'office space': c or d?

Every home should have a copy, though.

Still - great just for the "O face".

Given the cult status Office Space has seemingly garnered since it hit the Blockbusters of the US (& beyond), I would hope someone would give Mr. Judge another chance.

1st time I saw it, it seemed a bit dry. Gets better w/ every viewing, though - even the iffy parts (like, f'r instance, that ending thing). Stephen Root is a comedic genius - between this flick & Newsradio, he should be That Guy in every single movie made from here on out.

And for all you Alexandra Wentworth fans out there - SCHMOOPIE!

Having seen it, uh, at least a dozen times, I think that the plot is much stronger than people make it out to be - it kept getting stronger with repeated viewing, then got a little weaker, then stronger again. The thing is that the jokes keep up until the end, I think. If you have jokes why do you want 'plot'? Pffft. It's fine as is.

One of my roommates refuses to watch this because it's too much like her work.

Oh, so many moments.

I think it's funny that this parents-in-mind page lists the discussion topics for this movie as: "Work, corporate culture, hypnotherapy, embezzlement, revenge."

Now, kids. We're gonna watch a movie called Office Space now. I want you to pay close attention because afterwards we are going to discuss what this says about corporate culture.

the movie itself has its moments but it ultimately succumbs to too many fallback comedy cliches.

Stephen Root as the squirrelly guy with the stapler who doesn't get cake = PRICELESS.

The scene in the beginning where MB's bumpin' Tupac and the black guy walks by and he turns it down and rolls up his window = white guilt at it's comedic finest.

If things could get any more classic than classic, Office Space tops that chart.

The only other movie I've seen the Michael Bolton guy in is Lost Angels, which stars Ad-Rock as a troubled rich kid trapped in a mental facility with Donald Sutherland (Michael Bolton plays the loudmouth of the facility and ROX).

Classic. The soundtrack is also killer (Geto Boys + old Mambo records = GENIUS)

What's even more hilarious is that Swingline caved into demand and came out with a red stapler just like the one in the movie.

Classic, watched it last night for the 100th time.

"When Peter and two other rebellious Initech employees get drunk, haul their hated copy machine out into a field and smash the damn thing to bits, the result is pure, electric cinema, as headlong and wordlessly giddy as anything in Godard and a hell of a lot easier to understand."

it's not that I'm lazy, etc.

Is it me, or did Ron Livingstone impose some sort've fatwa on interviewers asking him any further questions about "Office Space" (when it's obviously the high point of his career)?

Classic: "go ahead and....," flares, unenthusiastic clapping at office birthday party.

White guys showing primal instincts soundtracked to hip-hop = dud

Isn't the whole movie soundtracked to hip-hop?

Yeah, it's a little myopic to single out one Office Space scene in particular as 'soundtracked to hip-hop'.

basically everything up until peter snaps out of his hypno-groove is classic.

but there are enough moments in the oh shit we gotta wrap this up section to keep it still on the classic side.

"and then i guess i just...space out for about an hour."

also i think slocki is just being petulant at this point.

Isn't the whole movie soundtracked to hip-hop?

I am talking about the whole movie!

"PC load letter" bit is played out as much as any monty python or whatever, but still really really funny.

I know a ton of people whose first 'rap cd' was the soundtrack (me included)

"PC load letter" is the "these go to eleven" of the 90s/00s.

I thought that was "I do not want to go to federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison"

no way can anything even remotely associated with 'mind playin' tricks on me' be a dud.

i've seen this probably around a dozen times too. my only complaint is that the scene where everyone's holed up in Peter's apartment seems to drag on forever. also Peter's lopsided eyebrows always bothered me in a weird way. but the movie as a whole is total classic

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/24/business/staplers-the-attachment-thats-still-making-noise.html?_r=0

Staplers generally don’t rise to the level of prized collectibles, which is why a Swingline’s role as an object of obsession was so funny in the 1999 cult comedy"Office Space.”

In the film, a mumbling, superwide-eyed character named Milton becomes desperate after his red Swingline stapler is taken away during a frenzy of cost-cutting and downsizing at a soulless I.T. company.

You might assume that this stapler, not only cherished but central to the plot of “Office Space,” was a brilliant product placement move. In fact, Swingline had no hand in the story line. It had long stopped making that type of red stapler, and a black Swingline was painted red by the filmmakers.

At first, Swingline executives weren’t sure they liked being associated with such a dark parody of corporate life. But in 2002, recognizing the value of its pop-culture star turn, it released its Rio Red collectors edition 747 stapler. The company bills it “as the star of any office space.”

saw this again last night for 1st time in 10 years - visually I thought it looked much older than it is, a lot of the styles and aesthetics scream 1993 to me

yeah i forget it came out as late as it did.

http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/the-death-of-flair/

As Americans moved past the grief of 9/11 and “Office Space” became more and more popular, it became an embarrassment for Friday’s and its competitors. According a “Chicago Tribune” article, Friday’s focus groups were puzzled by the “junk” on walls, and in 2005, the restaurant chain started to streamline its look in Chicago prototypes, starting with taking out the faux Tiffany lamps, removing the circus-striped awnings, and reducing the clutter on the walls. It also ditched the pinback-covered uniform so despised by Jennifer Aniston. In 2007, Ruby Tuesday followed suit, getting rid of its leaded-glass lamps going for a “contemporary and sophisticated” feel in a new Orlando, Florida, restaurant. Suddenly, the formerly lucrative business of picking antiques for chains began drying up.

That is an amazing article. Of COURSE it ends with a bar in Brooklyn bringing back the fern bar aesthetic

"PC load letter? what the fuck does THAT mean?"

xp yeah that was great, thanks.

good read, thanks!

It looks like a Luby's, circa. 1995:

http://i.imgur.com/vdQ4pJ9.jpg

this movie finally answers the question who who lives in those weird suburban apartment complexes

i mean, this movie is like Withnail or Python or Grosse Pointe Blanke with its quoteable bits but yeah, classic and has held up well.

"PC Load Letter? what the FUCK does that mean?"

my coworkers decided to re-enact a few scenes for a work function. my favorite: someone got a free printer via FB marketplace & they took it to a field near work & whaled on it w baseball bats, end result looked so good w low camera angles & the music over top :D

there was a p good profile of Judge in NY Times Mag last week.

i guess i shd watch Sil Valley at some point

it's really good! s1 takes a while to find its footing but its worth watching for sure

i was not expecting the beavis and butthead guy to be culturally relevant a quarter of a century later

this, from the nytmag profile, is amazing:

Over dinner, Judge told me that he now fears “Idiocracy” was a little optimistic — maybe the country won’t even exist in 2505. Then he told me the best story of the night. He was location-scouting for the movie at a reform school, though he didn’t know it was a reform school at the time. He looked around and thought the students there looked, in his words, “kinda stupid,” and figured they might be of use to him. In the “Idiocracy” universe, the most popular movie in America, and the winner of eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, consists entirely of a man’s buttocks, passing gas intermittently for 90 minutes. Judge had made a 35-millimeter print of this movie-within-a-movie — just a few minutes of it — for a scene that takes place in a theater, and he wound up recruiting 250 of the “juvenile delinquents” to fill the seats. Judge figured he’d have to do a bit of directing to get the proper response from these extras — that context-free flatulence wouldn’t actually be that funny — but the kids surprised him. “They just start laughing,” he told me. “And they just keep laughing.”

Amazing and kind of highlights what's execrable about Judge himself.

naaah, most kids in reform school are fucking stupid

like their parents

You forgot someone else

Rhymes with Linton

also the punchline to that anecdote is one of his major crew saying "why don't we just release THIS?"

Overestimating your fellow human beings is truly the definition of execrable

farting is funny

I had a "didja get that memo?" week

That moment when Peter is hesitant to even open the door for fear of the inevitable static shock is so perfect

i was not expecting the beavis and butthead guy to be culturally relevant a quarter of a century later

― mookieproof, Saturday, April 22, 2017 5:39 PM (four hours ago)

tbh beavis and butthead has held up way better than most shows of its day

Seeeeeriously. And, if anything, it's almost prophetic wrt where we've wound up 20+ years later.

Also, Nathan Fielder basically remade that fart movie for his show and it actually was completely hilarious.

I think a fart movie would go over pretty well with a large part of the populace tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbMLW4s2pBg

> Apatow

Y u doin layup drills man

Here's a layup drill:

i was not expecting the beavis and butthead guy to be culturally relevant a quarter of a century later

Ha, more like 500 years lat– oh wait, someone else mentioned that other movie.

I really feel the "just work hard enough to not get fired" part of Peter Berg's monologue.

also I have a "PC Load Letter, what the FUCK does that mean?" moment every other day.

ugh Ron Livingston, why the hell did I confuse the two, lol