Brock Landers
10-04-2000, 03:04 PM
SPOILERS
"Office Space" A Mike Judge Film (Beavis & Butthead Creator)
Mike Judge creates a vivid portrait of modern day self-loathing and discontent in the workplace using comedic anecdotes and crude humor. He does manage to use enough finesse to pull off a rather good little gem of a film. In fact, this is one of my favorite recent comedies and certainly delivers the goods. I am really looking forward to Mike Judge's work in the future…
Ron Livingston ("Swingers" & the only reason to see the crap-fest known as "Body Shots") stars as Peter Gibbons. A young man who has no meaning in his life besides hating work, watching reruns of "Kung Fu" and educational breast exam shows on PBS and ignoring the fact that his girlfriend is a whore…
Brad Pitt's pincushion aka Jennifer Anniston (TV's Friends) stars as Joanna, the semi-TGIFridays worker who never has enough flair on her outfit according to her supervisor (Mike Judge in a cameo) and also loves "Kung Fu" reruns…
To make a long story short, Peter goes to a psychotherapy meeting with his girlfriend (the psychotherapist helped her lose weight the old fashioned way - anorexia), gets hypnotized, then before coming out of hypnosis the therapist has a heart attack and dies causing Peter to remain in a calm, relaxed state of hypnosis i.e. don't-give-a-fuck-land…he then stops going to work, meets Joanna and pretty much lives the good life…, as my friend says, much hilarity ensues…
The story is great, the jokes are really funny and the supporting cast is well heeled as well…they all have some great lines and interesting backgrounds or nervous twitches…(8.5/10)
HERE'S SOME FUN QUOTES:
Drew: I'm thinking about taking that new chick from Logistics. If things go right I might be showing her my O-face. You know: Oh! Oh!
Bob Slydell: I admit it, I'm a Michael Bolton fan! I celebrate the
guy's entire collection! For my money it doesn't get any better
than when he sings "When a Man Loves a Woman"!
Tom Smykowski: It's a "Jump to Conclusions Mat"! You see,
you have this mat, with different CONCLUSIONS written on it
that you could JUMP TO!
Michael Bolton: That is the worst idea I've ever heard!
Samir: Yes, this is horrible, this idea!
Lawrence: Hey Peter, check it out, channel 9, it's the breast
exams!
Samir: No! Not again! Why does it say paper jam when there is
no paper jam! I swear to God one of these days I'm just going to
kick this piece of shit out of the window.
Peter Gibbons: He's going to ask me to work on Sunday and
I'm going to do it, because I'm a pussy, which is why I work at
Initech in the first place.
Michael Bolton: Hey, I work at Initech and I don't consider
myself a pussy.
Samir: Yes, I am also not a pussy.
Peter Gibbons: What would you do if you had a million dollars?
Lawrence: I'll tell you what I'd do, man, two chicks at the same
time, man.
Peter Gibbons: That's it? If you had a million dollars, you'd do
two chicks at the same time?
Lawrence: Damn straight. I always wanted to do that, man. And
I think if I had a million dollars I could hook that up, cause chicks
dig a dude with money.
Peter Gibbons: Well, not all chicks.
Lawrence: Well the kind of chicks that'd double up on me do.
Peter Gibbons: Good point.
Lawrence: What about you, what would you do?
Peter Gibbons: Besides two chicks at the same time?
Lawrence: Well yeah.
Peter Gibbons: Nothing.
Lawrence: Nothing, huh?
Peter Gibbons: I'd relax, sit on my ass all day, I would do
nothing.
Lawrence: Well you don't need a million dollars to do nothing,
man. Just take a look at my cousin, he's broke, don't do shit.
Peter Gibbons: I was sitting in my cubical today, and I realized
ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been
worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day
you see me, that's the worst day of my life.
Dr. Swanson: What about today? Is today the worst day of your
life?
Peter Gibbons: Yeah.
Dr. Swanson: Wow. That's messed up.
Peter Gibbons: I don't like my job and I don't think I'm going to
go anymore.
Joanna: You're just not going to go?
Peter Gibbons: Yeah.
Joanna: Won't you get fired?
Peter Gibbons: I don't know. But I really don't like it and I'm not
going to go.
Joanna: So you're going to quit?
Peter Gibbons: Nuh-uh. Not really. I'm just going to stop going.
Joanna: When did you decide all that?
Peter Gibbons: About an hour ago.
Joanna: So you're going to get another job?
Peter Gibbons: I don't think I'll like another job.
Joanna: Well what are you going to do about money? Bills?
Peter Gibbons: You know I never really liked paying bills, I
don't think I'm going to do that either.
Bob Slydell: If you would, would you walk us through a typical
day, for you?
Peter Gibbons: Yeah.
Bob Slydell: Great.
Peter Gibbons: Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes
late, ah, I use the side door--that way Lumberg can't see me,
heh--after that I sorta space out for an hour.
Bob Porter: Da-uh? Space out?
Peter Gibbons: Yeah, I just stare at my desk, but it looks like
I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch too,
I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes
of real, actual, work.
Bob Slydell: I'd like to move us right to Peter Gibbons. We had
a chance to meet this young man, and boy that's just a straight
shooter with upper management written all over him.
Steve: Hi, my name is Steve. I come from a rough area. I used to
be addicted to crack but now I am off it and trying to stay clean.
That is why I am selling magazine subscriptions.
Michael Bolton: We're not going to some white collar resort
prison. No, no, no! We're going to federal POUND ME IN THE
ASS prison!
Peter: Hey Lawrence, you wanna come over?
Lawrence: No thanks, dude. I don't need you fuckin' up my life,
too.
Peter Gibbons: So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I
realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life
has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every
single day that you see me, that's on the worst day of my life.
Therapist: What about today? Is today the worst day of your
life?
Peter Gibbons: Yeah.
Therapist: Wow, that's messed up!
Bob: Looks like you've been missing quite a bit of work lately.
Peter Gibbons: Well, I wouldn't say I've been MISSING it,
Bob.
Peter Gibbons: I don't like my job, and I don't think I'll go
anymore.
Joanna: You're just not gonna go?
Peter Gibbons: Yeah.
Joanna: Won't you get fired?
Peter Gibbons: I don't know. But I really don't like it, and uh,
I'm not gonna go.
Joanna: So you're gonna quit?
Peter Gibbons: Uh-uh, not really. I'm just gonna stop going.
Samir: No one is this country can ever pronounce my name right.
It's not that hard: Nayee-Nanajar. Nayeenanajar.
Michael Bolton: Yeah, well, at least you're name isn't Michael
Bolton.
Samir: You know, there's nothing wrong with that name.
Michael Bolton: There WAS nothing wrong with it. Until I was
about 12 years old, and that no-talent-ass-clown because famous
and started winning Grammys.
Samir: Why don't you just go by Mike, instead of Michael?
Michael Bolton: No way! Why should I change it? He's the one
who sucks.
Bob Slydell: Milton Waddams.
Bill Lumbergh: Who's he?
Bob Porter: You know, squirrely looking guy, mumbles a lot.
Bill Lumbergh: Oh, yeah.
Bob Slydell: Yeah, we can't actually find a record of him being a
current employee here.
Bob Porter: I looked into it more deeply and I found that
apparently what happened is that he was laid off five years ago
and no one ever told him, but through some kind of glitch in the
payroll department, he still gets a paycheck.
Bob Slydell: So we just went a ahead and fixed the glitch.
Bill Lumbergh: Great.
Dom Portwood: So um, Milton has been let go?
Bob Slydell: Well just a second there, professor. We uh, we
fixed the *glitch*. So he won't be receiving a paycheck anymore,
so it will just work itself out naturally.
Bob Porter: We always like to avoid confrontation, whenever
possible. Problem solved from your end.
Peter Gibbons: You're gonna lay off Samir and Michael?
Bob Slydell: Oh yeah, we're bring in some entry-level graduates,
farm some work out to Singapore, that's the usual deal.
Bob Porter: Standard operating procedure.
Peter Gibbons: Do they know this yet?
Bob Slydell: No! No, of course not! We find it's always better
to fire people on a Friday. Studies have statistically shown that
there's less chance of an incident if you do it at the end of the
week.
Peter Gibbons: It's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care.
"Office Space" A Mike Judge Film (Beavis & Butthead Creator)
Mike Judge creates a vivid portrait of modern day self-loathing and discontent in the workplace using comedic anecdotes and crude humor. He does manage to use enough finesse to pull off a rather good little gem of a film. In fact, this is one of my favorite recent comedies and certainly delivers the goods. I am really looking forward to Mike Judge's work in the future…
Ron Livingston ("Swingers" & the only reason to see the crap-fest known as "Body Shots") stars as Peter Gibbons. A young man who has no meaning in his life besides hating work, watching reruns of "Kung Fu" and educational breast exam shows on PBS and ignoring the fact that his girlfriend is a whore…
Brad Pitt's pincushion aka Jennifer Anniston (TV's Friends) stars as Joanna, the semi-TGIFridays worker who never has enough flair on her outfit according to her supervisor (Mike Judge in a cameo) and also loves "Kung Fu" reruns…
To make a long story short, Peter goes to a psychotherapy meeting with his girlfriend (the psychotherapist helped her lose weight the old fashioned way - anorexia), gets hypnotized, then before coming out of hypnosis the therapist has a heart attack and dies causing Peter to remain in a calm, relaxed state of hypnosis i.e. don't-give-a-fuck-land…he then stops going to work, meets Joanna and pretty much lives the good life…, as my friend says, much hilarity ensues…
The story is great, the jokes are really funny and the supporting cast is well heeled as well…they all have some great lines and interesting backgrounds or nervous twitches…(8.5/10)
HERE'S SOME FUN QUOTES:
Drew: I'm thinking about taking that new chick from Logistics. If things go right I might be showing her my O-face. You know: Oh! Oh!
Bob Slydell: I admit it, I'm a Michael Bolton fan! I celebrate the
guy's entire collection! For my money it doesn't get any better
than when he sings "When a Man Loves a Woman"!
Tom Smykowski: It's a "Jump to Conclusions Mat"! You see,
you have this mat, with different CONCLUSIONS written on it
that you could JUMP TO!
Michael Bolton: That is the worst idea I've ever heard!
Samir: Yes, this is horrible, this idea!
Lawrence: Hey Peter, check it out, channel 9, it's the breast
exams!
Samir: No! Not again! Why does it say paper jam when there is
no paper jam! I swear to God one of these days I'm just going to
kick this piece of shit out of the window.
Peter Gibbons: He's going to ask me to work on Sunday and
I'm going to do it, because I'm a pussy, which is why I work at
Initech in the first place.
Michael Bolton: Hey, I work at Initech and I don't consider
myself a pussy.
Samir: Yes, I am also not a pussy.
Peter Gibbons: What would you do if you had a million dollars?
Lawrence: I'll tell you what I'd do, man, two chicks at the same
time, man.
Peter Gibbons: That's it? If you had a million dollars, you'd do
two chicks at the same time?
Lawrence: Damn straight. I always wanted to do that, man. And
I think if I had a million dollars I could hook that up, cause chicks
dig a dude with money.
Peter Gibbons: Well, not all chicks.
Lawrence: Well the kind of chicks that'd double up on me do.
Peter Gibbons: Good point.
Lawrence: What about you, what would you do?
Peter Gibbons: Besides two chicks at the same time?
Lawrence: Well yeah.
Peter Gibbons: Nothing.
Lawrence: Nothing, huh?
Peter Gibbons: I'd relax, sit on my ass all day, I would do
nothing.
Lawrence: Well you don't need a million dollars to do nothing,
man. Just take a look at my cousin, he's broke, don't do shit.
Peter Gibbons: I was sitting in my cubical today, and I realized
ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been
worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day
you see me, that's the worst day of my life.
Dr. Swanson: What about today? Is today the worst day of your
life?
Peter Gibbons: Yeah.
Dr. Swanson: Wow. That's messed up.
Peter Gibbons: I don't like my job and I don't think I'm going to
go anymore.
Joanna: You're just not going to go?
Peter Gibbons: Yeah.
Joanna: Won't you get fired?
Peter Gibbons: I don't know. But I really don't like it and I'm not
going to go.
Joanna: So you're going to quit?
Peter Gibbons: Nuh-uh. Not really. I'm just going to stop going.
Joanna: When did you decide all that?
Peter Gibbons: About an hour ago.
Joanna: So you're going to get another job?
Peter Gibbons: I don't think I'll like another job.
Joanna: Well what are you going to do about money? Bills?
Peter Gibbons: You know I never really liked paying bills, I
don't think I'm going to do that either.
Bob Slydell: If you would, would you walk us through a typical
day, for you?
Peter Gibbons: Yeah.
Bob Slydell: Great.
Peter Gibbons: Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes
late, ah, I use the side door--that way Lumberg can't see me,
heh--after that I sorta space out for an hour.
Bob Porter: Da-uh? Space out?
Peter Gibbons: Yeah, I just stare at my desk, but it looks like
I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch too,
I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes
of real, actual, work.
Bob Slydell: I'd like to move us right to Peter Gibbons. We had
a chance to meet this young man, and boy that's just a straight
shooter with upper management written all over him.
Steve: Hi, my name is Steve. I come from a rough area. I used to
be addicted to crack but now I am off it and trying to stay clean.
That is why I am selling magazine subscriptions.
Michael Bolton: We're not going to some white collar resort
prison. No, no, no! We're going to federal POUND ME IN THE
ASS prison!
Peter: Hey Lawrence, you wanna come over?
Lawrence: No thanks, dude. I don't need you fuckin' up my life,
too.
Peter Gibbons: So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I
realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life
has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every
single day that you see me, that's on the worst day of my life.
Therapist: What about today? Is today the worst day of your
life?
Peter Gibbons: Yeah.
Therapist: Wow, that's messed up!
Bob: Looks like you've been missing quite a bit of work lately.
Peter Gibbons: Well, I wouldn't say I've been MISSING it,
Bob.
Peter Gibbons: I don't like my job, and I don't think I'll go
anymore.
Joanna: You're just not gonna go?
Peter Gibbons: Yeah.
Joanna: Won't you get fired?
Peter Gibbons: I don't know. But I really don't like it, and uh,
I'm not gonna go.
Joanna: So you're gonna quit?
Peter Gibbons: Uh-uh, not really. I'm just gonna stop going.
Samir: No one is this country can ever pronounce my name right.
It's not that hard: Nayee-Nanajar. Nayeenanajar.
Michael Bolton: Yeah, well, at least you're name isn't Michael
Bolton.
Samir: You know, there's nothing wrong with that name.
Michael Bolton: There WAS nothing wrong with it. Until I was
about 12 years old, and that no-talent-ass-clown because famous
and started winning Grammys.
Samir: Why don't you just go by Mike, instead of Michael?
Michael Bolton: No way! Why should I change it? He's the one
who sucks.
Bob Slydell: Milton Waddams.
Bill Lumbergh: Who's he?
Bob Porter: You know, squirrely looking guy, mumbles a lot.
Bill Lumbergh: Oh, yeah.
Bob Slydell: Yeah, we can't actually find a record of him being a
current employee here.
Bob Porter: I looked into it more deeply and I found that
apparently what happened is that he was laid off five years ago
and no one ever told him, but through some kind of glitch in the
payroll department, he still gets a paycheck.
Bob Slydell: So we just went a ahead and fixed the glitch.
Bill Lumbergh: Great.
Dom Portwood: So um, Milton has been let go?
Bob Slydell: Well just a second there, professor. We uh, we
fixed the *glitch*. So he won't be receiving a paycheck anymore,
so it will just work itself out naturally.
Bob Porter: We always like to avoid confrontation, whenever
possible. Problem solved from your end.
Peter Gibbons: You're gonna lay off Samir and Michael?
Bob Slydell: Oh yeah, we're bring in some entry-level graduates,
farm some work out to Singapore, that's the usual deal.
Bob Porter: Standard operating procedure.
Peter Gibbons: Do they know this yet?
Bob Slydell: No! No, of course not! We find it's always better
to fire people on a Friday. Studies have statistically shown that
there's less chance of an incident if you do it at the end of the
week.
Peter Gibbons: It's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care.