― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 22:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 22:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
Classic. The soundtrack is also killer (Geto Boys + old Mambo records = GENIUS)
― Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 23:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 03:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 03:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 03:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 04:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
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.
― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 05:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 26 March 2003 19:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
Classic, watched it last night for the 100th time.
― Chris V (Chris V), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 12:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 12:40 (twenty years ago) link
― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 22:02 (twenty years ago) link
― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 23:08 (twenty years ago) link
"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."
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 23:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 23:14 (twenty years ago) link
― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 00:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 00:51 (twenty years ago) link
― 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
― kephm, Wednesday, 18 February 2004 15:23 (twenty years ago) link
― 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
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
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 (two years ago) link
ugh Ron Livingston, why the hell did I confuse the two, lol
― Filibuster Poindexter (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 15:33 (two years ago) link