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My wife found it on Bravo.The first minuites sparkled with wonderful humor, so we settled in for some fun.
Unfortunately it fizzeled quickly enough, and after first half an hour became a chore to watch, with the writer trying to figure out what to do next.
Still, all those of us who ever worked in the office environment will find parts of it hilarious, so I definitely recommend it for its few but good redeaming values. Much of that is the dreck we all hate in the big corps, and stuff I couldn't run away faster from when I left Hewlett Packard.
The winner line: "Man, what would you do if you got a million bucks?"
"I would do two chicks at the same time!"
Overall you can do whole lot worse at the Blockbuster.
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You are right...it is those little touches that make it so memorable. The telephone operator repeating "just a moment" in the same sing-song cadence endlessly, the never-ending struggle with the fax machine, the stupid corporate jargon and minutiae ("did you understand....the memo...about the fax cover sheets for the TPS reports?").I love the birthday party scene...poor Milton, no cake again.
Discovered this one a couple years ago. Somewhat funny. Interesting to see Jennifer Aniston in her role. It's by the guy who did Beavis and Butthead on MTV.Oddly enough it didn't really hit home until around a year ago. I'm an engineer working for a 26 billion odd dollar a year company in a cubicle-ish world. One day one one the people over the wall just stopped coming in. We really didn't know why but would get calls saying they would be in tomorrow and never show up. Went on for weeks. Oddly enough, the person just didn't get fired (and kept getting paid, through sick leave and vacation pay). It took a few weeks and documentation that they were not there before the company would assume the person was an "assumed quit". They wouldn't even fire them...
Anyway, made the movie all the more relvant.
Klaaren
And, as expected, had it best moments in the first half hour. It featured folks like Jane Seymore, Danny DeVito, Eddie Albert, etc, all jockeying for position in the executive suites of a global conglomerate. Worth a few giggles.
----Be right there, Mom.
I thought it was hilarious - and especially if you have ever worked in a cube farm. I also enjoyed the blue collar neighbor. That guy had a bunch of great one liners!
This film didn't do well at the box office but has since become a cult classic on video. I know people who watch this movie over and over and over. I think my favorite character is the foreign guy who doesn't "get" the questions like "What would you do if you had a million bucks?" -- "What if we were still doing this job thirty years from now?" "Oh man, that would some great job security!"If you like this office stuff, I recommend the British series The Office, which only ran for two seasons on the BBC. The first season is better than the second. The boss is a selfish, boorish, incompetent a-hole, and you will see in him every boss you've ever hated. I haven't rolled on the floor laughing from a TV series since Fawlty Towers. You can rent it from Netflix.
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One of these days I gotta get myself organizized.
Almost every character is an exact replica of an a-hole that you have prolly worked with...... from the boss who thinks he's everyone's friend but is actually a complete knob, to the scrawny uber-geek in the office who worships the boss, to the acerbic, self-absorbed, sexist salesguy etc....
yeah, PdL, you're the only *normal* one at the office. :-)
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One of these days I gotta get myself organizized.
I would give the film a moderate recommendation. Another film on the topic is "Clockwatchers" with the always fresh Toni Collette, the unpredictable Parker Posey, and the underrated Lisa Kudrow, who play temporary office workers, and the politics of the office. I found it more biting, more real, and ultimately more entertaining than "Office Space." The film not only depicts their lives at work, but also outside of work, and smacks of reality (people who count paper clips, etc.)
