the mailman would not have been able to find the notebook, nor would he have even gone to look for it in the fist place.

>>86879927
there's no way this isn't a comedy

>>86887200
It is a comedy actually

>>86887161
I see what you're saying, but if Light had written "he decides to go for a walk at the boardwalk to take his mind off things. While there, he notices a strange notebook wash ashore. He picks it up..."

It could work. What COULDN'T have worked was Light writing that "Mia rips out the page where Light dies at midnight, the page floats into a fire." He can only control his victim's actions, NOT other objects. That page would have just floated away. Not only that, but fire makes air rise. Even if the page had the right trajectory, it wouldn't have floated into the fire barrel.

Fuckin' dumb.

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What did she mean by that?

>>86887077
Do you mind explaining what makes the candy CU great cinematography?

Or the MS scene of L?

Just curious.

>>86880230
keep forgetting that L is black, so fucking retarded

>>86886358
Those are some beautifully shot scenes. Great cinematography right there. It's a shame it was wasted on such a shitty script.

>>86887239
Light reads what he wrote outloud and that's not what he wrote.

Interestingly, he also wrote "He returns the note to ""the Kira suspect""." so apparently everyone on the planet knows Light is THE primary suspect.

>>86887256
He performed L well, despite the script calling for him to act needlessly emotional at times. He was one of the better cast members.

>>86887280
Oh.

Yeah, that's retarded. Thanks for pointing that out, anon. I guess sometimes less is more, and the explanation scene feels totally unnecessary.

>>86887239
Also how can he kill his mom's murderer with an accident at a restaurant with a fork is he just psychic and knew when he was eating dinner or did he literally right down all that stuff BEFORE learning the 48 hour rule

>>86887318
He probably didn't specify the fork, he could have just said "dies to stab wound"

>>86887318
Deaths are random when you write a name now. Though that should make investigating Kira killings infinitely more difficult.

>>86887349
>Though that should make investigating Kira killings infinitely more difficult.

Yet Light gets caught pretty much instantly.

>>86887344
Shit that's true

>>86887349
And now that makes the movie even more stupid, it would be difficult to pin the pattern on his first victims

>>86887379
Which is why everyone's calling it a bad movie even if we disregard the fact that it's an adaptation

Why the fuck can't film directors portray a morally-complicated villain as an ubermensch type, when that's how they're portrayed in the source material? The Watchmen film did a similar dumb thing in its portrayal of Ozymandias, except kinda worse as it violated some of the central irony of the piece, but the Death Note film still fucked up pretty bad by portraying Light as a misguided idiot.

Is there some Hollywood rule that you can't have a villain whose perfect, except for their self-justified acts of mass murder?

>>86880088
jesus

>>86877716
A pretty mediocre movie with a surprisingly good performance from black L, but a bad one from the main character.

The burn a page thing didn't make much sense. Mia says she can't let Light burn Watari's page because she wants to burn Light's page. But if you're allowed one burning per owner, then Light would've been allowed to burn Watari, and then Mia could burn Light's page when she becomes the owner, so there was no need for Mia to remove the page. If the Note is only allowed one burnt page period, that one burn should have been used up long ago.

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This flick was bastardized tripe dumbed down for sub-100 IQ American audiences

>>86887466
>le epic nigger candy man was good meme
This meme needs to die

The only somewhat decent characters were Watari and Ryuk

>>86887470
I think that the rule implied one burned page per DEATH NOTE, but that rule was poorly explained and inconsistent.

I looked into it because something felt off, and it turns out that it's because it's a rule the writers of the movie made up. It's not in the source material. In the show, a name written in the notebook is an unavoidable death which I like much better, personally.

>>86887470
See anon the problem is you're writing a smart idea/loophole for an already dumbed down movie. Stuff like this waa heavily used in the anime alot

>>86887540
But the movie also made it clear that the notebook was used many times and is super duper fucking old. If its one per Death Note theres no way it wouldnt have been used up already.

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>>86887077
>it was great

I love how all you boys are bending over about how good black L was. We get it, you want LaKeith's BBC.

>>86887562
I didn't even think of that, that makes it even dumber.

I'm gonna go watch the show and see if it's any better than this shit show.

>>86887537
This. N was shit. Let's stop pretending every black actor can act. Most of them can't and certainly LaKeith is not the exception.

>>86887036

>"Ooga booga gimme dat white booty!"

>>86887595
>>86887545
Also Light apparently didn't even bring a burning tool, otherwise he could've just burnt his own damn page, so Mia ripping Watari's page didn't really matter because Light wouldn't have been able to burn it in time.

>>86887445
>Is there some Hollywood rule that you can't have a villain whose perfect, except for their self-justified acts of mass murder?

Hitler rule you meshuggane goyim.

You can't show someone smart successfully committing eugenics or punishing the wicked because it directly assails the foundational aspects of our society.

>>86887595
The show is much better on the continuity of the rules of the death note, although the second half of the show maybe gets too over the top. But it's definitely better then the shitstain Wingard left.

>>86887601
Most people can't act, I think. Not exactly tied down to race. L was fine in this. Directed poorly, but he pulled off a performance faithful to the original L when he wasn't super emotional. He was certainly better than Nat Wolfe and Mia girl.

>>86884955
I was wondering this too. Why did he assume she'd be able to see Ryuk?

>>86877702
So they changed a lot of it to be Americanized

But they didn't change the autistic sitting habit

>>86887249

Anyone found she looked a lot like Adriana Chechik?

>>86887693
L didn't have to change at all from the source material, considering that he's a global detective and can be from any nation and can be any race. Keeping his weird habits was a good move, because they weren't "Japanese" or "American" characteristics, they were L.

>>86887677
>>86884955

In the original show if someone touches the death note they can see the shinigami that brought it to earth. It's a reference to that except they executed it terribly.

Why the fuck would the police that N called shoot Watari?

Fucking embarrassment of a movie

>>86887765
Ryuk made them do it for the lulz.

>>86887669
See, I think it's kinda the opposite. I think directors are afraid of showing smart successful people as evil, because it directly assails the foundational aspects of our society.

>>86887765
They were controlled by the death note. Ryuk explicitly mocks Light and brags that "it was dealer's choice."

It's still stupid and contrived, but it was explained.

>>86887470
>>86887540

Another thing that killed it for me. When Light goes to retrieve the Note from his locker, Mia left the fucking page with his name in it instead of tearing it out, or writing it on her calculus sheet.

All Light had to do was rip the page off himself and burn it right away. I didn't hear anything in the movie saying that wouldn't work.

>>86885693
>Here's a non meme answer:
>But it's a cool movie, not a flick, kino, cinemo or film but movie
Kys ur you'reself.

>>86887774
>>86887795
It was an intentional choice on their part to shoot though, not like the accidental mistakes leading to someone getting decapitated or whatever. It makes no fucking sense at all, Light didn't write those agents names in the note to control them

What a trainwreck of a fucking movie

The whole ferris wheel scene had me laughing from how bad it was

>>86887878
Complete with shitty melodramatic hipster music

This wasn't Death Note at all

>>86887871
You're right, that's why I said it was stupid. It directly goes against the rules of the notebook. The source anime is respectable for having so many rules and never being inconsistent with or breaking any of them.

I honestly think if the film had been the first part in a series, it would have been fine. The decision to keep both Light and L alive, and make both sympathetic, could only have been done to leave room open for a sequel, so the whole idea of it as a self-contained movie is kinda a joke.

Not that the whole thing doesn't have major issues, like trying to totally reinvent Light, and changing the main villain to a stereotypical power-mad temptress, and the like. But the film just fails at telling a version of the Death Note story, maybe because of length, but also because they didn't seem to try.

Can someone explain the ending to me?
Why did it matter that Mia touched the Death Note at the end? Because Light wrote that she would die if she did so? That's not how the Death Note works.
So Mia takes the DN, betraying Light, is killed because of it, this was apparently all planned by Light, neither character has romantic intentions at the end... Yes? And why didn't Light just burn the page with his name himself? WHY DIDN'T MIA TAKE THE PAGE HERSELF? I'm so confused.

>>86886173

He was probably in the movie for a max of 10 minutes.

>>86888076
The movie completely failed to explain this, but it's implied that f the conditions for a death aren't met, it won't happen at all. So he thought if she didn't take it, he'd live. Just another retarded moment.

>>86888118
Sure, but since he wrote that she would, in fact, take the notebook from him and the notebook can control people's actions within reason, then she was going to try to take the notebook regardless.

>>86888174
Yes, which is what makes it stupid.

>>86888076
>Why did it matter that Mia touched the Death Note at the end
this makes no sense she was trying to become the 'owner' but it was never outlined how that happens exactly and she couldn't see ryukk just by touching it like the original
>>86888076
>why didn't Light just burn the page with his name himself? WHY DIDN'T MIA TAKE THE PAGE HERSELF?
I was under the impression she wrote his name on the page she took out and hid but since that isn't the case, yeah it makes no fucking sense at all
>>86888038
the original netflix pitch was for a series but they didn't get it
from an RT review
>the whole thing feels like the pilot episode of a third-rate comic-book vigilante TV show.
pretty accurate

>>86888193
Just explaining why it's stupid in detail.

>>86885417
instead we got his Atlanta co-star

>>86877702
are you kidding? this was literal cancer

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>>86886728

>Light: I'll write your name in the book!
>Ryuk: Most people only manage two letters

You know, except for that guy who wrote "watch out for Ryuk"

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>Light screaming like a girl when Ryuk first appears

I get that he's terrified but that shit was just hammy, like the audience was supposed to be laughing.

>>86888442
kek
but also, aren't shimigami already dead?

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>>86888194
>>the whole thing feels like the pilot episode of a third-rate comic-book vigilante TV show.
>pretty accurate
SIX SEASONS AND A MOVIE!

Soundtrack is a 0/10
Not even a single guitar all ambient shit how do you miss the mark this bad. An actual american high school prom scene

The setting is mostly in public, in a public HS specifically. Speaking at full volume in the library about their kills. Screaming about it in the hallways. They just use regular phones and talk about it in public. L doesn't tap their phones. LOL

Token L makes no sense why cast a single black guy for the most distinct recognizabke character aside from ryuk. I actually said "he looks like a rejected fast and furious character" and the movie actually turned into Ff at the end

Ryuk looks like ass, his character is mostly in tact but meh. He quips about the rules and then the movie actually does spend too much time on the rules

L calling out light is dumb. The dad calling him out is dumb. The original press conference where he kills a fake light is not something that should be removed. It's important to see L carrying out his plans, otherwise you just hate him because he's just a genius dude lmao

Misa is terrible. Smoking is edgy still? They just fuck and kill people in his room and his dad doesn't hear it? Seriously? Then they break up and kiss in the rain like the fucking Notebook what. The shit. And they just keep talking about it while they dance. She reveals her FBI Ray Penber thing in an actual crowd of people who are not talking

The dad is fucking awful holy shit how could he not realize immediately it's all connected to light Jesus Christ. He's a joke and the actor was annoying

Light is not clever or careful at all. The first confrontation with L is fucking cringe. God damn how did they completely miss the dynamics of ALL the characters.

Watari entire scene is just shit. And his death. Fuck! Fuck! He's being followed and screams at watari on his phone. Again L doesn't listen to anyone's calls but he has cameras all over

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Headscratchers/DeathNote2017

Death Note 2017: Everyone Is As Dumb As Misa Edition

I know I've said this in multiple threads now. But first 30 minutes = pure unadulterated trash. Middle is okay, ending is pretty good. But it would have been so much better if they made it so that the whole lovers thing was bullshit and he was just manipulating her as someone to frame.

>>86888471
It's in the name, they're gods of death.

>>86888471
>>86888442
In the first episode of the Anime Ryuk says they can't kill each other with deathnotes, when explaining he is bored.

Finally an adaptation that changes things instead of attempting to translate live action scene per scene.

I liked it. Light was a bit beta but I think this first movie is about him transitioning into full psycho mode. I liked the changes to mia (?) .
The ending was good and I kinda expected not to be over in 1 movie.
L was good. I liked when he chimped out at the end bit overall I think he was too good looking and they should have casted a malnurished looking whit guy instead.

Looking forward to next movie.
Ps I'm no shill, I torrented it.

>>86888583
kek'd

>>86888459
was that wingard's intention? i feel like this was a comedy aswell. i laughed often at light's absurd reactions(especially during the ferris wheel scene)

>>86888750
yeah I think it was intentional along with the over the top gory kills

>>86881575
nope

>>86888519
Don't you put that shit in here if you want to still have some semblance of dignity.

>>86888861
I go to 4chan, I don't have dignity.

>>86888688
I'm OK with an adaptation changing things, but it still has to be a good movie and make a least a little sense. This has it's moments, but as a whole, I found the movie to be pretty bad. Part 1 of the Japanese adaptation is better imo. I'm actually looking forward to the sequel to see if they can at least wrap it up nicely.

>>86880230
>this is one of the """"patricians"""" from the lbg circle jerk

It wasn't badly adapted but it was really badly acted.

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>>86888952
it was poorly cast all around and character designs are just fucking terrible, why stray so far from the source material?

>>86888990
no a series fan here. So his hair highlights are reflections or its dyed?

>>86888990
Because that design is fuckin terrible. Yet another generic anime haired fuck except with tired eyes.

>>86877702
Lol, /tv/ hates the fuck out of it because half of the people on 4chan are weebs spewing "muh animu" and a third, are Light wannabes buttmad that the movie doesn't present him as a badass gary-stu anti- hero, but as a fucking dweeb who will end up being btfo.

Truth is, the movie is decent, it has bretty good acting and is entertaining. It's not the fucking best movie ever, but no one expected it to be. Not a bad movie at all, though.

I wish the weeaboos gobbling dick and sperging out "muh animu is superior because it's folded 1000 times" would go away. If I wanted to watch the exact same thing that in the manga or anime, I would watch those. It's an adaptation, not a shot per shot remake.

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>>86888990
What does this hair style look like in real life, why do japs like it so much

>>86885341
>C-Can I kiss you
>Light Turner was absolutely a bitch ass lil faggot
Woah there, we can't have promotion of rape culture in a progressive movie made in 2017, can we?

>>86888990
are you posting that as if its a good example of character design or something

>>86888583
AYYYYY

>>86888796
>(You)
>in denial

>>86877702
If you consider the movie a stand alone thing and act like it was an original IP with no source material behind it - then it would be "not that bad". But hey, welcome to reality. Movie is shit. 2/10

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>>86877716
LOTS of hot topic-tier angst.

>>86880204
zac efron is unironically a worse actor

>>86889342
It would still be bad. The amount of stupidity present in the movie is quite high. Add to this clumsy direction and a shitty flow and you're at 3/10 already.

>>86885388

better??

>the Mia twist was crystal clear from the moment she left the house.

the bigger twist is it being so blatantly obvious. Shit a double bluff and have Ryuk just fucking doing what he likes.

> L was shaking and emotional not aggressive, he was literally crying and fist shaking.

>Watari was innovative.

>sure.

it felt rushed, the could have cut the investigation in half and just focused on moral ambiguity instead of moral high ground. The end was fun but bizarre, all the rules went out the window and all of a sudden Light could just write the future as he wanted it to play out.

>the note with catch fire.

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what did he mean by this? he had already witnessed him murdering those innocent FBI-agents so it shouldn't surprise him

>>86877702

Reposting from the other thread;

Never seen the anime or Japanese films.

Thought it was pretty bad.

Like Donnie Darko for retards.

The story/idea was stupid as fuck (not so much the book conceit, but the whole cat and mouse thriller aspect).

The lead actor and actress were attractive/charismatic and had good chemistry, but the plot/characters became illogical nonsense quickly.

The character of L and the the performance by Stanfield were by far the worst things in the movie. Humiliating cringe inducing/shit.

Also, it felt like a Netflix series cut down to film length. The rules of the book became too loose and "lel because magic" by the end too.

The monster not only looked retarded but seemed completely pointless and unnecessary.

Also - dat none ending. It just stopped.

One thing of note - what was up with all the 80's Australian pop rock?

>>86889509
turn on bubtiles

>>86889512

I think it would have been better if they completely dropped "L" and the whole "Kira" concept.

Just stuck with a Monkey's Paw/Butterfly Effect scenario.

I really, REALLY, hate the L character.

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>>86889509
>Watari's real name is Watari
It's like the writers didn't even care

>>86889512
>One thing of note - what was up with all the 80's Australian pop rock?
Adam Wingard is a hack stuck in the 80s

>>86885880
That's literally what he said. The first half.

>>86889512
>what was up with all the 80's Australian pop rock?
Probably super cheap to license.

>>86886541
Inspiration.

>>86889089

The movie wasn't entertaining. It was boring as fuck and it was also cringe inducing with a godawful script with a twist that was so telegraphed that the actual reveal (to the character) came off comical.

When L showed up the movie basically went to shit, and I basically checked out completely by the Prom scene.

I was expecting something at least Butterfly Effect tier. But this wasn't even that passable. It was just...garbage.

I say this having no idea how faithful or not it is to the Chinese cartoons.

>>86889556
>>86889539

Yeah, I know there was a bunch in Donnie Darko, which this film seemed pretty obsessed with, but it was still strange, like he used 4 or 5 not-even-that-popular Australian pop-rock songs.

The high school setting seemed really "off" too...like they are at High School...then they're just kinda not until they need to go to a prom and then they aren't again.

>>86877702
It was seriously the best adaptation we could get, considering that it was inevitable for a concept like DN to be exploited by "Hollywood" sooner or later.
Notice I said adaptation and not tribute, which seems to be what all of you ITT wanted. That proves you have no idea how media transposition works. You're really hanging to your original mango like it was some sort of narrative classic while it was honestly just a flawed, cliched story that everyone happened to identify with the most with during adolescence (you high school shooter-wannabes).
I would get some nice deconstruction work over a faggot-pleaser flick anytime, and you're the reason we don't get good things anymore. It's BvS all over again.

w8 is the ending hinting at a sequel?

Who the fuck would watch another one of this?

>>86889714
me

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>>86889509

>the super intelligent redditor character has computers with lots of fast vertical scrolling greentext filling multiple open windows on his multi-screen set up

That's how you know he's a genius.

>>86889692

I've never read the manga, seen the chink cartoon or watch the wapanese movies.

And this movie was straight up garbage.

If this is the "best" adaptation that could be done, then the source material must be fucking terrible.

>>86888873
Japanese version was a copy of the anime . Enjoyable but overall boring. This was much different. Felt new. Like a death note on a different universe.

>>86889748
It is seriously just as bad
people just like it because it's their first anime

>>86889768
there is 1 japanese version where L commits suicide in the end. Think it was a live-action TV series.

>>86889768
>Felt new. Like a death note on a different universe.
Felt like an afterschool special with gore
>I'm sorry dad, I'm guess just a Death Note after all ;___;

It was bad. My least favorite part was how all of the characters were completely different from the animu. Light's a slightly above average high school student with home life problems and bullies instead of a literal perfect genius with a god complex, L gets emotional at the drop of the hat, Ryuk is essentially Satan instead of a passive observer.

I could forgive it if they even TRIED to get the characters right and fumbled on the plot, but they didn't.

>>86889692
nope it's just below average as a standalone

>>86889768
>Like a death note on a different universe.
I thought the same while watching it, but that doesn't mean it was good.

>>86889479
>>86889512
It was retarded too for Mia to sneak up on a highly trained black ops agent and taze him and get his name plus all the names of all the FBI agents trailing people when N knew that Kira needed a face and name and would be suicide to walk around with your badge on you, actually it made no sense at all that she had all the faces and names of all FBI agents just from tazing the one guy

Fuck this flick, fuck Netflix, and fuck Americans for being so retarded that they needed a comic book ran in a magazine for children dumbed down this much

It says a lot that 12 year old Japanese boys can handle a story that is exponentially more complex than the inane tripe Netflix greenlit and shat out.

>>86889802

If they dropped L and Ryuk completely, or at least redesigned the stupid monster, and had more tits and cool Final Destination style deaths, I might have liked it.

But it was pretty shit and boring.

What a giant fucking waste of 50 million bucks.

>>86889848

All of the stuff with L and the cops was gigantically fucking retarded.

The whole "Kira" concept was incredibly retarded too, but I could almost buy angsty goth teenagers coming up with something that stupid.

But everything else was just facepalm tier.

>>86889854
>50 million bucks.
what?? it costed 50 mill???

>>86889892
40-50 million yeah

>>86889512
>The character of L and the the performance by Stanfield were by far the worst things in the movie. Humiliating cringe inducing/shit.

He was by far the most accurate character in this movie in terms of performance. He was just bogged down by a shitty script.

>The lead actor and actress were attractive/charismatic and had good chemistry

lol light looked like a dorky jew and Mia (misa) was the man in that relationship.

>>86886549
yes

>>86889930
Jesus Christ. 50 million for low budget movie.

>>86889802
>perfect genius with god complex and unemotional genius detective
How the fuck do weebs still think that characters like that can be introduced, fleshed out, made likeable AND believable in a 90 min product that even has to explain a condiluted, otherwordly concept like the DN in the meantime?
You already got your magic book and your Shinigami. Now you even want your bishonen flawless power fantasy spergs jammed in?
News flash: stoicism was never a western quality.

>>86889748
There are a lot of genuinely great moments and ideas in the original source, and they could have worked very well in a film adaptation but it's better if you think about them as part of a series that, at the end, took its six years or so to develop its narrative. We're talking about a less than a 2 hour movie here.

>>86889748
>>86889775
You're wrong the source material is kino as fuck

When Light killed the FBI agents he set up an elaborate plot to get the name of the one trailing him then got HIM to write the names of the other agents on a piece of the Death Note and revealed himself to the guy during his last few seconds before dying of a heart attack

Death Note is fucking kino and Netflix American plebeian dillitantes destroyed it

>>86886302
What did you expect from Polygon?

>>86889955
>How the fuck do weebs still think that characters like that can be introduced, fleshed out, made likeable AND believable in a 90 min product

Weebs, and any sane person that read the manga or watched the anime DID NOT WANT this. It was clear it would be a massive fuck up. If the live action jap movies are shit, a western adaptation couldn't be good.

Doesn't matter really, it'll be forgotten and left in the drawer with the rest of the anime adaptation films, next to the videogame adaptations drawer, all filled with shit

>>86886358
Honestly, I hate that Hollywood is dipping into anime, but these seems fairly creative and not just a total cash out. I probably won't watch it, but I'd choose this over ScarJo's GitS just from these clips alone.

>>86890056
>I'd rather someone shove razer blades up my asshole than cut my dick off
How about watching neither

>the real Light comes into view on a hospital bed one at the very end of the movie revealing his cunning plan

why did it take that fucking long, and to what end?

>>86890047
A lot of different angles and sides to their stories.

L carried the movie. Prove me wrong.

>>86889098

>why do japs like it so much

Because is unrealistic and a lot more appealing than normal hairstyles

Most Jap men still go for that stupid early Justin Beiber haircut

>>86890121
thats racist

>>86890121

He was the worst part of the movie - character and performance.

>>86890056

It's better than GiTS. GiTS had a really bad script (even basic shit that bad Arnie movies in the mid 80's could get right, like introducing characters and using them later in the movie, or three act structure etc) and REALLy bad direction (the guy simply can't direct narrative movies or actors, at all, in any shape).

This had okay performances, kinda, wasn't terribly directed. Just a garbage script/concept.

>>86889955
To be fair, bishounen flawless power fantasy sperging sounds pretty entertaining while a bit jarring. They honestly should've gone full Speed Racer with this film.

No one did. L was terrible, Turner's father was barley a character, Ryuk was also barely a character (you can tell the director didn't want to put him in there or that they changed the script that didn't have Ryuk in the movie), Mia was awful and everyone else was bad. Turner's actor was the worst actor in the movie by far though.

>>86889967
>You're wrong the source material is kino as fuck

The N saga was shit.

>hmmm who could x-kira be...
>*avatar mode*
>Aha! Mikami is x-kira!

>>86889942

His performance was embarrasing...BUT...I've seen him do really good stuff in other movies, so I'm guessing it's largely the character. I mean, that character was fucking horrendously bad. It was like something an edgy 12 year old fedora tipper would write.

>lol light looked like a dorky jew and Mia (misa) was the man in that relationship.

We...that's not inaccurate.

I wish they ditched the name "Light" too.

So, was the original Death Note concept too "smart" for the average Netflix user or something?

>>86890225

The black guy was the worst actor in the movie. I was literally laughing at how shit he was. It belonged in a Sharknado movie. The way he was grabbing candy and talking like a guy doing a parody of Genius Spergs was horrendous. It was like an SNL take on Jesse Eisenberg in Batman Vs Superman.

Don't even get me started on the way he fucking sat on chairs. The director should have fired him on the spot the minute he started doing that. Or the director should have been fired on the spot the minute he told him to start doing that.

>>86890228
Blame Shonen Jump. It's obvious that the author and artist wanted to end it around L's death, but they weren't allowed.

The creators of Death Note made another anime/manga series about a team of creators in the manga industry and one arc is literately them two trying to end Death Note and not being allowed to.

>>86890228
I agree it fell to shit after L died. It's common that manga publishers will force writers to keep going past their due-date if the series is a hit. The ending with Matsuda catching Light was still kino as fuck though.

>>86890218
Yep, if they made a 40-min-per-episode-series that could make you understand their psychology and different behavioural pattern.
In fact, Walter White from Breaking Bad is exactly that minus the bishonen part.

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>>86885693
L was not at all faithful, he made his moves off of anger and conjecture. The original L was too autistic to even consider that stuff.
Part of the intrigue in the manga was L and Light both searching for an absolute fact and locked in a stalemate. L for absolute proof and Light for L's name.

This movie was just writing that the keikaku happens into the magic book and yelling until Light reveals himself on his first encounter with L.
Also this film went out of its way to make sure we knew that the story was morally ambiguous, despite it being completely black and white with Kira being loved and killing no innocents and L being caring and loving Justice. Mia was evil.
The cinematography was decent and the use of color was impressive. I also loved the uncanny valley aspect of the whole thing.
But this movie had modern Disney Flick written all over it. I kept pausing to see how much longer I had to go.

>>86890288
He couldn't pull off that eccentric vibe because they made him look like a rapper. It worked in the Japanese movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb_VQ2AlA3k

>>86889955
It would be rather easy to portray Light as an extremely successful and popular student in the opening scene instead of as a loser who is bullied. It's all about perception of the character; the way it is now, it seems like Light was just lashing out because of his lot in life. His first kills are directly related to him as a person. Instead, they should have played up on the whole "he's truly doing this because he thinks he is making the world a better place" angle.

I feel that a scene in the middle of the movie where Light uses his intelligence would have gone a long way into making him seem more like the original Light as well. The way the movie went, it seemed like he was a kid in over his head until the very end where a rather complex plan comes out of no where.

As for L, all the screen time with him getting angry and stealing cars and smashing shit could have instead been used for other plans to attempt to learn Kira's identity, or a reaction to the intelligent move Light makes in the middle of the movie.

Basically they fucked up.

It's annoying that there were no clever schemes that anyone thought up or tried to foil and really only payed lip service to things covered in the original and didn't bother to explore any interesting concepts at all
feels very paint by numbers screenwriting
>>86890228
yes everyone knows the whole second half was just an awkward way to tie up the story.

Haven't watched it yet, is Light at least still an intelligent strategist or is he a complete beta wimp faggot?

>>86890411
He's a bastardized cuck, this shit is a fucking travesty

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>>86890297
Manga ending is more kino than anime ending

why did they even bother rewriting it?

>>86890411
Beta wimp that becomes an intelligent strategist after his girlfriend cucks him.

>>86890411
He only makes one strategic plan and its at the very end of the movie.

>>86890337

Damn, the guy playing L nails it

>>86890411
Ehh, he has the basic intelligence and balls of a real human, but if you look into his grand keikaku with any depth, its pretty shallow and more complicated than need be.

>>86890455
It's a complete asspull too.

>>86881436

I hahaha'd

Blade Runner gun.

>>86890441
They made it more empathic to avoid a fangirl riot. Merciless killing of a protagonist is too nihilistic for a TV show.

>>86889848
That's literally one of the only clever moves the made in the movie. She wanted to kill some feds, but didn't know who they all were, so she targeted someone who did and exploited the rules of the deathnote to her advantage.

Far and away better than the absurd ending shit Light pulled.

>>86890225
>Turner's father was barley a character
Couldn't take him seriously. Kept thinking of Bad Lieutenant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCg9zLCbhZ0

>>86890537
She never got the names and faces from him you fucking retard, they never even showed how she got his name, presumably he was carrying around his ID but how would she get the other names/faces without using his knowledge to write on the page itself

>>86890441
yeah it's good but the whole fake fake notebook thing was an asspull

>>86890719
the first guy had a badge
she then made him write rest of them down himself

>>86890719
>how would she get the other names/faces without using his knowledge to write on the page itself
That's exactly what she did, dipshit. Were you not even paying attention?

>>86889848
>a comic book ran in a magazine for children
Shounen manga extends to the late teens and adults read it too.

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Just finished it. Writing this while taking a post-movie shit.

I gotta admit I liked N just because he was so absolutely NOT how L is supposed to be like, at all. He sperged it to the max and it was pretty fantastically bad.

My boy Green Goblin gave off some decent vibes as Ryuk. If anyone fits the part of a weird death demon God, it's Dafoe (and I gotta admit the movie ripped a chuckle from me when Ryuk corrected Light on pronouncing his name).

Watari was a wasted character, Mia was somehow worse than the anime/manga, and the ending was somehow more convoluted than anything the original could ever hope to pull off.

I think this is the only time Ive ever given a shit about/agreed with people complaining about "muh white-washing". Its kinda important backstory-wise to be set in Japan.

Also, if you're gonna change up the story to have your characters be in America can we AT LEAST have a normal name for our main? Who in the ever loving penis gore fuck names their kid Light in America.

>>86890719
How come people miss shit in amerifat movies that spell out everything for you?

i couldnt get into this, that giorl and relation base was so starnge

>>86885919
Are you baiting? The tennis match was one of the most cringeworthy scenes in the anime

I liked it. L was more relatable and normal than in the anime, where he was too perfect and therefore unlikable and boring. Mia was hot. L did a good job. And the story wasn't as dragged out with arbitrary plot devices thrown in just to make the story longer. Plus it looked great.

But I can why someone who loved the anime would dislike this movie

For me it was a 7/10

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>>86890494
It's not the exact same. Mostly because it looks like some weird kinda revolver. Still, I want to know more.

>>86885388

>>Plot twist of thinking Ryuk is the antagonist when it was really Mia

I knew it was Mia the second it happened. Anyone who thought it was her is an idiot.

how many are they making?

>It's actually good
Is there any stopping Netflix?