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Death Note
2017 · Film · 101 min
Directed by Adam Wingard
Light Turner finds a supernatural notebook and uses it to mete out death, attracting the attention of a detective, a demon and a girl in his class.
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They botched the remake since it was done by incompetent people. That was (still is?) the time where Netflix was trying to build a library so they threw random people at random projects.
Death Note Remake / live action film was botched too
The new Pee Wee movie. Death Note was a remake. They made a movie as a sequel to Breaking Bad. They also pick up many series that were canceled elsewhere, like Arrested Development. The Sandler movies are technically original, though at this point his stuff is as much a franchise as Madea.
But, yeah, they do pick up a lot of original and niche stuff too. They're the only reason the romantic comedy is still a thing, for instance.
Gosh that movie was awful.
American live action Death Note was the same: I was hopeful since they cast Willem Dafoe and he's usually in good stuff, but no, it was also pretty bad. It seems like American film companies are just trying to capitalize on the popularity of anime without grokking what made the best anime great.
It would be more fair to say "the Japanese court system presumes guilt and treats everyone like inhuman garbage, even rich folk."
There was a fun incident in the UN where an ambassador from Japan made a remark that Japan's justice system was modern and exemplary. Everyone in the room just laughed at him. (He got upset, and told everyone to shut up, and then got fired for his outburst.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYfHWsWJhtg
_Death Note_ is a documentary.
I would say the west has failed to make good video game movies, or proper adaptations of an anime.
e.g: street fighter? mario bros? dragonball evolution? death note? ghost in the shell?
You need to be extremely creative to ruin those.
The reverse has also been true: bad game adaptations from good movies. e.g: ET, back to the future, etc.
I started making a list
* Super Mario Bros * Silent Hill
And then realized that I couldn't add more to it... It's insane. There are so many good stories in video game. I'd argue that The Last Of Us is the most beautiful entertainment story every created be it a movie, video game, comic, book, ...
Anime have the same issues, they have insane stories and they either end up being ignored or worse, being shit on by directors. See Dragon Ball Evolution or Netflix Death Note...
Awards shows are not real and are ridiculous. I don't like any of them, but the only ones people I know like are the Orange show and the Cards show. And now they are going to make a Death Note movie...