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logicbuttonThe Death Note movie is surprisingly good! I mean, it's still super-campy, and the Yagami family is still ludicrously unrealistic (or, I dunno, maybe it's just my family that doesn't sit around the dinner table talking about how proud we are to be related to each other), but it is coherently plotted, if perhaps a bit slow in the middle. I was surprised to find that Shiori was pretty okay. It helps that movie Light is so different from manga Light; I don't think I could see manga Light with an actual girlfriend he actually seemed to care about.
As for the dubbing, it was really pretty well-done. Not perfect. It definitely took some getting used to. But reasonably decent, with one exception: L's voice actor was FANTASTIC. Seriously, he was this bright shining star in the movie. Not bad-looking, either, from what I saw in the post-credits extra content. It's too bad L doesn't make an appearance until the last half-hour or so.
Romy and I were wondering on the way to the theater what the turnout was going to be like. Honestly, it could have been just us, or a sold-out show, and I wouldn't have been surprised either way. As it happened, there were maybe a hundred people there--not a full house, but hardly empty. Lots of Hot Topic kids. We got there early enough to get seats in the preferred back row, although the ones underneath the projector were already taken. There were a bunch of people sitting in the lobby when we came in, one of whom, I swear, was a Misa cosplayer who we think was looking at every pair of people that came in and loudly deciding which one was Mello and which one was Matt. Romy and I weren't sure what she concluded about us, because I was trying to walk past her as quickly as possible without making eye contact.
Most of the weird fannish behavior we saw was all right, though. There were a couple Lights, a couple Misas (I think; they had the hair right, but it's kind of hard to tell with those Hot Topic kids), and one L who kept hugging the people around her and sat in her chair funny. I didn't notice whether she actually sat like that for the entire movie, though. I was a little concerned about the people a couple rows ahead of us, whom we could hear talking before the movie about what they were going to squeal when L made his appearance, but the only thing anybody did during the movie that made me cringe was near the end, when the person who had been planning to squeal at L got all excited that Shiori and Naomi died. I mean, I get being okay with Shiori's death; she's an original character, she's Light's girlfriend, but Naomi? Seriously? I asked Romy whether she had gotten the same impression I had, and she said she also thought that person was happy that the girls were dying. So, a bit of fanbrattiness, but not as much as I thought there might be, considering the number of teenagers there.
On the drive back to Romy's apartment, we decided that I was probably Mello, and she was probably Matt. She's the one with the glasses, so.
As for the dubbing, it was really pretty well-done. Not perfect. It definitely took some getting used to. But reasonably decent, with one exception: L's voice actor was FANTASTIC. Seriously, he was this bright shining star in the movie. Not bad-looking, either, from what I saw in the post-credits extra content. It's too bad L doesn't make an appearance until the last half-hour or so.
Romy and I were wondering on the way to the theater what the turnout was going to be like. Honestly, it could have been just us, or a sold-out show, and I wouldn't have been surprised either way. As it happened, there were maybe a hundred people there--not a full house, but hardly empty. Lots of Hot Topic kids. We got there early enough to get seats in the preferred back row, although the ones underneath the projector were already taken. There were a bunch of people sitting in the lobby when we came in, one of whom, I swear, was a Misa cosplayer who we think was looking at every pair of people that came in and loudly deciding which one was Mello and which one was Matt. Romy and I weren't sure what she concluded about us, because I was trying to walk past her as quickly as possible without making eye contact.
Most of the weird fannish behavior we saw was all right, though. There were a couple Lights, a couple Misas (I think; they had the hair right, but it's kind of hard to tell with those Hot Topic kids), and one L who kept hugging the people around her and sat in her chair funny. I didn't notice whether she actually sat like that for the entire movie, though. I was a little concerned about the people a couple rows ahead of us, whom we could hear talking before the movie about what they were going to squeal when L made his appearance, but the only thing anybody did during the movie that made me cringe was near the end, when the person who had been planning to squeal at L got all excited that Shiori and Naomi died. I mean, I get being okay with Shiori's death; she's an original character, she's Light's girlfriend, but Naomi? Seriously? I asked Romy whether she had gotten the same impression I had, and she said she also thought that person was happy that the girls were dying. So, a bit of fanbrattiness, but not as much as I thought there might be, considering the number of teenagers there.
On the drive back to Romy's apartment, we decided that I was probably Mello, and she was probably Matt. She's the one with the glasses, so.
