As soon as I heard there was an American Death Note movie in production, I knew it would be bad. But will it be so bad it’s good or flat out mediocre bad? I’m really hoping it’s the former.

OLD MAN YELLS AT TRENDS

C+ seems way too generous for Kinja.

I wanted this to be good. I wasn’t expecting it, but I wanted it.

Exactly, exactly. There’s a lot of tension in a first generation immigrant story combined with Death Note’s story, particularly if you want to head on tackle a “model minority” myth. Of course this is all would need someone of that experience to be behind it, and everyone else would need a deft hand to handle the…

I’ll tell you from reading/commenting on posts on Deadspin that it turns into a lot of the same people just patting eachother on the back with their witty (lame) comments. Hope that’s not the case here because reading the comments on the old format was a huge draw.

Just move the monuments to Kinja. Nobody will ever see them again

This adaption seems to understand so little about the source material, it really is hard to give it the benefit of the doubt. Light isn’t a loser and that’s the main point of the story. Losing the rigid social roles of a society like Japan is already a hill to climb, but they could have at least stayed in a similar…

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If there is not a ton of innate excellence in Light, there is nothing in him for L to find fascinating other than his technical criminal proficiency. The manga and cartoon L really believed in Light having a soul, however much it was corrupting under its own weight.

I think it would be really interesting for him to be a lefty-hipster teenager (the kind who asks his banker dad to buy an old volvo instead of a new car) who slides into fascism and violence with the temptation of power. 

Yeah, he’s supposed to be a preppy rich kid which contributes to his messiah complex, not the poor loner kid who is disenfranchised or alienated.

Early on, the manga was fantastic about setting up stakes in a believable manner. It was a cat-and-mouse game that created tension from seeing this high school kid keep up appearances while still being a murderous asshole on the inside. You see him get corrupted further and further by his desire to enact his own brand…

A rushed, hard-to-follow mess which consistently alienates its audience.

One of the biggest tensions in the original works is that the kid who is a model of Japanese societal success turns into a mass-murderer almost instantaneously after being given the power to kill anonymously. That’s why the potato-chip scene works so well. We’re literally watching an ostensibly good person internalize…

*Moody high school student kills a bunch of people*

Yeah, switching Light to a white guy just seems really out of character...

It takes less than 10 minutes for Light to transform from a term-paper-selling loser who lives so close to the train tracks that his dishes rumble off the dinner table into a remorseless Angel-Of-Death-in-training.

You aren’t on just a.v. club anymore. If you were all for tearing down confederate monuments you would have googled yourself instead of putting on blast someone who was talking to a bigger issue. Welcome to Kinja.

Hey, I’m here! That’s great.

I see it’s a list for currently running shows, otherwise I’d add Perd Hapley to the list. I’m finally getting around to watching Parks & Rec now, I’m just into S6, and goddamn if my face doesn’t light up every time he appears.

That’s why the transition took so long: Will was hogging all the server space for this article.