LITERALLY THE WHOLE POINT of death note is for Light to be “perfect”, perfect grades, perfect demeanor, perfect vibes just so you would never, ever think or assume that he’s Kira because that’s how deep his god complex runs and that movie SHAT on the entire premise of the story.
HONESTLY. If people started getting murder everybody is gonna suspect the weird kid who drinks his milk with his toes, not the star athlete. I've gotten away with sooo much stuff, including very blatantly stealing shit, because I have a reputation as "the good kid".
"So here's an idea, we change him from being a seemingly perfect popular Japanese guy to an outcast white guy who's unhinged. That way Americans can relate." "Yes, I'm sure most Americans can relate to a school shooter."
Robin Sequira, Alura Storm-Screamer Yeah definitely because I definitely started getting into anime and stuff around 7th grade (age 11 for me) and death note was one of the first I’d seen at all but none of it was shocking or jarring for me. There’s also not a lot of gore or unnecessary cursing which is probably why the rating is so different from the movie.
I’m so annoyed they had to put some sort of reason behind lights behavior by being an outcast and losing his mom to give him this victim complex. Like the world is against him. But in the anime there’s none of that. He’s the perfect student, has a normal healthy family, has a promising career path, can get all the girls. Yet despite all that, deep down he has this narcissism that drives his decision to kill “bad guys”
EXACTLY, Imo the main part that made the og death note so perfect was that it’s just narcissism and a god complex. There’s things called a fucking mental illness, someone doesn’t need to have a fucked up life to do some fucked up things. Nor did we need to give Light a reason to do what he did. We as the audience was supposed to question if what he’s doing is okay, if he’s actually the good guy or the bad guy maybe even neither. Not just pity him with the “oh he had a bad life, they deserve this” bullshit.
He was a bored psychopath in the anime and that’s what made it so interesting to watch and the ending so satisfying. Lazy writers don’t understand good characters.
The anime story line as it was made it unique ,interesting and all round just a good series to watch they didn't give him a victim complex just because he was the main character and what Netflix did to flip around the reasoning behind his actions and give him "reasonable justification" just because he was the main character just ruined it tbh he was a narcissistic psychopath and that is not illegal for the main character to be this way 💀 it gives the story a good fresh twist
ITS LIKE THEY DONT DO THEIR RESEARCH. For fucks sake, if people are gonna say something means something in another language, MAKE SURE ITS THE RIGHT WORD/LANGUAGE.
What enrages me the most is that there was no need to make all of the changes they did to the plot. The plot was amazing before, so they could have just been lazy and used the original story. But nOPE- Edit: spelling
And literally using kira was dumb asf cause Kira is just one of those words in Japan that deadass... I don’t know the correct word.. just it’s basically the Japanese Verizon of an American word since Americans moved there like years ago... BAD EXPLANATION!! I know but you can do research if u want! But hey that’s why the Netflix adaptation is dumb!!
When I was like 12, my Spanish class was playing Kahoot, so like the absolute weeb trash I am, I made my screen name "Kira" and didn't tell anyone. I got first place and got to listen to an entire 8th grade Spanish class (who knew absolutely nothing about anime) demanding to know who Kira was, and I was l i v i n g. And yeah that might be my deepest darkest secret.
I was *so* excited about that movie when it came out. Went to the movies, on my birthday, to go see it. We got barely halfway through before I dragged my mom out because I was just so angry at literally the entirety of the movie. Nothing was good. Absolutely Nothing.
What are you talking about there was not and never has been a live action adaption of ATLA. (Depending on the person, there was never a sequel called legend of Korra neither lol)
@@destinynanaakrong8584 You’re completely wrong?! Ryuk explicitly says he is on nobody’s side and doesn’t care what happens to anyone. He just wants to watch what happens. He only came to the human realm because he was bored and wanted to see what a human would do with a Death Note. But he didn’t encourage Light to do anything.
Actually, I don't think they were trying to translate "Light" by calling him "Kira", though they did make a mistake still. Kira is a Russian name, and their error is calling him the female form, because it should actually be "Kir". In Russian, Кир = Kir and it means "Leader of the people" and given his goals in the story, it's a great name choice. They just made a mistake giving him the female form of the name. If that was their thinking, I personally like it, it fits. I just don't think they tried to do a direct translation of "light" and screwed up that epically. That doesn't make sense to me. Perhaps they even knew Kira was female but thought it would be easier for their Japanese audience to pronounce and get behind and made the choice to go with Kira over Kir despite the misgendering. This is all my interpretation though.
@@jademoon7938 Kir is not a Russian name though :D There is a famous Soviet writer Kir Bulychev, but that's a nickname, actually based on a female name Kira :D Also, I think Kir is a Russian version for Cyrus, but it's still not a Russian name, just a weird phonetic reading of a Greek name. But I actually see your point, what you say makes more sense than just horrible job at translating, femeninity of the name aside. I was just basing off what the video says and didn't do a research, so good job you 😁
That could’ve been an interesting concept if they changed Light’s name too. If this wasn’t marketed as a poor rehash and the characters weren’t “Light 2.0”and “Misa without the S” they could sell it as an entirely new story. We really only know the story of the Death Note told through its interactions with one character who’s the lead of every retelling, Light in Japan in 2003/2006 (manga/anime). What if someone else, a girl in America, got it in 2017? That could’ve been a cool take on it. But every adaptation insists on keeping the strangest parts “accurate” while changing all the most important parts and not for the better.
I'm very upset by them changing Light from attractive, privileged, popular, charismatic young adult with a stable family life, who got into the best university in the country to "high school outcast #999". He was basically guaranteed success in life, but after gaining Death Note it wasn't enough or him, he wanted power and to become God. Original Light just seemed so prim and proper from the outside, people weren't immediately suspicious of him. Light Turner is nothing if not shady as hell.
Honestly some producers/people in Hollywood probably relate to the other version of light so they need it to drastically change in order to “relate” to teens.... although teenagers, and every other human, needs to see various kinds of archetypes of people and minds in order for all of us to get a small consensus on the different types of humans in our world..... there are def people like Light who exist and some of those people are in the entertainment industry lmao
Also how are you going to try to stay “ambiguous” but put severe pity on your character by making everyone that isn’t him a douche??? Like of course the audience will root for the main character but ironically, you wanted things to remain ambiguous in its themes and within the Characters thoughts themselves??? Makes no sense lmao
“Ya’ll couldn’t leave it alone!!, Ya’ll can’t leave nothing alone!” I felt that with my soul, Kennie! All these reboots and remakes drives me up the wall!
As a person of Russian descent I can vouche with 100% certainty: there is no word for light in russian that's even vaguely pronounced "kira". Not even a little bit.
i mean, if you go to wiktionary, it is a name... which... comes from another name meaning господин/госпожа... and that name came from another name meaning как солнце i don't even have anything else to say about this. the instant i heard that, i saw red and was about to throw something at a wall
Maybe your grandparents or great*X grandparents knew a Russian word like that. *Nah, JK.* The screenwriters for this film obviously aren't that smart or deep.
@@thisasiankidistrashfordram374 Well, I speak Russian fluently. I doubt the screenwriters do. Plus, I am Greek Russian. Don't get me started on the things screenwriters neglect to research .
On top of the gore being unnecessary, it was also really poorly done. Like, people don't fall apart like ground beef wrapped in toilet paper when hit by a vehicle lmao
The thing about Yagami Light is that he's a completely normal dude, he has a great life ー he's smart, good-looking, everyone likes him, he has a loving family, they're wealthy, etc... And he still becomes this messed up serial killer. There's no tragic backstory or anything like that. And this movie completely ruins it by killing off his mom.
@@nont18411 But then that's "boring" and "evil for the sake of evil"...I'll admit, a good sympathetic background could work in how you know they are bad but you still don't feel bad for them. However, if thrown in the face too much, Imma lose all sympathy they tried to build up...and I do kind of miss evil characters that are just evil...
@@nont18411 I do think he's a sympathetic character though because he's a realistic one. He's human, with human morality and an ego. Like, I consider myself a pretty good person but I don't know if I could be trusted with that power
Completely unrelated to DeathNote: I aspire to someday have the same refined vocabulary Kendall has when speaking about shitty movies. I feel more educated after watching those videos lol
You should check out I Hate Everything's Search for the Worst. He's English so you KNOW his vocab is over-the-top good, and he's a master movie reviewer
The ONLY entertaining scene in the live action was when Ryuk first appeared and we witness Light shit his pants while having a wholeass breakdown. It wasn’t accurate but I have not laughed that hard in a while
Light's a bitch in the original anime. Can't believe people just describe him the way he wants to be seen by others. He screams when he sees Ryuk and falls on his ass, and then he's like "Nah, fam, I wasn't scared, I was expecting you actually" it's pathetic.
futurestoryteller I, surprisingly, don’t find that too out of place tbh. You randomly get a notebook that can kill anyone, it’s not far off to think that it belongs to some higher power. Then, you find some random creature in your room without any warning. Regardless of if he saw it coming or not, it’s not impossible to think he’d get scared because some creature (a death god) showed up without any notice. That would scare the shit out of practically anybody.
futurestoryteller I think the only reason why the anime scene and the live action one are different is because in the anime (because Light expected some “god” showing up) he calmed down quicker.
futurestoryteller My argument still stands dude but whatever floats your boat ig (but I think what you’re confusing is him being startled at Ryuk’s sudden appearance and being scared of Ryuk, which I’d say he wasn’t for the latter).
Actually light: *sets up a trap that will explode and set fire to his house if the drawer with the death note is opened normally* Some random white washed man: Do you wanna see my murder book?
Wait what? “Kira” in russian means “light”? As a person, who’s spoken russian my whole life i facepalmed SO hard. It’s stupid to expect them to watch the original, when they didn’t even want to look up a dictionary 🤦♀️
Thank You! that was the point that had me going wtf on so many levels. like, you couldn't even bother to pretend to care what an actual language means? GOOGLE TRANSLATE IS FREE.
I'm pretty sure it's the same with Celtic. I speak gaeilge which is a derivative of Celtic and the letter k doesn't even exist. Let's not even get into the fact that solas is light in gaeilge lmao
I was confused by it too as Russian is my first language. There is no "kira" word that means light, but there is quite rare female name Kira, which as I researched had meaning of "sun" or "ray of light" in Persian, from where it came from. So confusing... 😅
So my boyfriend (Russian) loooves death note. And he's sitting next to me while I watch your video. And when you said "it's Russian for light" he looks at me like this: 🤨 I go back to the moment in the video. He goes close to the mic like this: 🤨👂 Listens, looks at me and goes like this: 🤨.... "No. God they must really have fucked that movie up. Glad I never saw that" 😂😂
I remember watching a review for this movie when it first came out and someone in the comments said “Why does Light care about Misa now? He didn’t give a damn about these hoes” 😂
Kennie's reaction to Lakeith Stanfield playing L is the exact same reaction I had when I realized Dev Patel played Zuko in the live action Avatar: The Last Airbender
LeeTaemins HairDye Super Mario Bros, with Bob Hoskins as Mario and John Leguizamo as Luigi. Came out in 93, I think. I saw it in the theater with my best friend in high school. It was awful but it's a fun awful.
I remmebered something: the first meeting between Yagami Light and Ryuuk. Yagami just flinched and he said "I was waiting for you, I knew this book would come with "consequences". So what you want?" Light Turner got scared like a little bitch! God damn, Yagami, they did you so dirty!
To be fair, it makes sense why Light Turner freaked out so much (besides the fact that he's a weakling coward): they whitewashed it. Since Shinigami are a part of Japanese mythology that people in Japan would know about it, it makes sense why Light Yagami wouldn't be that scared, and combined with his personality it helps reinforce his cold, calculated, always-keeps-his-cool personality. Here, falling over and letting out a ridiculous screech makes sense for Light because despite the fact that they want to make it like he has the same personality as Yagami, he *is* a wimp.
I think screaming and falling out of your chair is a little more than "flinching" but I see what you're saying even though you're technically lying about what happened. However it makes sense that he did get scared at first because it humanizes his character more. He wasn't some egotistical mindless killer.
The fact that they felt a person having the power to kill anyone anywhere on the planet, using only a name & face, with no way to defend yourself from it *wasn’t scary by itself* is the most American thing about this adaptation. Not because Americans wouldn’t find that frightening but because the people who made this assumed they wouldn’t. Because of course they would assume that. Hollywood has spent over 50 years blowing away bad guys so of course they can’t see it as scary. No, you need gore to be scary. And the clown faced death g-d needs to be scary.
The most scary and intense situations in average American movies according to the producers - shooting, shooting, shooting, huge group of political people and a president of US sitting in a basement in front of a huge screen and thinking, shooting, shooting, "Hey, your girlfriend/kid might die if you don't bring me this" , shooting, shooting....
imo light in the anime and manga was fucking terrifying - he's so manipulative, cold, intelligent and charming. but that also makes him fun to watch because you're always wondering what he's gonna do next. light turner is just an edgy bastard who thinks he's tough
Also the fact that they wrote light to be a big outcast who gets treated like dog shit compared to actual narcissists who are like his character lmaoooo like if you make pity on your character by making everyone that isn’t him a douche, then of course the audience will root for the main character but ironically, you want things to remain ambiguous in its themes and within the Characters thoughts themselves??? Makes no sense lmao
@@bubblegum-uo5pf I read the manga and he was easily the scariest thing in it. The fact that the freaking Shingami was comedic relief really says a lot about Light as a character and what he did.
The only time I remember L being panicked and shoutung in the original, was when Misa's recording on the news said the word shinigami. And he just screamed out of nowhere. But it was cute at least!
Should've let Neil Breen do his own version of Death Note where he plays both L and Light, and they're long lost twin brothers, because why the hell not. At least he's really good at portraying narcissistic geniuses.
agree!!! they are the best live-ACTION films I have ever seen! characters , story , the set, the costumes,even the dirt in the costumes hahaha the fights! it was a delight to watch!! :)
The single thing that made me the most mad is that when they used Watari to find L's real name, they literally only wrote down "Watari". Like we need a first and last name, god damn.
He was also being controlled for days which would be impossible both because people can't be controlled that long before the death and there is a limited amount of time to write the details of the death after the name.
@@WolframiteWraith when you can manipulate someone and extend the time of death for 23 days. but you have to write everything you want the person to do before dying in the extra 60seconds after writting their name, you can't like..call them and give them orders...
I rolled my eyes so far back when I saw that part “do you really wanna know”. Light hid that damn book with his life. I’m glad I didn’t watch it. No regrets
When Kennie said "Beautiful ass, talented ass, would throw this ass, Lakeith Stanfield-" I swear I've never agreed with someone so much abt a great actor being in a sh!t movie
OG Light: *hides his Death Note in a complex way in his desk that if you get it out wrong, the room catches on fire.* Movie Light: *shows the book to the first girl he sees*
Original Death Note: Robbing a bank? Heart attack! Planning a terrorist attack? Heart attack! Pissed light off? Heart attack! Talking about Kira on the news? Heart attaaaaaaaccckk!!!!!!
@@SoraLover1994 death note will let you choose how someone dies if it is within reason but Light just didn't go for horrible gruesome deaths. I believe only 2 people he killed did not die from heart attacks. Deathn note did not rely on gore to be good, it relied on human fear
@@lifeoflyricj1699 I was dredging through memories wondering if he HAD, and I did remember that only a few people didn't die of heart attacks. o.o You're definitely right.
Lyric P. Yeah! Like the one for the fbi dude’s fiancé’s death. When she just went “missing”. But it was super nerve wracking. And then the elaborate one where he got the robber to see ryuk and then tried to shoot and him and then got hit by a car and die? Like dldosjxosodfj his elaborate kills are SMART and MAKE SENSE. The live action was just like “GOREEEEEEEE”
My issue wasn't that they didn't follow the anime. On the contrary, I always encourage that if you're gonna do a remake, make it different AND unqiue. My problem is that this movie tried to both follow the source material AND be original, which resulted in creating a horrid first draft of the original that could never stand on its own. It was an unholy marriage of conflicting ideas.
YES THIS EXACTLY! (I’m copying my reply to another comment here about how they reversed Light to act more like Misa/Mia and vice versa). That could’ve been an interesting concept if they changed Light’s name too. If this wasn’t marketed as a poor rehash and the characters weren’t “Light 2.0”and “Misa without the S” they could sell it as an entirely new story. We really only know the story of the Death Note told through its interactions with one character who’s the lead of every retelling, Light in Japan in 2003/2006 (manga/anime). What if someone else, a girl in America, got it in 2017? That could’ve been a cool take on it. But every adaptation insists on keeping the strangest parts “accurate” while changing all the most important parts and not for the better.
I’m a Japanese 21yo who watched all the Anime series, the sensational Japanese live adaptation movie, the 10 episode drama series, and the Manga..❣️(I think my generation watched everything surrounding death note in Japan lol) The most upsetting point for me might be Ryuku(リューク). There is a reason why he had to be the comical relief...🙄 the reason why Ryuku dropped his Death note in the first place was BECAUSE HE WAS BOARD, that’s the motivation of this Shimogami and shows the core message “humans are evil”!!!!!😒 And what’s up with Misa’s character.....🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 I mean, huh....(frustrated sigh). I don’t know how and why the production company fucked up the sensational first encounter between L and Kira🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
@@davelewis8270 the movies in particular are very good, kenichi matsuyama is L, for real, he is great. and the rest of the cast is really good too. the movies are from the warner bros so you have them in original version and dubbed.
Girl I am SO HAPPY someone out there understands my rage about this adaptation. I love Death Note, it was one of my first animes. The morality, ideals of justice, clashing of intelligence and views of how the world should be, just UUUUGH it is everything. After watching this shitshow of a remake, I had to look up wtf the team was thinking. I found an interview online. Here's what the director of Netflix's awful Death Note remake thinks the story is about: A tragic teenage romance story. A TRAGIC TEENAGE ROMANCE STORY. A TRAGIC. TEENAGE. ROMANCE. STORY. Fucking why.
The fact that they killed Light's mom and his little sister is just completely absent were two of the many things that annoyed me the most, but especially because the fact that Light had a normal perfect life as a top-student with a perfect traditional Japanese family made it more significant for him to be so narcissistic, to the point of him even thinking (briefly) about killing his own little sister just to get her out of the way. When you give a character this dARk pAsT and dIfFiCuLT sChoOL LiFe and dEaD PaREnTs you're not only just performing an overused trope that everyone is tired of, but also getting rid of a key aspect of the original character. Light Yagami is narcissistic, merciless, strategic, manipulating. Light Turner is just a dumb kid who let the power of banging the cheerleader go over his head.
Yeah, I actually like the way his eyes look and how he's always in shadow like that- I just like it on its own, not as Ryuk. But as a separate concept it does look neat.
When I was in cosmetology school I went outside on break to find one of my friends on the back steps watching this on her phone. I recognized the scene she was on from the trailer and said "Oh hey, Death Note, that's cool. I loved the anime. I was thinking about watching the live action too." She didn't even look up when she IMMEDIATELY answered, "Don't. It's fucking garbage." I asked her why she was still watching it and she straight up death stared at her phone like she hadn't slept in a week out of sheer rage and spite and said in that "quiet rage" way, "I started it. _I have to finish it._" And I will never forget that
Starts Video: Me 4 minutes into the video: "As bad as Cats? It can't be that bad" Me 30 minutes later: *Currently rewatching the entire Death Note series to cleanse myself of this live-action disaster*
What? Kira doesn't mean light in russian, *why* would someone do that, there are people who speak this language. Imagine being russian and someone says to your face: "kira means light in russian" And you are like: что?
It really bothers me that whoever created the movie seemed to miss the whole point that Light is kind of a sociopath... just giving him a genuine love interest goes against the whole idea of who Light is. He doesn't care about falling in love and starting some Bonnie and Clyde relationship, he USES women who are interested in him for his own advantage. The creators of this movie just didn't seem to understand that Light was more complicated than just being some form of anti-hero.
Ikr? Vampire Diaries, Death Note, Percy Jackson, Assassin's Creed. No matter what, adaptations are always the worst. GOT was decent at first, but stopped being decent when they started deviating from the books. The only adaptation I liked was Lord Of the Rings, I thought they really did a good job at keeping only the essential elements ('cause the story was too complex and long) while keeping it true to its nature.
"An altercation with a bully during the rain, because apparently no one's afraid of pneumonia." I think this may be an artifact of the setting change haha; the number of Seattleites that have told me "I never use an umbrella" with a large amount of pride is astonishing. I never will understand the sense of self-satisfaction that comes from getting soggy.
The "rain" in Seattle is more of a mist and not really a full blown rain. Most of the time you aren't outside long enough to get "soggy". And nope, I didn't use an umbrella when I lived in Seattle. Hoodies were Life.
@@websilk I've currently lived in Seattle for three years so far, have no car, and have encountered plenty of heavy rain here. I personally LOVE umbrellas. Especially since for me wearing clothes I like is really important for my mental health and I need to protect what I wear.
I live in Seattle and I’ve probably seen an umbrella once or twice in my lifetime lol. The North Face, Pantagonia, Colombia windbreaker jackets are what you see, EVERYWHERE lol
@@sandraespino549 Huh, I wonder if certain parts of Seattle are more umbrella heavy than others? I see a few other people using umbrellas around every time I do. It's definitely a minority, but I still always see a few whenever I go out in the wet. Maybe certain places are more windy than others or something.
Dude this movie had moments where I was like, damn, there’s potential here. L’s actor was SUBLIME. L’s script was awful but his actor did amazing, I could have accepted him as L if he’d had better writing. Mia was also like, okay. She was more of a Light than Light. If only she wasn’t meant to be Misa, which leads me into my main thought. If this were meant to be one of those “different story in the same universe” thing? It would still need lots of work, but I think it would remove a lot of the problems I have with the film. Just make it a kid who got a different Death Note in america. Also, sometimes the cinematography was actually pretty awesome. It’s just the writing man. The writing is horrendous. Thanks for covering this one!
I think I would've preferred if they had genderswaped Light and that Mia was in fact Light... If you're gonna take artistic liberties just really go for it and do it well...
hyasinsu Honestly I think Mia should have just been her own character. She was clearly the better fit to inherit the Death Note, but I think if she were made into a new incarnation of Light she still wouldn’t compare to the original. She’d be better as her own thing entirely. So yeah, they really should have embraced the different with this one and made it its own separate story in the same universe, imo. Def agree they should have taken more liberties
Whoa you're right. A different deathnote story in America would have been much better. I can accept a different story if that's what it's meant to be. This "adaptation" is insulting in so many ways.
“Ya’ll couldn’t leave it alone!!, Ya’ll can’t leave nothing alone!” I feel that to the extent that if I could, I would turn Netflix's adaptions of Death Note and Saint Seiya into the potato chip that Light so epically eats just for them to be gone from the face of the Earth
Highly recommend a water pick! Got food stuck in a "gum-hole" when I got my wisdom teeth removed and it rotten and got infected... Wasn't pleasant Also, yay DUBS! Half my family is dyslexic so I really only watch dubbed anime so we can watch together. Lots of purists who get mad about that XD
I’m sorry you faced people like that :( I love watching anime in sub and it would be my first choice when it comes to watching anime but I know better to not attack people for watching an anime in dub and I know others who are like this as well :)
Honestly? I really like dubs. I like the voice actors, they put a lot of time and effort into them bc they have to match the mouth flaps and animation perfectly, and yeah, sometimes it's nice to have an anime that I've seen a few times just playing in the background while I go do something else and still be able to understand what's going on. (Also dub bloopers are some of the best things in the world.)
I feel like the only reason they changed as much as they did is because they’re trying to shove tons of episodes and build up into an hour and a half. Like, Death Note the anime took its time because that’s the way it should be. This movie really probably shouldn’t have been made.
yea. i believe there's several japanese live action movies to build up the story and tension and stuff. i havent seen them but theyre probably better than the netflix one. the musical cuts the stuff with near and mello out entirely but its still WAY better than this lol (also its probably my favourite death note adaptation and favourite musical).
@@bubblegum-uo5pf i've seen the japanese movies (excluding light up the new world) and they are all WAY better than this. each of them is over 2 hours long and they manage to add a lot from the manga and anime into them. the story is different from the get go (light's already in college when it starts, and his girlfriend is a different character) and the characters are slightly different, but it works. light is even more of an asshole, ryuk is more empathic, misa has way more layers to her and l is more clearly love deprived and you can see that he's just a kid as well (helps that the actor was only 20 and younger than the actor who played light). even sayu is more prominent. only weird thing to me is they made rem a guy.
Netflix: Lets take this hugely popular anime with a massive fan base because it’s actually really good, and change everything about it. WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?!?!?!? I honestly don’t understand what producers/writers/directors are even thinking most of the time. You try to sell something by advertising it as something we already love, but shit all over it. And people wonder why audiences are over it.
changing light yagami to light turner sounds like something i would make up in a satire piece about whitewashing, it's just so buffoonish 😭 anyway, although kennie suffered a lot this was a great ad for the original death note which i'm now inspired to watch so thanks for that haha
As a white person I would like to apologize because this is what happens when we get a hold on Japanese or honestly any foreign cinema... We whitewash it and ruin it. I’ve been a HUGE fan of Death Note for a long time, and when I saw that literally every character was white, I genuinely felt like I got punched in the gut. Like I was so mad, I felt it in my stomach.
There’s no need to apologize for the atrocity of this film just because you’re white. Everyone, regardless of ethnicity, age, gender, or sexuality can agree this movie was crap.
This ain't Death Note, this Decease Journal
Mow F. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
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I spit out my drink lmao
accurate title for what this is 😂
HAHAHHAHAHA 😂
LITERALLY THE WHOLE POINT of death note is for Light to be “perfect”, perfect grades, perfect demeanor, perfect vibes just so you would never, ever think or assume that he’s Kira because that’s how deep his god complex runs and that movie SHAT on the entire premise of the story.
Farah mos like people would suspect his school shooter ass immediately what’s the point
Meow Cuizon sCHOOL SHOOTER ASS🗿
YES YES YES
*preach*
HONESTLY. If people started getting murder everybody is gonna suspect the weird kid who drinks his milk with his toes, not the star athlete. I've gotten away with sooo much stuff, including very blatantly stealing shit, because I have a reputation as "the good kid".
honestly the worst part about the movie is light's dye job
So tragic
Oh no, oh baby no
Did he piss off the director...? I wanna know who approved of this and I want to know why 😩
@@bellaelleira im weak 😭
@@bellaelleira light yagami would never lol
"So here's an idea, we change him from being a seemingly perfect popular Japanese guy to an outcast white guy who's unhinged. That way Americans can relate."
"Yes, I'm sure most Americans can relate to a school shooter."
bruh lmao
InvisibleRen 💀💀
InvisibleRen WHERE IS THE LIE🤣🤣🤣🤣
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
i mean they're not wrong
light yagami: smart, popular, bit of a psychopath, kinda hot ngl
light turner: kills people to simp for a girl
I was waiting for someone to admit it. Light Yagami could hit it
@@natasha9766 lmao yess
@@natasha9766 right!!!!
@@natasha9766 yeah without a doubt
And she ain’t no misa misa either 😒
"WARNING: MATURE CONTENT."
"So I saw this show when I was 10..."
"Do as I say, not as I do"
It's probably because the movie is 18+ and the show is 12+
Robin Sequira, Alura Storm-Screamer
Yeah definitely because I definitely started getting into anime and stuff around 7th grade (age 11 for me) and death note was one of the first I’d seen at all but none of it was shocking or jarring for me. There’s also not a lot of gore or unnecessary cursing which is probably why the rating is so different from the movie.
lol i was 8 or 9 when i first watched the anime
Ha, I'm ten and I wa-
oh wait, I haven't watched Death Note.. BUT I HAVE WATCHED GORY ANIMES SO HAHAHAH IM BETTER THAN YOU
(jk)
I’m so annoyed they had to put some sort of reason behind lights behavior by being an outcast and losing his mom to give him this victim complex. Like the world is against him. But in the anime there’s none of that. He’s the perfect student, has a normal healthy family, has a promising career path, can get all the girls. Yet despite all that, deep down he has this narcissism that drives his decision to kill “bad guys”
EXACTLY, Imo the main part that made the og death note so perfect was that it’s just narcissism and a god complex. There’s things called a fucking mental illness, someone doesn’t need to have a fucked up life to do some fucked up things. Nor did we need to give Light a reason to do what he did. We as the audience was supposed to question if what he’s doing is okay, if he’s actually the good guy or the bad guy maybe even neither. Not just pity him with the “oh he had a bad life, they deserve this” bullshit.
4 2 0 l i k e s
👏character👏assassination👏
He was a bored psychopath in the anime and that’s what made it so interesting to watch and the ending so satisfying. Lazy writers don’t understand good characters.
The anime story line as it was made it unique ,interesting and all round just a good series to watch they didn't give him a victim complex just because he was the main character and what Netflix did to flip around the reasoning behind his actions and give him "reasonable justification" just because he was the main character just ruined it tbh he was a narcissistic psychopath and that is not illegal for the main character to be this way 💀 it gives the story a good fresh twist
“Kira. It means light in Russian.”
Me, a Russian: it......it doesn’t??
ITS LIKE THEY DONT DO THEIR RESEARCH.
For fucks sake, if people are gonna say something means something in another language, MAKE SURE ITS THE RIGHT WORD/LANGUAGE.
Kira should mean killer with a Japanese accent.
Yeah, and it doesn’t mean light in Celtic languages either
That seems like such an easy thing to correct, google translate exists.............
Kira means sun godess in an oldet language but it's not light...😂
What enrages me the most is that there was no need to make all of the changes they did to the plot. The plot was amazing before, so they could have just been lazy and used the original story. But nOPE-
Edit: spelling
It's such a stain on Death Note's name 😂
And literally using kira was dumb asf cause Kira is just one of those words in Japan that deadass... I don’t know the correct word.. just it’s basically the Japanese Verizon of an American word since Americans moved there like years ago... BAD EXPLANATION!! I know but you can do research if u want! But hey that’s why the Netflix adaptation is dumb!!
@@peachy.-sky4640 Kira is how japanese pronounce Killer it ain't that deep
@@peachy.-sky4640 キラ/kira is the Japanese pronunciation of the borrowed English word for 'killer'.
@@makeda6530 katakana is not a type of word.
"LIGHT YAGAMI WOULD NEVER BE CAUGHT BEING THIS BITCHMADE"
H E L L YA KENNIE YOU RIGHT I was SCREAMING
Like honestly
This what happens when you write "death note" in the Death Note
✋🏾😭
This can be the best comment 😂😂
Then, the movie wouldn't be exist anymore.
@@evouzermemet5120 If only! T^T
I think nothing would happen since you don’t have a specific person in mind
They didn’t even do “I’ll take a potato chip, and eat it” smh
That was such an EPIC scene. Everytime someone mentions DN, I have to quote that. So sad. So wooed by the movie.
ugh
Important (T ^ T)
Oh man that’s a shame. That is one of the best things I have seen in a show it’s so memorable.
they would've done it wrong anyway...
I have a theory: Light Turner is actually Timmy Turner, grown into a teenager. He told everyone to call him Light because he thought it sounded cool.
Do not disrespect Timmy like this!
Does that mean the bully he killed was Francis and Mia was Trixie?
sleepykoinu i-...oh... 😐
There’s actually a “Fairly Odd Parents” and “Death Note” parody called “Fairly Odd Death Note”. It has a lot of references in it.
I don’t like the implication that Cosmo is played by William Defoe in a Fursuit
When I was like 12, my Spanish class was playing Kahoot, so like the absolute weeb trash I am, I made my screen name "Kira" and didn't tell anyone. I got first place and got to listen to an entire 8th grade Spanish class (who knew absolutely nothing about anime) demanding to know who Kira was, and I was l i v i n g. And yeah that might be my deepest darkest secret.
thats fucking amazing. i wish i could try that but everyone knows im a weeb
I love this lol
I’m doing this the next time I play kahoot
Damn, wish I did this when I was in high school. But my teachers always made us put our real names because they used Kahoot for grades
now you can say “i am kira” but it’s actually true
Don't you just love how the only non-Japanese character in the anime is the only Japanese character in the movie?
Like the attack on titan live action lmao
Brandley the Cat THERE WAS A LIVE ACTION OF THAT FNSWHWHD WHAT
@@soulsearcher7077 yeah dude it was BAAAAD.
Brandley the Cat I don’t even want to know what they do to Levi.
@@saimy8636 what levi? 🙃🙃🙃
me: mom can we have Death Note?
mom: no we have Death Note at home
Death note at home:
🤣
I'm dead
Rei 黎 never have I resonated more with one of these comments
This is brilliant
You're a better writer than the one they had making the movie
me: mom can we have Death Note?
mom: no we have Death Note at home
Death note at home:
me: omae wa mou shindeiru
As a fan of Avatar: The Last Airbender. I feel your pain.
I was *so* excited about that movie when it came out. Went to the movies, on my birthday, to go see it.
We got barely halfway through before I dragged my mom out because I was just so angry at literally the entirety of the movie. Nothing was good. Absolutely Nothing.
What are you talking about there was not and never has been a live action adaption of ATLA.
(Depending on the person, there was never a sequel called legend of Korra neither lol)
I’m still mad about that. To this day.
Leena Nyx Yh there is,, It came out in 2010 and it’s very much hated 🤣🤣
@@oseremhen9075 i think theyre trying to make a joke
Ryuk in this movie: encourages murder and violence
Ryuk in the manga: Hey Light, let's play Mario Golf.
Ryuk in the anime was the enabler of Light's sadistic desires.
But the live adaptation's Ryuk rather manipulates Light which is garbage.
@@destinynanaakrong8584 You’re completely wrong?! Ryuk explicitly says he is on nobody’s side and doesn’t care what happens to anyone. He just wants to watch what happens. He only came to the human realm because he was bored and wanted to see what a human would do with a Death Note. But he didn’t encourage Light to do anything.
"I can't tell you."
"Okay."
"YoU rEAlLy waNnA KNoW?
hahahaahah exactly
Oakaoa
Yqou aady wnahwnniw _jnpwl
ntqbUai ct3la pk yaouh
Russian: "light" is "SVET"
Deathnote Russian: "light" is "KIRA"
Russian: am i a joke to u
Actually, I don't think they were trying to translate "Light" by calling him "Kira", though they did make a mistake still. Kira is a Russian name, and their error is calling him the female form, because it should actually be "Kir". In Russian, Кир = Kir and it means "Leader of the people" and given his goals in the story, it's a great name choice. They just made a mistake giving him the female form of the name. If that was their thinking, I personally like it, it fits. I just don't think they tried to do a direct translation of "light" and screwed up that epically. That doesn't make sense to me. Perhaps they even knew Kira was female but thought it would be easier for their Japanese audience to pronounce and get behind and made the choice to go with Kira over Kir despite the misgendering. This is all my interpretation though.
@@jademoon7938 Kir is not a Russian name though :D There is a famous Soviet writer Kir Bulychev, but that's a nickname, actually based on a female name Kira :D Also, I think Kir is a Russian version for Cyrus, but it's still not a Russian name, just a weird phonetic reading of a Greek name.
But I actually see your point, what you say makes more sense than just horrible job at translating, femeninity of the name aside. I was just basing off what the video says and didn't do a research, so good job you 😁
@@jademoon7938 Kira is light in japanese no ?
Oh wait no wasn't kira just the japanese pronunciation of "killer"
@@laurynelove7093 Yep, the second one.
In this movie, Light was Misa, and Mia was Light.
They reversed the roles and I hate it 🤠
That could’ve been an interesting concept if they changed Light’s name too. If this wasn’t marketed as a poor rehash and the characters weren’t “Light 2.0”and “Misa without the S” they could sell it as an entirely new story. We really only know the story of the Death Note told through its interactions with one character who’s the lead of every retelling, Light in Japan in 2003/2006 (manga/anime). What if someone else, a girl in America, got it in 2017? That could’ve been a cool take on it. But every adaptation insists on keeping the strangest parts “accurate” while changing all the most important parts and not for the better.
Not really though cause Misa wasn't a little bitch. She was down to kill as many people as needed if it meant Light was happy.
I'm very upset by them changing Light from attractive, privileged, popular, charismatic young adult with a stable family life, who got into the best university in the country to "high school outcast #999". He was basically guaranteed success in life, but after gaining Death Note it wasn't enough or him, he wanted power and to become God. Original Light just seemed so prim and proper from the outside, people weren't immediately suspicious of him.
Light Turner is nothing if not shady as hell.
Honestly some producers/people in Hollywood probably relate to the other version of light so they need it to drastically change in order to “relate” to teens.... although teenagers, and every other human, needs to see various kinds of archetypes of people and minds in order for all of us to get a small consensus on the different types of humans in our world..... there are def people like Light who exist and some of those people are in the entertainment industry lmao
Also how are you going to try to stay “ambiguous” but put severe pity on your character by making everyone that isn’t him a douche??? Like of course the audience will root for the main character but ironically, you wanted things to remain ambiguous in its themes and within the Characters thoughts themselves??? Makes no sense lmao
“Ya’ll couldn’t leave it alone!!, Ya’ll can’t leave nothing alone!”
I felt that with my soul, Kennie! All these reboots and remakes drives me up the wall!
specially because they are really bad
As a person of Russian descent I can vouche with 100% certainty: there is no word for light in russian that's even vaguely pronounced "kira". Not even a little bit.
Hello Sans, wassup
i mean, if you go to wiktionary, it is a name... which... comes from another name meaning господин/госпожа... and that name came from another name meaning как солнце
i don't even have anything else to say about this. the instant i heard that, i saw red and was about to throw something at a wall
Maybe your grandparents or great*X grandparents knew a Russian word like that. *Nah, JK.* The screenwriters for this film obviously aren't that smart or deep.
@@thisasiankidistrashfordram374 Well, I speak Russian fluently. I doubt the screenwriters do. Plus, I am Greek Russian. Don't get me started on the things screenwriters neglect to research .
@@nightmare_eyes430 I feel you fam. Believe me 😤
the INJUSTICE that this movie payed to Light and L's relationship caused me physical pain
They deserved better.i shipped them.
The Japanese live action was muchhh better
On top of the gore being unnecessary, it was also really poorly done. Like, people don't fall apart like ground beef wrapped in toilet paper when hit by a vehicle lmao
The thing about Yagami Light is that he's a completely normal dude, he has a great life ー he's smart, good-looking, everyone likes him, he has a loving family, they're wealthy, etc... And he still becomes this messed up serial killer. There's no tragic backstory or anything like that. And this movie completely ruins it by killing off his mom.
he's a villain with 0 redemption and its amazing
@@sadie9205 exactly
@@sadie9205 I miss those old days when evil characters were just…evil. No sympathetic backstory bs.
@@nont18411 But then that's "boring" and "evil for the sake of evil"...I'll admit, a good sympathetic background could work in how you know they are bad but you still don't feel bad for them. However, if thrown in the face too much, Imma lose all sympathy they tried to build up...and I do kind of miss evil characters that are just evil...
@@nont18411 I do think he's a sympathetic character though because he's a realistic one. He's human, with human morality and an ego. Like, I consider myself a pretty good person but I don't know if I could be trusted with that power
Completely unrelated to DeathNote: I aspire to someday have the same refined vocabulary Kendall has when speaking about shitty movies. I feel more educated after watching those videos lol
deadass. its been a while since ive heard shit like "obsolete"
true , teach us kennie
You should check out I Hate Everything's Search for the Worst. He's English so you KNOW his vocab is over-the-top good, and he's a master movie reviewer
I legit sit with a dictionary or make notes whenever I’m watching Kendall gawddd it’s educational 🌝
I mean. She went to college.
But she might read a lot. I know reading a lot has been the best for my vocab. :)
Everytime she said "Light Turner",I just imagined someone turning the light on and off.😂
I thought of Timmy turner from fairly odd parents-
@@blah5322 same
@@blah5322 Death Note, but Fairly Odd Parents.
@@chillfactory9000 That sounds fkin _awesome._
Someone has actually done it just google deathly god parents they parried the opening lmao it’s better then the live action
i still love the one quote misa says
"i could never live in a world without light!!"
and L, being a smartass says
"yes that would be dark"
The laugh you let out when you said "That's a muppet." had me on the floor.
It sounds like Ryuk ( atleast what I imagined it to be, I only read the manga never watched the anime) ironically
What made it HIGH-LAIR-REE-US to me was that it was like Ryuk laughing 😂😂
"That one anime fan black kid. You know the one that runs like Naruto." Ayo 😂😂😂 literally pictured him running too
I'm that one
We all know that 1 kid. Hell I gave my Naruto headband to that kid lol.
Ok but why does Light look like a crusty version of Cody Ko
Squidneythe Squid I spit out my water! I can’t unsee it 🤣🤣🤣🤣!
I was searching for this comment!
Krusty Ko
LMFAO PLS-
now i cant un see this
The whole movie has me saying the Caucasity
Thank you for bringing this term back into my life! I had forgotten all about it!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm ☠ HOWLING ☠☠😂😂😂
😂😂😂 IM DEAD
LMAO
18:36 when she said careful it reminded me of how Light straight up rigged his drawer to hide the notebook and set it on fire if someone found it.
Dana Konadu EXACTLY
Reading that reminded me of whole scene
Thant’s what I thought of too
watching that animation for the first time blew my mind
@@blammmed seriously, it turned into like a schematic showcase, felt like light designed this with CAD in his mind lol
"Yo, I got this Death Note....lemme smash"
-light turner, sort of.
"Yo I'm a murderer, chicks are into that right?"
-Light Turner
You want
*pulls out death note*
sum fuk?
The ONLY entertaining scene in the live action was when Ryuk first appeared and we witness Light shit his pants while having a wholeass breakdown. It wasn’t accurate but I have not laughed that hard in a while
Light's a bitch in the original anime. Can't believe people just describe him the way he wants to be seen by others. He screams when he sees Ryuk and falls on his ass, and then he's like "Nah, fam, I wasn't scared, I was expecting you actually" it's pathetic.
futurestoryteller I, surprisingly, don’t find that too out of place tbh. You randomly get a notebook that can kill anyone, it’s not far off to think that it belongs to some higher power. Then, you find some random creature in your room without any warning. Regardless of if he saw it coming or not, it’s not impossible to think he’d get scared because some creature (a death god) showed up without any notice. That would scare the shit out of practically anybody.
futurestoryteller I think the only reason why the anime scene and the live action one are different is because in the anime (because Light expected some “god” showing up) he calmed down quicker.
@@exmachina8475 The point I made was that (in the English translation, at least) he says he _wasn't_ scared, which is obviously BS
futurestoryteller My argument still stands dude but whatever floats your boat ig (but I think what you’re confusing is him being startled at Ryuk’s sudden appearance and being scared of Ryuk, which I’d say he wasn’t for the latter).
Actually light: *sets up a trap that will explode and set fire to his house if the drawer with the death note is opened normally*
Some random white washed man: Do you wanna see my murder book?
im crying lmfao
Wait what? “Kira” in russian means “light”? As a person, who’s spoken russian my whole life i facepalmed SO hard. It’s stupid to expect them to watch the original, when they didn’t even want to look up a dictionary 🤦♀️
Thank You! that was the point that had me going wtf on so many levels. like, you couldn't even bother to pretend to care what an actual language means? GOOGLE TRANSLATE IS FREE.
I'm pretty sure it's the same with Celtic. I speak gaeilge which is a derivative of Celtic and the letter k doesn't even exist. Let's not even get into the fact that solas is light in gaeilge lmao
I was confused by it too as Russian is my first language. There is no "kira" word that means light, but there is quite rare female name Kira, which as I researched had meaning of "sun" or "ray of light" in Persian, from where it came from. So confusing... 😅
its not actually Kira, originally it was "killer" they just renamed it Kira because that is how Japanese pronounce killer.
oszaszi I’ve been scrolling thru comments to see if someone would mention this because I remember that too but I don’t trust myself lmao so thank you
So my boyfriend (Russian) loooves death note. And he's sitting next to me while I watch your video.
And when you said "it's Russian for light" he looks at me like this: 🤨
I go back to the moment in the video. He goes close to the mic like this: 🤨👂
Listens, looks at me and goes like this: 🤨.... "No. God they must really have fucked that movie up. Glad I never saw that"
😂😂
"Sex and things that dont make sense" yep pretty much every movie adaption ever
I remember watching a review for this movie when it first came out and someone in the comments said “Why does Light care about Misa now? He didn’t give a damn about these hoes” 😂
Really though! If Death Note taught us anything it was that Light wouldn't do shit for a hoe.
very true lmmboo he straight used her😭😭
not y'all calling women hoes ever so casually...
LMFAO
@@getgot3461 Yeah, it’s wrong but you got to admit Misa and “oh girl from season 2” were hoes. Wedy and Naomi were okay tho.
Kennie's reaction to Lakeith Stanfield playing L is the exact same reaction I had when I realized Dev Patel played Zuko in the live action Avatar: The Last Airbender
No, see, much like the Mario movie, if we don't talk about it and collectively never bring it up again, it NEVER happened.
@@mortuuscerebri950 Oh shit, valid point
@@mortuuscerebri950 Mario has a movie??? Sorry for bringing it up again but I didn't know it was a thing
LeeTaemins HairDye Super Mario Bros, with Bob Hoskins as Mario and John Leguizamo as Luigi. Came out in 93, I think. I saw it in the theater with my best friend in high school. It was awful but it's a fun awful.
THE Dev Patel???? NO NO NO
I remmebered something: the first meeting between Yagami Light and Ryuuk. Yagami just flinched and he said "I was waiting for you, I knew this book would come with "consequences". So what you want?" Light Turner got scared like a little bitch! God damn, Yagami, they did you so dirty!
To be fair, it makes sense why Light Turner freaked out so much (besides the fact that he's a weakling coward): they whitewashed it. Since Shinigami are a part of Japanese mythology that people in Japan would know about it, it makes sense why Light Yagami wouldn't be that scared, and combined with his personality it helps reinforce his cold, calculated, always-keeps-his-cool personality. Here, falling over and letting out a ridiculous screech makes sense for Light because despite the fact that they want to make it like he has the same personality as Yagami, he *is* a wimp.
I think screaming and falling out of your chair is a little more than "flinching" but I see what you're saying even though you're technically lying about what happened. However it makes sense that he did get scared at first because it humanizes his character more. He wasn't some egotistical mindless killer.
bro what yagami screamed and fell out of his chair anyone would seeing a death god in their room
Sounds like what they did with the Avatar Last Airbender live action, they messed it all up.
essentially
DO NOT SPEAK THAT DEMON'S NAME!
Another monstrosity. 😒
Lolo B i would like but i can’t sacrifice the like number
Same with Dragonball Evolution live action film. I wouldn't even touch that monstrosity.
The fact that they felt a person having the power to kill anyone anywhere on the planet, using only a name & face, with no way to defend yourself from it *wasn’t scary by itself* is the most American thing about this adaptation. Not because Americans wouldn’t find that frightening but because the people who made this assumed they wouldn’t.
Because of course they would assume that. Hollywood has spent over 50 years blowing away bad guys so of course they can’t see it as scary. No, you need gore to be scary. And the clown faced death g-d needs to be scary.
The most scary and intense situations in average American movies according to the producers - shooting, shooting, shooting, huge group of political people and a president of US sitting in a basement in front of a huge screen and thinking, shooting, shooting, "Hey, your girlfriend/kid might die if you don't bring me this" , shooting, shooting....
imo light in the anime and manga was fucking terrifying - he's so manipulative, cold, intelligent and charming. but that also makes him fun to watch because you're always wondering what he's gonna do next.
light turner is just an edgy bastard who thinks he's tough
Which just makes it seem so forced and end up less and less scary
Also the fact that they wrote light to be a big outcast who gets treated like dog shit compared to actual narcissists who are like his character lmaoooo like if you make pity on your character by making everyone that isn’t him a douche, then of course the audience will root for the main character but ironically, you want things to remain ambiguous in its themes and within the Characters thoughts themselves??? Makes no sense lmao
@@bubblegum-uo5pf I read the manga and he was easily the scariest thing in it. The fact that the freaking Shingami was comedic relief really says a lot about Light as a character and what he did.
I feel bad for the dude who played L. He watched the anime and was super disappointed with the stuff they gave him for the movie.
Yeah. It's not Keith Stanfield's fault this movie sucked.
Ok. Avatar: The Last Airbender movie has to be next.
That movie frustrated me so much!
Daniel McLaughlin what? what are you talking about? there’s no such thing as Avatar: The Last Airbender live action movie. no such thing at all
brizzlin tea Welcome to Ba Sing Se I’m your guide. 😂
To be honest it didn't offended me cause the movie has LITERALLY NOTHING in common with the cartoon. And I love the cartoon so much
Please
Netflix adaptation: *EXISTS*
Manga/Anime: *writes furiously inside death note*
kalysta gutierrez whole eating a potato chip
The only time I remember L being panicked and shoutung in the original, was when Misa's recording on the news said the word shinigami. And he just screamed out of nowhere. But it was cute at least!
when that scene came up i thought he had a heart attack and was gonna die when i first watched it 😭
I thought that was the funniest thing cus I was not expecting it, especially when he fell.
@@Inoxukefairy ikr lmao it was so dramatic
He also screamed when he got his memory back and totally lost his composure for his last speech before getting capped
Should've let Neil Breen do his own version of Death Note where he plays both L and Light, and they're long lost twin brothers, because why the hell not. At least he's really good at portraying narcissistic geniuses.
I'm Hungry YESSSSUH
we all know it would be better than this trash
That sounds like an intensely, risky but captivating adaptation.
“Even in Japan, the live-actions are bad.”
Girl, you HAVE to watch the Rurouni Kenshin movies. Best live-action anime adaptations ever made.
I literally thought that as she said it. IT IS PERFECTION.
That's exactly what I thought as she said it 😂 Sato Takeru is 👌🏼
YES YES YES YES! AND Takeru-san~ ♥
agree!!! they are the best live-ACTION films I have ever seen! characters , story , the set, the costumes,even the dirt in the costumes hahaha the fights! it was a delight to watch!! :)
The Netflix bleach live action was also surprisingly good
They basically just took a perfectly good Japanese manga/anime, and put every single possible bad Hollywood movie trope they could think to add to it
The single thing that made me the most mad is that when they used Watari to find L's real name, they literally only wrote down "Watari". Like we need a first and last name, god damn.
He was also being controlled for days which would be impossible both because people can't be controlled that long before the death and there is a limited amount of time to write the details of the death after the name.
@@WolframiteWraith when you can manipulate someone and extend the time of death for 23 days. but you have to write everything you want the person to do before dying in the extra 60seconds after writting their name, you can't like..call them and give them orders...
I rolled my eyes so far back when I saw that part “do you really wanna know”. Light hid that damn book with his life. I’m glad I didn’t watch it. No regrets
facts, the real Light would NEVER
I did I wanted to cry it was So BAD
Light Yagami is my favorite “love to hate him” character of all time
@@uniserenity1414 the comment says Yagami lmao
@@spookyandwithdrawn20 oh whoops
When Kennie said "Beautiful ass, talented ass, would throw this ass, Lakeith Stanfield-" I swear I've never agreed with someone so much abt a great actor being in a sh!t movie
Lol Kennie you sounded so dead when explaining the movie plot but your eyes would light up when you would talk about the *ACTUAL* Death Note.
I just realized I said "light up", no pun intended haha
StrudelDaddi 😂😂
they pulled a Percy Jackson on this movie didn't they
Yup 🥲👍
It was worse
@@delrose5381 It really was. That's impressive tbh. But is it as bad as the Live Action Avatar?
@@joyc.e.7511 what is this live action you speak of
no live action ever happened
_it never happened._
@@needacuppa1898 You're right, I wonder what I was talking about?
"The beauty of the original Death Note is how much things make sense" no truer words have ever been spoken. I felt that.
Absolutly No one:" ...."
Netflix: ladies and gents we bring you Whitewashed Death Note. Enjoy☺
OG Light: *hides his Death Note in a complex way in his desk that if you get it out wrong, the room catches on fire.*
Movie Light: *shows the book to the first girl he sees*
Netflix “adaptation” was a straight up parody of the original thats literally the only way any of this makes sense 🤷🏽♀️
Original Death Note:
Robbing a bank? Heart attack!
Planning a terrorist attack? Heart attack!
Pissed light off? Heart attack!
Talking about Kira on the news? Heart attaaaaaaaccckk!!!!!!
That's why when it was said that the live action lets you CHOOSE how someone dies, I was like "...Uh, what? That's... no?"
@@SoraLover1994 death note will let you choose how someone dies if it is within reason but Light just didn't go for horrible gruesome deaths. I believe only 2 people he killed did not die from heart attacks. Deathn note did not rely on gore to be good, it relied on human fear
@@lifeoflyricj1699 I was dredging through memories wondering if he HAD, and I did remember that only a few people didn't die of heart attacks. o.o You're definitely right.
Lyric P. Yeah! Like the one for the fbi dude’s fiancé’s death. When she just went “missing”. But it was super nerve wracking. And then the elaborate one where he got the robber to see ryuk and then tried to shoot and him and then got hit by a car and die? Like dldosjxosodfj his elaborate kills are SMART and MAKE SENSE. The live action was just like “GOREEEEEEEE”
My issue wasn't that they didn't follow the anime. On the contrary, I always encourage that if you're gonna do a remake, make it different AND unqiue. My problem is that this movie tried to both follow the source material AND be original, which resulted in creating a horrid first draft of the original that could never stand on its own. It was an unholy marriage of conflicting ideas.
YES THIS EXACTLY! (I’m copying my reply to another comment here about how they reversed Light to act more like Misa/Mia and vice versa).
That could’ve been an interesting concept if they changed Light’s name too. If this wasn’t marketed as a poor rehash and the characters weren’t “Light 2.0”and “Misa without the S” they could sell it as an entirely new story. We really only know the story of the Death Note told through its interactions with one character who’s the lead of every retelling, Light in Japan in 2003/2006 (manga/anime). What if someone else, a girl in America, got it in 2017? That could’ve been a cool take on it. But every adaptation insists on keeping the strangest parts “accurate” while changing all the most important parts and not for the better.
They should've called it "Death Note Comes to America"
The DISRESPECT of having Lakeith Standford be forced into this movie I cannnnt 😭😭
“I’ll take a potato chip and eat it!” Calm down, Light, you’re not you when you’re hungry.
Have a snickers 🍫
Have an apple 🍎
“I’ll give you this strawberry if you keep it a secret, okay??” 10/10 one of my favorite death note quotes lmao
Then puts it in his pocket !!
mia is literally the most annoying character i’ve ever seen and i’m glad she died
i’m not sorry
Misa is better
Agreed
@@mariahjoydean4638 Misa is best girl
I like that the only way the writers could think to establish him as smarter than other kids is to make him do extra homework
I’m a Japanese 21yo who watched all the Anime series, the sensational Japanese live adaptation movie, the 10 episode drama series, and the Manga..❣️(I think my generation watched everything surrounding death note in Japan lol)
The most upsetting point for me might be Ryuku(リューク). There is a reason why he had to be the comical relief...🙄 the reason why Ryuku dropped his Death note in the first place was BECAUSE HE WAS BOARD, that’s the motivation of this Shimogami and shows the core message “humans are evil”!!!!!😒
And what’s up with Misa’s character.....🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
I mean, huh....(frustrated sigh). I don’t know how and why the production company fucked up the sensational first encounter between L and Kira🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
狂牛 I KNOWWWW
I had no idea there was a drama series or a Japanese movie. I will definitely be looking into this. Thanks.
@@davelewis8270 the movies in particular are very good, kenichi matsuyama is L, for real, he is great. and the rest of the cast is really good too. the movies are from the warner bros so you have them in original version and dubbed.
Girl I am SO HAPPY someone out there understands my rage about this adaptation. I love Death Note, it was one of my first animes. The morality, ideals of justice, clashing of intelligence and views of how the world should be, just UUUUGH it is everything.
After watching this shitshow of a remake, I had to look up wtf the team was thinking. I found an interview online. Here's what the director of Netflix's awful Death Note remake thinks the story is about: A tragic teenage romance story. A TRAGIC TEENAGE ROMANCE STORY.
A TRAGIC. TEENAGE. ROMANCE. STORY.
Fucking why.
The fact that they killed Light's mom and his little sister is just completely absent were two of the many things that annoyed me the most, but especially because the fact that Light had a normal perfect life as a top-student with a perfect traditional Japanese family made it more significant for him to be so narcissistic, to the point of him even thinking (briefly) about killing his own little sister just to get her out of the way. When you give a character this dARk pAsT and dIfFiCuLT sChoOL LiFe and dEaD PaREnTs you're not only just performing an overused trope that everyone is tired of, but also getting rid of a key aspect of the original character. Light Yagami is narcissistic, merciless, strategic, manipulating. Light Turner is just a dumb kid who let the power of banging the cheerleader go over his head.
That “muppet” is the only good thing about this movie, because it’s actually slightly accurate in its own creepy way, lol.
Yeah, I actually like the way his eyes look and how he's always in shadow like that- I just like it on its own, not as Ryuk. But as a separate concept it does look neat.
Also because he’s voiced by the legend himself, Willem Dafoe.
Kira is NOT “light” in russian, nor keltic
When I was in cosmetology school I went outside on break to find one of my friends on the back steps watching this on her phone. I recognized the scene she was on from the trailer and said "Oh hey, Death Note, that's cool. I loved the anime. I was thinking about watching the live action too." She didn't even look up when she IMMEDIATELY answered, "Don't. It's fucking garbage." I asked her why she was still watching it and she straight up death stared at her phone like she hadn't slept in a week out of sheer rage and spite and said in that "quiet rage" way, "I started it. _I have to finish it._" And I will never forget that
Watch the Japanese Live Actions, they have a movie series and a TV series. They are so much better than…*this*
Starts Video:
Me 4 minutes into the video: "As bad as Cats? It can't be that bad"
Me 30 minutes later: *Currently rewatching the entire Death Note series to cleanse myself of this live-action disaster*
What? Kira doesn't mean light in russian, *why* would someone do that, there are people who speak this language.
Imagine being russian and someone says to your face: "kira means light in russian"
And you are like: что?
My ass was just like: ЧТО ТАКОЕ
more like ЧИВО БЛЯТЬ?
And the name Kira being Celtic for light as well lmao the name literally means black
It really bothers me that whoever created the movie seemed to miss the whole point that Light is kind of a sociopath... just giving him a genuine love interest goes against the whole idea of who Light is. He doesn't care about falling in love and starting some Bonnie and Clyde relationship, he USES women who are interested in him for his own advantage. The creators of this movie just didn't seem to understand that Light was more complicated than just being some form of anti-hero.
“The one who runs like Naruto.” Oooooo I used to want to TRIP THEM
I was in high school long ago enough to have never seen that particular action, but there were fans.
Your frustration reminds me of when the Percy Jackson series was made into a movie
Ikr? Vampire Diaries, Death Note, Percy Jackson, Assassin's Creed. No matter what, adaptations are always the worst. GOT was decent at first, but stopped being decent when they started deviating from the books. The only adaptation I liked was Lord Of the Rings, I thought they really did a good job at keeping only the essential elements ('cause the story was too complex and long) while keeping it true to its nature.
I nearly ripped my TV screen off in frustration of how terrible the first movie adaptation was. It deviated so much from the original storyline.
"Also.. THATS A MUPPET" *laughs in muppet* you are adorable omfg
"An altercation with a bully during the rain, because apparently no one's afraid of pneumonia." I think this may be an artifact of the setting change haha; the number of Seattleites that have told me "I never use an umbrella" with a large amount of pride is astonishing. I never will understand the sense of self-satisfaction that comes from getting soggy.
The "rain" in Seattle is more of a mist and not really a full blown rain. Most of the time you aren't outside long enough to get "soggy". And nope, I didn't use an umbrella when I lived in Seattle. Hoodies were Life.
@@websilk I've currently lived in Seattle for three years so far, have no car, and have encountered plenty of heavy rain here. I personally LOVE umbrellas. Especially since for me wearing clothes I like is really important for my mental health and I need to protect what I wear.
we really be out here with our columbia jackets haha
I live in Seattle and I’ve probably seen an umbrella once or twice in my lifetime lol. The North Face, Pantagonia, Colombia windbreaker jackets are what you see, EVERYWHERE lol
@@sandraespino549 Huh, I wonder if certain parts of Seattle are more umbrella heavy than others? I see a few other people using umbrellas around every time I do. It's definitely a minority, but I still always see a few whenever I go out in the wet. Maybe certain places are more windy than others or something.
Dude this movie had moments where I was like, damn, there’s potential here. L’s actor was SUBLIME. L’s script was awful but his actor did amazing, I could have accepted him as L if he’d had better writing. Mia was also like, okay. She was more of a Light than Light. If only she wasn’t meant to be Misa, which leads me into my main thought. If this were meant to be one of those “different story in the same universe” thing? It would still need lots of work, but I think it would remove a lot of the problems I have with the film. Just make it a kid who got a different Death Note in america. Also, sometimes the cinematography was actually pretty awesome. It’s just the writing man. The writing is horrendous. Thanks for covering this one!
YES! I thought the same thing, it could have been such a better movie.
I think I would've preferred if they had genderswaped Light and that Mia was in fact Light... If you're gonna take artistic liberties just really go for it and do it well...
hyasinsu Honestly I think Mia should have just been her own character. She was clearly the better fit to inherit the Death Note, but I think if she were made into a new incarnation of Light she still wouldn’t compare to the original. She’d be better as her own thing entirely. So yeah, they really should have embraced the different with this one and made it its own separate story in the same universe, imo. Def agree they should have taken more liberties
Whoa you're right. A different deathnote story in America would have been much better. I can accept a different story if that's what it's meant to be. This "adaptation" is insulting in so many ways.
“Ya’ll couldn’t leave it alone!!, Ya’ll can’t leave nothing alone!”
I feel that to the extent that if I could, I would turn Netflix's adaptions of Death Note and Saint Seiya into the potato chip that Light so epically eats just for them to be gone from the face of the Earth
Highly recommend a water pick! Got food stuck in a "gum-hole" when I got my wisdom teeth removed and it rotten and got infected... Wasn't pleasant
Also, yay DUBS! Half my family is dyslexic so I really only watch dubbed anime so we can watch together. Lots of purists who get mad about that XD
Dubs are fine. Weebs are just assholes
I Just Really Can’t Keep Up With Subtitles And I Don’t Want To Have To Pause Every Single Frame. The Purists Are Honestly So Ridiculous.
i like to watch sub generally, but i do enjoy watching subs too - especially if im doing something at the same time
I’m sorry you faced people like that :( I love watching anime in sub and it would be my first choice when it comes to watching anime but I know better to not attack people for watching an anime in dub and I know others who are like this as well :)
Honestly? I really like dubs. I like the voice actors, they put a lot of time and effort into them bc they have to match the mouth flaps and animation perfectly, and yeah, sometimes it's nice to have an anime that I've seen a few times just playing in the background while I go do something else and still be able to understand what's going on. (Also dub bloopers are some of the best things in the world.)
i think the actor for L did the best he could with the material he was given
I feel like the only reason they changed as much as they did is because they’re trying to shove tons of episodes and build up into an hour and a half. Like, Death Note the anime took its time because that’s the way it should be. This movie really probably shouldn’t have been made.
yea. i believe there's several japanese live action movies to build up the story and tension and stuff. i havent seen them but theyre probably better than the netflix one. the musical cuts the stuff with near and mello out entirely but its still WAY better than this lol (also its probably my favourite death note adaptation and favourite musical).
@@bubblegum-uo5pf i've seen the japanese movies (excluding light up the new world) and they are all WAY better than this. each of them is over 2 hours long and they manage to add a lot from the manga and anime into them. the story is different from the get go (light's already in college when it starts, and his girlfriend is a different character) and the characters are slightly different, but it works. light is even more of an asshole, ryuk is more empathic, misa has way more layers to her and l is more clearly love deprived and you can see that he's just a kid as well (helps that the actor was only 20 and younger than the actor who played light). even sayu is more prominent. only weird thing to me is they made rem a guy.
this would be implying that the writers actually watched the original anime
@@blammmed that is entirely fair. 😂
"Just pee on my sheet mask" I NEED as in NEED a book of Kennie's best phrases. I will throw my life's savings at whoever creates this!!!
"We're out of Japanese horror movies to remake with Americans in the worst way possible! What else can we ruin?"
Oh noo baby there's more A LOT more
Train to Busan is gonna be ruined by America in like 5-10 years
@@binkskyler02 they'll ruin my love from another star before they ruin that
"He sits weird, he eats a lot of candy, he's twitchy..."
Literally described me.....
ryuk is my baby i can’t believe they did him dirty like that
jhs neuron actually I thought that was the one thing they did do right
Netflix: Lets take this hugely popular anime with a massive fan base because it’s actually really good, and change everything about it. WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?!?!?!?
I honestly don’t understand what producers/writers/directors are even thinking most of the time. You try to sell something by advertising it as something we already love, but shit all over it. And people wonder why audiences are over it.
I can relate to your rage because this is exactly like what happened in the Percy Jackson adaptations.
Someone poorly explained death note to the producer while forgetting to mention that its japanese: The Movie
The only thing I actually liked about this version of “Death Note” was Light killing Mia (Misa) like he should have in the anime
changing light yagami to light turner sounds like something i would make up in a satire piece about whitewashing, it's just so buffoonish 😭 anyway, although kennie suffered a lot this was a great ad for the original death note which i'm now inspired to watch so thanks for that haha
Death Note had the Sherlock Holmes/ Professor Moriarty vibes in regards L and Light. This Netflix crap.... dumpster fires have less trash.
As a white person I would like to apologize because this is what happens when we get a hold on Japanese or honestly any foreign cinema... We whitewash it and ruin it. I’ve been a HUGE fan of Death Note for a long time, and when I saw that literally every character was white, I genuinely felt like I got punched in the gut. Like I was so mad, I felt it in my stomach.
ikr I'm white too and that was actually pissing me off LIKE--- there's literally only one Asian wTF
There’s no need to apologize for the atrocity of this film just because you’re white. Everyone, regardless of ethnicity, age, gender, or sexuality can agree this movie was crap.
Ew wtf dont blame us. White guilt ain't cute.
@@doclinny neither is white privilege
Yeah it's like the same thing they did with The Grudge 2020... It makes me angry!