Last Friends

[meoinkie2]

bmwracer wrote:

I got the info from a blog link that was posted at D-Addicts: http://myfirstgossipblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/last-friends-to-hit-big-screen.html

arigatou gozaimasu!!
how was the last episode being received in there??
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[bmwracer]

meoinkie2 wrote:

arigatou gozaimasu!! how was the last episode being received in there??

I think the ratings for Episode 11 was 22.8%...

[roon]

That would suck if it were how Jdramas and movie adaptations usually work, ie- same story different cast... but I'm 99% sure it's going to go that route.

I can't imagine anyone but Juri as Ruka! Especially after looking so amazing in 11.

[chokakoi]

A movie?!?!??!?! You mean they can still squeeze more juice from this story???
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[bmwracer]

chokakoi wrote:

A movie?!?!??!?! You mean they can still squeeze more juice from this story???

Not juice, dust.

[suzzy]

meoinkie2 wrote:

here.. http://www.crunchyroll.com/group/CRSeries_-_Last_Friends

oh thankz i will check that out
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[suzzy]

bmwracer wrote:

A Last Friends Movie? --------------------------------------------------------- (Source: Entame) Osaka Sports reported that the decision to make a movie-version of popular J-Dorama "Last Friends" has been made! The dorama's themes are concerned with modern-day social problems like child abuse, domestic violence and homosexuality, and started out with a viewer's rating of 13.9% (for the first episode) and peaked at 20.7% in the second-last episode last week, pulling ahead of KimuTaku's CHANGE. (The last episode airs tonight.) Related personnel commented that "nobody had thought that Last Friends would be able to rake in higher viewer's ratings than KimuTaku's CHANGE. Although the 19th (of June) was meant to be the last episode, we suddenly had a phone call asking us to add on a special episode/version of Last Friends, in the way that KimuTaku's HERO was made into a movie." Apparently plans for the movie are already underway. Following in the steps of "Journey to the West" and "HERO", it's been said that the transition from the small-screen to the big-screen has rarely seen failure. --------------------------------------------------------- Oh, puh-lease.... Talk about a cheap money grab.

if is true u know I am in on watching
but wow what they will put in this movie is what i really to see and I hope is the same cast too


so some reason don't give me wrong but someything is telling that uknow who isn't really dead
but then again
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[suzzy]

bmwracer wrote:

Not juice, dust.

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[bmwracer]

Finished Episode 11 without the subs...

What couldn't be resolved in the past ten episodes (just about everything) was all taken care of here...

Very anticlimactic.

[suzzy]

bmwracer wrote:

Finished Episode 11 without the subs... What couldn't be resolved in the past ten episodes (just about everything) was all taken care of here... Very anticlimactic.

well that sound like a lot in one episode
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[deseipher]

bmwracer wrote:

Finished Episode 11 without the subs... What couldn't be resolved in the past ten episodes (just about everything) was all taken care of here... Very anticlimactic.

I watched the episode without subs, and I have to agree, it does come off as anticlimactic.

[bmwracer]

deseipher wrote:

I watched the episode without subs, and I have to agree, it does come off as anticlimactic.

I'll need to re-watch it again just for Ruka and Takeru's dialog... I've no interest in any of Michiru's dialog: her character nearly makes me as sick as Sosuke.

I felt sorry for Michiru at the beginning, but I just found her to have matured/evolved very little throughout the drama... She's just pathetic.

[ash_ton]

deseipher wrote:

I watched the episode without subs, and I have to agree, it does come off as anticlimactic.

Watched ep 11 without subs.. Couldn't understand much of the dialogs.. But I'm glad that the series is over! Even thinking whether to watch it with subs, but might as well do to understand Ruka and Takeru's dialog as bmw said...

The director/writer tried to squeeze in everything into the final ep to finish it off. Overall rating of the series would be 6.5 - 7 for me (and that too only because of the performances of Juri chan & Eita).

[noblsheep]

just finished marathoning episodes 7-11. it was, like everybody said, anticlimatic and pathetic. that they all got it to work out after all that was against all logic. and the

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4-person family

ending? puh-lease.

[bmwracer]

LOL.

Seems that everyone here at J-D is very critical of this drama, while over at D-Addcits, people are fawning over it like it was the best thing since sliced bread.

[deseipher]

bmwracer wrote:

LOL. Seems that everyone here at J-D is very critical of this drama, while over at D-Addcits, people are fawning over it like it was the best thing since sliced bread.

I wonder what they see about the show that most of us here don't. I understand we all got different perspectives on it, but the fact it seems like we're on one end while people on D-Addicts are on the opposite is interesting. I'll have to read through all those posts on D-Addicts to get some idea

[bmwracer]

deseipher wrote:

I wonder what they see about the show that most of us here don't. I understand we all got different perspectives on it, but the fact it seems like we're on one end while people on D-Addicts are on the opposite is interesting. I'll have to read through all those posts on D-Addicts to get some idea

My perception is that it's VERY fangirl-ish over there: they're totally enamored with the semi/pseudo-lesbian relationship... To the point where they're overlooking all the story flaws... Along with all the fantasizing...

I suppose you could say were the pessimists here and they're the optimists over there...

[ash_ton]

deseipher wrote:

I wonder what they see about the show that most of us here don't. I understand we all got different perspectives on it, but the fact it seems like we're on one end while people on D-Addicts are on the opposite is interesting. I'll have to read through all those posts on D-Addicts to get some idea

Hmm.. I also have not followed the thread over at d-addicts.. But from what I read, the guys/gals here are more demanding! Given the cast at hand, the production team of Last Friends did an ok-ish kind of job and nothing more!

[bmwracer]

ash_ton wrote:

Hmm.. I also have not followed the thread over at d-addicts..

There have been some who have criticized the drama (aside from me) and have been typically smacked down... As being too critical.

[deseipher]

bmwracer wrote:

My perception is that it's VERY fangirl-ish over there: they're totally enamored with the semi/pseudo-lesbian relationship... To the point where they're overlooking all the story flaws... Along with all the fantasizing... I suppose you could say were the pessimists here and they're the optimists over there...

Certainly they are more forgiving of the flaws than we are it seems. I skimmed through the last three pages of the discussion at D-Addicts and it looks like while most point out some flaws, they put the Ruka-Takeru relationship as the positive which makes the drama good in their eyes. That's only the last three pages, so obviously that's not going to give a good idea of the overall consensus there. I do agree that the Ruka-Takeru relationship is what kept this drama up, but I don't agree that's it so much a positive that it overrides all the negatives.