I feel like an American Death Note movie could have been could if they decided to set it a few years later Ryuk was bored and decided to drop it in the U.-S. instead of Japan for fun. Then the director could have unlimited creative freedom and write his own death note story.
Honestly, I think that would have been the best way to handle this movie. Every review I have listened to has brought up how one of the biggest draws was the chess game between L and Light. This just isn’t that. Having a new person with the Deathnote being tracked down by Near (or another L prodigy) would have been far more compelling.
In fairness the school not giving a shit about his health and only caring that he broke some academic rules has got to be the most realistic part of this movie.
I mean, when mass shooters occour.. why do they not expected it from kids who have been bullied and ignored by the those who are supposedly in charge of protecting them from other students?
Some teachers care but I’ll never forget when a kid I went to school with got told to kill themselves by another kid who was their best friend who abruptly ended the friendship without reason. The kid actually tried to commit suicide and got hospitalized and then the school didn’t do anything to punish the student who told their ex best friend to kill themselves but also refused to let the kid transfer out of the classes they had together. So this kid had to go to school everyday for the last quarter of their senior year and see someone who spread rumors about them and told them to kill themselves while being expected to do well in school and possibly missing out on graduation if they didn’t perform well 💀
It's becoming a trend now a days. First Amanda talking about the movie that doesn't exist and then I heard other youtuber talking about something called The Last Airbender Movie which obviously doesn't exist.
I find it funny how Netflix’s light didn’t kill his dad because “ooooh he’s my dad I can’t” yet I kid you not in the anime I’m pretty dang sure Light was about to wack his whole ass family because they were getting in the way
@@levistea174 This is, not correct AT ALL. Light in the anime had NO plans to kill his father, he actually SABOTAGED himself when a situation arose where he might have to kill his sister, and his mother didn't really get involved with all this, actually. Light's plan got screwed up and his father was killed by Mello, Light had NOTHING to do with it, no hand in it, this actually RUINED his plans. He states earlier in the series if he HAD to kill his own family, he would, but it's framed very clearly as a worst case scenario. When his father dies Light then expresses genuine grief as he DOES love his family. People often frame Light as an emotionless sociopathic crazy murder fetishist (like Hisoka with a more normal fashion sense) but that's not true. He's an idealist that has a specific goal, believes genuinely this is the BEST path to take, and strives to take that path no matter the cost to himself or those that choose to get involved or especially in his way. He is actually quite similar to Doctor Doom. Doom is ONLY trying to take over the world because he's convinced the ONLY future in which humanity survives is one where he has absolute control of the world. And he's actually right, by the way. The Wakandan Panther God said so. Light is doing things we determine are bad because it'll lead to the ultimate good. Total world peace with NO crime. To him, that's worth ANY price and anyone that would stand in the way of that is evil. Also like Doom he DOES have quite the ego, which makes sense when you think about it he's pretty awesome, and it's actually that flaw and his becoming more distant to other people due to his laser focus on his plans, that ends up costing him his victory.
@@levistea174 I’d have to disagree with him caring more in the manga. While he showed emotion when his dad died, we saw very little grief otherwise and - while he worries when his sister is kidnapped - that worry is concentrated on Mello having a Death Note. I don’t think Light cared enough for his family, although we see hints of care. In my opinion, it was nowhere near enough
Honestly Ryuk and L are the best parts of this movie. L's actor was just under spectacularly poor direction. But every place where he had the freedom of his own interpretation, he did excellently.
I still don't get how L would have thought the page would kill someone. If you find a page of dead people's name, you would just think it is a kill list.
He also doesn't know how it works, the rest of the death note isn't there so he doesn't have any of the rules, so he has NO BASIS for thinking just writing his name will do ANYTHING. As far as he knows you need to do some ritual to make it work or just a page won't do anything at all. Also why isn't L in jail? He chased someone who the COPS believe is just an innocent school boy around town with a GUN, assaulting several people while he was at it.
Exactly, that's why in the original story he never suspects the notebook until he sees it working first hand, he easily deduces that Kira needs a face and a name to kill (When he gets Light to kill Lind Taylor), and who Kira most likely is (When he realizes Kira is stealing classified info from the police and has a studen'ts schedule), so all that he has left to do is figure out how Kira does it, while Light is stuck trying to discover who L is for a munch longer time and essentially would have never been able to do so if not for L presenting himself to him. Even when L is sure Light and Misa are Kira and that Light somehow transferred his power to Higuchi he still does not know how the power itself works, and it isn't until Higuchi himself reveals it publically and L meets Rem after touching the second note that he finds out. This dumb movie meanwhile just has him assume a random piece of paper has magical powers to kill, it's an insane conclussion to pull from nowhere.
They did my boy L so dirty. L was so calm, level headed, quirky, and so smart. He would have never confronted Kira that way, he would have never been so erratic and just straight up tell Light he thought he was Kira right off the bat.
I mean, he was always pretty open with the percentage he thought Light was Kira, and would tell it to his face, but he would heighten or lower it as a power play to try and scare him. It was a move in their battle of wits. The fact that it was fairly honest of how he was always fairly sure from the beginning that he had the right man was to make Light antsy, not to warn him.
It's even more tragic when you look at the actor who played L. He was super thrilled to get the role- he read and studied the Mangas and animes, just to get handed this absolutely dogshit script.
To be fair Manga/ anime L died before he could witness Watari's demise Here he finds ojt watari is already gone and i'm assuming the two having been close L Loses all composure and decides ve doesn't want to play the waiting game anymore
This movie really would have worked better as a spin-off, a "what if" scenario. "What if the Death Note landed in America and wound up in the hands of a disturbed teen who is a borderline school shooter" or something. They might as well have just done this since angsty, bullied tryhard version of Light in the movie is such a different character from the genius student/sometimes police advisor version of Light from the source material. The only good thing about this movie is it got me to watch the original series right after as a palette cleanser.
You should track down and watch the Japanese films, then. Not only are they miles better than this film, but I'd dare say that they're better than the anime.
@@galeforce3192 I wouldn't say better but as far as Live action adaptations of animated source materials go, they sure were the best made ones I've seen so far. The TV drama they made was decent too.
Ha! American producers wouldn't want to do it. It's racist now. Why's the Japanese Light gotta be smart and badass and why's the American Light gotta be the dumbass? I still think your idea is awesome though. This should have been a "What if..." spin off.
@@daoyang223 well it wouldn't be Light in that scenario, it would be a new character in a spin-off with only the general lore setting kept the same as the original. If they had a little more self awareness they would've gone this route and we might've enjoyed it, but now...
You could tell immediately that they fucked up Light when they had him just carry around the death note instead of hiding it in the hidden compartment at the bottom of his drawer. It's been years since I read the manga/watched the anime, and I still remember how he did that and used a slip of paper in his doorway to trick people into thinking that was his only way of knowing whether someone had been in his room (when in fact it was the position of the door handle). Stuff like that was what really made me believe Light was a genius. On the other hand, the Netflix version just has characters say Light's a genius while having him act like a reckless idiot. :/ If you have time and haven't seen them already, you should check out the Japanese live-actions. They're old and have pretty bad CG, but they're more faithful as adaptations and overall a lot better than the Netflix version.
I just finished the 2006 live action adaptations. Yeah, the CGI isn’t great, but at least they respected most of the story. The Netflix adaptation was just boring and rage-inducing
@@kalystagutierrez1607 Yeah, he had a piece of paper so people would see that and replace it, but had a stick of mechanical pencil graphite in the door way as well. He’d look for it, and if it was broken on the floor it meant someone had gone in
For me it was his initial reaction to Ryuk. Light shitting his pants was so completely out of character I had to take a break and pause the movie while I bust a gut laughing.
Because it's always a teen drama of white nerdy boy getting with hot white cheerleader maybe bad girl. I think the best teen movies america made was mean girls and easy A. Everything else is truly shit
@@Needler13 heathers, jennifer's body, the breakfast club, juno, ferris bueller's day off, almost famous, kick-ass, scott pilggrim, donnie darko, the half of it, dead poet's scoiety if that counts. and much more. there are a lot of good teen movies in hollywood. a lot of them are considered classics. hollywood is full of shit movies. but there are tons of good movies as well. don't cherry-pick the two and then say "everything else sucks".
@@disgsteng6755 I agree, but I think breakfast club doesn't hold up. The one girl had a make over and suddenly the other guy falls for her, and that's her story. Wow, really great getting a guy after leaving everything behind that made you, you. (tbf, it's been a few years since I watched it - maybe it isn't that bad. But like, I watched it as a teen and was interested in her story arc and it was shit. I never had to urge to watch the movie again)
L (in the movie): "Kira spared the chief and that is how I know that Light is Kira." L (in the anime): "The chief didn't die and the real Kira that I know would kill his own dad if he was in the way of his mission." Wtf.
12:35. "Criminals are turning themselves in to avoid death". Yeah! Good idea. It's not like KIRA would ever kill a criminal who is in prison. Big brain thinking!
My son, a huge fan of the anime, watched almost ten minutes of the movie - then, turned off the t.v. and walked out of the room in silence. Me: "No good?" Him: "[expletive]"
I reached 30 minutes (while stopping to write notes on how shit it was, got a loooooooooong .txt file out of this) and then couldn't take it anymore. This movie is atrocious shit.
Light's mom is dead in this adaptation? Why? I thought the entire point of Light is that he's a normal (albeit extremely intelligent) boy from a normal family, who is a self-righteous monster.
I mean, Light was always kind of a sociopath, too. He was just really good at keeping up a normal appearance. The dude literally only had a girlfriend because having one was good for his image. He was a great character~
@@xinf3ctdx Exactly! He grew up in extremely normal circumstances, no traumatic events pushed him into becoming Kira. He became Kira because he wanted to.
@@6895Anna nothing? The notebook is CONFIRMED to have pushed him into to. Hell when he goes back to normal briefly its proven. He isnt even willing to manipulate a girl for the greater good. It isnt some black and white "yay hes a sociopath" story
@@dakotablount251 Ryuk said that when others got the notebook they would try it once, and then not do it again. Light got it and decided to freaking go for it.
"I'll take a potato chip (heavy breathing) and EAT IT!" 100% the most iconic line other than "it's all going according to kekaku (translation note: kekaku means plan)"
@@Zetamen7 Fansubs were my salvation in the pre-streaming era, where you depended on tv channels and licensing. Especially for those outside of the main markets like me.
@@Zetamen7 Y'all are talking as if fansubs aren't a thing anymore. There are still a ton of niche series that never get an overseas license and rely on fans to sub them :)
Willem Dafoe as Ryuk is literally the only good thing about this movie Edit: I had no idea this comment was gonna get seen like this. Pretty sure this means I own the Death Note. Now, I'll take this chip...AND EAT IT
Well, there's is the "Los Angeles B.B Murder case" novel starring Naomi Misora. (...which is a recount by L that was told to Mello (who is the story's narrator) yet is also told from a first-person perspective by Misora... J-just roll with it.) While the story doesn't contain the Death Note itself, being set in America, I think it would have been a good entry point for a western audience. (Instead of retreading the same story over and over and watching it fail.)
What if it was a live action movie that took place in the anime series after the end of the anime? We see all the aftermath of what happened past the anime series and instead of a knock off Light getting the death note, a Kira worshipper gets the death note. When the worshipper starts to use the death note they make one of the victims say that “Kira has arisen” or something. Also in this idea it isn’t Ryuk that drops the notebook, but instead that shinigami that we see (that according to fan theories is Light himself reincarnated) pulling the strings of the worshipper, kind of like what Ryuk does in this
"Never 👏🏻 waste 👏🏻 Willem Dafoe!!!" Truer words have never been spoken! I honestly got giddy the moment I found out he was gonna voice the Shinigami, but... *sigh* sad ):
An important thing that makes Light untranslatable as a character, is that there are pretty clear "elite" routes in japanese education, so his peers treat him as if he had already landed a job with a senator or a fast track position in some big corporation and also finished that career. Obviously most people don't, but that's how his type of character is treated. The japanese version of the nerd/geek stereotype is closer to wasted potential and an obsesive consumer that won't achieve anything. Just like the japense "jock" stereotype is a cool dude that's a bit too serious and straight forward, you can't translate japanese cliches to 80's movie cliche one for one.
Then just make him an honour student? Elite tracks exist all over the world. Say he skipped a grade, say he's taking higher course exams instead of just Core classes.
@@ButterflyScarlet In Japan your test scores determine which schools you can go to for every phase of your education. Your elementary test scores determine which middle schools are available to you, your middle school scores determine which high schools. When I lived there, I remember regularly watching on the news how some kid killed themselves because they didn't get the scores they needed for the future they wanted. School in Japan in crazy stressful, and this is from someone who lived on a military base and went to a DOD school so even though I was IN Japan, I had no real concept of the stress of being a Japanese student. Just seeing it as an outside observer gave me anxiety. I can't imagine actually living it.
I mean you could have set this in like Havard or Yale and have him be a law student that just about every law firm was hungry for and be extremely popular cuz he was friendly, helpful to his fellow classmates and just were a natural with understanding the law, proposing legal arguments, etc. Like the guy-kid from Suits, just MORE naturally skilled.
Yeah definitely he's a fantastic actor (my favourite actor after Robert Pattinson) and definitely has the L vibes , him and Willem were actually well casted kind of disappointing how much the script let them down
Yeah I really hate how terrible directing and stories haunt actors, and their careers, FOR YEARS. As well as editing and producers’ decisions giving directors a *HUGE* strike on _theirs_ for sometimes very VERY long. A++ historíes be dammed!
Probably off to "enjoy" some other crappy adaptation, thinking that being a contrarian and liking crappy things means they're smart. They're not "fans". They likely don't even remember this adaptation as they're looking for "trendy" new things to ruin for everyone else.
SPOILER ALERT: Well he's not Light Yagami, he's Light Turner. They should have made this movie about what happened after Yagami died. You know, like the NEXT Kira
@@AmandaTheJedi That kind of bothered me though! That they set this Japan-based story into a stereotypical American high school, and didn't think there may be some cultural changes in the story? They just made Light Turner a weeb who chooses his own alias name because IT MEANS LIGHT IN JAPANESE WOOOOW
Light turner? This is more of a fairly odd parents movie than a death note movie. Think about it, the book has Da Rules and Ryuk can act without the books permission sometimes. He has a black haired girl who is a bit crazy chasing after him. L was more like Crocker than the source L.
ah yes. The iconic "lets turn light and L, very confident, intelligent and strong characters, into screaming cowards who run away and don't actually think with their brains" my favourite. oh and the lovely "lets turn misa. a airheaded, Light-obsessed girl. Into a manipulative. Intelligent girl"
I think part of the problem is that original Death Note is really Japanese so when you remove the culture you take a relevant chunk of the spirit with it.
I tried to give it that too, but it only works so far. Changing the names, changing Mia to just cheerleader instead of a pop star (pop stars are not as culturally revered in America) but the concessions can only go so far. The way they turned her into a sociopath, removing the genius aspect and cocky self-confidence/god complex of Light, and numerous other pitfalls just have no excuses. There's a lot they could have done to Americanize it while staying true to the source material (fanboys would be pissed but we'd have a good movie), but they just choose to create a steaming pile of garbage instead.
I thought they were going to make an american supernatural thriller when I heard about it. That for me sounded like a much better idea. Then I heard they were casting the original characters and was baffled at the decision of changing their cultural backgrounds. It wasn't that L was black, but if you are going to do a somewhat "faitful" adaptation, why don't you represent people that are already underrepresented in american media?
@Jan Michael Vincent it makes perfect sense. Light being top of his class is a core part of his character. Intelligence and doing well in school are respected in Japan. Conversely, American teens view being studious as being "lame, boring, nerdy, etc" and those kids are regularly bullied. Hence why they changed him from the self important genius, respected by everyone, to the nerd who does other people's homework, with no self respect and still gets beat up. He's looking for approval, which is the stereotype Americans expect to see in that character set up. That's just the most obvious change, but there a many more culturally relevant changes that were made as an attempt to make the film more palatable for its "brainless American audience." Incidentally, when you give people a chance, most of them tend to not be as brainless as the moronic Hollywood execs think. Every anime is inherently linked culturally to Japan. Idioms, behaviors, social class, and the list goes on. It's one of the things that makes adapting anime to a wide American audience difficult. It's not impossible, you just have to subvert ingrained stereotypes and be creative...which, if we look back on the last few decades worth of unwanted remakes and unnecessary sequels, Hollywood would have you believe is nigh impossible.
This movie got me to watch the anime, so at least there's one good thing. Originally based on the description I thought Death Note was about typical anime teen protagonist getting revenge on like high school bullies (pretty much everything the movie did) not this methodical game off cat and mouse, and a morally grey presentation of scarfing rights and due process for safety.
@@Raktasdelespacio the anime IS a cat and mouse game between Light and L. That is what made it good, the whole death note aspect was just the setting for the cat and mouse game of who gets who first. In fact, high school was hardly a thing in the anime, Light graduated fast and Mia was used as a pawn in the chess game against L. That is why when L eventually loses it kinda went downhill with the second L coming in. Whole show was a detective show against a serial killer with powers.
@@Raktasdelespacio Yeah I just read a really vague write up of the show like " A teenage boy finds a magic notebook that kills anybody whose name he writes in it" and I'm a little apprehensive when it comes to animes about teens. While light being a teenager is important, it's not for bullies and the high school drama BS. It's cause L uses it to help track him, it's cause of how Light uses students as tools or props, it's cause of how being a student restricts Light's actions.
@@fleacythesheepgirl if you watch the show he doesn't stay in high school long. Literally is only in high school for a bit and then he graduates and that is when L introduces himself to Light to try to make him go "I know it's you but I have zero proof but I'll be on you like white on rice till you make a mistake". Literally a cat and mouse chase between the two when they are close to one another to the point they can be called best friends. So yeah, for those who haven't seen the show, he doesn't stay in high school long. The show is much longer than his high school arc and he doesn't even meet Mia until he's in college and working with the cops.
@@Needler13 technically isn’t the second “L” Light himself? Lol I know what you mean though, but there was still 2 that came in to replace L after he died, but one of them died fairly quickly if you ask me. At least in the anime, I can’t really speak for the manga since I don’t have the whole collection of them yet
I will never be tired of watching death note fans be rightfully mad about this pile of trash movie. If they wanted to make an americanised version of this concept, they should've chosen all new characters and then at least stuck to the rules of the book. This just made me mad. They completely ruined both light and L.
I love how the original Death Note series explores the themes of vigilante justice, the concept of crime and morality, presents a subtle dig at the harsh control of the Japanese justice system and most importantly; how vital it is to keep it all this crazy stuff secret because hey kid, you're killing a LOT of people here. All with a big supernatural bow around an admittedly lame concept of just writing names down in a notebook. And it all works. All I could scrape from the American version? "Teenage Lust and Peer Pressure BAD" Talk about a step down. :/
Everyone remembers the potato chip scene, but i think the comedy comes before it. Because the only reason Light felt confident that he could put the little TV in the bag was because becuase he purposly bought a flavor of chips his family didn't like. As someone with siblings, I assure you this plan would never work. Even if they didn't like the chips, someone would have opened the bag and eaten a few.
It works the first time you buy the flavor and depends on age usually. My siblings know I'll never open a bag of spicy flavored chips or anything because I hate them. I don't eat spicy foods.
You know why they ignored the heart attack deaths, they barely made the complicated deaths interesting, so I can only see bad heart attack acting had they done it.
I haven't watched this since it came out but I remember being convinced of 3 things. 1 - they basically gendered swapped Light and Misa, 2 - DaFoe and the actor who played L were only ones who even partially watched the source material (arguably Mia too, I guess), and 3 - the school dance existed solely to put Light Turner in a top hat for some reason
Death Note is a story about brilliant minds facing off against each other, a true battle of wits! This movie is not that, this is nothing but a low budget love song to final destination.
whats ironic about that is that this had a 40 - 50 million dollar budget, mainly so it was able to finally get off the ground after 10 years of development hell, so it was fairly expensive and it seems like Netflix got its money back. fuck.
@_Sunniibunnii wingard says the final cut was just under 30 million, but even so netflix clearly spent more money on than that and what was even needed
Ah Death Note *war flashbacks to me dressing up as L for character day during spirit week and no one knowing who it was and thinking I was Samara from the ring*
For my very first convention, I cosplayed BB from the DN spin-off novel (my prop was a jar of strawberry jam) Needless to say, no one recognized me. And looking back, I'm glad no one did.
@@dawnwayfinder I think I carried around suckers with me. And I got lots of compliments even when I explained who I was (I grew up in western Kansas, no one had a clue lmao). But I still have lots of random moments of cringe because It wasn’t a good cosplay at all, haha.
to your point about adaptations not being faithful but still being good: Howl's Moving Castle chucks out most of the themes and plot of the book becoming something completely different but excellent in it's own way.... like the best fan fic ever conceived.
The scene with the Kira supporter hitting L in the head was actually kinda interesting. I would’ve loved to see more of the supporters and how far they would’ve been willing to go for Kira. It is such an interesting concept that could’ve been used in a way that was different from the original It’s my favorite scene from the movie (and basically the only scene I kinda like) just bc it actually brings something kinda new to the table that isn’t fully terrible written
Mia is Light and Light somehow manages to be a more annoying version of Misa. I LIKED Misa, she was funny, quirky and kind of dumb, but she had her moments like with Higuchi. I felt so bad for her tbh. Mr. Turner here on the other hand is just annoying and boring af.
5:05 That scene isn't to show that Edward is smart, it's a flex of his ability to read minds. The teacher asked a question and had a specific answer in mind. Edward just read the teacher's mind and said it aloud. Anime Light actually was the best student in his school and knew English. He was able to translate what was written in Japanese into English without needing to pay attention because of his language skills (which needed to be established since the Deathnote was written in English and landed in Japan).
Look my brain is just so polluted with Twilight that if something parallels even slightly and lines up, my brain goes there. Though Edward is smart and knows a lot, but a lot of that has to do with the sheer number of times he'd be covering the same material over the years. Light is essentially a genius, which I mention early on in this video
Ryuk was basically the comic relief in the original series. Among other things, he's got an apple addiction (yes, seriously), and in a 4koma he spooks Light making him believe he'll want his soul as a present- but no, he just asks for a gameboy. He could be scary when he acted seriously, but they made him a much flatter character in the movie.
I honestly would have been fine with this being a parody and fully committing to comedy. Even if the great majority of fans were upset with it, at least it didn't try to be serious.
Thanks for that life tip, I was about to go steady with this girl. But after you said that I realize she was just with me for my murder book. Thanks for saving me from the trouble of going through a whole thing.
Wait, L should've been able to see Ryuk if he touched the Death Note, because (if my memory doesn't fail me) he's bound to follow the Note's new owner. And the only way to stop being the owner is a) resigning or b) dying. Also how about timing deaths? Or the inmates who left messages in code for L before dying? Talking about wasted potential, smh.
Iirc just touching it lets you see the shinigami regardless of ownership. The entire L investigation squad touched the book on the highway and could see the shinigami and I don't believe they were considered owners, but losing ownership does wipe your memory and the ability to see them though. Hope someone will correct me if I got any of that wrong, its been a good decade since I visited the material haha.
They just got rid of that entirely. In the movie it doesn't matter who touches the death note, only Light can see Ryuk because he's the owner. Why? I don't know, they're idiots.
@@Lugen101 Your points are actually expressed in the show. Light uses a piece of paper to make the bus hijacker see Ryuk. Causing a panic. When light gives up the notebook he hunts down the new Kira until he gets the book back with L right beside him.
This kind of feels like they tried to make a bad remake of the Death Note Drama, not the anime/manga. In the drama, Light did have a dead mom, strained relationship with his Dad, and didn't have a perfect life.
I can't believe Amanda hired all these actors to make a fake movie just for this video. And she didn't even wait for aprils fools to post it! Guess she needed to get her money back early.
I also would like to point out that the death not being averted rule is gone into more in the movie L Change the World and it's novella. This takes place in an alternate universe where L won but at the sacrafice of having few days of survival by writing his name in the notebook himself. In it L burns the Death Notes and Ryuk reminds him that this won't change anything. To which L responds with the amount of time he has left to live. They clearly didn't look into the source material well enough.
Around 16:30 I'm fairly certain that it's mentioned in the original series/manga that the other shinigami would write each other's names in the death note because they knew nothing would happen
My fianceé and I watched this movie together after having just finished watching the anime. Despite how many hits Netflix has had this was an absolute miss.
Oh god YES! Give me the Celtic fairies and traditional vampires! Supernatural beings with law, rules, and if we invoke certain demonic mythology (say djinn?) contracts! Or watch fairy odd parents lol
When I first started watching death note my favourite episode was the Naomi one, I thought Naomi was a really likeable character and Even though Light somehow gained Naomi’s trust and killed her, I still wanted to see what Light would do next. And in this movie....I wanted to through everything in my sight at my TV
What bugs me is that they used the name "Kira" in this version that is set in the western side of the world. "Kira" means "killer" in Japanese (and not spelt that way), but in the western side of the world "Kira" is just a common name. Would most westerners know what "Kira" means...despite it not being spelt (or pronounced in the movie) as it would be in Japanese, but rather in English? I am baffled. Light should have used a different name...since he is American, not Japanese. If I was American and saw the name "Kira," I would be picturing a woman. But what confuses me more is why would Light himself use that name and spell it like this: "Kira." I would have spelt it in Japanese...like the manga did. Or maybe Light is stupid and thinks "Kira" is how they spell it in Japanese. Also, another thing that is weird is that there is way too few deaths for the police to get involved and be sure one thing is responsible. America has WAY more people than Japan. In the original manga, one the ways of how the police started to get curious of the case of Kira was the number of deaths in relation to the national average in Japan. Not to mention that all the deaths were via heart attacks. In this movie, there are no consistent deaths. If I was the police, I would "brush these off" as accidents that don't relate to one another. That is what bugged me, along with almost everything else in this movie. I see it as a "turn your brain off" type movie. Honestly, I would mistake it for a parody. If it was marketed as a parody, I would love this movie very much. They wasted Willem Dafoe, though. What a great Ryuk, in my opinion.
The movie indeed has so much problems even just regarding the deaths... The gangs in Japan being the biggest example: how did they die? The Death Note specifically states that you can't make someone kill another person through it, so why was there a shootout between the 2 gangs? And if there wasn't a shootout and it was actually some kind of disguised mass suicides, why are the prostitutes dead? Were they all somehow criminals whose name was reported through the media? All the methods of killings are different, and we know Light has only killed about 400 people and those are in the whole world. There is nothing to even investigate, and all the conclusions that L and James (Light's dad) make are whispered to them by the author. How does L know that Kira is in Seattle? "Only broadcasted in the region" yeah... except Light just went on google and searched "live crime scene", absolutely anyone from around the world could have seen this, it was basically a coincidence that Light was actually in Seattle.
I love Nat Wolff. He's a great actor. It's kind of sad that he's now associated with this movie. It's kind of like how people only know Joey King for The Kissing Booth even though she's been in much better movies.
@Charmiskit and that Gypsy Rose bio pic...and White House Down...I hope the girl has a good therapist cause she has done some HEAVY roles for someone so young...
I was so infuriated by the fact that everyone in my high school was obsessed with this and had no clue what the actual anime was. It honestly pissed me off so much 😂
Speaking of Death Note adaptations, It would be amazing to hear your thoughts about the Death Note musical - it's a miracle such a thing even exists, and it's much, much better than it has any right to be. It knows that it can't fully recreate the cat and mouse game during its short runtime, so it uses the music to focus more on character feelings and the broad themes of the story. It's a little goofy in parts, but it does do some things the anime didn't, and it does them surprisingly well (ex: the Rem and Misa relationship, Light's relationship with his sister, Light's more complex opinions on injustice, the meaning of humanity). In my opinion, it also has a much more satisfying ending than the anime. The story behind its creation is also pretty interesting, and even though it wasn't fully released in English (there are a few subtitled versions online) the English concept album had some pretty big names in it and is pretty damn catchy. P.S. the Rem actress kills it
This movie doesn't just do a poor job of adapting the source material, it's just a badly made movie in general, the writing is all over the place, the acting is trash, none of the characters are likable, and the movie comes off as trying too hard to be edgy with the over the top deaths and having the characters curse like drunken sailors. If the movie was at the very least competently made, I could at least acknowledge it as a decent movie on its own merits, but this movie doesn't even stand on its own merits unfortunately.
even though the film sucked, William Dafoe as Ryuk was hands down a perfect choice for casting, his sinister, creepy and sneaky voice mixed in with his macabre sense of humour was top notch and it gave me Vibes of his role as the Green Goblin from Spiderman.
I think Dafoe was the only person who watched the anime. At the very least he watched some scenes with Ryuk because he very clearly was trying to embody the character. It's such a shame it was wasted.
@@Amarianee i agree, he captured the attitude really well and even to some degree threw in his own twist on him. Even the cgi looked good on him, its a shame they put more effort into Ryuk than the rest of the cast. It makes me wonder who else was considered for the roll of ryuk.
@@Amarianee The guy who played L probably watched at least some of it too. He has Ls weirdo mannerisms down pretty well in the scenes that allowed it. It's just the material they gave him to work with sucked.
@@MsLilly200 Lakeith mentioned in an interview he was either a fan of the source material or he did at least did his due diligence and researched for the part. I'd have to look it up to see.
I thought he was a bit too sinister for my taste. In the anime, he can be a disturbing presence but he's also quite funny, pulls jokes and tricks. He's like a giant sorta evil puppy. Movie Ryuk is like a wolf luring in prey.
Well, Probably Evolution was the worst of these, but The Last Airbender was the biggest let down, considering the budget, marketing, hype, and quality of the source material. All three suck balls in any case.
The first kill in the movie was more a parody of final destination death scenes than genuine death note stuff. That’s as far as I watched, because I was laughing so hard as the camera whipped around at all the different shit that could’ve killed him lmaoooo he finally died when a ladder on top of a utility van skewered his head off. It felt like I was watching ome of those RUclips video where some one made a really long dominoes train with like strings and Legos and like toy cars throughout their house. The horror of watching someone drop dead at the flick of a pen was completely lost in an instant. Still haven’t finished that movie lol
That reminds me of when I was in middle school, I got really into Deathnote. My dad got me as a surprise my own deathnote, with a feather pen and a necklace with L's logo. I felt so cool carrying it around, lol
@@thearchitect813 Because, say it with me, they're not real. Man this weird conspiracy theory about live action anime movies being real has grown out of hand.
Dragon Ball Evolution was so bad that it was B A D ! But Death Note was so bad that it was forgettable. Thanks for reminding me of its cursed existence! ಠ_ಠ
I never saw any of those films, but at least I saw the occasional jab at DBE and the live-action TLA as time went on. It wasn't until I saw this in my subscription feed that I was like "oh, right, this was a thing." I'm honestly not sure how to feel about that.
The first Silent Hill movie hits that ‘not an exact recreation of the source material, but captures the spirit’ thing going for it. It’s not bad and you can tell the director was a fan of the games. We don’t talk about the second one
Amanda, I love the way you talk about things, your production, your persona, your energy, your perspectives, your use of music, they all part of why you are HELLA dope! You are smart and interesting and funny on a level that I don't even have to know what you are talking about to enjoy your descriptions and insights about whatever it is that you are expounding on. I love your videos! You're HELLA cool, HELLA awesome, and I love you!
Honestly, it was like the director and whoever wrote this movie did it after they had someone who only read a summary of the CliffNotes of Death Note tell them about it.
This adaptation seems an awful lot like the “Final Destination” series, with gruesome deaths caused by random situations, except that someone can control the deaths and is corrupted by their power to play god.
"This is SUPPOSED to be a story about smart people" might be the best way to describe this movie. Death Note is really the only anime series I enjoyed watching (it simply isn't my type of genre) and what made it stand out was the difference in tone and colors (a lot of black and grey) and compelling leading characters. They were clever and complex, both having their character strenghts and flaws. And I actually got a little hopeful when I realised the movie got Dafoe. I got a little less hopeful when I saw the big focus on the love interest and then downright depressed when.. well, I can't really say if I was more annoyed with Light suddenly having his IQ dropped because of those hollywood hormones or the way they turned L into... a boring, masked ninja/superhero? These people were brilliant in the series! Sure, they were crazy geniuses who both had an ego the size of a small city and who did some morally questionable stuff. BUT they were interesting and smart dammit! Now they... read murder books in the gym.
Fun fact: After putting it on the "to do" list years ago I have finally managed to watch Death Note (the show, not this movie) after watching this exact video a few days ago... worth it! :3
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Omg hi! 😊😊
Movie is bad but that dude's scream is priceless.
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Haha, that's pretty much my entire reaction to this abomination of a movie! 😂🤣
same
I feel like an American Death Note movie could have been could if they decided to set it a few years later Ryuk was bored and decided to drop it in the U.-S. instead of Japan for fun. Then the director could have unlimited creative freedom and write his own death note story.
I also say Mia Sutton would have made more sense as the child of Worshippers of Kira. It would have explained her obsession with it all.
Exactly what i was thinking
Absolutely I would have preferred that greatly. It feels like we got something that was half that, half trying to tie into the original story
Honestly, I think that would have been the best way to handle this movie. Every review I have listened to has brought up how one of the biggest draws was the chess game between L and Light. This just isn’t that. Having a new person with the Deathnote being tracked down by Near (or another L prodigy) would have been far more compelling.
Yeah the concept has so much potential. Like what if anarchist would of gotten it or an religious zealot, or someone going after the mob? 🤯
Watching commentators be furious at this movie is one of my favorite things ever.
Me, I think I've watched ever single rant review out there
Lol
I hate being reminded that it exists but yet I am here
I like going in the comment sections and reminding people that the animé was overrated to begin with.
@@Raktasdelespacio damn, you edgy boi
In fairness the school not giving a shit about his health and only caring that he broke some academic rules has got to be the most realistic part of this movie.
Honestly!
I mean, when mass shooters occour.. why do they not expected it from kids who have been bullied and ignored by the those who are supposedly in charge of protecting them from other students?
Some teachers care but I’ll never forget when a kid I went to school with got told to kill themselves by another kid who was their best friend who abruptly ended the friendship without reason. The kid actually tried to commit suicide and got hospitalized and then the school didn’t do anything to punish the student who told their ex best friend to kill themselves but also refused to let the kid transfer out of the classes they had together. So this kid had to go to school everyday for the last quarter of their senior year and see someone who spread rumors about them and told them to kill themselves while being expected to do well in school and possibly missing out on graduation if they didn’t perform well 💀
@@tylergannon7398 holy crap theres a special place in hell for that guy.
And they wonder why teens are miserable and “unstable”
it's pretty cool how Amanda can talk about a movie that doesn't exist.
100% this movie never happened
She didn’t showed any footage which makes sense cuz there is no death note movie
Ikr I was so confused what movie this is
It's becoming a trend now a days. First Amanda talking about the movie that doesn't exist and then I heard other youtuber talking about something called The Last Airbender Movie which obviously doesn't exist.
@@Inlongrunwearealldead next thing you know, she'll be talking about Street Fighter: the Legend of Chun-Li, another movie that doesn't exist.
I find it funny how Netflix’s light didn’t kill his dad because “ooooh he’s my dad I can’t” yet I kid you not in the anime I’m pretty dang sure Light was about to wack his whole ass family because they were getting in the way
"Light Turner" has simply nothing to do with Light Yagami, at all. They don't share a single common trait apart from their first name.
Exactly,
(Spoiler)
Anime light killed his father and wasn't even sorry about it.
@@levistea174 This is, not correct AT ALL. Light in the anime had NO plans to kill his father, he actually SABOTAGED himself when a situation arose where he might have to kill his sister, and his mother didn't really get involved with all this, actually.
Light's plan got screwed up and his father was killed by Mello, Light had NOTHING to do with it, no hand in it, this actually RUINED his plans. He states earlier in the series if he HAD to kill his own family, he would, but it's framed very clearly as a worst case scenario. When his father dies Light then expresses genuine grief as he DOES love his family. People often frame Light as an emotionless sociopathic crazy murder fetishist (like Hisoka with a more normal fashion sense) but that's not true. He's an idealist that has a specific goal, believes genuinely this is the BEST path to take, and strives to take that path no matter the cost to himself or those that choose to get involved or especially in his way.
He is actually quite similar to Doctor Doom. Doom is ONLY trying to take over the world because he's convinced the ONLY future in which humanity survives is one where he has absolute control of the world. And he's actually right, by the way. The Wakandan Panther God said so. Light is doing things we determine are bad because it'll lead to the ultimate good. Total world peace with NO crime. To him, that's worth ANY price and anyone that would stand in the way of that is evil. Also like Doom he DOES have quite the ego, which makes sense when you think about it he's pretty awesome, and it's actually that flaw and his becoming more distant to other people due to his laser focus on his plans, that ends up costing him his victory.
@@haku8135 sorry about that. I thought he did it on purpose. Also apparently in the manga he cares about his family more.
@@levistea174 I’d have to disagree with him caring more in the manga. While he showed emotion when his dad died, we saw very little grief otherwise and - while he worries when his sister is kidnapped - that worry is concentrated on Mello having a Death Note. I don’t think Light cared enough for his family, although we see hints of care. In my opinion, it was nowhere near enough
Just like with the ATLA movie, we pretend this doesn't exist.
That tends to be the response to a lot of the live action remakes.
what ATLA movie?
@@ChiyaPyon Avatar The Last Airbender.
Their is no Avatar the last airbender movie.
There is no live action movie in Ba Sing Se
R.I.P Willem Dafoe's spine.
Even you couldn't carry the crushing weight of this movie on your shoulders.
+ L's actor etc.
@@Call-me-Al Bruh, L fucking sucked in this movie.
@Descartes' Apparition Considering no one mentioned his race i'd say you probably do have a problem.
Honestly Ryuk and L are the best parts of this movie. L's actor was just under spectacularly poor direction. But every place where he had the freedom of his own interpretation, he did excellently.
At least it got ALL the way off his back!
“Look at the things I made these Light and L plushies do...”
NO. DON’T TAKE ME BACK THERE, AMANDA. DON’T BRING ME BACK TO MY YAOI PHASE.
I'm not a Yaoi shipper but I thought it was impossible to escape from Yaoi shipping.
One can never escape from the yaoi.
At this point, it isn't a phase or me anymore.
EW EW EW EW
It's not a phase, mom~
I still don't get how L would have thought the page would kill someone. If you find a page of dead people's name, you would just think it is a kill list.
He also doesn't know how it works, the rest of the death note isn't there so he doesn't have any of the rules, so he has NO BASIS for thinking just writing his name will do ANYTHING. As far as he knows you need to do some ritual to make it work or just a page won't do anything at all.
Also why isn't L in jail? He chased someone who the COPS believe is just an innocent school boy around town with a GUN, assaulting several people while he was at it.
Exactly, that's why in the original story he never suspects the notebook until he sees it working first hand, he easily deduces that Kira needs a face and a name to kill (When he gets Light to kill Lind Taylor), and who Kira most likely is (When he realizes Kira is stealing classified info from the police and has a studen'ts schedule), so all that he has left to do is figure out how Kira does it, while Light is stuck trying to discover who L is for a munch longer time and essentially would have never been able to do so if not for L presenting himself to him.
Even when L is sure Light and Misa are Kira and that Light somehow transferred his power to Higuchi he still does not know how the power itself works, and it isn't until Higuchi himself reveals it publically and L meets Rem after touching the second note that he finds out.
This dumb movie meanwhile just has him assume a random piece of paper has magical powers to kill, it's an insane conclussion to pull from nowhere.
They did my boy L so dirty. L was so calm, level headed, quirky, and so smart. He would have never confronted Kira that way, he would have never been so erratic and just straight up tell Light he thought he was Kira right off the bat.
I mean, he was always pretty open with the percentage he thought Light was Kira, and would tell it to his face, but he would heighten or lower it as a power play to try and scare him. It was a move in their battle of wits. The fact that it was fairly honest of how he was always fairly sure from the beginning that he had the right man was to make Light antsy, not to warn him.
It's even more tragic when you look at the actor who played L. He was super thrilled to get the role- he read and studied the Mangas and animes, just to get handed this absolutely dogshit script.
They did everyone dirty lol
@ur_fav_sie he thought he was playing midoriya
To be fair
Manga/ anime L died before he could witness Watari's demise
Here he finds ojt watari is already gone and i'm assuming the two having been close L Loses all composure and decides ve doesn't want to play the waiting game anymore
This movie really would have worked better as a spin-off, a "what if" scenario. "What if the Death Note landed in America and wound up in the hands of a disturbed teen who is a borderline school shooter" or something. They might as well have just done this since angsty, bullied tryhard version of Light in the movie is such a different character from the genius student/sometimes police advisor version of Light from the source material. The only good thing about this movie is it got me to watch the original series right after as a palette cleanser.
You should track down and watch the Japanese films, then. Not only are they miles better than this film, but I'd dare say that they're better than the anime.
@@galeforce3192 I wouldn't say better but as far as Live action adaptations of animated source materials go, they sure were the best made ones I've seen so far. The TV drama they made was decent too.
Ha! American producers wouldn't want to do it. It's racist now. Why's the Japanese Light gotta be smart and badass and why's the American Light gotta be the dumbass?
I still think your idea is awesome though. This should have been a "What if..." spin off.
@@daoyang223 well it wouldn't be Light in that scenario, it would be a new character in a spin-off with only the general lore setting kept the same as the original. If they had a little more self awareness they would've gone this route and we might've enjoyed it, but now...
Read the manga, too. It’s great!
You could tell immediately that they fucked up Light when they had him just carry around the death note instead of hiding it in the hidden compartment at the bottom of his drawer. It's been years since I read the manga/watched the anime, and I still remember how he did that and used a slip of paper in his doorway to trick people into thinking that was his only way of knowing whether someone had been in his room (when in fact it was the position of the door handle). Stuff like that was what really made me believe Light was a genius. On the other hand, the Netflix version just has characters say Light's a genius while having him act like a reckless idiot. :/
If you have time and haven't seen them already, you should check out the Japanese live-actions. They're old and have pretty bad CG, but they're more faithful as adaptations and overall a lot better than the Netflix version.
He also had a piece of graphite from a mechanical pencil wedged into the door handle to fully confirm if anyone went into his room!
I like how light is doing people's hw but he only does like 2 questions and the back of it isn't completed lol
I just finished the 2006 live action adaptations. Yeah, the CGI isn’t great, but at least they respected most of the story. The Netflix adaptation was just boring and rage-inducing
@@kalystagutierrez1607 Yeah, he had a piece of paper so people would see that and replace it, but had a stick of mechanical pencil graphite in the door way as well. He’d look for it, and if it was broken on the floor it meant someone had gone in
For me it was his initial reaction to Ryuk. Light shitting his pants was so completely out of character I had to take a break and pause the movie while I bust a gut laughing.
I feel like Hollywood has problems writing smart teen characters in horrors/thrillers. Period.
Because it's always a teen drama of white nerdy boy getting with hot white cheerleader maybe bad girl.
I think the best teen movies america made was mean girls and easy A. Everything else is truly shit
Given the fact that Hollywood writers hatch out of eggs fully grown, it’s not surprising that they can’t quite grasp the teen experience.
@@Needler13 heathers, jennifer's body, the breakfast club, juno, ferris bueller's day off, almost famous, kick-ass, scott pilggrim, donnie darko, the half of it, dead poet's scoiety if that counts. and much more. there are a lot of good teen movies in hollywood. a lot of them are considered classics.
hollywood is full of shit movies. but there are tons of good movies as well. don't cherry-pick the two and then say "everything else sucks".
@@disgsteng6755 true, some of them are good but dead poets society and Kick-Ass aren't really teen movies.
@@disgsteng6755 I agree, but I think breakfast club doesn't hold up. The one girl had a make over and suddenly the other guy falls for her, and that's her story. Wow, really great getting a guy after leaving everything behind that made you, you. (tbf, it's been a few years since I watched it - maybe it isn't that bad. But like, I watched it as a teen and was interested in her story arc and it was shit. I never had to urge to watch the movie again)
L (in the movie): "Kira spared the chief and that is how I know that Light is Kira."
L (in the anime): "The chief didn't die and the real Kira that I know would kill his own dad if he was in the way of his mission."
Wtf.
12:35. "Criminals are turning themselves in to avoid death". Yeah! Good idea. It's not like KIRA would ever kill a criminal who is in prison. Big brain thinking!
The prisons have plenty of space now, so i'm sure the staff is happy about that.
My son, a huge fan of the anime, watched almost ten minutes of the movie - then, turned off the t.v. and walked out of the room in silence. Me: "No good?" Him: "[expletive]"
That's the most relateable thing I've ever heard
I made it 15 minute in and noped out
I reached 30 minutes (while stopping to write notes on how shit it was, got a loooooooooong .txt file out of this) and then couldn't take it anymore. This movie is atrocious shit.
I watched the entire thing. Then ranted about it on my blog
I suffered through all of it, and it's two hours of my life I will never get back.
I didn’t have the strength to go through this film myself. I started, and had to turn it off. Thanks for covering it! 😊
me too, I think I bailed after the head explosion
Same
Oh hey OneToePIc
Topic? The heck you doing here?
I had the dumb hope it would get better. But well they turned an interesting protagonist into a puppet.
Light's mom is dead in this adaptation? Why? I thought the entire point of Light is that he's a normal (albeit extremely intelligent) boy from a normal family, who is a self-righteous monster.
I mean, Light was always kind of a sociopath, too. He was just really good at keeping up a normal appearance. The dude literally only had a girlfriend because having one was good for his image. He was a great character~
@@xinf3ctdx Exactly! He grew up in extremely normal circumstances, no traumatic events pushed him into becoming Kira. He became Kira because he wanted to.
@@xinf3ctdx only due to the notebook
@@6895Anna nothing? The notebook is CONFIRMED to have pushed him into to.
Hell when he goes back to normal briefly its proven. He isnt even willing to manipulate a girl for the greater good.
It isnt some black and white "yay hes a sociopath" story
@@dakotablount251 Ryuk said that when others got the notebook they would try it once, and then not do it again. Light got it and decided to freaking go for it.
So basically they looked at death note and went
"But what if we tried to turn it into White Teen Macbeth"
Lol
Light Mom's died and he live with the single father... is Disney somehow involved with production? :_
Wouldn't be surprised... it reeks of their shit.
Disney is involved in EVERY production. O.O
"I'll take a potato chip (heavy breathing) and EAT IT!" 100% the most iconic line other than "it's all going according to kekaku (translation note: kekaku means plan)"
Fan subs are something else 😳
I don't really like anime, but that line got me interested in this one.
It's keikaku though ://
@@fredericabernkastel8354 I wrote this off the top of my head and spelled it phonetically
yes
The movie did definitely not go according to keikaku
*note: Keikaku means plan
@@AmandaTheJedi Offfical subs are nice and all, but fansubs were something of a cultural golden nugget
@@Zetamen7 Fansubs were my salvation in the pre-streaming era, where you depended on tv channels and licensing. Especially for those outside of the main markets like me.
@@AmandaTheJedi pp
@@Zetamen7 Y'all are talking as if fansubs aren't a thing anymore. There are still a ton of niche series that never get an overseas license and rely on fans to sub them :)
I’ll take this movie...
AND DELETE IT!!!
Out standing move
"SAKUJO!"
Even Akechi was a better "good boy gone supernatural murderer" than the Light in this movie.
@@Ellisepha
Don’t put me in that box. I was never a good person, I never got the chance.
@@goroakechi6126 You're just pissed because Joker wouldn't let you cosplay L
You know what? The staff at school having zero concern for a kid being assaulted to the point of losing consciousness is actually pretty accurate 🤔
So glad I had my breakdown before high-school and never went 👍
"Don't get with a girl that's only into you for your murder book"
Words to live by...
Death Note, Rule #1: NEVER WASTE WILLEM DAFOE
Willem Dafoe as Ryuk is literally the only good thing about this movie
Edit: I had no idea this comment was gonna get seen like this. Pretty sure this means I own the Death Note. Now, I'll take this chip...AND EAT IT
I disagree. How dumb it was, how Misa was so much better than in the anime, and the cinematography was not bad as well.
I would have actually paid money to watch this if the would have cast Tommy Wiseau instead.
Oh, hai Light.
That and Light Turner's goat scream.
I didn’t give him the death note. I didn’t!
If they just took the idea of a death note and do a spin off in America. Don’t make it light or L just new characters.
Well, there's is the "Los Angeles B.B Murder case" novel starring Naomi Misora. (...which is a recount by L that was told to Mello (who is the story's narrator) yet is also told from a first-person perspective by Misora... J-just roll with it.)
While the story doesn't contain the Death Note itself, being set in America, I think it would have been a good entry point for a western audience. (Instead of retreading the same story over and over and watching it fail.)
What if it was a live action movie that took place in the anime series after the end of the anime? We see all the aftermath of what happened past the anime series and instead of a knock off Light getting the death note, a Kira worshipper gets the death note. When the worshipper starts to use the death note they make one of the victims say that “Kira has arisen” or something.
Also in this idea it isn’t Ryuk that drops the notebook, but instead that shinigami that we see (that according to fan theories is Light himself reincarnated) pulling the strings of the worshipper, kind of like what Ryuk does in this
They tried that in a one shot. It was like a whoopie cushion.
"Never 👏🏻 waste 👏🏻 Willem Dafoe!!!" Truer words have never been spoken! I honestly got giddy the moment I found out he was gonna voice the Shinigami, but... *sigh* sad ):
An important thing that makes Light untranslatable as a character, is that there are pretty clear "elite" routes in japanese education, so his peers treat him as if he had already landed a job with a senator or a fast track position in some big corporation and also finished that career. Obviously most people don't, but that's how his type of character is treated. The japanese version of the nerd/geek stereotype is closer to wasted potential and an obsesive consumer that won't achieve anything. Just like the japense "jock" stereotype is a cool dude that's a bit too serious and straight forward, you can't translate japanese cliches to 80's movie cliche one for one.
Then just make him an honour student? Elite tracks exist all over the world. Say he skipped a grade, say he's taking higher course exams instead of just Core classes.
@@ButterflyScarlet In Japan your test scores determine which schools you can go to for every phase of your education. Your elementary test scores determine which middle schools are available to you, your middle school scores determine which high schools. When I lived there, I remember regularly watching on the news how some kid killed themselves because they didn't get the scores they needed for the future they wanted. School in Japan in crazy stressful, and this is from someone who lived on a military base and went to a DOD school so even though I was IN Japan, I had no real concept of the stress of being a Japanese student. Just seeing it as an outside observer gave me anxiety. I can't imagine actually living it.
I mean you could have set this in like Havard or Yale and have him be a law student that just about every law firm was hungry for and be extremely popular cuz he was friendly, helpful to his fellow classmates and just were a natural with understanding the law, proposing legal arguments, etc.
Like the guy-kid from Suits, just MORE naturally skilled.
@@ButterflyScarlet that and having him attend a fancy private school instead of a shitty public school.
I felt so bad for Lakeith Stanfield. He's so talented and he did the best he could with such a terrible script/direction.
Same for Willem Dafoe
He deserved a better written L for sure. He even had his quirky mannerisms down but the script screwed it all up.
Yeah definitely he's a fantastic actor (my favourite actor after Robert Pattinson) and definitely has the L vibes , him and Willem were actually well casted kind of disappointing how much the script let them down
Yep. It's frustrating.
Yeah I really hate how terrible directing and stories haunt actors, and their careers, FOR YEARS. As well as editing and producers’ decisions giving directors a *HUGE* strike on _theirs_ for sometimes very VERY long. A++ historíes be dammed!
I remember people who argued “I actually liked the adaptation! If you don’t like it then you’re a fake fan” wonder where they are
Probably off to "enjoy" some other crappy adaptation, thinking that being a contrarian and liking crappy things means they're smart.
They're not "fans". They likely don't even remember this adaptation as they're looking for "trendy" new things to ruin for everyone else.
Please tell me your joking
@@BlueDaisy33 I'm afraid they're not, friend.
It had such a good concept and I adored L's actor but oof... everything else
Probably getting hyped for the shit cowboy bebop Netflix adaptation. 🤢
Jesus it's been already 3 years since this movie
I honestly forgot this movie existed.
I know, it mercifully stayed forgotten about after its initial release, which is just as well! 😅😉
Don't make me feel old please...
@@somerandolad on Netflix lol
yea-
"This is supposed to be a story about *smart* people!"
I watched the anime because of this video. It was the first anime I ever watched and now I’m obsessed with the genre. Thank you Amanda
Last time I was this early, Jennifer Hudson thought she'd be nominated for an Oscar for her performance on Cats
SPOILER ALERT: Well he's not Light Yagami, he's Light Turner. They should have made this movie about what happened after Yagami died. You know, like the NEXT Kira
Yeaaaahhh but he IS Light Yagami they just changed his last name cause they didn't want to make him a Japanese-American character
@@AmandaTheJedi That kind of bothered me though! That they set this Japan-based story into a stereotypical American high school, and didn't think there may be some cultural changes in the story? They just made Light Turner a weeb who chooses his own alias name because IT MEANS LIGHT IN JAPANESE WOOOOW
Light Turner? TURNER!!!???? Switch would've been better XDDDD
Light turner? This is more of a fairly odd parents movie than a death note movie. Think about it, the book has Da Rules and Ryuk can act without the books permission sometimes. He has a black haired girl who is a bit crazy chasing after him. L was more like Crocker than the source L.
@@swandivemedia9249 Timmy turner in his teen years
Amanda: How the hell can you write the name of a Death God in the Death Book? How does that work? What, is he gonna kill himself?
Me:
xD
ah yes. The iconic "lets turn light and L, very confident, intelligent and strong characters, into screaming cowards who run away and don't actually think with their brains" my favourite. oh and the lovely "lets turn misa. a airheaded, Light-obsessed girl. Into a manipulative. Intelligent girl"
“flew out the window” is kind of an understatement. This movie’s logic has flown out the window and soared into space, I think it just passed Jupiter
Nah, that ish is already past freaking Pluto
@@yunamchill9169 probably already in some other parallel universe where pluto is still/again a planet lol
@@samusderweise5285 Yeah, it's that bad.
I think part of the problem is that original Death Note is really Japanese so when you remove the culture you take a relevant chunk of the spirit with it.
I tried to give it that too, but it only works so far. Changing the names, changing Mia to just cheerleader instead of a pop star (pop stars are not as culturally revered in America) but the concessions can only go so far. The way they turned her into a sociopath, removing the genius aspect and cocky self-confidence/god complex of Light, and numerous other pitfalls just have no excuses. There's a lot they could have done to Americanize it while staying true to the source material (fanboys would be pissed but we'd have a good movie), but they just choose to create a steaming pile of garbage instead.
@@Amarianee I think that if the director of Scott pilgrim had directed this,it could 've been at least decent movie.
I thought they were going to make an american supernatural thriller when I heard about it. That for me sounded like a much better idea. Then I heard they were casting the original characters and was baffled at the decision of changing their cultural backgrounds.
It wasn't that L was black, but if you are going to do a somewhat "faitful" adaptation, why don't you represent people that are already underrepresented in american media?
@Jan Michael Vincent it makes perfect sense. Light being top of his class is a core part of his character. Intelligence and doing well in school are respected in Japan. Conversely, American teens view being studious as being "lame, boring, nerdy, etc" and those kids are regularly bullied. Hence why they changed him from the self important genius, respected by everyone, to the nerd who does other people's homework, with no self respect and still gets beat up. He's looking for approval, which is the stereotype Americans expect to see in that character set up. That's just the most obvious change, but there a many more culturally relevant changes that were made as an attempt to make the film more palatable for its "brainless American audience." Incidentally, when you give people a chance, most of them tend to not be as brainless as the moronic Hollywood execs think.
Every anime is inherently linked culturally to Japan. Idioms, behaviors, social class, and the list goes on. It's one of the things that makes adapting anime to a wide American audience difficult. It's not impossible, you just have to subvert ingrained stereotypes and be creative...which, if we look back on the last few decades worth of unwanted remakes and unnecessary sequels, Hollywood would have you believe is nigh impossible.
@@jimerodriguez8332 At the very least, it likely would have been entertaining and made sense. He also wouldn't have wasted Dafoe lol
This movie got me to watch the anime, so at least there's one good thing.
Originally based on the description I thought Death Note was about typical anime teen protagonist getting revenge on like high school bullies (pretty much everything the movie did) not this methodical game off cat and mouse, and a morally grey presentation of scarfing rights and due process for safety.
Well, the animé is barely any of those things.
@@Raktasdelespacio the anime IS a cat and mouse game between Light and L. That is what made it good, the whole death note aspect was just the setting for the cat and mouse game of who gets who first.
In fact, high school was hardly a thing in the anime, Light graduated fast and Mia was used as a pawn in the chess game against L.
That is why when L eventually loses it kinda went downhill with the second L coming in. Whole show was a detective show against a serial killer with powers.
@@Raktasdelespacio Yeah I just read a really vague write up of the show like " A teenage boy finds a magic notebook that kills anybody whose name he writes in it" and I'm a little apprehensive when it comes to animes about teens.
While light being a teenager is important, it's not for bullies and the high school drama BS. It's cause L uses it to help track him, it's cause of how Light uses students as tools or props, it's cause of how being a student restricts Light's actions.
@@fleacythesheepgirl if you watch the show he doesn't stay in high school long. Literally is only in high school for a bit and then he graduates and that is when L introduces himself to Light to try to make him go "I know it's you but I have zero proof but I'll be on you like white on rice till you make a mistake".
Literally a cat and mouse chase between the two when they are close to one another to the point they can be called best friends. So yeah, for those who haven't seen the show, he doesn't stay in high school long. The show is much longer than his high school arc and he doesn't even meet Mia until he's in college and working with the cops.
@@Needler13 technically isn’t the second “L” Light himself?
Lol I know what you mean though, but there was still 2 that came in to replace L after he died, but one of them died fairly quickly if you ask me. At least in the anime, I can’t really speak for the manga since I don’t have the whole collection of them yet
I will never be tired of watching death note fans be rightfully mad about this pile of trash movie. If they wanted to make an americanised version of this concept, they should've chosen all new characters and then at least stuck to the rules of the book. This just made me mad. They completely ruined both light and L.
Exactly!
Sequel set some time in the future where Ryuk decides "aight i'm bored again, time to steal another death note and drop it in America this time."
I love how the original Death Note series explores the themes of vigilante justice, the concept of crime and morality, presents a subtle dig at the harsh control of the Japanese justice system and most importantly; how vital it is to keep it all this crazy stuff secret because hey kid, you're killing a LOT of people here. All with a big supernatural bow around an admittedly lame concept of just writing names down in a notebook. And it all works.
All I could scrape from the American version? "Teenage Lust and Peer Pressure BAD"
Talk about a step down. :/
Everyone remembers the potato chip scene, but i think the comedy comes before it. Because the only reason Light felt confident that he could put the little TV in the bag was because becuase he purposly bought a flavor of chips his family didn't like. As someone with siblings, I assure you this plan would never work. Even if they didn't like the chips, someone would have opened the bag and eaten a few.
Also Ryuk going into apple withdrawal and starts doing handstands and body pretzels, it's hilarious.
It works the first time you buy the flavor and depends on age usually. My siblings know I'll never open a bag of spicy flavored chips or anything because I hate them. I don't eat spicy foods.
when Amanda dies it will happen in an explosion of flower petals and dad shirts
You know why they ignored the heart attack deaths, they barely made the complicated deaths interesting, so I can only see bad heart attack acting had they done it.
I haven't watched this since it came out but I remember being convinced of 3 things. 1 - they basically gendered swapped Light and Misa, 2 - DaFoe and the actor who played L were only ones who even partially watched the source material (arguably Mia too, I guess), and 3 - the school dance existed solely to put Light Turner in a top hat for some reason
Light: "I'll take a potato chip, and EAT IT."
Me: 😧
Death Note is a story about brilliant minds facing off against each other, a true battle of wits! This movie is not that, this is nothing but a low budget love song to final destination.
whats ironic about that is that this had a 40 - 50 million dollar budget, mainly so it was able to finally get off the ground after 10 years of development hell, so it was fairly expensive and it seems like Netflix got its money back. fuck.
@_Sunniibunnii wingard says the final cut was just under 30 million, but even so netflix clearly spent more money on than that and what was even needed
Ah Death Note *war flashbacks to me dressing up as L for character day during spirit week and no one knowing who it was and thinking I was Samara from the ring*
I cosplayed as Osgood from Doctor Who and people thought I was Harley Quinn and I was *T R I G G E R E D*
Aw I’m so sorry love. 💔🤦🏽♀️😂
For my very first convention, I cosplayed BB from the DN spin-off novel (my prop was a jar of strawberry jam)
Needless to say, no one recognized me. And looking back, I'm glad no one did.
@@dawnwayfinder I think I carried around suckers with me. And I got lots of compliments even when I explained who I was (I grew up in western Kansas, no one had a clue lmao). But I still have lots of random moments of cringe because It wasn’t a good cosplay at all, haha.
Don't feel bad, I cosplayed as Katara and someone asked me if I was a blue shaolin warrior 😐
i feel like if this had been a dark comedy, satire, parody etc it would have been ummmm better
The movie simply didn't know what it wanted to be. It wants to be comedy, romance, thriller, horror and destination finale all at the same time.
to your point about adaptations not being faithful but still being good: Howl's Moving Castle chucks out most of the themes and plot of the book becoming something completely different but excellent in it's own way.... like the best fan fic ever conceived.
Agree!! I love both the book and the movie
The scene with the Kira supporter hitting L in the head was actually kinda interesting. I would’ve loved to see more of the supporters and how far they would’ve been willing to go for Kira. It is such an interesting concept that could’ve been used in a way that was different from the original
It’s my favorite scene from the movie (and basically the only scene I kinda like) just bc it actually brings something kinda new to the table that isn’t fully terrible written
It almost seems like the character traits of Light were switched in this film with that of Misa’s and Mia is actually Light characteristically
Mia is Light and Light somehow manages to be a more annoying version of Misa.
I LIKED Misa, she was funny, quirky and kind of dumb, but she had her moments like with Higuchi. I felt so bad for her tbh. Mr. Turner here on the other hand is just annoying and boring af.
5:05 That scene isn't to show that Edward is smart, it's a flex of his ability to read minds. The teacher asked a question and had a specific answer in mind. Edward just read the teacher's mind and said it aloud. Anime Light actually was the best student in his school and knew English. He was able to translate what was written in Japanese into English without needing to pay attention because of his language skills (which needed to be established since the Deathnote was written in English and landed in Japan).
Look my brain is just so polluted with Twilight that if something parallels even slightly and lines up, my brain goes there. Though Edward is smart and knows a lot, but a lot of that has to do with the sheer number of times he'd be covering the same material over the years. Light is essentially a genius, which I mention early on in this video
I love how the demon’s motivation is that ‘he was bored’ that’s so funny
Ryuk was basically the comic relief in the original series. Among other things, he's got an apple addiction (yes, seriously), and in a 4koma he spooks Light making him believe he'll want his soul as a present- but no, he just asks for a gameboy. He could be scary when he acted seriously, but they made him a much flatter character in the movie.
I honestly would have been fine with this being a parody and fully committing to comedy. Even if the great majority of fans were upset with it, at least it didn't try to be serious.
The only good part about this movie for me was Willem Dafoe's performance as Ryuk.
it's so so so weird that light and misa's backstories were switched in the american movie
Thanks for that life tip, I was about to go steady with this girl. But after you said that I realize she was just with me for my murder book. Thanks for saving me from the trouble of going through a whole thing.
Wait, L should've been able to see Ryuk if he touched the Death Note, because (if my memory doesn't fail me) he's bound to follow the Note's new owner. And the only way to stop being the owner is a) resigning or b) dying.
Also how about timing deaths? Or the inmates who left messages in code for L before dying? Talking about wasted potential, smh.
Yes you are indeed correct too bad they didn’t bother to fucking look any of this shit up at all🤦🏽♀️
Iirc just touching it lets you see the shinigami regardless of ownership. The entire L investigation squad touched the book on the highway and could see the shinigami and I don't believe they were considered owners, but losing ownership does wipe your memory and the ability to see them though. Hope someone will correct me if I got any of that wrong, its been a good decade since I visited the material haha.
@@Lugen101 no your 100% right.
They just got rid of that entirely. In the movie it doesn't matter who touches the death note, only Light can see Ryuk because he's the owner.
Why? I don't know, they're idiots.
@@Lugen101 Your points are actually expressed in the show. Light uses a piece of paper to make the bus hijacker see Ryuk. Causing a panic. When light gives up the notebook he hunts down the new Kira until he gets the book back with L right beside him.
As a Japanese person let me just appreciate your perfect pronunciation of the Japanese "r" before anything else in the video.
Okama
This kind of feels like they tried to make a bad remake of the Death Note Drama, not the anime/manga. In the drama, Light did have a dead mom, strained relationship with his Dad, and didn't have a perfect life.
Nope nope nope ...this movie doesn't exist, along with Dragon Ball Z live action...I don't know where you found this but it doesn't exist.
Dragon ball z is good, it's evolution that doesn't exist
There is no movie in ba sing se
They are as unreal as the tooth fairy and the manga of Usagi drop
Yeah no its definitely fake just like the live action Airbender movie - I mean what?
I can't believe Amanda hired all these actors to make a fake movie just for this video.
And she didn't even wait for aprils fools to post it! Guess she needed to get her money back early.
NEVER waste Willem Dafoe.
I also would like to point out that the death not being averted rule is gone into more in the movie L Change the World and it's novella. This takes place in an alternate universe where L won but at the sacrafice of having few days of survival by writing his name in the notebook himself. In it L burns the Death Notes and Ryuk reminds him that this won't change anything. To which L responds with the amount of time he has left to live. They clearly didn't look into the source material well enough.
Around 16:30 I'm fairly certain that it's mentioned in the original series/manga that the other shinigami would write each other's names in the death note because they knew nothing would happen
“She dies in an explosion of flowers. Like, IF I die, that’s how I want to go out.”
IF....
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" Look at the horrible things I am making these L and Light plushies do."
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*GIRL You are legit*
My fianceé and I watched this movie together after having just finished watching the anime. Despite how many hits Netflix has had this was an absolute miss.
I know, fans of the anime will be incredibly disappointed with the movie, with excellent reason! 😤
Actually, the idea of a supernatural being who needs people to formally ask him to act in order to affect the world is pretty interesting. Too bad...
Oh god YES! Give me the Celtic fairies and traditional vampires! Supernatural beings with law, rules, and if we invoke certain demonic mythology (say djinn?) contracts! Or watch fairy odd parents lol
@@gameinsane4718 I’ve never seen that show, as it was just slightly after my time in terms of Nicktoons, but clearly I should seek it out!
Alucard in Hellsing
The fact that when I first saw this version of Light I thought he was a poor cosplay of Justin Biber says a lot
When I first started watching death note my favourite episode was the Naomi one, I thought Naomi was a really likeable character and Even though Light somehow gained Naomi’s trust and killed her, I still wanted to see what Light would do next. And in this movie....I wanted to through everything in my sight at my TV
What bugs me is that they used the name "Kira" in this version that is set in the western side of the world. "Kira" means "killer" in Japanese (and not spelt that way), but in the western side of the world "Kira" is just a common name. Would most westerners know what "Kira" means...despite it not being spelt (or pronounced in the movie) as it would be in Japanese, but rather in English? I am baffled. Light should have used a different name...since he is American, not Japanese. If I was American and saw the name "Kira," I would be picturing a woman. But what confuses me more is why would Light himself use that name and spell it like this: "Kira." I would have spelt it in Japanese...like the manga did. Or maybe Light is stupid and thinks "Kira" is how they spell it in Japanese.
Also, another thing that is weird is that there is way too few deaths for the police to get involved and be sure one thing is responsible. America has WAY more people than Japan. In the original manga, one the ways of how the police started to get curious of the case of Kira was the number of deaths in relation to the national average in Japan. Not to mention that all the deaths were via heart attacks. In this movie, there are no consistent deaths. If I was the police, I would "brush these off" as accidents that don't relate to one another.
That is what bugged me, along with almost everything else in this movie. I see it as a "turn your brain off" type movie. Honestly, I would mistake it for a parody. If it was marketed as a parody, I would love this movie very much. They wasted Willem Dafoe, though. What a great Ryuk, in my opinion.
The movie indeed has so much problems even just regarding the deaths... The gangs in Japan being the biggest example: how did they die? The Death Note specifically states that you can't make someone kill another person through it, so why was there a shootout between the 2 gangs? And if there wasn't a shootout and it was actually some kind of disguised mass suicides, why are the prostitutes dead? Were they all somehow criminals whose name was reported through the media?
All the methods of killings are different, and we know Light has only killed about 400 people and those are in the whole world. There is nothing to even investigate, and all the conclusions that L and James (Light's dad) make are whispered to them by the author. How does L know that Kira is in Seattle? "Only broadcasted in the region" yeah... except Light just went on google and searched "live crime scene", absolutely anyone from around the world could have seen this, it was basically a coincidence that Light was actually in Seattle.
ILL TAKE A POTATO CHIP AND EAT IT
I love Nat Wolff. He's a great actor. It's kind of sad that he's now associated with this movie. It's kind of like how people only know Joey King for The Kissing Booth even though she's been in much better movies.
@Charmiskit and that Gypsy Rose bio pic...and White House Down...I hope the girl has a good therapist cause she has done some HEAVY roles for someone so young...
I thought we all knew him from Naked Brothers Band
and now his brother is well known for his spectacular acting in his lead role in hereditary lol
I was so infuriated by the fact that everyone in my high school was obsessed with this and had no clue what the actual anime was. It honestly pissed me off so much 😂
Speaking of Death Note adaptations, It would be amazing to hear your thoughts about the Death Note musical - it's a miracle such a thing even exists, and it's much, much better than it has any right to be. It knows that it can't fully recreate the cat and mouse game during its short runtime, so it uses the music to focus more on character feelings and the broad themes of the story. It's a little goofy in parts, but it does do some things the anime didn't, and it does them surprisingly well (ex: the Rem and Misa relationship, Light's relationship with his sister, Light's more complex opinions on injustice, the meaning of humanity). In my opinion, it also has a much more satisfying ending than the anime.
The story behind its creation is also pretty interesting, and even though it wasn't fully released in English (there are a few subtitled versions online) the English concept album had some pretty big names in it and is pretty damn catchy.
P.S. the Rem actress kills it
I second this! The musical’s pretty good and the music is amazing!
This movie doesn't just do a poor job of adapting the source material, it's just a badly made movie in general, the writing is all over the place, the acting is trash, none of the characters are likable, and the movie comes off as trying too hard to be edgy with the over the top deaths and having the characters curse like drunken sailors. If the movie was at the very least competently made, I could at least acknowledge it as a decent movie on its own merits, but this movie doesn't even stand on its own merits unfortunately.
OMG its the Adaptation That Shall Not Be Named. This movie is an EFFING ABOMINATION!
There is no lice action adaptation in Ba Sing Se
even though the film sucked, William Dafoe as Ryuk was hands down a perfect choice for casting, his sinister, creepy and sneaky voice mixed in with his macabre sense of humour was top notch and it gave me Vibes of his role as the Green Goblin from Spiderman.
I think Dafoe was the only person who watched the anime. At the very least he watched some scenes with Ryuk because he very clearly was trying to embody the character. It's such a shame it was wasted.
@@Amarianee i agree, he captured the attitude really well and even to some degree threw in his own twist on him. Even the cgi looked good on him, its a shame they put more effort into Ryuk than the rest of the cast. It makes me wonder who else was considered for the roll of ryuk.
@@Amarianee The guy who played L probably watched at least some of it too. He has Ls weirdo mannerisms down pretty well in the scenes that allowed it. It's just the material they gave him to work with sucked.
@@MsLilly200 Lakeith mentioned in an interview he was either a fan of the source material or he did at least did his due diligence and researched for the part. I'd have to look it up to see.
I thought he was a bit too sinister for my taste. In the anime, he can be a disturbing presence but he's also quite funny, pulls jokes and tricks. He's like a giant sorta evil puppy. Movie Ryuk is like a wolf luring in prey.
2:53 I love how I knew EXACTLY what line was being mentioned and I haven't really even seen the show.
Remember: If she does a murder with you, she loves you. If she does a hundred murders with you, she loves murder.
The plushies have experienced some things
Between this movie, The Last Airbender movie, and Dragonball Evolution, which is worse?
All of em
Same question as: Would you prefer to drown in shit, drown in urine or drown in a mix of both?
Last Airbender, but I can't say I don't hold any love for it in my heart given that it _is_ ATLA if just barely.
Well, Probably Evolution was the worst of these, but The Last Airbender was the biggest let down, considering the budget, marketing, hype, and quality of the source material. All three suck balls in any case.
I'd say Dragon Ball E
The first kill in the movie was more a parody of final destination death scenes than genuine death note stuff. That’s as far as I watched, because I was laughing so hard as the camera whipped around at all the different shit that could’ve killed him lmaoooo he finally died when a ladder on top of a utility van skewered his head off.
It felt like I was watching ome of those RUclips video where some one made a really long dominoes train with like strings and Legos and like toy cars throughout their house.
The horror of watching someone drop dead at the flick of a pen was completely lost in an instant. Still haven’t finished that movie lol
when the top half of his head bounced I lost it
Same. I was laying on the floor laughing
That reminds me of when I was in middle school, I got really into Deathnote. My dad got me as a surprise my own deathnote, with a feather pen and a necklace with L's logo. I felt so cool carrying it around, lol
The entire series. Basically begins with Riuk pulling a "Oops BUTTERFINGERS" unironicly.
I mean literally yeah
This movie was such a mess that I basically scrubbed it from my memory.
Sadly, I remember it again now. Oh well. I did enjoy the rant.
I feel this.
Death Note (2017) has the same energy as the live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender movie
you're right and i hate that
Somehow it‘s even worse imo
death note, avatar, and dbz all have the live action movies that have the fans that are just like "what live action movie? i do not see it."
@@thearchitect813 Because, say it with me, they're not real. Man this weird conspiracy theory about live action anime movies being real has grown out of hand.
Bore bending
Dragon Ball Evolution was so bad that it was B A D ! But Death Note was so bad that it was forgettable. Thanks for reminding me of its cursed existence! ಠ_ಠ
I never saw any of those films, but at least I saw the occasional jab at DBE and the live-action TLA as time went on. It wasn't until I saw this in my subscription feed that I was like "oh, right, this was a thing." I'm honestly not sure how to feel about that.
The first Silent Hill movie hits that ‘not an exact recreation of the source material, but captures the spirit’ thing going for it. It’s not bad and you can tell the director was a fan of the games.
We don’t talk about the second one
3:49 She spoke that line like it was goddamn crime. XD NEVER waste Willem Dafoe.
Amanda, I love the way you talk about things, your production, your persona, your energy, your perspectives, your use of music, they all part of why you are HELLA dope! You are smart and interesting and funny on a level that I don't even have to know what you are talking about to enjoy your descriptions and insights about whatever it is that you are expounding on. I love your videos! You're HELLA cool, HELLA awesome, and I love you!
Honestly, it was like the director and whoever wrote this movie did it after they had someone who only read a summary of the CliffNotes of Death Note tell them about it.
This adaptation seems an awful lot like the “Final Destination” series, with gruesome deaths caused by random situations, except that someone can control the deaths and is corrupted by their power to play god.
"This is SUPPOSED to be a story about smart people" might be the best way to describe this movie. Death Note is really the only anime series I enjoyed watching (it simply isn't my type of genre) and what made it stand out was the difference in tone and colors (a lot of black and grey) and compelling leading characters. They were clever and complex, both having their character strenghts and flaws. And I actually got a little hopeful when I realised the movie got Dafoe. I got a little less hopeful when I saw the big focus on the love interest and then downright depressed when.. well, I can't really say if I was more annoyed with Light suddenly having his IQ dropped because of those hollywood hormones or the way they turned L into... a boring, masked ninja/superhero? These people were brilliant in the series! Sure, they were crazy geniuses who both had an ego the size of a small city and who did some morally questionable stuff. BUT they were interesting and smart dammit! Now they... read murder books in the gym.
Fun fact: After putting it on the "to do" list years ago I have finally managed to watch Death Note (the show, not this movie) after watching this exact video a few days ago... worth it! :3