WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:00.220 --> 00:00:01.140 DEATH NOTE! 00:00:01.200 --> 00:00:06.460 That's right. I make movie reviews now. Two weeks after anyone cares about the movie anymore... 00:00:08.080 --> 00:00:08.580 YES! 00:00:09.080 --> 00:00:14.380 Death Note. Have you seen it? I got a lot of people asking me about the movie and uhhhh... 00:00:14.380 --> 00:00:19.920 you know I have a lot of thoughts about it, so I thought, why not share them with the world. 00:00:20.120 --> 00:00:25.980 Listen to me, what I have to say. You probably have seen or heard of Death Note. It's a Japanese manga 00:00:26.120 --> 00:00:29.500 but that was made into an anime and then that was made into uh, 00:00:29.520 --> 00:00:33.140 I think it was already made to a live-action, but here it is again, 00:00:33.680 --> 00:00:36.120 thanks to Netflix. A live movie 00:00:36.120 --> 00:00:42.660 adaptation of an anime. Ooooh boy. I'm sure it will be the greatest film of all time. 00:00:43.000 --> 00:00:45.100 I'm sure Netflix won't fuck it up at all. 00:00:45.500 --> 00:00:51.780 Just like they did not at all ruin my favorite manga of all time, BLAME. You did not completely butcher that shit. 00:00:51.780 --> 00:00:56.780 no, not at all. Now I feel ashamed liking Blame because of how goddamn awful 00:00:56.789 --> 00:01:00.689 the anime is. Thanks- thank you. Netflix. Basically Netflix 00:01:01.059 --> 00:01:04.919 bought the rights to- to Death Note because it's not on Crunchyroll. 00:01:05.530 --> 00:01:07.530 You can only watch it on Netflix 00:01:07.600 --> 00:01:10.830 "legally." And it's probably their most popular anime. I imagine 00:01:11.470 --> 00:01:15.659 it's the most popular one because whenever someone asks me, who doesn't watch anime 00:01:16.570 --> 00:01:20.129 what anime to watch I always recommend them Death Note because it's such a 00:01:20.280 --> 00:01:20.780 classic 00:01:20.780 --> 00:01:27.120 and it's so easy to get into so I always recommend that so it makes sense that it's the most popular one on Netflix and 00:01:27.700 --> 00:01:33.420 for them to then make a live movie adaptation of it if they own the rights for it, you know, it's just gonna bring in more 00:01:33.939 --> 00:01:35.590 attention to it. And uh 00:01:35.590 --> 00:01:37.600 you know, from a business standpoint, 00:01:38.160 --> 00:01:39.020 I understand it. 00:01:39.030 --> 00:01:44.759 I just don't understand what the hell that we're doing with this goddamn movie. Death Note has suffered 00:01:45.160 --> 00:01:47.140 enough if you ask me, okay? 00:01:47.140 --> 00:01:53.800 All the angsty teenagers that almost ruined Death Notes.. Almost. They almost ruined Death Note. 00:01:54.100 --> 00:01:59.430 But you know I rewatch it not long ago, and it it still adds up. It's still an amazing anime, 00:01:59.430 --> 00:02:05.129 I still would recommend people to watch it for sure. But if you haven't seen Death Note let me just explain the plot 00:02:05.130 --> 00:02:06.420 it's very simple: 00:02:06.420 --> 00:02:11.929 It's the story of Yagami Light, my favorite anime character of all time, who discovers 00:02:12.209 --> 00:02:19.429 this death note by chance. And in it, if he writes a person's name while thinking of that person's face 00:02:20.220 --> 00:02:24.019 that person will die. So Yagami Light is this genius 00:02:26.310 --> 00:02:33.409 who, life is just too simple for him. He's too smart for people, and he's just bored. So for him to discover something like this, 00:02:34.349 --> 00:02:38.449 he immediately thinks, 'okay, well I'm gonna use this for the greater good of humanity, 00:02:39.049 --> 00:02:45.619 I'm gonna start killing all the criminals.' So you have this extremely intelligent person in charge of something incredibly dangerous 00:02:46.680 --> 00:02:49.670 doing what he thinks is the right thing to do, 00:02:50.310 --> 00:02:53.119 but then you have on the other side this other character named L 00:02:53.250 --> 00:02:57.709 which is sort of a contrast of his character, very quirky, very funny, and light 00:02:58.409 --> 00:03:00.409 but also extremely intelligent, 00:03:00.629 --> 00:03:04.999 who is on the side of the law who thinks, "No what you're doing is wrong 00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:10.489 I'm gonna stop you." So you get this sort of cat-and-mouse chase between the whole series 00:03:10.489 --> 00:03:14.509 which is probably one of the best cat-and-mouse chases I've ever seen. It- it has 00:03:16.040 --> 00:03:21.260 some of my favorite moments in any anime ever and it's just such an interesting concept of 00:03:21.740 --> 00:03:28.080 what is right and what is wrong. With the film, with this live movie adaptation, they basically said, 'okay, 00:03:28.100 --> 00:03:32.980 well let's take everything that is good out of this anime and remove it. 00:03:35.160 --> 00:03:40.459 Just get rid of it, I don't want to see anything good in this film except Ryuk' 00:03:40.459 --> 00:03:43.459 Ryuk was cool, but whatever.. Apparently the director of this film 00:03:44.420 --> 00:03:48.220 received death threats because fans were just so upset about 00:03:48.320 --> 00:03:51.600 some of the choices in this film. First of all it's completely 00:03:51.600 --> 00:03:57.960 Americanized, so there's no Japanese cast, so people already start cultural appropriation 00:03:58.500 --> 00:04:05.260 Apparently Adam Wingard had to delete his twitter because people were just too mean... 00:04:05.780 --> 00:04:09.460 too mean about the choices in this film some. Some- at least one person 00:04:10.800 --> 00:04:13.260 sat down and wrote "Adam Wingard" 00:04:16.040 --> 00:04:22.940 in their notebook... some fucking, someone tried, someone must have tried. And I just want to criticize his film. 00:04:23.340 --> 00:04:29.360 I like some of Adams previous work. I thought "You're Next" was really good, so I try to go into this with an open mind 00:04:30.330 --> 00:04:35.209 thinking okay well you know what I want to enjoy this. I wanna like this. 00:04:35.310 --> 00:04:39.679 What's so great about the anime is the two main characters and how 00:04:40.230 --> 00:04:46.519 they interact with each other. As I explained, Yagami Light who is this genius... 00:04:47.020 --> 00:04:51.140 you couldn't have a more perfect character to find this death note. He is extremely 00:04:51.140 --> 00:04:54.080 calculated, nothing gets past this guy. 00:04:54.080 --> 00:04:56.500 And oh I bet he has a huge dick as well. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 00:04:56.720 --> 00:04:58.880 When he first discovers the death note, 00:04:59.310 --> 00:05:03.080 he's extremely cautious with it, and he wants to make sure that no one else.. 00:05:03.870 --> 00:05:07.580 no one else can find out that he has this because obviously that would mean 00:05:08.490 --> 00:05:10.320 huge consequences. 00:05:10.320 --> 00:05:15.940 So he builds this contraction that holds it in... "You see once the ink reservoir is inserted, 00:05:15.940 --> 00:05:19.660 it acts as an insulator preventing the flow of electricity around the circuit." 00:05:19.900 --> 00:05:25.560 When light finds the death note in the live adaptation, 00:05:25.940 --> 00:05:28.380 you know, you think he's being smart with it as well... 00:05:28.470 --> 00:05:33.649 but no! he just fucking goes to gym class and reads it in public! 00:05:36.060 --> 00:05:38.929 And then he shows this to this girl to get laid! 00:05:42.060 --> 00:05:48.470 NO! I say NO! Too far! He went too far. 00:05:50.310 --> 00:05:55.459 "He was a sociopath just because he's dead does not mean a tragedy. I just wish I'd seen it.." 00:05:58.549 --> 00:06:02.059 I'm guessing this girl is supposed to be Misa. 00:06:03.569 --> 00:06:04.739 This fucking girl 00:06:04.739 --> 00:06:11.479 Which is probably one of the most annoying characters ever. In the anime ,Misa gets thrown into the mix of the story 00:06:11.479 --> 00:06:18.348 and it's- she sort of just messes everything up because she's so goddamn annoying, But in the anime he uses her to further himself 00:06:19.199 --> 00:06:21.199 he uses her to 00:06:21.680 --> 00:06:25.000 to get to his goal, to get to his goal, 00:06:25.880 --> 00:06:31.560 of becoming this God that he wants to be. Here, in the movie, 00:06:36.120 --> 00:06:39.420 he uses it to get laid... He does it to get laid... 00:06:39.989 --> 00:06:44.328 God.. fucking.. how? You have probably one of the most interesting characters of all time 00:06:44.329 --> 00:06:47.989 and you just reduce him to this fucking pathetic little bitch. 00:06:49.559 --> 00:06:57.259 Now let me just be clear and- and *spoiler alert* here, okay, Yagami Light is gay okay? 00:06:58.380 --> 00:06:59.429 Yagami 00:06:59.429 --> 00:07:02.840 backwards is "I'm gay" If you want more proof than that, 00:07:02.840 --> 00:07:06.319 I don't know what to tell you, but I do have it so shut up! 00:07:06.319 --> 00:07:10.819 This is one part in the anime that not a lot of people don't seem to understand. They're like 'uh.. was weird.. 00:07:11.099 --> 00:07:13.099 why- what just happened?' 00:07:13.679 --> 00:07:19.369 It's because that- he's gay, okay? "What are you doing?" It's this part where L massages his feet. 00:07:19.369 --> 00:07:26.898 "I thought I might help you out, you were busy wiping yourself off anyway." How does Hollywood make a gay character straight? 00:07:27.440 --> 00:07:29.420 I thought they were supposed to be 00:07:29.420 --> 00:07:31.680 progressive. I always read it as 00:07:32.000 --> 00:07:35.920 you have the character Yagami Light who... he's a sociopath 00:07:35.929 --> 00:07:37.929 he only loves himself. 00:07:38.099 --> 00:07:43.308 But he has at least the character L that he sees as his equal, someone on his level, 00:07:43.309 --> 00:07:47.268 and that's the only person that he could at least, other than himself, 00:07:47.669 --> 00:07:52.518 care about. That's how I saw it at least and that's how I saw the relationship. 00:07:52.949 --> 00:07:56.419 Later on they introduced L in the movie, and it's 00:07:58.220 --> 00:08:01.959 it's probably the character that is the closest to the actual 00:08:03.050 --> 00:08:04.340 anime. 00:08:04.340 --> 00:08:10.750 He's this quirky character, he eats the sweets all the time, he sits in a real weird way. He's just a weird character. 00:08:12.230 --> 00:08:19.720 And he is that way because he's supposed to be the contrast of- of Yagami who is this really calculated, composed, 00:08:20.930 --> 00:08:22.930 always-keep-it-cool character. 00:08:24.440 --> 00:08:31.630 But I guess that doesn't matter, I don't know why they just fucking, whatever... When L is introduced the anime very early, 00:08:32.930 --> 00:08:36.369 he does something so smart and so clever that you're like whoa! 00:08:37.610 --> 00:08:39.400 This guy is actually for real, 00:08:39.400 --> 00:08:44.379 You know? This is actually a true rival to Yagami Light. Here in the movie, 00:08:44.380 --> 00:08:47.950 you really just get, 'Ah, he did something really smart, ah here 00:08:47.950 --> 00:08:52.330 he is' It's the epitome of show, don't tell. They just went with the easier option. 00:08:53.360 --> 00:09:00.819 So Yagami and his gay little girlfriend are, they just start killing people together. She's the one really pushing for it 00:09:00.820 --> 00:09:06.760 it's really lame. I don't understand it, but yeah, they just keep killing all the criminals yadda, yadda, yadda... 00:09:07.730 --> 00:09:08.990 super lame... 00:09:08.990 --> 00:09:13.930 ruin my life.. And yeah, no, they have computer science class, and they're like "hey 00:09:13.930 --> 00:09:16.989 let's go to 4chan and look up people to kill" 00:09:19.280 --> 00:09:22.030 And then they introduce the only sort of interesting 00:09:24.680 --> 00:09:26.480 concept of the film which is 00:09:26.480 --> 00:09:29.050 can we really kill people just based of rumors? 00:09:29.050 --> 00:09:32.469 Which is of course never explored again, so it doesn't really matter. 00:09:32.540 --> 00:09:39.610 But in the anime, you have this amazing concept of is it two people wanting justice, L and Kira, they both want justice 00:09:39.610 --> 00:09:44.349 but they have different ideas of how that looks like. So they go against each other. I mean that's brilliant 00:09:44.570 --> 00:09:49.360 There's also the concept of Yagami light. He thinks he's doing good, but 00:09:49.970 --> 00:09:54.730 it's actually evil, it's actually pretty messed up. And by the end of it you think okay, 00:09:54.730 --> 00:09:55.810 well is he a bad character? 00:09:55.810 --> 00:10:01.570 Is he a bad person? Or did the death note turn him into a bad person? Are bad people 00:10:02.030 --> 00:10:07.660 inherently bad people, or do they become bad people when things affect them? Is that explored in the film? 00:10:07.660 --> 00:10:08.480 No, it isn't! 00:10:08.480 --> 00:10:12.880 It's basically reduced to 'oh, let's go to 4Chan and look at bad people, 00:10:13.280 --> 00:10:14.640 let's- let's kill em!' 00:10:14.640 --> 00:10:16.970 No, we can't do that, you crazy bitch. 00:10:17.840 --> 00:10:19.640 Whatever you're not getting my pussy... 00:10:19.640 --> 00:10:21.500 But you know at least in the movie 00:10:21.500 --> 00:10:27.060 you get to see the head explodes really splooshy heads. Everyone's head is just made of 00:10:27.780 --> 00:10:29.780 gelatin apparently... 00:10:34.460 --> 00:10:36.460 I don't even know if I can show it but... 00:10:37.080 --> 00:10:41.689 everyone who dies basically is just made of rubber. They're made of gelatin. 00:10:42.380 --> 00:10:49.640 That's pretty cool. We also get the funny face reactions. I mean look at this fine piece of acting right here 00:10:49.920 --> 00:10:53.760 *Screaming* 00:10:53.780 --> 00:10:57.060 In the actor's defense I sort of understand what he was going for, 00:10:58.440 --> 00:11:02.210 Yagami Light always has these strange looking faces. 00:11:03.120 --> 00:11:07.680 There's some stills from the anime that are just like, what the fuck! 00:11:08.480 --> 00:11:10.480 What happened here? 00:11:10.590 --> 00:11:13.579 But that, that's the thing cuz Yagami is this character 00:11:13.580 --> 00:11:17.809 and he's always composed, no matter what, you know, even if he's discovered. 00:11:18.150 --> 00:11:23.869 Even if he's at the brink of you know losing everything, he's always composed. So when he breaks character 00:11:24.060 --> 00:11:31.070 it's a big deal, and you're like 'whoa' and he makes these crazy looking faces, So I understand that he's trying to make funny faces 00:11:31.800 --> 00:11:37.100 based on like the anime, but it just like dude. It's not that... It's not how... that's not why 00:11:37.200 --> 00:11:43.240 *Screaming mixed with Killer Keemstar* 00:11:43.420 --> 00:11:48.060 But people are just hating on him so much for making these faces. I get it 00:11:48.060 --> 00:11:49.770 I don't think it was that bad to be honest 00:11:49.770 --> 00:11:53.730 I don't know. Out of all the bad things out of the movie, I don't think he is the worst. 00:11:53.950 --> 00:11:58.410 There's even a chase scene in the film. I'm not kidding. There's a chase scene 00:12:00.190 --> 00:12:03.179 Why is there a chase scene Hollywood? 00:12:03.850 --> 00:12:05.710 You have these two 00:12:05.710 --> 00:12:11.460 smartest people in it and they have a conflict, what do they do? They chase each other! 00:12:22.670 --> 00:12:24.410 My camera stopped working 00:12:24.410 --> 00:12:26.080 Here I am a day later 00:12:26.080 --> 00:12:28.689 And I'm gonna try and finish this video. The point 00:12:28.690 --> 00:12:31.020 I was making with the chase... 00:12:31.020 --> 00:12:34.570 L and Light are two intellectuals. In the anime 00:12:34.570 --> 00:12:38.349 they know who each other are and it's all about out-witting each other, 00:12:38.350 --> 00:12:42.700 it's all about who can be the first one to outwit the other and expose him. 00:12:43.000 --> 00:12:47.619 They are both perfectly aware of each other and what they are. But seemingly 00:12:48.590 --> 00:12:52.450 everyone else doesn't really understand what's going on, but these guys are just on another level. 00:12:52.820 --> 00:12:59.049 But then you have them on a goddamn chase scene! It's so stupid! That's the only way I can express it to scream 00:13:00.620 --> 00:13:03.070 Why did you have to murder these characters? 00:13:03.070 --> 00:13:06.309 I don't understand! Make a remake... Fine! 00:13:06.310 --> 00:13:12.489 But make it of something else god damn it! You ruin Blame for me. You ruined one of my favorite mangas Netflix 00:13:12.489 --> 00:13:17.680 I can barely look at it now. Everyone's like 'oh, I watched that favorite manga that you have... uh, Blame 00:13:18.660 --> 00:13:21.840 it was shit.' YEAH, OF COURSE IT WAS SHIT CAUSE NETFLIX MADE IT SHIT! 00:13:22.540 --> 00:13:24.120 ITS NOT MY FAULT! 00:13:24.120 --> 00:13:28.560 Go watch Death Note, it's an amazing anime. You'll love it. I think it's ahh.. 00:13:28.700 --> 00:13:29.500 no matter what age you are, or 00:13:30.320 --> 00:13:36.700 who you are, it's a classic, and if you need any more anime recommendations... I got you fam 00:13:36.800 --> 00:13:41.140 don't worry about it. Just write a comment. Also leave a like if you enjoyed this video 00:13:41.140 --> 00:13:45.429 it's very different, but I like to do different things so lemme know if it works out and ahh... 00:13:46.070 --> 00:13:48.070 Squad Fam Out! 00:13:48.070 --> 00:13:50.070 *Screaming*