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Netflix's Death Note
DIR By: Lumaria
Date: September 27, 2017, 12:53 pm
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So I finally saw Netflix's take on Death Note and I was right
about everything.
The biggest problem I had with this version is that there is no
character development whatsoever.
Light acts like a emo weird kid who can't move on in his life.
Miss acts like an edgy girl who just in it for the excitement
and entertainment. Light's dad has no character traits at all
other than being a typical cop and a typical distant father.
They should've used brand new characters entirely instead of
trying to Americanize the original cast. The only interesting
one was Ryuk but even he didn't get any spotlight.
Another big issue is that the Rules of the Death Note were so
oversimplified and at one point had too much control of the
person using it that it just doesn't feel like we are seeing a
movie about a death note. The movie also suggests that Ryuk is
the one who makes all these deaths happen in one particular
scene. But overall the Rules of the Death Note are casually
explained only when it's relevant to the plot.
What made Death Note great (at least in the TV version) is that
they explained rules that would be relevant later and also use
cutaways to give us extra rules to help explain any gaps or
possible holes.
Death Note isn't meant to be a movie. All the other films even
in Japanese work because people are familiar with the series.
This film tries to do the exact same thing but if it's going to
reboot it into an American setting and change the Rules of the
Death Note, it has to act like we are seeing it for the first
time.
It's terrible film. But that's my thoughts. What are yours?
#Post#: 2090--------------------------------------------------
Re: Netflix's Death Note
DIR By: 変態
Date: September 27, 2017, 1:28 pm
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The characters were opposite from the manga. On the netflix
version, Light is wuss + not so smart. Misa is
possessive/dominant and, L has some kind of social (or probably
mental) problem. Simple heart attack turned very gory too. They
totally destroyed it - or maybe it's just the way how it's
supposed to be on US version???
#Post#: 2091--------------------------------------------------
Re: Netflix's Death Note
DIR By: Lumaria
Date: September 27, 2017, 3:49 pm
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Agreed. It seems like they were trolling everyone with this
version.
#Post#: 2093--------------------------------------------------
Re: Netflix's Death Note
DIR By: 変態
Date: September 28, 2017, 2:50 am
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The director had to delete his twitter account because he was
flooded with complaints, harassment, and death threats.
#Post#: 2094--------------------------------------------------
Re: Netflix's Death Note
DIR By: Lumaria
Date: September 29, 2017, 12:51 am
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I find that both sad and funny. Seriously I think that should've
been expected when you screw up that badly.
#Post#: 2095--------------------------------------------------
Re: Netflix's Death Note
DIR By: Crackhead Johny
Date: September 29, 2017, 11:16 pm
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It was "made for 'Merika!" garbage
#Post#: 2107--------------------------------------------------
Re: Netflix's Death Note
DIR By: DBNext
Date: October 8, 2017, 10:24 am
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Unpopular opinion for sure, but I didn't like Ryuk. He was
portrayed as a sinister and manipulative genius, when
originally, he was just a bored death god who stumbled upon a
fun little side thing with Light and rode it until it ended. My
guess is they probably didn't want to give Willem Dafoe such a
background role, so they just threw him in the spotlight and
made him out to be the mastermind behind it all.
Lots of switched roles here. Light's the innocent idiot and
Misa's the smart, blood thirsty sicko. Sorry, Mia, not Misa. I
genuinely think they believed they were smart doing all of these
changes. Maybe they would have worked better if they'd have
hired actors a league above "cardboard cutouts".
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