'office space': c or d?

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)?

Office Space
Sat 17 Apr, 01:10 - 02:35 85 mins

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It's definitely not as good as the UK series "The Office." that is classic.

I...liked it. I enjoyed it. I'll take what everyone's said about it getting better with further viewings in mind, and Root did a fine job indeed, I wouldn't mind just a film about his character but at the same time he was in the end probably most effective just as a perfectly recurring secondary figure. Pete's point way, way up top about it being sketches rather a movie as such applies strongly.

I'm sure many here will offer up thoughts that will prove me wrong, but I suspect, just as strongly, that a lot of the identification with the film has to do with whatever you've experienced in your working world, and in my case while everyone was cracking up as the jokes came through I was mostly smiling instead of belly laughing, I was bemused rather than feeling a shock of recognition -- in my post-college life, my two regular 'jobs' as such were teaching writing with an extremely sympathetic program supervisor, a role which I incredibly enjoyed despite its fluid and time-consuming nature, and my library job, which while its own form of bureaucratic oddballness has never caused me to rage, and where my supervisors have almost always been great folks or at the least harmless and easy to work around. If anything I've been incredibly appreciative of its just-right nature for me, a combination of problem-solving and relaxation that if anything has improved with time, and which increasingly I've been able to use to get some definite improvements and changes done over these years. In a way, this film's a bit like Buffy, something which a lot of people clearly adore but which doesn't fully resonate with me, doesn't feel applicable or say anything new or striking to me -- though the movie was hardly a jeremiad, I thought its tritest moments were the variants of 'work sucks' in the dialogue.

But enough of that -- yeah, pretty good, but I'm not thinking I'll be a cultist. Underrated character: Lawrence. Underrated plot element: the meta-references to Superman III.

partially because i find people who constantly bitch about their jobs as insufferable as their jobs most likely are

Ouch, that's a bit harsh, isn't it?

It's kind of weird watching it in a post-Office universe, because of course nothing does it better.

TS Gary Cole v. Ricky Gervais...

http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/ayang/xanga/Office_Space.jpg

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