It seems that there is a live-action adaptation of Death Note coming to a select group of 300 theaters – for two days only. Here’s a review of the movie on NPR and here’s a list of theaters. Some selected theaters that may be of particular interest, ahem:
| Cinemark 20 | MERRIAM | KS | 66202 |
| AMC Olathe Studio 29 | OLATHE | KS | 66062 |
| Town Cinema | ASHLAND | KY | 41101 |
| Hamburg Pavilions 16 | LEXINGTON | KY | 40509 |
| Stonybrook Cinemas | LOUISVILLE | KY | 40220 |
| Tinseltown Louisville | LOUISVILLE | KY | 40241 |
| AMC Elmwood Palace 20 | HARAHAN | LA | 70123 |
| AMC Westbank Palace 16 | HARVEY | LA | 70058 |
| Cinemark 14 | LAKE CHARLES | LA | 70601 |
| Tinseltown | SHREVEPORT | LA | 71115 |
| Tinseltown USA | WEST MONROE | LA | 71291 |
| Cedar Hills Crossing 16 | BEAVERTON | OR | 97005 |
| Valley River | EUGENE | OR | 97401 |
| Tinseltown | MEDFORD | OR | 97504 |
| Cinemark 17 | SPRINGFIELD | OR | 97477 |
| Pinnacle Stadium 18 | KNOXVILLE | TN | 37922 |
| Opry Mills 20 plus IMAX | NASHVILLE | TN | 37214 |
| Tinseltown | OAK RIDGE | TN | 37830 |
| AMC Willowbrook 24 | HOUSTON | TX | 77064 |
| Houston Marq*E Stadium 22 | HOUSTON | TX | 77024 |
| Memorial City Mall | HOUSTON | TX | 77024 |
Imagine my surprise that Marshfield, WI is not on the list.
But there’s one showing in Lake Charles, LA? That’s about an hour drive from where I’m at.
Seems so – if you go, do a review!
Death Note is pretty good, but its second half (not a sequel but an essential part of one integral work) The Last Name is excellent. They should have budgeted four days — and shown both halves.
Pictures (and comments, if one wants them as well):
http://rozmon.blogspot.com/2007/02/watched-february-19-25-2007.html
http://rozmon.blogspot.com/2007/06/watched-june-11-17-2007-yamada-hui-j.html
Ah crap, I didn’t see this until it was too late tonight. Maybe tomorrow. Is this worth seeing? I know nothing about it, but it sounds kinda neat. It’s not playing at my closest theaters, but it’s within range.
I havent seen the original anime so I have no clue about whether this live action adapt will be worth the effort. Michael has some links above to reviews however that you may find useful.
The Librarian and I first watched DN:LA on fansub back in late 2006, and were completely blown away at how good it was, particularly when I fired it up on the movie screen and LCD projector combo.
But even though we were both incredibly busy with our jobs, we jumped at the chance to see it in the theater it was playing at here in Duckford.
Two things: first, it’s been dubbed. It was a good dub job, no question, but it’s still dubbed. Second, they didn’t subtitle any of the writing. This was a little annoying, particularly when they show a closeup of a newspaper headline that is supposed to impart important information.
Still, good times, good times.
Duck, you just pushed DN out of my “maybe” list into my “to watch” list – though the latter is starting to get ridiculously long 🙂
Fledge, let me try and push it even higher up your watch list: I didn’t expect to like Death Note at all. I only started watching it because The Librarian’s birthday was coming up, and she liked the manga, and I decided to burn her a DVD of the first few episodes of the anime (this was before it got licensed).
And I got hooked, more or less. More plot twists than House of Games makes Wonderduck very happy…
Duck, plot twists make me happy. I am a Galactica geek, after all. 🙂 OK, I just added it to my queue for after i finish Escaflowne.