'office space': c or d?

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'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.

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.

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