Alright, so I know it is a little late or whatever but I like to talk about Netflix's adaptation of the amazing anime, Death Note. When I first watched the anime series, I wasn't quite sure why everyone enjoyed it so much but after sitting on it for a minute and waiting it out. I grew to like everything about it. But the show is not what I wanted to talk about.
So, every time I get on a social media page, I always see a couple of comments about the movie that came out this past August. They all said the same thing like, "Wow, that was great," or "They did a good job and made it better than the original." And I'm just sitting here thinking, NO BITCH, QUIT LYING. I had some free time a couple of days after it had been released and was super excited to see how it turned out because it was all anyone and everyone would talk about. Well, it was quite the disappointment. My boyfriend caught a quick glance of it while he was playing his video game and not even two minutes had past and he told me how awful he thought it was. Most of the things in the movie was off. If you were going to take a masterpiece like Death Note and remake it, at least attempt to be accurate if you were going to use terrible actors. But lets talk about them, shall we?
Light's character was kind of a genius and kept his emotion in checked 98% of the time but in the movie, he was a complete pussy. Thanks Nat Wolff, you're greeeeaaaat. You're the best female screamer ever. If I was Ryuk, I'd be laughing at your ass too. His character was a complete idiot until the end of the movie when he write up a plan real quick to get rid of his girlfriend and get the book back into his possession. But other than that, he made all of the wrong decisions. He wasn't even close to what little family he got in the movie. His character was a little shithead. Also, if you were going to change his last name, why Turner?? The absolute dumbest thing this poor Light Turner did was instantly reveal the death note to that psychotic hoe, Mia. Lord help us all. You dun fucked up this time boy.
Then L's character. While my boyfriend didn't like his character either, I found him quite tolerable. He reacted to things like I think he should've so I had little to no problems with him. I would be hella upset too if the guy I knew my whole life was going to die, shit. Watari is like my second favorite character in the movie by the way. He only had small scenes but he did his job well. I don't have much to say about these two. Yeah, L was played by a black guy but with the background he had in the movie, made it work.
And the worst character of all was played by Margaret Qualley who I think is an excellent actress but I don't think Misa, or Mia Sutton, was portrayed correctly. I absolutely CAN NOT stand Mia Sutton. Mia was a complete bitch. She used him when in the show, Misa just wanted Light's love. She had a certain admiration for him because of how he was using his death note's power. Mia Sutton, however, is a little twat who gets off on killing people. She never had her own book or shinigami. It seemed like the only reason she started dating Light was because of the book. The first scene she was in seemed like there really could be some real sparks between these two characters but later on, it turned cold and ugly. If you truly loved someone, you would never never never never everrrrrr put their name in a death note. How stupid can these character's get?! However, I did find it clever how Light had killed her off and saved himself. That right there was pretty amazing. She had a chance to live but she made a stupid move and it was lights out for Mia Sutton. I don't know, man. I just hated everything about this character.
The BEST character in the movie, hands down, was Ryuk who was played by the talented Willem Dafoe. What a great actor. I wasn't quite sure how I felt about this at first because obviously, there was a Goblin, from Spider Man, feel to the character. But how else were the going to portray Ryuk. He was on point all throughout the freaking movie! He looked pretty good considering how they did it too. The way he entered each scene, moved, talked; All of his scenes were great. No joke.
I don't know if I just flat out dislike this movie because of how much it is inaccurate to the show or what but this movie was super fucking awful and if you haven't seen it yet, don't. Just don't. Save yourself some time and go take your dog for a walk or something. Doing your homework would be less torture than watching this shit. If it wasn't supposed to be based on Death Note's anime series, it would've been okay. Maybe. 40 from Rotten Tomatoes whatttt. LMFAO.
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