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― piscesx, Monday, 31 January 2011 02:57 (thirteen years ago) link
on now
― shite pele (darraghmac), Thursday, 20 October 2011 23:44 (twelve years ago) link
it's a documentary iirc
― Two Noble Klinsmenn (Noodle Vague), Friday, 21 October 2011 00:00 (twelve years ago) link
fairly meh on first viewing, felt like i missed an hour in the middle where he gets serious with aniston and i dunno learns valuable life shit.
'Work is shitty and we'd rather do something else' is a good message, though.
― shite pele (darraghmac), Friday, 21 October 2011 00:24 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5monB4fIzy8&feature=share
― dog latin, Friday, 21 October 2011 11:35 (twelve years ago) link
You wouldn't have got away with that jumping around shit with Tarrant in the chair.
― Ned Trifle X, Friday, 21 October 2011 11:56 (twelve years ago) link
It's okay.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 April 2012 22:25 (twelve years ago) link
Classic: "go ahead and....," flares, unenthusiastic clapping at office birthday party.
White guys showing primal instincts soundtracked to hip-hop = dud
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 April 2012 22:26 (twelve years ago) link
Isn't the whole movie soundtracked to hip-hop?
― Godzilla vs. Rodan Rodannadanna (The Yellow Kid), Friday, 6 April 2012 22:40 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, it's a little myopic to single out one Office Space scene in particular as 'soundtracked to hip-hop'.
― 1 of paper = 4 of coin (Deric W. Haircare), Saturday, 7 April 2012 00:22 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Saturday, 7 April 2012 00:52 (twelve years ago) link
"and then i guess i just...space out for about an hour."
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Saturday, 7 April 2012 00:53 (twelve years ago) link
also i think slocki is just being petulant at this point.
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Saturday, 7 April 2012 00:54 (twelve years ago) link
I am talking about the whole movie!
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 7 April 2012 01:46 (twelve years ago) link
"PC load letter" bit is played out as much as any monty python or whatever, but still really really funny.
― s.clover, Saturday, 7 April 2012 01:49 (twelve years ago) link
I know a ton of people whose first 'rap cd' was the soundtrack (me included)
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Saturday, 7 April 2012 04:27 (twelve years ago) link
"PC load letter" is the "these go to eleven" of the 90s/00s.
― Dancing with Mr. T (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 7 April 2012 04:47 (twelve years ago) link
I thought that was "I do not want to go to federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison"
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Saturday, 7 April 2012 05:06 (twelve years ago) link
no way can anything even remotely associated with 'mind playin' tricks on me' be a dud.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Saturday, 7 April 2012 05:55 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Estimate the percent chance that a whale has ever been to the moon? (frogbs), Saturday, 7 April 2012 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
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.”
― j., Sunday, 24 March 2013 17:47 (eleven years ago) link
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
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 12:33 (nine years ago) link
yeah i forget it came out as late as it did.
― now I'm the grandfather (dog latin), Wednesday, 11 June 2014 13:05 (nine years ago) link
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.
― j., Monday, 6 February 2017 21:32 (seven years ago) link
That is an amazing article. Of COURSE it ends with a bar in Brooklyn bringing back the fern bar aesthetic
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 02:18 (seven years ago) link
"PC load letter? what the fuck does THAT mean?"
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 02:35 (seven years ago) link
xp yeah that was great, thanks.
― new noise, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 02:40 (seven years ago) link
good read, thanks!
― kinder, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 17:55 (seven years ago) link
It looks like a Luby's, circa. 1995:
http://i.imgur.com/vdQ4pJ9.jpg
― pplains, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 18:37 (seven years ago) link
this movie finally answers the question who who lives in those weird suburban apartment complexes
― 龜, Friday, 21 April 2017 16:55 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Saturday, 22 April 2017 08:46 (seven years ago) link
"PC Load Letter? what the FUCK does that mean?"
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 22 April 2017 11:14 (seven years ago) link
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
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 22 April 2017 17:24 (seven years ago) link
there was a p good profile of Judge in NY Times Mag last week.
i guess i shd watch Sil Valley at some point
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 22 April 2017 17:32 (seven years ago) link
it's really good! s1 takes a while to find its footing but its worth watching for sure
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 22 April 2017 17:34 (seven years ago) link
i was not expecting the beavis and butthead guy to be culturally relevant a quarter of a century later
― mookieproof, Saturday, 22 April 2017 17:39 (seven years ago) link
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.”
― flopson, Saturday, 22 April 2017 17:43 (seven years ago) link
Amazing and kind of highlights what's execrable about Judge himself.
― El Tuomasbot (milo z), Saturday, 22 April 2017 17:47 (seven years ago) link
naaah, most kids in reform school are fucking stupid
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 22 April 2017 17:48 (seven years ago) link
like their parents
You forgot someone else
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 22 April 2017 17:49 (seven years ago) link
Rhymes with Linton
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 22 April 2017 17:50 (seven years ago) link
also the punchline to that anecdote is one of his major crew saying "why don't we just release THIS?"
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 22 April 2017 17:51 (seven years ago) link
Overestimating your fellow human beings is truly the definition of execrable
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 22 April 2017 18:00 (seven years ago) link
farting is funny
― j., Saturday, 22 April 2017 19:07 (seven years ago) link
I had a "didja get that memo?" week
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 22 April 2017 19:09 (seven years ago) link
That moment when Peter is hesitant to even open the door for fear of the inevitable static shock is so perfect
― Wet Pelican would provide the soundtrack (Myonga Vön Bontee), Saturday, 22 April 2017 21:00 (seven years ago) link
― 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
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Saturday, 22 April 2017 21:45 (seven years ago) link
Seeeeeriously. And, if anything, it's almost prophetic wrt where we've wound up 20+ years later.
― Sort-of like a Hershey's kiss, only it's an anus (Old Lunch), Saturday, 22 April 2017 22:49 (seven years ago) link
Also, Nathan Fielder basically remade that fart movie for his show and it actually was completely hilarious.
― Sort-of like a Hershey's kiss, only it's an anus (Old Lunch), Saturday, 22 April 2017 22:52 (seven years ago) link