'office space': c or d?

my stabler!

And this movie did more to kill off those big golden eyeglasses that I didn't even realized were dated at the time than any other cultural moment outside of the BTK killer.

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give it 6 months and Kanye West will make them hip

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^ my stabler

;)

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knew that was coming^

I've seen the film just once and the only specifics I remember besides Stephen Root is J Aniston's "flare."

I mainly remember shouting at it "Hey! You nicked that storyline straight out of Superman 3!" and then loving it all the more for pointing this out themselves.

I can never find this in the documentary section.

C on its own but a D for people who construct their entire sense of humor out of quotes from it (ditto Spinal Tap / SNL / Holy Grail etc)

o-face

did that movie coin the term?

I'd never heard it before, that's for sure

(see also: "bonercoaster"

I've seen the film just once and the only specifics I remember besides Stephen Root is J Aniston's "flare."

"'"flair"'"

it's on tonight on film 4, should i watch?
it's on after sum of all fears where people survive a nuclear bomb going off just outside their window...

explain please!

Leaded glass.

Yes watch Office Space any chance you get.

Office Space bombed when it came out

It did? What a great movie. Maybe the best opening scene in a comedy ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guv5LUT1AFw

it is monday morning here and that is otm

Diedrich Bader is so great in that.

has s1ocki seen this yet

has lex heard of it

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on now

it's a documentary iirc

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5monB4fIzy8&feature=share

You wouldn't have got away with that jumping around shit with Tarrant in the chair.

It's okay.

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!