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This movie influenced my future wife to quit her high paying job that made her miserable and find one for less money but that made her happy. This also led her to meeting me! Our fav movie!
That is so wholesome! All my best wishes to you two!
I don't know how to read this story. Is this real? Are you using foresight?
Oh get the hell out of here with that wholesome shit. Now if you excuse me I'm gonna go and seethe and simmer in my envy.
Same situation, I feel better making less money… Though I liked my job the commute was a nightmare.
@@fettel1988 mf inverted himself
Fun fact: for the movie, the prop department painted the stapler red because Swingline didn't make them in red. After the movie, they got so many requests for it that they started making it. You can still buy a red Swingline stapler.
That's true.
I have one. Only used twice. Ha ha!
Yup. They painted the stapler red so it would pop out in the scenes. It represented the small, petty things that become oddly significant within office culture. As the flick became a cult classic, there was a cottage industry of folks buying the monochrome stapler, doing excellent jobs of painting them red and then selling them on eBay. It demonstrated a demand that convinced Swingline to change a way of doing business that they had maintained for decades.
Bought one for my buddy. He has no need for it. :D
I remember hearing about this. Every time I watch this movie, I have an irrational need for a red stapler. I don't like Swingline though. Gotta go with Bostitch.
Mike Judge actually worked as an engineer in the tech world before he got into showbiz, and much of this movie was based on his experiences with that job. When he was asked why this movie was seen as so much more relatable than other workplace comedies, he said that most writers and directors come from upper-class families and never had to do this kind of office work to support themselves, so their attempts to portray the work culture would come off as cartoonish and cliched. But because he had lived it, he knew how to portray it accurately.
He was 29 when he started animating.
That’s some interesting detail! Thanks.
He is also Jennifer Aniston's boss in the movie.
"Because you never have clients talk to devs." Idk why I found it so heartwarming that you actually defended Tom's job for him. I think you're the first.
Tom's right...but screaming I HAVE PEOPLE SKILLS was a terrible way to demonstrate your people skills lol
George is right on one hand, but you also need the people talking to the clients to understand what the devs are capable of. I had a project manager absolutely promise one item in a program could be added easily, turns out it would have required an entire rewrite, way outside of budget.
Being able to speak both "engineer" and "normal person" fluently is a valuable skill, and people capable of doing it rarely have difficulty staying employed.
Fun fact: her boss that bugs her about her flair is the writer and director Mike Judge. He also created and voiced Hank Hill and Beavis and Butthead.
I actually found another 40-year old human being who has never heard of Beavis&Butthead. Still amazes me. I binged MTV back in the day when it still was a music channel, so yeah I knew em, talking trash to Cher, and rating other music-videos. With their classic performance of Black Sabbath's "Iron Man". Man I couldn't believe he never heard of those guys, while still being a music-lover.
@@nieksalomons Safe to say, Bevis & ButtHead,, first music reaction 'channel' as well as, Mystery Science Theater 3000 was the first full movie reaction channel.
Damn, was it 2000 ? got myself wondering ?
Office Space is fantastic....Other titles, ror workplace dram comedy : CLERKS ,,, WAITING - both , a bit edgier / raunchy,, but very funny !
Should review a classic St0nEr movie for 04/20 FRIDAY ,,, WERE THE MILLERS ,,, Cheech & Chong - UP IN SMOKE ,,, PINEAPPLE EXPRESS
And Idiocracy, don't forget Idiocracy. An underrated gem. Dwayne Alessandro Mountain Dew Camacho is right up there with the best satirical characters in movies.
And the Milton actor voices Bill Dautree in King of the Hill. She remembered him from Dodgeball, but way back he was the owner of the station on News Radio, Joe Rogan's first acting gig. Also there is a Mike Judge animated short of Milton and his stapler.
@@joegreene7619 That was some mighty fine a pickin' an a singin'!
"I wouldn't say I've been 'missing' work." is one of the greatest lines of dialogue in the history of cinema. Prove me wrong. ;-)
Yeaah, hi... if you could just go ahead and publish a reaction on Tuesdays and Thursdays as well. And Saturday and Sunday also. I really think people of your caliber should not be satisfied with just the bare minimum.
And Simone, I need that stapler back on my desk tomorrow at 6:30 am. Thanks.
I will never surrender my precious stapler!!! never!!! ;)
That would be greaaaaaat
M’Kaaayyyyyy?
George, "Kung Fu" was the name of a wildly popular '70s adventure show, starring David Carradine as a caucasian man who had been raised in a Shao-Lin temple, then sent to the US to find his surviving family. Taking place in the late 1800s, it was a chance to show martial arts against gun-toting outlaws of the wild west.
EDIT: Originally, the show had been intended to star Bruce Lee, and the master was justifiably upset that they gave the lead to Carradine.
If I remember correctly, there is a scene in the movie where they are watching the opening sequence to the show Kung Fu and it shows the title.
Didn’t Bruce Lee create the show? At least the concept?
@@MikeB12800 That may be, I forget the details.
Carradine is Caucasian, but his character is Chinese.
And of course, nearly three decades later David Carradine played Bill in the “Kill Bill” films. (Also, Samuel Jackson’s character in “Pulp Fiction” mentions Kung Fu in the last scene of the film).
"Watch out for your cornhole buddy."
Simone: "Wiser words have never been spoken."
My wife is an engineer, and even she says that most of the time it is a TERRIBLE idea to let customers directly interact with engineers.
Of course, she is the exception because she is awesome.
Very much so. Engineers generally think of things in black and white. Like if a customer asked "Can your software do X?" an Engineer may likely just flat-out say "No." But a person who knows how to deal with customers may be a bit more tactful or probe a bit more with things like "Our software does it a little differently, like this" or "What is it you are trying to accomplish? Because we may have a solution for that by doing it this way..." or something like that.
@@RonJomero engineers are a bit like handling any precise tool: if you know what you're doing, great things happen, if not...
My wife is one of the few who can actually be a good engineer while explaining to us normals what the issue is.
Most engineers should also not be allowed to write documents for general consumption. I’ve read some that were just atrocious.
@@rustybarrel516 lol. My wife is not a natural writer. I helped her a bit on that one. Just doing my part.
I remember going to see this when it came out, to an almost empty theater. (The movie was a huge bomb and only earned something like $3 million in its opening weekend.) I loved it and told all my friends about it, and their response was "meh, whatever". Then, about 6 months later after it came out on DVD, it started becoming a huge cult hit and people were coming up to ME and telling me how much I needed to watch it. I had to resist the urge to go full hipster and tell them I liked Office Space before it was cool.
LOL I was a bit like that with "The Wire". I heard a favourite UK comedian/writer say "yeh I watched The Wire from the start" and was kinda exaggerating his internal smugness. I was the same :)
I get it: everybody was living it, why would they want to pay money to go see an office workplace comedy in a theater, when there are fun escapist action movie kind of things to see in a theater instead? Not understanding that the film is actually the epitome of escapism from the drudgery of modern life. So then when it was out on dvd, and people could share or rent it without having to pay theater costs, they all understood what they had been missing.
I worked at a large warehouse in the computer department. I managed to automated part of my job. My mistake was sharing that with co-workers and management. I just ended up with even more work. Had I kept it to myself my work would have been cut in half, but I felt like I should share that with my co-workers like an idiot. I won't ever make that mistake again.
I loved how you pointed out Stephen Root was also in Dodgeball when Lumbergh/Gary Cole was on screen, who was *also* in Dodgeball (among so many others, Cole does a lot of work). He was the announcer with Jason Bateman.
I saw an interview with Gary Cole years after this movie came out when he was promoting another project, and the interviewer asked him to answer a question in his Bill Lumburgh voice. He answered it with the "yeah" and everything, and the interviewer completely geeked out.
Gary Cole is awesome! I think he gets overlooked sometimes! Dude is hilarious 😄
Cotton McKnight : I'm being told that Average Joe's does not have enough players and will be forfeiting the championship match. Pepper Brooks : It's a bold strategy, Cotton.
Gary Cole is, and has always been, Officer Buck from American Gothic to me. Whenever I see him, in Chuck or The West Wing or whatever, it’s always “Oh, it’s Officer Buck! I like him!” Every time.
@@Nevyn515 that reminds me of that meme that says "Nikolaj Coster-Waldau has a ton of credits and is internationally known but every time I see him it's" and it's a screen shot of Game of Thrones with Bronn saying "That's Jaime Fucking Lannister."
The checks were traveler's checks which are preprinted with set amounts and are used like normal currency (at hotels, currency exchanges, etc.). They aren't used much anymore with widespread credit/debit card use.
Beat me to it with the explanation👍
@@robertanderson6929 The other plot hole , max value of a travelers check is $500 , so 300 k would been 600 of them , those really wont fit under a door .
Cashiers checks has no limit but cost $10 each and money orders cost $5 each , i think bank want to see some ID for those ... but with these you still have problem that all over $10 000 transactions must be reported as law that Nixon signed in 1970. says , so its not something that came after this movie was made .
So having a bank account that gets $300 000 and is then closed , would have Suspicious Activity Report follow it and FBI , DEA , IRS a.s.o
There still used in international travel a fair bit or were at least a decade ago.
Why would you think they are traveller’s checks ?
@@tempsitch5632 They say "American Express Traveler's Cheque" on them. 21:20 mark
When this movie first came to DVD, I bought every manager at my office job a copy of it for Christmas. Needless to say, they laughed their asses off, and started calling different people character names from the movie.
Did you have eight different managers like Peter?
@@AutoPilate - Haha. No, but there were five copies bought and distributed.
That might be the best idea, I never thought of
@@AutoPilate Ah, Matrix management... thankfully, most companies abandoned that! I worked underneath it for a couple of years, till I left the company! oh so many unnecessary meetings!
I can relate to your story about working too fast. During an evaluation I was told that I had the least amount of overtime of any one in the department, which as a programmer was unpaid. I told them that I was better at my job and more efficient then most of the others and when they can not figure something out the come to me. They could not care less, to them it meant that I did not care as much. Our time was billed out, so more time means more money, yet going over budget means pissed off clients that need time give backs and f uped projects. Bad long term management. When they started to close down the division, they naturally started laying off the best workers, including myself and kept the dummies. Eventually I started working independently and did a lot of work for there former clients. Every thing in this movie is correct.
Kung Fu is a television show from the 1970’s staring David Carradine; plays the character of Caine, a.k.a. Grass Hopper. A lady I use to see absolutely loved Kung Fu. She would take quotes said in the show and place them on the ceiling in her bedroom.
In Pulp Fiction when Jules says that he’s going to walk the earth like Caine in Kung Fu, that’s what he’s talking about. David Carradine also played Bill in Kill Bill.
Simone, Stephen Root (Milton) was in Dodgeball but so was their boss. He was one of the announcers.
Right you are, Pepper.
@@jculver1674 Its a bold strategy, Cotton. Lets see if it pays off for 'em.
As someone who worked in a corporate office for over 20 years. This is one of my favorite movies. Truth on so many levels.
ye it is just too real lol
If you like Office Space, you will enjoy Idiocracy also created by Mike Judge. When it came out like 16 years ago it was satire. But now it is almost a documentary.
Yeah, Idiocracy is such an amazing documentary (it was not the intent but it sure turned out like it).
Love "idiocracy" ..very quotable among my coworkers and friends.
"Extract" is another hidden gem from Judge, more workplace nonsense from another perspective. I consider "Office Space" the friendlier cousin to "Fight Club" since I saw both around the same time, they deal with similar issues
(sort of )
@@richardrobbins8067 Lots of movies dealing with similar subject matter came out in 1999. Same subject just different genres... The Matrix, Office Space, American Beauty, Fight Club.
@@VanceRatt
Was gonna mention "American Beauty"
but,..😐 reasons.
One of my favorites
The drunk drivers insurance would have paid Tom's medical bills. Also I think it was cashiers checks that Peter had, which would have been paid for when he got them.
Traveler's checks but you're correct. You buy them and then they're just like cash.
the drunk's insurance pays medical bills unless you live in a no-fault state (like Florida). He could sue, but unless the drunk had money, there's only the settlement from the drunk's insurance company and most of us only carry $50,000 or so. After you pay the lawyers and medical bills, there's nothing left
15:00 Except we see Tom finishing off a pint of whiskey to get his courage up before he goes into the garage. If he was drunk too he probably wouldn't even have gotten a settlement.
@@TheNeonRabbit I think he meant that originally, they were cashier's checks, but after the stapler guy found them, He converted them to traveller's checks to leave the country. Which was the best thing to do since that was normally what people did instead of carrying cash while on vacation. haha
@@LA_HA There's a good shot of 'em at 21:19. Peter looks at them before slipping them under the door, American Express Travelers Checks.
24:32 Simone describes her days working in an office and starts getting tongue-tied from the PTSD it gave her. You can see on her face that even thinking about being in that office has her bordering on fight or flight. Sounds like a joke but it's surprisingly real.
I did tax prep for a while, and had started to consider reporting that job to the police for the attempted murder of my soul.
flashbacks
I worked from home now... so I don't have to deal with office politics.. but do have to deal with illogical decisions made by higher ups that leave the worker bees with clean up when it doesn't work
No it’s definitely real. I have to login to my stupid it office job in like 6 hours. It has destroyed my life in the 9 years I’ve worked my current position. Working from home helped a little but it’s been 4 years of remote and that sucks too.
At my old job my entire team had watched this movie, and we would all constantly quote it. Our boss got us all red Swingline staplers, and we even had a "Jump to Conclusions" mat and a banner that said "Is This Good for the COMPANY?"
Small facts: the actor who played Samir is a professional hip-hop dancer.
"Kung Fu" was a TV show with David Carradine (Bill from "Kill Bill").
This is still being studied in colleges and offices all over the world (I use it with my students).
And again...great thumbnail!
Very good, grasshopper.
Oh, "Idiocracy" is a must watch. No other movie has so clearly transitioned from intended satire to unintended prophecy.
It's 100% horror genre, because it's absolutely true.
@@carlevans8825 How was it a direct reflection?
@@ghost.patrols because the Bush II administration was such a crapshow, that I hopefully thought would never get worse (it did). Dubya wasn't very smart, often said silly things, was totally confused when 9/11 happened (the fact it happened on his watch in spite of all the warnings), then the lies leading us into Iraq, the ineptness of that war (which we thankfully won in spite of it), and yet he got re-elected?? Yeah, I think it was. Did anyone think it could get worse? Not sure if Mike Judge did, but yeah it sure did. Is Trump and his supporters the bottom of the barrel? The simple fact he almost won, and so so many people still think the election was stolen and the attempted coup on Jan 6, I am not sure there is a bottom any more!
@@marctowersap8018 100% & it will get worse
The people who say this are the dumbest people in our world. I guarantee not a single person who sees that movie cares about philosophy or even understands physics. It’s a completely childish movie with no bearing on anything.
I just remember for months after watching this my friends and I would just start saying, “Yeah, we’re going to have to ask you to come in on Saturday…” and crack ourselves.
I also remember Swingline had to create a red stapler because everyone wanted to own one. Lol
There's a movie like this for the service industry called "Waiting" that is also great. Starring Ryan Reynolds and Justin Long.
Oh god, that's the movie that inspired my brother's friend group to do, you know, the thing the waiters do for amusement...
@@korganrocks3995 *ahem
@@korganrocks3995 I was deployed in Afghanistan with a guy who did The Goat to our platoon's gunnery sergeant as he was getting out of the shower.
@@mattstanford9673 Good grief, how'd that go over? 😄
@@korganrocks3995 About as well as you'd think. Lmfao.
He took his punishment like a champ, though. Served his extra duty with the biggest shit-eating grin. XD
I literally yelled “YES!” When I saw the thumbnail
"What would you do if you had a million dollars?"
"2 chicks at the same time, man."
"For a million dollars? Okay, how about you, George?"
"I WOULD ORDER 2 CHICKS TO COME OVER AND TELL THEM B!TCHES TO LEAVE "
P.S. Love the thumbnail
you know me so well.
... perhaps too well.
When this came out, I was in college and thought that this was just a really funny parody. 20+ years later spending most of it in offices, I now realize this is a documentary.
This movie holds up SO WELL. Ignore the size of the tech, and it's still the same today. Mike Judge is pure genius.
Some people call this a comedy, but it is clearly the best documentary ever made.
I played this for my wife on our first date. She worked in an office and absolutely loved it. She was literally slapping her knee.
I was working my first office job back in the 90s when this movie came out. Hit real close to home. A classic.
Regarding the "inventing work" commentary - when I worked for the Forest Service one of the permanent staff in the Recreation department would plan out how much he needed to get done each week in order to retain a "good performance" rating. He had several projects in development (trail maintenance, he was trying to develop a shooting range - at a completely idiotic location on a ridgetop overlooking a resort, etc.). When he completed his goal for the week, which he usually finished on Tuesday or Wednesday, he'd then spend the rest of the week goofing off in the woods "checking up on his projects". Because there was nothing else he needed to do and he had no incentive to create more work for himself.
The movie Superman III really does have that plot point.
Richard Pryor plays Gus, a computer genius who steals all the half-cents from his company, the CEO finds out and orders Gus to make a supercomputer that can control the world’s coffee, oil, and even the weather, and possibly destroy Superman!
Mike Judge is so good at satirizing every day life. One of my favorite comedies. There's so many little details in this that are so funny. Like the answering machine scene where his ex-gf screams she's cheating on him. The answering machine shakes as she screams it, emphasizing the shrillness in her voice. But obviously an answering machine can't actually do that so you know they sat there and rigged it with a little vibrating motor just to get that effect. And realizing that makes me crack up every time I see it.
Bit of a story -
When I first went to work at Disney, they played this movie on a loop all day on Friday’s. So, for Christmas, I made a mix tape (cd) of Michael Bolton songs called “celebrating his entire collection” and gave it to my staff.
LOVE this movie. I worked in a couple places like this before leaving and only working at more modern, casual environmentally established companies. It saved my damn life.
A while back though, my girlfriend bought me an Office Space boxset with an "Initech" coffee mug, a TPS report, and an actual "Jump To Conclusions" mat 😂 Think it even had a few pieces of flair in there too.
One of the best. “ I did nothing and it was everything I thought it could be “
@George: They're called Post-it notes - not postage notes. Nothing but love George!
I cracked up every time he said "postage notes".....
I’m so happy that so many reactors are doing this movie! It literally is a cult classic, and helped inspire The Office!
I've worked security for about 30 years, armed/unarmed, etc. A while back, I spent a few years working on a high-security, big-deal, national-security-related, government contract. Between the security company, and the client personnel, we were pretty much of the opinion that we were trapped in "Office Space with Guns!"
Fun fact: If it's a wooden door (like the one in the movie), you can avoid the static discharge by running the fingers of your hand across the wood briefly in your reach for the knob (reach above the knob, then drag your fingers down the wood of the door for an inch or two ending up with you grasping the knob) . The wood will safely dissipate the static charge.
With "Kung Fu" he means the 1970s TV series of that name.
With Bill from Kill Bill....
Bruce Lee actually came up with the show and was supposed to star in it, but he got kind of screwed out of it (I forget what happened exactly) and David Carradine ended up playing it. I can't help but think what it would have been like with Bruce Lee in it.
When I realized they didn't know what Kung Fu was, I think I aged 10 years.
@@jculver1674 Yup! I have a millennial at work who didn't know who Fonzie is!
@@sparky6086 Thanks for the info.👍
George: "This movie was so good. I loved it."
Me: "Yeeaaaah...I'm going to have to go ahead and sort of...agree with you there."
Stephen Root played Milton, he's hilarious in everything he's in (although he does do a drama from time to time). He and Gary Cole, who played Lumbergh, we both in Dodgeball. Gary Cole played the announcer at the tournament (along side Jason Bateman).
Yes, indeed, and I hear he’ll pay you good money to sing into his can. 🪕
Cotton McKnight : I'm being told that Average Joe's does not have enough players and will be forfeiting the championship match. Pepper Brooks : It's a bold strategy, Cotton.
Such an incredible movie and what an indictment on working in an office. So many feelings come out of watching this movie. First and foremost, hilarity.
Diedrich Bader, who played the long-haired next door neighbor, liked my response to one of his tweets just today!!
He honestly seems like an incredibly nice guy. A few years back he tweeted about getting choked up watching some workers take down the playset in his yard because his kids have gotten older and don't use it anymore. It was really sweet.
Mug manager was also in Dodgeball. He was Cotton McKnight (one of the 2 announcers). He did a great job in both roles, really sells the part.
"you never have clients talking to devs". never were truer words spoken.
Is it because devs will tell the clients they are morons, or because the clients won't understand half of what the devs say?
@@SnabbKassa also devs won't be able to interpret what clients want into concepts devs understand. Clients can't understand the types of questions devs want to ask them to get the info they need.
Loved the reaction!. Vietnam flashbacks is a great description. Many people watching this film for the first time, including myself, had a PTSD type reaction. Once you get over that, it is absolutely hilarious. Mike Judge is a genius when in comes to creating archetype characters. I worked as an engineer in an office for 30 years and I experienced every demoralizing situation depicted in this film. My company didn't want the engineers talking to the customers because we couldn't wordsmith bad news and even worse, told the truth. A more true statement you will never find. "It's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care.".
I started my career in Software Development the year before this came out.
It is frightening just how many of the things depicted in this movie I encountered in just 1 year in the industry. At one client I had 5 bosses to answer to and produce 2 separate different weekly timesheets and 3 different weekly detailed status reports. OOF!
Swingline started selling a RED STAPLER shortly after this movie came out and yes, I bought one and still have it at my desk today.
I worked at a place like this for 13 years. I would go to sleep it could hear the phone ringing. I even woke up in the middle of the night trying to answer the phone. One time I got written up because I finished 8 hours early on a 12-hour shift and did absolutely nothing for the remaining time on the shift. This movie brings back memories of working at that job. I used to take 30 to 60 calls a day. The beauty of the job is only had to work 4 days of the week because of the long hours.
That thumbnail cracks me up, cool reaction as always Simone & George, you both take care
thanks Corey!! :)
@@CineBingeReact My Pleasure
Glad To See Nix Found himself a stable 9-5 after serving with Easy Company.
Tbh, I would love to work in an office, that's why I am doing a course for accounting. It sure beats what I used to do, working in a supermarket at the deli counter and working in a warehouse.
The Bill from "Kill Bill" was in a show calked "Kung Fu" in the 1970s. He was an orphan who was raised by monks and traveled the Old West fighting outlaws.
It felt like the offices I worked at were sapping my soul. I went into truck driving, and I have never been happier. Thank you Office Space. ROFLMAO 😆😂🤣
"That guy from Dodgeball" is Stephen Root. He is also the voice of Bill Dauterive on King Of The Hill.
I don't know how many times I've seen this movie, I've never noticed he's wearing belts for suspenders until Simone pointed it out... Mind blown!
Yeah, I’ve seen the film 100 times, and when she pointed out the suspenders I was like, wait, WHAT!?!
Suspenders were big in the 90s, including the braided leather kind that tall Bob is wearing. I had two sets of those myself - one black, one burgundy.
The "somebody's got a case of the Mondays" girl is so cute
It's not just me?
Cool!
👍👍👍👍👍
After singing "9 to 5" in the intro, I hope you already saw that movie. If not it should be on the list.
I think deep down we all can relate to Milton just a tiny bit
Around 12:45, you wondered what Peter was doing when gutting the fish. If one pays attention to what he hoped to get out of the hypnotherapy session, he wondered if he could get zonked out in some way that he could just think he was fishing all day. Thus, his fulfillment of that and preference in activity is to be doing things with the fish.
You need to check out the movie Idiocracy. It’s another movie by Mike Judge
Idiocracy is a comedy, but looks to be somekind of a documentary for how America is today. Do you know a film called "Stranger than Fiction"?
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It's the same concept of when fellow students get pissy at a smarty pants who gets at or near 100 on a test that was announced to be graded on a curve. If one cog in the machine is working faster, then those above the manager might expect that manager and everyone else below them to make that pace as the new normal, and give the manager more work for their team to accomplish over the same span of time. You working faster could potentially make more work for the manager and it seems that manager would prefer to coast. As Peter said, working just hard enough not to get fired.
Fun fact: When they were making this movie they tried to find a red Swingline, but Swingline didn't make red staplers. So the production team repainted a Swingline red.
After the film Swingline was getting so many requests for red staplers they just started producing them.
They started selling a lot more staplers.
This movie will never, ever get old.
Fun note - Her boss that is always talking about her "flair". is Mike Judge, the creator of this (as well as the creator of Beavis & Butthead and King of the Hill)
The part where they are beating up the printer/fax machine is actually a parody from another movie although I cant remember exactly which one, it was in the "Ghetto/Hood" genre of movies such as Friday, Menice to society, and Boys in the Hood.
"I was really hoping Milton would set the place on fire." -- George
Anyone else notice the apartment complex he lives in is called "Morning Wood" 😅😅😅
Such an underrated movie
I love it so much
The printer bit is my absolute favourite them having to hold Michael back makes me laugh so hard every time!
You have the best video thumbnails on UA-cam, but this one made me laugh so loud it startled my poor dog. The ones for Pans Labyrinth and The Hunger Games were really funny too, and Spider-Man and The Fifth Element (multipass).
I just wanted to say thank you guys for all the laughs and all the positive vibes in general. Every reaction is just a joy to watch. Love you guys and I look forward to future content. 🖤🤍👏
we love that!! thanks Robert! :)
^What he said.
A friend used to work in IT and he and his co-workers (the people who actually _did_ stuff) had a code for when some mangement type tried to "help out" which was a 'one D ten T' error. Sounds inoccuous enough, right... but written down it's 1D10T.
My brother and I watched this movie so many time growing up; when we told our parents to watch, my Mom turned it off halfway.
"Too close to home, boys. Not cool."
Diedrich Bader absolutely kills the role of Lawrence.
Fuckin a.
First saw this about 10 years ago. I still use my leave now to do nothing sometimes, and when people ask what I did or what I'm going to do, the answer is 'absolutely nothing and it was / will be glorious'. Genius film, full of superb little character cameos, and Ron Livingston kills it.
The conversation at the end reminded me of when I worked at a VFX house doing 3D animation. One day I was supposed to work with this other guy but he was late coming in because his kid was sick or something so I had nothing to do. I just sat there for hours feeling really awkward because everyone around me was working and my monitor faced out over the whole studio so I felt like everyone could see that I wasn't working. But it's not my fault! The guy finally showed up at like 4pm and by then it was too late to actually start something.
That printer scene gets me every time - I think everyone who has ever worked at an office has memories of printers breaking down and wanting to take out their frustrations on it, so to see it filmed like a gangster execution scene was just total perfection.
I love a lot of the rest of it too, but that scene is the one that makes me laugh hard every single time. You guys definitely need to see his later film Idiocracy, and then see things that go in in to how badly the marketing etc was fumbled. Both Office Space and Idiocracy were not hits in the cinema, but became really highly regarded once they hit home video.
[and for a bonus WTF moment - apparently the studio wanted the gangsta rap taken out of this film!]
PS - George probably ought to listen to a few Michael Bolton songs, just to really get the venom in the line "Why should I change my name, he is the one that sucks!"
Try substituting in schools: every time you need to print something you're introduced to a brand new way a machine can fail to do its job! 😂
I'm glad you guys enjoyed this I loved that printer scene so much when this movie came out
Office Space is in my top five best movies. It's amazing.
I’m a little surprised you guys didn’t recognize Ron Livingston as Nix from Band of Brothers in the scene where he’s in bed until 3 in the afternoon.
He was also good in Swingers, though I’m not sure how well a movie from 1996 that was about picking up women in LA has aged. 🤔
Swingers is amazing! Any decade, any century!!!
Working fast and accurate is exactly how I ended up doing the work of multiple people in multiple positions without any increase in pay or any sort of promotion, became entirely overwhelmed and then ultimately quit due to being burdened by so much work I couldn't breath and would have anxiety attacks because I was handling and overseeing entire projects practically on my own and I hated it. Now I'm stuck in a rut not knowing what to do because I'm afraid of this happening at whichever job I go to next.
so damn funny when that lady tells Milton "...just go sit at your desk."
A classic. I actually saw this in theatres (one of the few, it wasn't there for long). Had a weirdly profound effect on me.
It's crazy that you both haven't watched this before!! I love this one so much. :D
I'm REALLY looking forward to watching the full reaction to this! hahaha, I love how funny this one is. :D
Love how you said "Die in a fire!"
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It's not THAT crazy when you consider how young they both would have been then (If they were even born yet. I'm guessing they're both about 25). I know in my case when I first saw it in summer of 99, I was between my junior and senior years of high school and ironically working in a cube at an internship. Thankfully at a much friendlier chiller company but still
"PC Load Letter" is a message that old HP LaserJet 2 and 3 printers would display when it needed you to add letter size paper to the paper cartridge. Basically the cartridge was empty.
1:14 +1 ✅
sex and the city
but i'm surprised you didn't recognize him as nixon from "band of brothers"
So, take a look at Stephen Root's (Milton) IMDB page and you're going to be amazed and how many things he's been in or done voice work for. One of the great character actors.
Very underrated actor. He's brilliant.
@@windsorkid7069 - Totally agree. I so wish Cinebinge would react to the HBO series”Barry” created by and starring Bill Hader that Stephen Root is also in. It’s a brilliant dark comedy about a hitman that starts taking acting lessons in LA, so I really think Simone would love it for that, but it’s just a brilliantly written show.
Same with Gary Cole/Lumbergh.
@@inarar5334 Oh, yeah, absolutely. That guys been around a long time.
Also his latest role in "The Legend of Vox Machina".
George, Simone... Please, for the love of all things - check it out on Amazon! It's crazy good!
This movie is an awesome indictment of everything wrong with our work culture. You could insert just about any industry in place of software engineering and it'd still be accurate.
I worked in printing for 30+ years, and though there was not a lot of actual office environment, this movie hits home in so many ways.
Please watch THE NEVERENDING STORY!
Yes!
18:04 Mike Judge cameo. The man himself! Not only the voice of Beavis, but Butt-Head as well, huzzah!
11:07 Stan is actually Mike Judge who is the creator of this and Beavis and Butthead.
For several years I worked for Intel in a cube farm just like what is seen in the movie. When this movie came out, all the employees went to see it as a group. It became everyone's favorite movie. We remain convinced the writer must have worked in our office.
Great reaction! Also Simone started it with her opening song, please react to the movie 9 to 5 from 1980 to get the women's point of view of the toxic workplace.
I worked at a tech start-up right around this time. Our first week in operation we did a movie and pizza night in the office and watched this movie. All the quotables became our office culture. ‘Ummmmm yeah,’ ‘did you get the memo about the TPS reports?’, ‘I was promised a piece of cake.’ We even bought the movie promotion kit that had office mugs, tps cover sheets, a red swingline, and the piece d’ resistance….the mat where you can jump to conclusions!