Death Note 2017

I thought it was neat. I mean, it basically had nothing to do with Death Note other than that L was in it and gets to be really bold on account of the fact that his impending death by Death Note effectively makes him immortal for the timespan he has to work with.

Which could also make him a Boring Invincible Hero, mind you.

But all in all, it was neat. Nothing spectacular, but decent.

edited 3rd Oct '17 6:54:38 PM by TobiasDrake

Well I bought the movies. Now just to wait for them to get here.

I think it's a major improvement over the anime.

I never much cared for the original anime and this is a much better use of the premise. I.e. a sociopathic genius is less interesting to be given a Instant Murder Device TM than a normal person. It's not anime Kira but more like Peter Parker and I liked that a lot more.

It's Peter Parker if he had no common sense and was informed genius.

Having rewatched the Death Note anime relatively recently, I think that this movie's version of Light is a more interesting concept than the manga/anime one, but Movie!Light is still hampered by bad writing and poor acting.

What he said.

I would have liked a more normal, sympathetic Light, but this version was neither that nor the anime version. He was a obnoxious middling mess.

The 2015 live-action TV show did the whole "sympathetic Light" and his subsequent fall into darkness surprisingly well, IMO. The netflix version just tried to absolve the character of all guilt while shifting the blame to Mi(s)a.

It's Peter Parker if he had no common sense and was informed genius.

I think he acted really believably, throughout. God knows if I had a Magic Book, I'd show it to the girl I liked immediately because that's what you do when you're trying to impress someone in high school who is a bit cooler than you.

"Hey, Becky, check out this magic book that can kill literally anyone. Do you like me now?"

Again....people really think that wouldn't happen?

Well, outside of really stupid teenagers, which isn't the most relatable group of people. Proving it requires killing someone, which probably would scare any non-sociopaths.

I dunno, I think in America you'd definitely have just about any teenager use it to kill someone they believed was evil. When Death Note first came out, a typical discussion would be, "Would you use it to kill Osama Bin Ladin?"

Which is another good change as they're killing the world's worst dictators and people in the remake versus local criminals.

There's a difference between discussing what you'd do with a Death Note and actually meeting someone with one. For starters, the former means you'd be in possession of it and not be at the whims of someone who can use it to threaten you.

Eh, it's monumentally stupid. However, in real life, plenty of people in my school talked about how they were drug dealers and involved in organized crime. At 17, anything you do that's cool is something you share to impress people because you're stupid at 17. But that's just my memory of it.

Here's my review.

http://unitedfederationofcharles.blogspot.com/2018/03/death-note-2017-review.html

8/10

edited 13th Mar '18 6:18:42 PM by CharlesPhipps

Common sense and Peter Parker have never been the closest of friends.

True, but I'm fairy certain that if he got the Death Note, he wouldn't show it to Mary Jane to get into her pants.

Same guy who sold his marriage to the devil. You sure?

Not really the same thing. Something like revealing he's Spider-Man to Mary Jane to get into her pants as well as introducing her as his girlfriend to his rogues gallery type of stupid. The deal is more "irresponsible man-child" than "horny teenage sociopath" .

The Garfield version told Gwen after one date.

I admittedly didn't watch the Garfield version, but does he do it to coast on his own fame or is he just stupidly trusting?

edited 14th Mar '18 8:12:13 AM by Ikedatakeshi

Stupidly trusting.

Actually, that's one of the most intelligent things any version of Peter has done.

And then she died.

But then the universe reset.

And she ceased existing.

You presume she never would have died if Peter hadn't revealed himself to her? Because that didn't save Gwen in the comics. At least the movie version gave Gwen the informed choice of whether or not she wanted to be with a man who incurs the wrath of super powered killers.