Quote (TinyRick @ Sep 5 2017 06:41pm)
he never actually wrote his name in. it cut off at that. they foreshadowed it when he said earlier "I am not a killer" and reinforcing the idea of how he does not use violence by saying things like "Guns are distracting" or "dislike being around the action". Then they show him struggling to write his name in the last page but he laughed because he couldn't do it... then they cut-scene to the turner kid alive in the hospital bed telling his dad everything.
and i never said i liked the turner kid or any of that shit. lol. it was just an entertaining movie about an idea I've never heard or thought of before. It was interesting pretty much most of the time and it was actually pretty easy to follow. acting wasnt the best, but not every movie can have will smith, dave franco, and jason statham
sequel is probably gunna be about stopping it from happening again and turner+L+dad work together or some gay shit. now that is what they're probably going to do and tbh, it'll really fuck it up.
That's not foreshadowing, that's holding the viewers hand and telling them what happened. What that scene really was saying that L killed him, unless for some reason the movie did super well and Netflix being the whores that they are, could say that he didn't, just so they could do a sequel. However, logically, that wouldn't matter anyways, since now L has a piece of the death note, and he has all the physical evidence he needs to get light locked away for life. There's no logical way a sequel could be done, but logic isn't exactly a strong point for these people. If you're giving it a 6 solely because of the originality factor, then maybe you missed the part where this isn't original? Everyone here has said that they took the idea directly from something else that was made a decade ago and butchered it to shit. This is not original, it's an idea that's been done, an idea that's had three movies, and an idea we've seen multiple variations of.
I'm not sure how you can give a movie with terrible acting, a bad story, and the worst fucking character development imaginable a 6/10, but it is your opinion and you're entitled to it. Just doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
It is hard no matter what as someone who watched the anime and knowing what the characters were intended to be to judge this film without bias. I am a fairly critical person when it comes to analyzing all films and I can say confidently that this would be around a 2.5-3.5 had I not seen the source material. Knowing the source material, it's a 0-1. I've explained why above from an objective standpoint, but just to reiterate, the acting was atrocious, the character development was painfully non-sensible, and the overall plot and tone were just fucking comical, instead of dark and tense, which was obviously what they were aiming for. Almost everything about it from an objective standpoint was below average to laughably bad.
They did fuck up every single character worse than you could even imagine. You may say you don't like anime, but I'm guessing that's just because you haven't ever tried to watch a good one. I've had at least a dozen friends tell me that anime is stupid and after I've made them watch just a couple they've been hooked and started texting me constantly for recommendations. Death Note is one of the best starter animes. It gets to the point right off the bat, it's characters are fascinating, the story is amazing and has so many "AWWWW WTF" moments in it that it'll keep you entertained from beginning to end and it's got enough action and violence to sate just about everyone.
This post was edited by jadeoshbogosh on Sep 5 2017 09:38pm