Double Death Note
I had to skip out on tai chi on Thursday. The Astor was playing a double feature I didn't want to miss. The two live action movies of Death Note. I had enjoyed the anime immensely and was interested to see how it translated.
I'm not a big enough fan to have read the manga - only because I haven't got my hands on it and my backlog of things to read will take me to Christmas 2008 - but I thought they did a fairly good job of shrinking down the story line to fit into two movies. They cut out the whole arch with Near and Mellow and fused a few other characters into one and somehow got L to outlive Light for a time, but it all worked quite nicely.
The Shinigami were extremely cartoony and quite often eye lines didn't quite match (which is hard anyway because Ryuk has a lazy eye), but at least they were 3D.
The best bit was all the really bad acting as people dropped like flies from heart attacks. It had the audience rolling in the isles. Somehow, this only made the movie better.
I'd definitely see it again given a chance. I didn't mind missing tai chi at all.
Besides, I'll be doing some on the beach tomorrow morning, so I don't feel I'm missing out too much.
I'm not a big enough fan to have read the manga - only because I haven't got my hands on it and my backlog of things to read will take me to Christmas 2008 - but I thought they did a fairly good job of shrinking down the story line to fit into two movies. They cut out the whole arch with Near and Mellow and fused a few other characters into one and somehow got L to outlive Light for a time, but it all worked quite nicely.
The Shinigami were extremely cartoony and quite often eye lines didn't quite match (which is hard anyway because Ryuk has a lazy eye), but at least they were 3D.
The best bit was all the really bad acting as people dropped like flies from heart attacks. It had the audience rolling in the isles. Somehow, this only made the movie better.
I'd definitely see it again given a chance. I didn't mind missing tai chi at all.
Besides, I'll be doing some on the beach tomorrow morning, so I don't feel I'm missing out too much.