Death Note 2017

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And of course, you have people even here who think he got it coming or who try to downplay it. Great.

Was this movie good on it's own?

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According to many people, no.

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In my opinion, no.

I enjoyed it as its own strange thing. Im a fan of lame B-movies, though.

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Yeah the movie is rather inconsistent it becomes funny at times. It's one of those where you gather your friends with a drink and enjoy.

Haven't watched it (and won't do so, due to the backstage racism) but reaction seems to be pretty much mixed-to negative. To be fair to it, I'm kind of getting the feeling that the movie was going to get a negative reaction unless it was pitch-perfect between the Common Knowledge that US anime adaptations are shit, pre-release bad press (for legit reasons) and the way everybody reacted to the trailers and promotional material.

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All live action anime adaptations are shit not just American ones.

I don't know, I thought that one live-action Dororo movie was pretty good, even if it didn't cover everything in the manga.

The Rurouni Kenshin movies were pretty damn good, but that's about it as far as I recall.

edited 14th Sep '17 8:02:22 PM by Draghinazzo

Ace Attorney was good, in a kind of What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made on Drugs? kind of way.

Edge of Tomorrow was also pretty good.

I'm not crazy, just creatively different.

I have my fingers crossed for Battle Angel Alita.

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That was adapted from a novel. =[

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My bad, Since I read beforehand the manga version, I thought as such.

I'm not crazy, just creatively different.

Edge of Tomorrow was adapted more from the "All You Need Is Kill" (and I still think that's a f'n stupid title) manga than the novel version, but it ended up being more of its own thing due to the way it dealt with Rita Vrataski. Plus the whole aging up of the Keiji character to accommodate Tom Cruise, in his best role, of course.

I doubt it adapts the manga, since the film was announced in 2011 and the manga was made in 2014, around the time the movie came out…

But anyway, yeah, manga movies aren't usually that great. I do like the Japanese DN films though, despite the overacting and rather low budget.

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Just saw this. Comparing it to the anime: it's complete shit. They turned Light from a super genius into a fucking moron. The only one with any level of intelligence was Mia. Even L was stupid. He figured out Light was Kira, but only because Light was dumb.

On its own merits, it's still shit. Like I said, there's nothing special about Light in this version, so there's no psychological thrill of cat and mouse. It's just some idiot finds a killer book, and abuses it. And that's basically the whole plot. The psychological chase between L and Light is one sided. L is less a genius weirdo and instead comes off as more just weird. His origin story is stupid (abused to become the best detective, wtf?!). Ryuk was the only halfway redeeming factor of the entire movie, and even he wasn't that great.

Overall, it was a crappy movie that had the absolute minimal effort put in.

Edit: Something else that made no sense; how did the cops and such know which killings were Kira? In the anime it made sense since all the traceable deaths were a single cause; heart attack. In the movie, the deaths are random causes. So in this one, the cops just magically know which deaths are caused by Kira and which ones are just deaths. Then they try to make the dad all clever by figuring out Kira's first kill, even though there's no good reason the other cops shouldn't have figured it out. The whole thing is shit.

edited 16th Sep '17 1:28:42 PM by washington213

The thing is Light signed every crime, but instead having a signature method, the killings are all random. The only reason they got any headway is because Light is a fucking idiot.

L's deductions here also feel far less like brilliant conclusions from a defined methodology, and more like him just winging it and happening to be right.

^It was like that in the show sometimes too. But usually he was smart.

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We also got to see more of L's methods and the process by which he came to certain conclusions. Also he was constantly re-running scenarios in his head over and over again in order to be as sure as possible.

And at least the manga's Near arc still had that!

Although I share most negative opinions here, I do want to point out something positive: Defoe's performing was spot on. He did a great Ryuk. And the choice of not showing Ryuk clearly was very well thought, one thing the live action Japanese movies have bad (well to be fair a lot of thing are bad, but that's another matter) is having a ridiculous looking CGI cartoon running around, it looks like Roger Rabbit.

L's actor was good, he was putting an effort. As many reviewers pointed out if the made a spin-off set in the same Death Note universe with new characters probably the backlash would be less harsh. It still suck, but won't be as offensive and could even be interesting.

In any case, this and Ghost in the Shell bombing I hope it makes Hollywood re-think next time they adapt an anime.