It's very hard to make a movie this bad on accident, what with a talented director like Adam Wingard involved and Netflix producing this. This was a willful attempt to make a horrible movie, and they succeeded.
I agree with the others who are sh*tting on this film. I hated who they casted as Light, and the acting was terrible. it felt rushed, and yeah, they should've done some CGI with Ryuk because he looked like a dude in a decent Halloween costume the anime>>>> I really hated who they casted as Light...smh
Watched it this morning. Not familiar with the source material. The actual movie was kind of stupid but the premise was interesting and that made it watchable for me. I agree that it would've been better as an 8-10 episode series.
I mean, who honestly thought this would be any good. The casting was all around was terrible, what an insult to genius level intellect characters like L & Light. Why do they still try to make their own spin on critically aclaimed animes?? Would you remix Hotel California??? I just don't get why they even bothered with this, if I'm Ohba, there's no money in the world that lets me taint an anime like Death Note the way they did. I like young actors like Nat Wolff, Keith Stanfield & Miles Teller, they really do have potentially, but unless they're going to do it justice... stop ****ing taking roles like Light Yagami, L & Reed Richards.
They made L into an emotional baby whose eyes looked like they were going to spurt waterfalls every other minute. And when we wasn't doing that, he did the manchild bit throwing **** all over the ground and screaming at people as if that made him more threatening. As Barkley would say, Turrible.
Ohba probably no longer has any control of the movie rights. Its out of his hands. I would rewatch the Japanese Live action movies because they did the characters justice.
Light is straight up Kobe in the series, and they cast some dude that screams like a little girl when he meets a shinigami?! No swish, just bish. L was an interpretation that at least falls in the scope of the character. All of his "eccentricities" where there as window dressing, but it didn't seem true to this portrayal. L in the series was this brilliant combination of intelligent and aloof. One of my favorite characters, but I didn't love this version. Still, I liked the actor, awesome on Atlanta.
If I ever get bored enough to hate-watch it, I'll stream it somewhere else. Just thinking of shitty Iron Fist makes me think how unlikely that will be.
The girl was attractive. Outside of that, this movie was ALMOST as bad as the dragon ball z live action movie.
