― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 00:50 (twenty years ago) link
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― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 06:29 (twenty years ago) link
it's not that I'm lazy, etc.
― daria g (daria g), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 09:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 10:16 (twenty years ago) link
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)?
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 15:01 (twenty years ago) link
― Kingfish Beatbox (Kingfish), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 15:11 (twenty years ago) link
― kephm, Wednesday, 18 February 2004 15:21 (twenty years ago) link
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― Chris V (Chris V), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 15:23 (twenty years ago) link
― kephm, Wednesday, 18 February 2004 15:41 (twenty years ago) link
Office SpaceSat 17 Apr, 01:10 - 02:35 85 mins
other listings magazines are available
― koogs (koogs), Friday, 16 April 2004 16:41 (twenty years ago) link
― Leee O'Gaddy (Leee), Friday, 16 April 2004 22:13 (twenty years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 17 April 2004 03:56 (twenty years ago) link
― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 17 April 2004 04:01 (twenty years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 17 April 2004 04:08 (twenty years ago) link
― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 17 April 2004 04:09 (twenty years ago) link
― Johnney B (Johnney B), Saturday, 17 April 2004 13:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Catty (Catty), Saturday, 17 April 2004 15:44 (twenty years ago) link
― de, Saturday, 17 April 2004 16:50 (twenty years ago) link
It's definitely not as good as the UK series "The Office." that is classic.
― yo, Saturday, 17 April 2004 23:36 (twenty years ago) link
― aNatheMa (aNatheMa), Sunday, 18 April 2004 02:27 (twenty years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Sunday, 18 April 2004 02:31 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 September 2004 05:20 (nineteen years ago) link
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?
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 September 2004 05:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 16 September 2004 10:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 16 September 2004 11:28 (nineteen years ago) link
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...
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 September 2004 11:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― HKM, Thursday, 16 September 2004 11:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Thursday, 16 September 2004 14:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― piscesboy, Thursday, 16 September 2004 14:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Thursday, 16 September 2004 14:52 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/ayang/xanga/Office_Space.jpg
― kephm, Thursday, 16 September 2004 14:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 16 September 2004 14:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― kephm, Thursday, 16 September 2004 14:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 19 September 2004 22:22 (nineteen years ago) link
i'm going to have to go ahead and disagree with Archel there, cz although they are both set in offices etc etc, the moods are totally different: the office is sometimes really, really depressing, and not really 'comedy'. 'office space' is so much more 'heightened'. both are brilliant, though.
I concur.
― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Sunday, 19 September 2004 22:42 (nineteen years ago) link
They do have totally different moods, it's true, and do their thing brilliantly in their different ways. It's just that, within the relatively small subset that is 'films and television programmes set in offices' I think The Office is superlative.
― Archel (Archel), Monday, 20 September 2004 11:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 20 September 2004 11:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 20 September 2004 11:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Monday, 20 September 2004 12:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Saturday, 29 July 2006 22:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― DAVE's secret to fortu-Oh look! Shiny! (dave225.3), Sunday, 30 July 2006 18:22 (seventeen years ago) link
Then, I got a job working in an office. We had two IT guys: one Indian American and one dorky white guy. They brought in a consultant, and then they fired both of the IT guys and replaced them with a cadre of cheap students from nearby Cal Berkeley. This was among many other things that could have been ripped straight out of my office if not for the fact that the film was made prior to me working there.
Our Milton's name was Leo, for what it's worth. I'd like to think I was the Peter, but I probably was more along the lines of Steve, the guy who sells the magazines door-to-door.
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Sunday, 30 July 2006 20:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 30 July 2006 23:46 (seventeen years ago) link
I love the next-door-neighbour. Some of the most subtle acting, just the way he declines the lead character's offer of a bottle opener as he already has one on his key-ring. Also the bit where he opens his front door and looks genuinely surprised at the glare from the sun.
― wogan lenin (dog latin), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 10:39 (seventeen years ago) link
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
― (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
I think a fart movie would go over pretty well with a large part of the populace tbh
― circa1916, Sunday, 23 April 2017 00:01 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbMLW4s2pBg
― Sort-of like a Hershey's kiss, only it's an anus (Old Lunch), Sunday, 23 April 2017 01:50 (seven years ago) link
> Apatow
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 23 April 2017 02:20 (seven years ago) link
Y u doin layup drills man
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 23 April 2017 02:25 (seven years ago) link
Here's a layup drill:
Ha, more like 500 years lat– oh wait, someone else mentioned that other movie.
― pplains, Sunday, 23 April 2017 16:08 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Filibuster Poindexter (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 15:27 (three years ago) link
ugh Ron Livingston, why the hell did I confuse the two, lol
― Filibuster Poindexter (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 15:33 (three years ago) link