Put yourself in a "Coma"-VHS style
Added 12/30/2009
"Coma" is a taut medical thriller which intrigues viewers from the first ten minutes of the film. Dr. Susan Wheeler watches a good friend lapse into an irreversible coma after a routine surgery. Her love interest is trying to snag the next chief of surgery title playing hospital politics, and is encouraged to stop Susan's quest to find answers to an alarming problem of comas in her own hospital. If you like suspense movies, medical drama, love affairs, or all 3, this is the movie for you. I found a terrific copy of it in VHS on Amazon.com.
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Good Movie - Bad DVD !!
Added 10/3/2009
Very good movie, remember seeing it in the theater......
But, the DVD is awful. No features, poor transfer, and to top it a terrible sound track .... Mono !!!
The only good think about the DVD is it is 1.85 Anamorphic, enhanced for WS TV's.
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Has its moments, but undermined by a weak ending...possible spoilers...
Added 12/29/2008
For years and years, I've always wanted to see this film, but just never got around to it. Finally, after having it in the Netflix queue for years, I just moved it up and finally saw it. It's a good thriller, though a bit flat and predictable.
Coma has its moments. It starts out rather slowly (or leisurely), building up the situation of the setting, a hospital that houses Genevieve Bujold, Michael Douglas, Rip Torn, and Richard Widmark. You don't see that in many films nowadays, where it's just a little expository dialogue to explain the situation, then rush into the plot. Despite the fact that writer/director Michael Crichton created ER with its incessant moving, hand held camera moves, here he uses more traditional and effective framing. The build up is nicely done, and there's a ton of medical information thrown at you, so pay attention.
There are effective scenes, such as when Bujold is chased by a man set out to kill her, her climbing through shafts to get at the mystery, a funny scene in the morgue (with Ed Harris in one of his first roles), and the eerily effective, surreal Jefferson Institute scenes, which are still unsettling today (this is the scene where you see the bodies hanging from the wires). Bujold's escape from this facility is very well done. The ending, however, is very flat and rather predictable. It undermines a credible (and still plausible) suspense thriller.
Coma is a good film, not a great one, but one that has dated little (except for a really cheesy romantic montage sequence in the middle of the film, which is unintentionally hilarious), and still poses disturbing questions. It's not a particulary deep film, but a good one.
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Still good viewing
Added 12/28/2008
The movie has managed to stand its time quite well and does not seem overly aged when presented today. Michael Douglas role and his interpretation is not something to write home about but there are quite a few interesting performances in smaller parts by actors later becoming quite known (see how many you can spot)
The topic is ever more relevant these days and thus keeping the movie relevant to todays audiences despite its flaws.
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I remember this movie from TV. It would have been nice to see this one in a theater, but I never got to it. Genevieve Bujold made a good Doctor. But in watching the movie she is not a full fledged doctor. she is an intern or what ever doctors are before they become full fledged doctors and she is trying to get someone to listen to her, that there are illegal practicing of medicine in operating room 8 but no one listens until finally she is scheduled for surgery in OR 8 then her boy friend reluctantly steps in and starts looking into matters and finds out she was right and calls the police and has the administrator of the hospital arrested for what he as done to ten cases at the hospital.
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Put yourself in a "Coma"-VHS style
Added 12/30/2009
"Coma" is a taut medical thriller which intrigues viewers from the first ten minutes of the film. Dr. Susan Wheeler watches a good friend lapse into an irreversible coma after a routine surgery. Her love interest is trying to snag the next chief of surgery title playing hospital politics, and is encouraged to stop Susan's quest to find answers to an alarming problem of comas in her own hospital. If you like suspense movies, medical drama, love affairs, or all 3, this is the movie for you. I found a terrific copy of it in VHS on Amazon.com.
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Good Movie - Bad DVD !!
Added 10/3/2009
Very good movie, remember seeing it in the theater......
But, the DVD is awful. No features, poor transfer, and to top it a terrible sound track .... Mono !!!
The only good think about the DVD is it is 1.85 Anamorphic, enhanced for WS TV's.
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Has its moments, but undermined by a weak ending...possible spoilers...
Added 12/29/2008
For years and years, I've always wanted to see this film, but just never got around to it. Finally, after having it in the Netflix queue for years, I just moved it up and finally saw it. It's a good thriller, though a bit flat and predictable.
Coma has its moments. It starts out rather slowly (or leisurely), building up the situation of the setting, a hospital that houses Genevieve Bujold, Michael Douglas, Rip Torn, and Richard Widmark. You don't see that in many films nowadays, where it's just a little expository dialogue to explain the situation, then rush into the plot. Despite the fact that writer/director Michael Crichton created ER with its incessant moving, hand held camera moves, here he uses more traditional and effective framing. The build up is nicely done, and there's a ton of medical information thrown at you, so pay attention.
There are effective scenes, such as when Bujold is chased by a man set out to kill her, her climbing through shafts to get at the mystery, a funny scene in the morgue (with Ed Harris in one of his first roles), and the eerily effective, surreal Jefferson Institute scenes, which are still unsettling today (this is the scene where you see the bodies hanging from the wires). Bujold's escape from this facility is very well done. The ending, however, is very flat and rather predictable. It undermines a credible (and still plausible) suspense thriller.
Coma is a good film, not a great one, but one that has dated little (except for a really cheesy romantic montage sequence in the middle of the film, which is unintentionally hilarious), and still poses disturbing questions. It's not a particulary deep film, but a good one.
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