Death Note

starring discount emma roberts read more

for some reason, a story that originally ran in a manga magazine aimed at japanese children has been watered down and cut up/filled with gore to hold the attention of an american adult audience. quite the insult to the original. read more

the main problem of death note is not how much it deviates from the original source. i watched the anime and yes, i think it's a legitimately entertaining experience, and yes, i think it's very easy to adapt. but if this version wants to bring a new focus to the premise then let it try. such a lax idea -a character who is given the power to kill and decides to apply his own sense of justice- can have many interpretations and none of them has to be inherently worse. but this film doesn't really do that. i would have praised it if it succeeded at doing something different with its premise but... read more

stop. okay, you already did it with fullmetal, stop making good anime into shity movies. read more

a tv series format would have given this adaptation the room it needed to breath. read more

this movie is disrespectful to anime and manga read more

اخختفوووو?? read more

this was some shit read more

3 death note read more

this movie is disrespectful to anime and manga read more

it's just as bad as people say it is. the standard shitty american take on foreign ip that misses everything that makes the original work. adds some really unnecessary edginess and gore and really, really fucks up the characters. i don't think anyone could argue with the fact that the two main characters of death note are one of the biggest reasons why the manga and anime worked. light being the completely misguided god of a new world that everyone desires, adhering to some weird morals he comes up with. in this film, he is an overly smug nerd whose first use of the notebook is prompted by... read more

I knew this was gonna be bad, I knew that I wouldn't like it, but here I am afterwards just hating everything about it. Not even DaFoe can save this, it's just crap. Light sucks, L sucks, everyone is a shell of their actual character. Trying to get the depth of Death Note's story into 1 movie is just such a mistake. I am willing to give the Duffer Bros a chance on their TV adaptation, but this movie is just real bad. read more

This was a disgrace to the original anime. For those of you who havent seen the anime, watch it. read more

My quick rating - 3;2/10. Try as I could; it was hard not to compare this to the source material. But taking that out of the equation; this really just wasn't very good. The concept is very solid; but it has been for over a decade; and has been done better. The actors in this do a really poor job; aside from the spot on perfect voice for Ryuk. Willem Dafoe is always money in the bank; but considering his CGI presence and infrequent usage; that won't help this mess. The whole movie seemed to take the source; and incorporate all the news of bullying; political unrest; etc. and wrap it all up in... read more

'You know, I'm something of a Shinigami myself' read more

This is a violation of my human rights. read more

It's unfortunately not uncommon in anime to see low-ambition projects that serve as little more than fanservice and exploitation vehicles. Death Note is not one of them, but the translation overseas has firmly shoehorned the material into that sphere of low-rent, late night programming: the characters don't matter, motivations are detached from the actions of the protagonists and any reason to watch the show is gone except for that tepid, screentime-padding constant: fanservice. And in the west, we do have our own kinds of fanservice- the stereotypical teen horror flick, replete with lazy read more