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death note, the movie
13 Dec 2006 12:58 amThe crowd stands horrified as the large TV screen broadcasts live a siege. Amongst the watching crowd, a boy lifts a GIGANTIC BLACK NOTE BOOK inscribed in large white letters DEATH NOTE and...
...I knew this was going to be a very long two hours.
The live action movie covers Raito's receiving the notebook to Misa receiving hers.
It is also best watched if one has not read the manga in a very, very, long time, and has also committed everything that has happened originally to the land of non-existence.
Oh, and it's a baaaaaaad idea to have watched the anime recently.
The appeal about Death Note is the incredible way Raito and L's minds work. The caution, the clues, the things we as readers have to think a long time about but which they jump swiftly to.
And so, someone please keelhaul the director for letting Raito leave his Death Note ON TOP OF HIS BOOKS ON HIS DESK UNCOVERED AND SAYING DEATH NOTE.
The movie attempts to make Raito more human than the manga BUT THAT DEFEATS THE WHOLE CONSTITUTION of his character. What is Raito without that arrogant justice, that childish pride, that complete apathy about human lives, his belief in himself as GOD?
And I'm sorry, Fujiwara fans, but he just doesn't have the presence, the invincible arrogance, the absolute mastery of himself, that Raito must.
I'm also incredibly pissed off that they made Misora Naomi a thousand times more the idiot. She was the only one! The only one who held Raito's life in her hands! Who almost almost finished him! And it was only a stroke of luck on Raito's part and a miscalculation on hers that saved Raito! The suspense of Raito trying to get her name will never be measured up to by.....whatever that crap in the movie was about.
And wtf is the girlfriend doing there?
The twist at the very end had almost enough cleverness to save it....
But by then I had said "WTF?!" too many times to care.
...I knew this was going to be a very long two hours.
The live action movie covers Raito's receiving the notebook to Misa receiving hers.
It is also best watched if one has not read the manga in a very, very, long time, and has also committed everything that has happened originally to the land of non-existence.
Oh, and it's a baaaaaaad idea to have watched the anime recently.
The appeal about Death Note is the incredible way Raito and L's minds work. The caution, the clues, the things we as readers have to think a long time about but which they jump swiftly to.
And so, someone please keelhaul the director for letting Raito leave his Death Note ON TOP OF HIS BOOKS ON HIS DESK UNCOVERED AND SAYING DEATH NOTE.
The movie attempts to make Raito more human than the manga BUT THAT DEFEATS THE WHOLE CONSTITUTION of his character. What is Raito without that arrogant justice, that childish pride, that complete apathy about human lives, his belief in himself as GOD?
And I'm sorry, Fujiwara fans, but he just doesn't have the presence, the invincible arrogance, the absolute mastery of himself, that Raito must.
I'm also incredibly pissed off that they made Misora Naomi a thousand times more the idiot. She was the only one! The only one who held Raito's life in her hands! Who almost almost finished him! And it was only a stroke of luck on Raito's part and a miscalculation on hers that saved Raito! The suspense of Raito trying to get her name will never be measured up to by.....whatever that crap in the movie was about.
And wtf is the girlfriend doing there?
The twist at the very end had almost enough cleverness to save it....
But by then I had said "WTF?!" too many times to care.
