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.
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, February 10, 2009 3:22 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
give it 6 months and Kanye West will make them hip
― some dude, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 20:34 (fifteen years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cVzGu1hZHlo/SJve8YcfL9I/AAAAAAAACEg/RmqjxotXosU/s400/christopher+meloni+03.jpg
^ my stabler
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 20:35 (fifteen years ago) link
;)
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 20:36 (fifteen years ago) link
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/PHOTOFILE/AABF030~Ken-Stabler-Photofile-Posters.jpg
― Pancakes Hackman, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 20:54 (fifteen years ago) link
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."
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 21:04 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Not the real Village People, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 21:25 (fifteen years ago) link
I can never find this in the documentary section.
― Magdalen Goobers (Oilyrags), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 21:43 (fifteen years ago) link
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)
― Ye Mad Puffin, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 21:45 (fifteen years ago) link
o-face
― Courtney Love's Jew Loan Officer (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 21:46 (fifteen years ago) link
did that movie coin the term?
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 21:55 (fifteen years ago) link
I'd never heard it before, that's for sure
― Courtney Love's Jew Loan Officer (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 22:05 (fifteen years ago) link
(see also: "bonercoaster"
"'"flair"'"
― I Was A Taoist Intellectual (sic), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 22:23 (fifteen years ago) link
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!
― not_goodwin, Sunday, 1 March 2009 09:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Leaded glass.
Yes watch Office Space any chance you get.
― Pull Out the Pingu (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 1 March 2009 09:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Office Space bombed when it came out
It did? What a great movie. Maybe the best opening scene in a comedy ever.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 15 August 2009 03:53 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guv5LUT1AFw
― ENBB, Monday, 31 January 2011 00:36 (thirteen years ago) link
it is monday morning here and that is otm
― based god kwassa kwassa (dayo), Monday, 31 January 2011 00:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Diedrich Bader is so great in that.
― ENBB, Monday, 31 January 2011 00:59 (thirteen years ago) link
has s1ocki seen this yet
― max, Monday, 31 January 2011 01:15 (thirteen years ago) link
has lex heard of it
― mookieproof, Monday, 31 January 2011 01:32 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.nerve.com/files/archive/scanner/2008/06/08-15/o-face.jpg
― 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