'office space': c or d?

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...

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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.

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.

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.

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i never saw this

it is funny

i'm pretty sure that's not true slocki, everyone has seen this

i havent

you've screened it though, right?

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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