Death Note- The Movie

I'm just gonna come right out and say it:

It was TERRIBLE! It was worse than terrible; it had the potential to be really awesome. The technology for the special effects is there, the story line in the Anime is pretty basic and easily translatable into a script, the plot is simple, and the characters (in the Anime) are rich and believable.

Instead, they decided to just hack the plot and the storyline into bits and pieces, and change a bunch of shit they really didn't need to change. Then, as if that wasn't bad enough, they dubbed it instead of subtitling it. As if THAT wasn't bad enough, they didn't translate the Japanese text from the newspapers, etc when it came up on the screen. The text would have probably given important info, assuming it'd been accurate, which at this point is a bit of a stretch. I won't go into any further detail in case there's a small chance someone reading this still plans to see it.

Now, my basic problem with this is simple: Deathnote's kind of a niche thing. I mean, most of the population's never heard of Deathnote, and probably wasn't interested when the preview came out. Why would you try to make it appeal to a broad audience? If you're going to make a movie that targets a niche crowd, wouldn't it make sense to make sure that small target audience is catered to? Follow the fucking story! Don't change major plot events! Don't change small details that make no sense to change! I don't understand the goal of the moviemakers when they do that shit. But if you're planning to go see it, take my advice: wait till it comes out on DVD, and then sucker one of your friends into renting it for you.