Pathology the movie

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I suspected such a connection but i dont think bwh is going to be specifically referenced in the movie. as for the documentary on bwh, i think the major focus will be on the clinical folks and the DFCI physicians.
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yaah said:
Yeah, but it's also his friend the pathologist who tries to frame him and kill him! Of course, since he doesn't do autopsies people probably think he's a surgeon.
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Hmmm... you know, that's pretty hillarious, because I had forgotten and thought that the Dr. Nichols character (the one who he has a fight with at the end of the movie) WAS a surgeon... heh... I guess because they had the evil doctors going out on these drug company junkets and I just don't see pathologists getting that 5 star treatment...

Oh well, so much for that positive portrayal... :)

BH
 
docbiohazard said:
Hmmm... you know, that's pretty hillarious, because I had forgotten and thought that the Dr. Nichols character (the one who he has a fight with at the end of the movie) WAS a surgeon... heh... I guess because they had the evil doctors going out on these drug company junkets and I just don't see pathologists getting that 5 star treatment...

Oh well, so much for that positive portrayal... :)

BH
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Atherosclerosis? Massive drug company sponsorship? I assumed he was a cardiologist.
 
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Pinkertinkle said:
Did anyone see this movie trailer yet?
http://www.enterpathologylab.com/

I didn't know pathology residency was this awesome.

edit: someone fix the thread title if possible.
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Man, here we go again.
Yaah can we sticky the orginal thread untill after the movie comes out/ is a total bomb/goes straight to DVD...

And Pinkertinkle...
I got a south park avatar... you got a problem with that?? :mad:

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you guys are funny.

dont act like ur not really excited about the exposure pathology will get in this movie. i am, and you know you are. it probably will amount to nothing, but it's still fun.
 
Yes. Pathology is getting exposure in this movie, it seems, just like psychiatry got exposure in Silence of the Lambs and Surgery got exposure in Coma.
 
yaah said:
Yes. Pathology is getting exposure in this movie, it seems, just like psychiatry got exposure in Silence of the Lambs and Surgery got exposure in Coma.
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Don't forget Flatliners.. and the exposure it gave to.... uh defibrillators..
 
yaah said:
Yes. Pathology is getting exposure in this movie, it seems, just like psychiatry got exposure in Silence of the Lambs and Surgery got exposure in Coma.
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Somebody made a movie out of Coma?

They say there is no such thing as bad publicity, but I'm sure this movie will make us all look like drug-fueled sex-crazed fiends, hell bent on murdering people, and I for one am a staunch opponent of drugs and murder...

BH
 
Oh yes! Tom Selleck played a patient coming in for minor surgery who died. It was made a long time ago, 30 years or so. Of course, if I remember correctly, pathologists appear in the movie, but their role consists entirely of telling the attractive crusading surgical resident how to kill people.

We should start a blog about "pathologist portrayal in the film and tv industry." I am especially impressed with scrubs, and how the complete ******* of the group was sent to pathology where he now can diagnose cause of death just by looking at someone and his days consist of transporting bodies around the hospital and stopping to eat frequently. I hear there are pathology residencies like that.
 
yaah said:
Oh yes! Tom Selleck played a patient coming in for minor surgery who died. It was made a long time ago, 30 years or so. Of course, if I remember correctly, pathologists appear in the movie, but their role consists entirely of telling the attractive crusading surgical resident how to kill people.

We should start a blog about "pathologist portrayal in the film and tv industry." I am especially impressed with scrubs, and how the complete ******* of the group was sent to pathology where he now can diagnose cause of death just by looking at someone and his days consist of transporting bodies around the hospital and stopping to eat frequently. I hear there are pathology residencies like that.
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Yea, that irks me too, and the worst part about it was that he started growing a mullet.
 
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yaah said:
Oh yes! Tom Selleck played a patient coming in for minor surgery who died. It was made a long time ago, 30 years or so. Of course, if I remember correctly, pathologists appear in the movie, but their role consists entirely of telling the attractive crusading surgical resident how to kill people.
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The best part of any Robin Cook novel is that if you've read one, you've read them all. Someone gave me a bunch awhile back (before med school, when I had time to read) and I read one. Then I read the next one, and realized the plot was following the same formula... started reading the third, and discovered the same thing...

I think, along with your pathology in cinema blog idea, we need a blog devoted to the unsung filmography of Tom Selleck...

BH
 
I think I can name about three movies he has been in besides coma, and two of them were three men and a baby movies. Did you know there was a ghost in the window in the first one? It was real!!!! I heard it was some kid who died!!!
 
yaah said:
We should start a blog about "pathologist portrayal in the film and tv industry." I am especially impressed with scrubs, and how the complete ******* of the group was sent to pathology where he now can diagnose cause of death just by looking at someone and his days consist of transporting bodies around the hospital and stopping to eat frequently. I hear there are pathology residencies like that.
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don't forget about Crossing Jordan that was on NBC. I know it plays into 'all pathologist are ME's" but I loved that show.
 
yaah said:
I think I can name about three movies he has been in besides coma, and two of them were three men and a baby movies. Did you know there was a ghost in the window in the first one? It was real!!!! I heard it was some kid who died!!!
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dude, this is just spooky . . .

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but i'm talking about the guy in the blue shirt
 
Mmmm yes, I seem to have misplaced my sarcastic smiley... I'll go add one, before someone gets confused.

BH
 
caffeinegirl said:
Woohoo!

Can you believe it? They moved up the opening date...

Pathology the movie opens this weekend (Friday April 18)!

See you at the movies

;)
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See you there!

Though I'm expecting magnificent awfulness. One day before opening and only two reviews on Rottentomatoes - can you say 'not screened for critics'?
 
"This movie stinks worse than an actual morgue" said Pathology Times...

BH
 
I read the screenplay before the movie was made. It was so funny... Cadavers moving during autopsies, crazy sex scenes in the necropsy suite, etc. I can't wait to see this movie.:laugh:
 
So is this only in theaters or did it go straight to DVD? If it went to DVD I'm running to blockbuster right now...

*Nevermind, just found that it's only in select theaters, none of which are in my state*
=(
 
I believe this atrocity against cinema is currently in limited release... opened yesterday...

BH
 
Alrighty then...so a whole bunch of us residents went together to see the movie last night....and let me tell ya, you're in for a ride...a funny ride that is!

So, I went in expecting a horror flick..this is by the guys who made Saw, so go figure. What we got was a mixture of thriller/weirdness/unintentional laughs!

I have to say, if you weren't a resident and performed scores of autopsies, then you would be grossed out....the group behind me was groaning when the clippers came out to cut the chest wall, and they showed decomps, cutting the liver, etc. For all of us, it was a walk in the park....it was a movie about work, although it was quite dramatized and editorialized, a la CSI.

Besides that, the plot is kind of disjointed and unravels quickly, there's lots of "boobage", and Milo didn't do as good of a job as I'd liked...but I have high standards ;)

It was a fun time to watch it with others who can laugh along with you...but I don't think I'd submit myself to watch it again.

This movie wasn't screened to critics and is open only in limited release, so we all got comment cards/grading cards to fill out after the movie...

I gave it a "C"
 
Ha! I figured you were going to be in that back row but didn't want to say "Hey are any of you caffeinegirl??"

Can I say how honoured I was to watch a movie about a Harvard pathologist with Harvard pathologists? ;) :laugh:

SPOILER ALERT, okay? If anyone cares.

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The crowd was a lot sparser than I had anticipated. I guess an "-ology" movie isn't necessarily what Saturday night viewers are looking for.

So there are innumerable inconsistencies in plot, with stereotypes (good girl wears pink lace bra, bad girl wears red bra) and inaccuracies (a forensics residency?? Electron microscopy in a forensics lab?) galore. So what? If the point of the movie was to explore depravity, then it was a fairly successful outing combining sex, drugs and death. What I wouldn't give to have been a fly on the wall at the plot brainstormings...

On technical grounds, it was a well-made film. And I got to watch it for free. That led to me giving this in many ways highly-irritating film a "D" instead of "E or worse". It managed to shock me, and I am officially past the board-required "50 autopsies" mark. The pornage, oh the pornage... I couldn't help wondering, if fully-nude sex scenes with some bi foreplay as well as more than a bit of S&M thrown in buys you an "R" rating only, wtf does it take to get to NC-17 these days??

But it seemed we were a well-behaved group indulging in a little academic exercise. Nothing was thrown at the screen.

caffeinegirl said:
Alrighty then...so a whole bunch of us residents went together to see the movie last night....and let me tell ya, you're in for a ride...a funny ride that is!

So, I went in expecting a horror flick..this is by the guys who made Saw, so go figure. What we got was a mixture of thriller/weirdness/unintentional laughs!
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deschutes said:
Can I say how honoured I was to watch a movie about a Harvard pathologist with Harvard pathologists? ;) :laugh:
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Ditto! Nothing like a little corporate bonding. ;)
 
caffeinegirl said:
Alrighty then...so a whole bunch of us residents went together to see the movie last night....and let me tell ya, you're in for a ride...a funny ride that is!
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It would've been funnier if you had all gone in your scrubs. :p


----- Antony
 
Yeah, I thought so too, but since there were only about six unaffiliated people in the theater, I'm not sure it would have been worth it.

green mantis said:
It would've been funnier if you had all gone in your scrubs. :p


----- Antony
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its not playing in any theatre within reasonable driving distance around me, meaning total B movie.

maybe a rental...who's boobs are we seeing btw?
 
Alyssa Milano and others...
 
deschutes said:
I'm looking forward to seeing that documentary filmed at BWH that he mentioned.

Of course, since I STILL don't own a TV, I guess I'm counting on the unlikely event that someone puts it on YouTube...
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What is this documentary called? I want to Tivo it.
 
Just in case you were wondering how this movie did, overall, I found a wealth of information at a website called "The Numbers" (http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/2008/PATHO.php) ... I will summarize the data here:

Weekend Chart RecordDateRank Gross% ChangeTheatersPer TheaterTotal GrossDays4/18/200855
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$54,24446$1,179$54,24434/25/200875
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$16,665-69.28%46$362$98,531105/2/2008126
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$787-95.28%3$262$108,66217

Fairly stunning, no? Just over $100k in the US box office. Oddly enough, it has made around $1.5mil in the international box office. They have a lot of detailed stats at The Numbers... including a scathing bit about how the movie was bumped from a wide release in October (good timing) to a limited release in April (terrible timing), that was "too broad to allow regional marketing but too limited to justify national marketing" or something to that effect. Pretty humorous.

Maybe it'll do better on DVD with Directors Commentary... :)

BH
 
I just watched Pathology and it was as bad as I expected from this thread - an hour and a half well spent, but I don't see myself ever watching it again. I only wish I had downed more liquor beforehand.
 
RisingSun said:
I just watched Pathology and it was as bad as I expected from this thread - an hour and a half well spent, but I don't see myself ever watching it again. I only wish I had downed more liquor beforehand.
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So it's out on DVD already- not surprising.

I'll have to get the rest of the first years together for a screening party.
 
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