デスノート　Death Note (2006)

no FUCKING way

I just found the Death Note 2006 live action movies, both of them, with the english dub. I found the fucking english dub of them.

y'all internet archive is where it's AT

anyway here's the first and here's the 2nd, enjoy but don't snitch on me

this site also has every death note book there is, just search for it and it's there.

Death Note Live Action Movies

Death Note

Death Note L Change the World

Death Note The Last Name

Death Note Light Up the New World

WOULD YOU PRESS THE BUTTON?

Lawlight becomes canon

BUT

It's in the Netflix live action adaption

death note: the last name (2006) dvd back cover

It's the LITTLE things about the Death Note movie that pissed me off the most, like the moment when L confronts Light and there's that line of dialogue that was surprisingly well-acted and in-character for L - "I don't carry a gun, it's distracting." - and THEN for that detail to be completely forgotten later in the movie when L chases Light in a police-car... and has a gun.

*facepalm*

Erika Toda, born August 17th 1988, as Misa Amane in the live-action adaptation movies Death Note (2006) and Death Note 2: The Last Name (2006)

In the hit Netflix movie Death Note (2017) based on the anime/manga of the same name, there is a scene where Light and L have a confrontation of words and wills in a cafe.

During this scene, L drops the brilliant line, “I don’t do check, only checkmate.”

This line is a subtle reference to the popular tabletop role playing game Chess where you play as a king leading an army against your opponent’s army. The line references the chess terms Check and Checkmate.

Check is a term one uses when one of their pieces is in position to attack the enemy king. It means they must spend their turn defending or evading. While being in check signals pressure from the opponent, it is by no means a game-ender and may indeed be very far from the game’s actual end. Check may be called many times over the course of the game.

Checkmate on the other hand is a term used when one has a piece that can attack the enemy king and they do not have any possible moves to defend or evade. Checkmate is definitively the end of the game. It is the last word because one king is absolutely guaranteed to be defeated.

What L is saying here is that he does not make attacks. He make setups but his game will only have one attack. The final Checkmate that ends the game. The way he plays, the enemy king (Light in this case) will never be given a chance to defend or evade L’s attacks because when he strikes or applies pressure, he has already won. Every possible next move will end the game in his favour.

This line is brilliant because it is the exact fucking opposite of what L is doing in this scene by walking up to Light and telling him he is on to him while not having any proof. Instead just taunting him and giving Light plenty of time to think of a counterattack.

So... I watched the 2017 American Death Note movie. It wasn't great, but it wasn't as bad as I was led to believe either. I'd give it 2.5/5 stars. Sure, the casting was bad and every character had an almost entirely different personality from the original versions, but the plot and cinematography weren't terrible. There were actually some interesting twists and new Death Note rules shenanigans that were never explored in the anime/manga. I most hated what they did to L (he doesn't even act autistic! and he's so emotional? wtf??) but Ryuk was strangely perfect. The constant 80's music was bizarre though. Also they spent more time on action than on mind games--typical of an American adaptation of foreign media. It would actually be a good movie if one hadn't seen the anime and didn't have that masterpiece to compare it to. There were definitely cringe parts, but it was worth watching, at least to me as a step on my journey to watch every Death Note version and adaptation ever made.

Death Note 2017

Watching the Death Note movie

Took me and my friend ( @adreamoftimeladypals ) 2 hours to get through the first 45 minutes

Can someone explain why L, Change the World is such a controversial movie? I enjoyed it the whole way through and loved how character-driven the story was. The ending made me want to cry, but in a good way. I honestly don’t get how you can dislike L, Change the World unless you disliked the first and second movies as well.

What shows are you watching right now?

Currently, I'm not actually watching any shows, but I'm planning on watching the death note J film today!