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Topic	Death Note (2017) is the worst movie I've seen this year
Unquestionable 09/03/17 2:36:32 AM #25:	legendarylemur posted... Unquestionable posted... I didn't mind the movie, it was trying it's own thing and I would rather have that than a rehash of the series (which the original Japanese live action movies basically were). Granted it played a bit too fast and loose with the notebook rules but it would be boring as hell to watch the same old "Light is a sociopath but charismatic and L is awkward but well meaning" dynamic. I wouldn't hail the new film as an incredible movie but I enjoyed it and hope they expand on it. Except the writers here didn't know how to write the L vs Light dynamic, and it came across more like a cop and robber situation more than a battle between 2 bright minds. Light couldn't even hold a candle to Mia who wasn't exactly particularly cunning either, just psychotic. L himself was a disgrace. He was far too emotional and gave actually 0 reason for any of his deduction. He used the Disney afternoon special movie excuse of "I figured it out, just believe it." And at the end of it all, it's really about a movie with 3 exactly the same character with slightly varying degree of psychotic and emotional, and the wimpiest one of them come out on top for no reason. If it were a Disney special, I would have a suspension of belief. But this was filmed like some dark suspenseful thriller, and it's just too goofy and not clever for it I agree it did not pull of the dynamic as well but I liked seeing a different interpretation for the characters. It was nice to see Light not instantly being a ruthless killing machine who thinks he's God or L being the "can do no wrong" secret weapon of the police. From my interpretation L wasn't given the time or resources after his first failed attempt to take down Light hence he becomes a bit of a laughing stock to the police and lost most of his backing followed by the death of his mentor/friend leading him to flip out. But yeah despite liking it there were a fair deal of problems. Ryuk was interesting in some ways, especially the warning about him, but the implication he did the killings was kind of stupid. Not to mention almost the entire Watari section making little to no sense but being a major driving point of the story. --- Immanentize the eschaton <cite>Unquestionable posted [p:885933824] in Death Note... [t:75736223]...</cite> <quote><cite>legendarylemur posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Unquestionable posted...</cite> <quote>I didn't mind the movie, it was trying it's own thing and I would rather have that than a rehash of the series (which the original Japanese live action movies basically were). Granted it played a bit too fast and loose with the notebook rules but it would be boring as hell to watch the same old "Light is a sociopath but charismatic and L is awkward but well meaning" dynamic. I wouldn't hail the new film as an incredible movie but I enjoyed it and hope they expand on it.</quote> Except the writers here didn't know how to write the L vs Light dynamic, and it came across more like a cop and robber situation more than a battle between 2 bright minds. Light couldn't even hold a candle to Mia who wasn't exactly particularly cunning either, just psychotic. L himself was a disgrace. He was far too emotional and gave actually 0 reason for any of his deduction. He used the Disney afternoon special movie excuse of "I figured it out, just believe it." And at the end of it all, it's really about a movie with 3 exactly the same character with slightly varying degree of psychotic and emotional, and the wimpiest one of them come out on top for no reason. If it were a Disney special, I would have a suspension of belief. But this was filmed like some dark suspenseful thriller, and it's just too goofy and not clever for it</quote> I agree it did not pull of the dynamic as well but I liked seeing a different interpretation for the characters. It was nice to see Light not instantly being a ruthless killing machine who thinks he's God or L being the "can do no wrong" secret weapon of the police. From my interpretation L wasn't given the time or resources after his first failed attempt to take down Light hence he becomes a bit of a laughing stock to the police and lost most of his backing followed by the death of his mentor/friend leading him to flip out. But yeah despite liking it there were a fair deal of problems. Ryuk was interesting in some ways, especially the warning about him, but the implication he did the killings was kind of stupid. Not to mention almost the entire Watari section making little to no sense but being a major driving point of the story. --- Immanentize the eschaton</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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