So explain to me how is he not dead? And this bullshit about

>>86913154
That part didn't bother me as much. Ryuk can tell the difference between writing his name to try to kill him and writing his name down in the way it is there. In my head, that "don't trust Ryuk" bit he probably allowed to be written down just to see how the next owner of the notebook handles it. I know that's a complete stretch, I just think there are 1000 other things worse about this shitty movie.

>>86913693
>difference between writing his name to try to kill him and writing his name down in the way it is there

Can Ryuk read minds? What if the new owner writes "kill" in front of Ryuk's name there, could he stop them in time? Would that work from 2 different writers?

>>86913833
The rules of the book aren't very clear. Maybe you can't write names on the rule pages, therefore Ryuk has nothing to worry about when people write down shit on specific pages. He's not omnipotent and he can't read minds but he's pretty much always standing over Light's shoulder watching specifically what he is doing. Safe to say he'd have done that with the owner who wrote the "Don't trust Ryuk" shit. I imagine Ryuk was standing there watching the previous owner write that down and made some pithy snide comment about it, that's his style.

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The "rules" were all over the place, and didn't really seem to matter much to this movie.
In the original story, the book doesn't work on the demon it belongs to, so it would've been a moot point anyway.
Also, it was odd how they turned Ryuk into this generic, evil entity instead of the detached, completely neutral demon who didn't give a single shit about what Light did with the book.
That would've been a lot more interesting.
The movie was shit, but eh. Could've been much, much worse.