Mood:  don't ask

Hmmmm, I'm finding it hard to begin.  Death Note is a hugely popular manga and anime series internationally(US offical anime site).  So popular, in fact, that it's become a muse of sorts for a killer in Belgium.  Recently the internets have been buzzing with the news that  Warner has aquired the rights to make an American live action movie based on the story. 

Anybody who's been reading my ramblings for a while now will, no doubt, have stumbled across my crazy rant about Hollywood xenophobia.  So it appears that regardless of how amazingly easy it is becoming to get my grubby little paws on overseas movies, meaning, to me, that I am far from the only grubby paw person out there, most of our media consuming population is still unable to read subtitles, unwilling to accept the small cultural quirks that make their way into movies made elsewhere, and completely fine with being fed the same uninspired, uncreative regurgitated mess that is our current 'Now Showing' list at the movies.  The second of the Japanese live action Death Note films is available through netflix and has recently visited my house.  Both it and the first one are awesome, in my opinion, and need no reworking.  I hope for the best, but I am thoroughly rankled.