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Post by jakesully on Aug 26, 2017 17:08:04 GMT
damn it . Was hoping the OP was wrong but he was totally right. This movie is trash (watched it last night)
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Post by gomezaddams666 on Aug 27, 2017 20:57:40 GMT
damn it . Was hoping the OP was wrong but he was totally right. This movie is trash (watched it last night) Those are 100 minutes of your life you can't get back. |
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Post by gomezaddams666 on Aug 28, 2017 3:42:48 GMT
lol you sound angry gomez more like pissed the fuck off. |
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Post by miike80 on Aug 28, 2017 10:41:02 GMT
Wingard is re-making I Saw the Devil btw.  He's a garbage filmmaker but I will admit that The Guest is a pretty good movie. Wow, i guess it was inevitable. but if Spike Lee fucked up Oldboy, how much will this garbage filmmaker fuck up I saw the devil? |
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Post by skribb on Aug 28, 2017 10:54:44 GMT
lol you sound angry gomez more like pissed the fuck off. Same same dude. I'm so surprised Grace Randolp gave it a good review. Then came here, saw your comment. then saw Stuckmann's review who didn't like it, but for some reason gave it a C-  |
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Post by gomezaddams666 on Aug 28, 2017 13:44:39 GMT
more like pissed the fuck off. Same same dude. I'm so surprised Grace Randolp gave it a good review. Then came here, saw your comment. then saw Stuckmann's review who didn't like it, but for some reason gave it a C- Who gave it a good review? No one serious I hope. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2017 22:44:47 GMT
Wingard is re-making I Saw the Devil btw. He's a garbage filmmaker but I will admit that The Guest is a pretty good movie. The Guest and You're Next are both solid movies. Did he have total artistic control here, including over the scriptwriters? If so, he deserves all the blame he's getting. |
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Post by gomezaddams666 on Aug 29, 2017 7:19:51 GMT
Wingard is re-making I Saw the Devil btw. He's a garbage filmmaker but I will admit that The Guest is a pretty good movie. The Guest and You're Next are both solid movies. Did he have total artistic control here, including over the scriptwriters? If so, he deserves all the blame he's getting. Yes, he did. |
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Post by moviemouth on Aug 29, 2017 7:22:43 GMT
Wingard is re-making I Saw the Devil btw. He's a garbage filmmaker but I will admit that The Guest is a pretty good movie. The Guest and You're Next are both solid movies. Did he have total artistic control here, including over the scriptwriters? If so, he deserves all the blame he's getting. I don't like You're Next but I understand why many people do. |
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Post by scabab on Aug 29, 2017 20:58:35 GMT
I just watched it. It wasn't a bad movie by any means, in its own right it was fairly decent.
I knew it was gonna be a lot of different from the series, if you go into the movie expecting it to be an accurate adaptation then yeah you're gonna be very disappointed. Instead it was more of an alternate version of the same ideas.
Yeah they changed a lot of stuff, mainly with the story, especially the last third. Light and L were pretty different but L still had the same mannerisms and sorta seemed like L here and there.
I enjoyed it though, I'd watch it again. My dad watched it with me having never seen the series and he liked it too.
Obviously it isn't as good as the series and you'd have been a fool to expect it to be in the first place.
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Post by gomezaddams666 on Aug 30, 2017 0:16:05 GMT
I just watched it. It wasn't a bad movie by any means, in its own right it was fairly decent. I knew it was gonna be a lot of different from the series, if you go into the movie expecting it to be an accurate adaptation then yeah you're gonna be very disappointed. Instead it was more of an alternate version of the same ideas. Yeah they changed a lot of stuff, mainly with the story, especially the last third. Light and L were pretty different but L still had the same mannerisms and sorta seemed like L here and there. I enjoyed it though, I'd watch it again. My dad watched it with me having never seen the series and he liked it too. Obviously it isn't as good as the series and you'd have been a fool to expect it to be in the first place. All I've heard in defense of L is "He sat weird and ate candy", Adam Wingard is a hack that didn't understand the depth of the characters Lgoing ape-shit and trying to kill Light with a gun was an blasphemy. |
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Post by scabab on Aug 30, 2017 1:59:39 GMT
I just watched it. It wasn't a bad movie by any means, in its own right it was fairly decent. I knew it was gonna be a lot of different from the series, if you go into the movie expecting it to be an accurate adaptation then yeah you're gonna be very disappointed. Instead it was more of an alternate version of the same ideas. Yeah they changed a lot of stuff, mainly with the story, especially the last third. Light and L were pretty different but L still had the same mannerisms and sorta seemed like L here and there. I enjoyed it though, I'd watch it again. My dad watched it with me having never seen the series and he liked it too. Obviously it isn't as good as the series and you'd have been a fool to expect it to be in the first place. All I've heard in defense of L is "He sat weird and ate candy", Adam Wingard is a hack that didn't understand the depth of the characters Lgoing ape-shit and trying to kill Light with a gun was an blasphemy. Well there was a bit more to it than the way he sat and what he ate. Just the way he spoke, the way he moved and held things aka his mannerisms in general were very L like. On the other hand him being in public, him becoming outraged and getting angry and him running around with a gun and threatening people....well that wasn't anything like L. But like I said it's a different interpretation of the character. |
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Post by gomezaddams666 on Sept 1, 2017 3:27:02 GMT
All I've heard in defense of L is "He sat weird and ate candy", Adam Wingard is a hack that didn't understand the depth of the characters Lgoing ape-shit and trying to kill Light with a gun was an blasphemy. Well there was a bit more to it than the way he sat and what he ate. Just the way he spoke, the way he moved and held things aka his mannerisms in general were very L like. On the other hand him being in public, him becoming outraged and getting angry and him running around with a gun and threatening people....well that wasn't anything like L. But like I said it's a different interpretation of the character. If anything his mannerisms seemed forced as fuck, because what the imbecile director failed to grasp is that all that weirdness comes from his mental state that some have suggested is a form of Asperger. And sure, it was a different interpretation but why? This movie has been rightfully lambasted to kingdom come and it achieved noting but to piss off the fans. |
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Post by scabab on Sept 1, 2017 11:08:17 GMT
And sure, it was a different interpretation but why? For the same reason X-men (2000) is a different interpretation from the X-men comic. Why Batman (1989) is a different interpretation from the Batman comic. They change things. It's a 100 minute movie that's an adaptation of a 37 episode anime, set in a different country, made by people of a different nationality. It's just different, they said months back it was gonna be different. |
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Post by Terrapin Station on Sept 2, 2017 19:33:41 GMT
I loved it. I have zero familiarity with the manga or anime, but I really, really couldn't care less about anything being different than source material anyway. When you watch a film, try to empty your mind of preconceptions/expectations. It's not an artist's responsibility to make his/her work resemble other things. It's their own artistic take on an idea. You need to approach it in that frame of mind.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2017 6:51:29 GMT
I thought it was a pretty decent movie. I watched it the other day and I found the story of it to be quite interesting and I really enjoyed Willem Defoe's character. I honestly didn't even know he was in the movie before I watched it. I really didn't care for the L character at all, I think I needed more backstory on him to really understand why he was the way he was other than just a small mention of him being in a hidden school as a child and locked in solitary for however long.
I liked the movie and story enough to have the anime queued to watch at some time. So I have no real opinion on your issues with it as I personally don't watch any Anime stuff so it's not my place to say your complaints aren't valid. I've heard tons of people's issues with the movie are mainly Light's character being completely different.
Either way, I'm hoping for a sequel and in the end this movie got me interested in the anime itself so that in itself could be a good thing.
There was 1 thing that I was really confused by in the movie though so if this can be explained via the show it'd be great. I was under the impression that Light and Light only could write names in the book until his week was up and Ryuk found a different person to possess the book. Mia wrote a ton of people's names in it and then at the end L had one of it's pages and was prepared to write in it. Is it ever explained why Mia was able to write in it and for those killings took place while Light still was the "owner" of the book?
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Post by gomezaddams666 on Sept 3, 2017 17:24:12 GMT
I loved it. I have zero familiarity with the manga or anime, but I really, really couldn't care less about anything being different than source material anyway. When you watch a film, try to empty your mind of preconceptions/expectations. It's not an artist's responsibility to make his/her work resemble other things. It's their own artistic take on an idea. You need to approach it in that frame of mind. On the contrary, as the audience I don't have to like anything. I have the freedom to bash it till kingdom come. The filmmakers decided to take this highly regarded anime and make a completely different story, and I'm by ar not the only person destroying it, they knew they would get a backlash, this is what they bargained for. |
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Post by Terrapin Station on Sept 3, 2017 18:24:35 GMT
I loved it. I have zero familiarity with the manga or anime, but I really, really couldn't care less about anything being different than source material anyway. When you watch a film, try to empty your mind of preconceptions/expectations. It's not an artist's responsibility to make his/her work resemble other things. It's their own artistic take on an idea. You need to approach it in that frame of mind. On the contrary, as the audience I don't have to like anything. I have the freedom to bash it till kingdom come. The filmmakers decided to take this highly regarded anime and make a completely different story, and I'm by ar not the only person destroying it, they knew they would get a backlash, this is what they bargained for. Purism sucks though. |
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Post by gomezaddams666 on Sept 3, 2017 21:08:23 GMT
On the contrary, as the audience I don't have to like anything. I have the freedom to bash it till kingdom come. The filmmakers decided to take this highly regarded anime and make a completely different story, and I'm by ar not the only person destroying it, they knew they would get a backlash, this is what they bargained for. Purism sucks though. Tell the people who ran trucks into screening of The Last temptation of Christ. Thinking about it, they should make a movie where Jesus is a homosexual buddist, and see how the "purists" react, shouldn't they? |
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Post by Terrapin Station on Sept 3, 2017 21:41:59 GMT
Tell the people who ran trucks into screening of The Last temptation of Christ. Thinking about it, they should make a movie where Jesus is a homosexual buddist, and see how the "purists" react, shouldn't they?   (Unfortunately it kind of sucked, but because it was really low-budget, with a pretty amateurish script, acting, etc.--think of some first or second year film students trying to make their own Troma film) |
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