Why Office Space is a significant film
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2024
- Though it was a comedy, it accurately captured everything we hated about white-collar work in corporate modern America. Here’s everything you need to know about the film Office Space.
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Office Space is your quintessential cult classic. Its cult following has only grown in recent years and permeated American culture. Several parts of the film have turned into memes. The film changed the meaning of “TPS report.” Now, people think of pointless, tedious paperwork when they think of TPS reports. The PC LOAD LETTER error message also got a new meaning thanks to this movie- people now associate it with any confusing, vague message from a computer.
The famous printer destroying scene has been parodied numerous times since, including in this 2016 election campaign ad by Ted Cruz, which attacked Hillary Clinton after her email controversy.
Another great example of the film’s impact is seen through that red Swingline stapler that Milton so coveted. Ever since its release, the actor who played Milton, Stephen Root, has said he consistently gets people asking him to sign their red Swingline staplers, and actually, those red Swingline staplers didn’t even exist until more than three years after the film’s release. The Swingline staple in the film was spray painted red. So this is reality imitating art, because if it weren’t for the movie, Swingline would never had made those red staplers later on.
Office Space helped the modern workplace become a genre in art. Although the comic strip Dilbert had already been around, it became more popular after Office Space. In 2001, the BBC launched The Office and it was hit. The American version was an even bigger hit a few years later. Because of how dreadful the workplace environment was portrayed in the film, there has been a noticeable trend for companies to break away from many of the features seen in it. Of course, Mike Judge later made fun of those trends later with his show Silicon Valley.
John Altschuler, a frequent collaborator with Mike Judge over the years, said “(Office Space) spoke to a generation in a way that few movies have. Nobody does this kind of material. It’s all about the weirdness of real people in real life.” 20 years later, Office Space still resonates as a film that accurately critiques and pokes fun at the corporate work environment and gets us thinking about having a fulfilling career and balancing work and the rest of our lives. I don’t care what kind of work you do or don’t do- it’s simply not possible to not relate to this film, and that’s why it will likely still resonate 20 years from now.
February 19th will be the 20th anniversary of this film coming out. While I absolutely love making these videos, boy do they make me feel old sometimes. I’d love to know your thoughts about the film in the comments below. Also, what other film would you like to see explained in a similar fashion? Let me know in the comments below. Also be sure to check out similar videos I did for The Truman Show and School of Rock. Thanks for watching everybody.
Which film should I cover next?
Edit: Here's my latest episode about Napoleon Dynamite: ua-cam.com/video/irX0qNkU9k4/v-deo.html
Idiocracy maybe
Snakes On A Plane!
Repo Man. Donnie Darko is a good choice, but it's been done a few times.
I thought about just an entire video devoted to Mike Judge
The Big Lebowski, or a selection of Coen Brothers movies? If you're going for cult classics from the 90s, those brothers and Quentin Tarantino are a cool area to explore :-)
This is a perfect movie, and hasn't really aged a day. It's just as relevant now as it was 20+ years ago
That's the really astounding part: they captured the essence of office work drudgery without any real reliance on the technology of the day (except office laser printers, which everybody hated already, and still does).
Or the 20 years before it came out, thus the rich mine of material......
Great movie?? Naw, GREATEST MOVIE !!!!!!!!!
Yo I relate to this movie so well. I just got out of my white collar job and now moving the blue collar. Training for A&P to work on airplanes.
So many of us could relate to this movie is why it has such a cult following and the fact It isn't Hollywood glitzy is why it's so believable.
Office Space is a masterpiece due to the absence of Hollywood.
That's exactly right. Even back then, Hollywood would have spent more than 10 million on just the caterer. This entire movie was made for that price.
really on point comment. ua-cam.com/video/mJEptlJMT60/v-deo.html
Exactly, that's why the execs hated it. But the actors had fun and we had fun watching them, so F the execs!
this and Neapolitan dynamite
It was literally distributed by 20th Century Fox, you edgy clown.
The Bobs: Looks like you’ve been missing a lot of work lately.
Peter: I wouldn’t say I’ve been missing it, Bob.
One of my favorite moments. Livingston delivered the line perfectly.
I still use this line when I miss work.
And I use the phrase,..oops I meant word "naganaworkhereanymore" too.
"Hahaha good one"
Last Guy Minn was
IMO the most brilliant moment in this movie is when Lumberg brings in peter for OT on saturday and sunday "because we lost some people this week and we sort of need to play catch up" when they are in the middle of layoffs. It perfectly captures the way big companies function (malfunction?) sometimes.
It also was inspirational for how Peter's neighbor suggested solving the problem: "Just dodge out early and send your phone to voice mail".
I did the EXACT same thing with psychopaths where I had worked. If I saw their name on the phone, they got voicemail. I responded to their messages at 4:50PM or I'd look to see if they were in a meeting and then ask them what they wanted. I made it so hard for them to find me, that they'd get frustrated and go somewhere else.
And as an added bonus, I appeared "busy" and therefore regarded as more important!
Look up the term "Italian Strike"
So true, I have worked for companies that squeaked and hollered wondering why there was so much overtime on the payroll after layoffs. "We laid off to save money on payroll, not spend more. It's like only keeping your car's gas tank 1/16th full to "save money on gas". Brilliant, so how much have you spent on roadside assistance since your new "cost savings initiative?"
@@PolishKnightUSA so true. At one job after working a 12 hour shift, the boss intercepted me on my way out to my car and 'asked' me to stay and help with extra work due recent manpower shortages, assuring me that it would only at 30 minutes tops. That 30 minutes eventually morphed into almost 3 hours, and he expected me to stay even longer but must have seen how pissed I was getting and let me leave.
After that I became a master at ducking out of work to avoid him. Once even jumped a fence to sneak around the back of the building so he didn't see me at closing time.
Probably salary so he doean't get OT
Yep, I've seen this same scenario play out in several different companies over various industries. It funny, one company laid me off along with some colleagues, and then 6 months later I get their recruiters contacting me for the exact same position
They don't remember the big severance check they gave me and by accepting, I can never be employed by that same company again. Idiots! Losing that job turned out to be a blessing and got me into a better field that better matched my skills and education as well as almost doubling my pay.
Mike Judge is a genius. Office Space is one of my all time favorites.
The Matrix is mines. Speaking of which: Office Space and The Matrix both came out in 1999, and in both movies...
1. There is a scene early in each movie where the main character tries to evade some authority figure(s) in an office with cubicles by peaking over the tops of the cubicles
2. Both main characters are computer programmers who have done some illegal hacking of some sort that gets them into trouble.
3. Both main characters have an existential crisis throughout the movie, which causes them to question the "reality" around them. And both main characters finally see the truth of their "reality" after some specific intervention (Neo taking the red pill, and Peter being hypnotized).
4. Both main characters are bachelors who live alone until they meet and fall in love with the main female character in the movie.
5. In the first level of the ENTER THE MATRIX video game from 2003, there are guards talking about "the new TPS reports".
6. After Peter becomes hypnotized there's a scene where he is looking at a badge saying " we're not in Kansas anymore" and in the matrix Cypher is quoted as saying to Neo "Buckle your seat belt, Dorothy, cause Kansas is going bye-bye." as he's about to be plugged in. plugged in or hypnotized hmmm.... something, something about the wizard of oz being the mk ultra/ mind control re-programming's favorite...
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@@airplayrule interesting! Thank u for your insight😎
Idiocracy
#2 favorite comedy of all time. Right behind Dumb & Dumber.
He is...
“You don’t need a million dollars to do nothing.”
A legendary line in a movie.
“Take a look at my cousin, he’s broke, don’t do sh!t!”
Just take a gander at our Federal government. A perfect description of those gravy train strap hangers.
"If you had a million dollars what would you do?"
2 chicks at the same time. Always wanted to. Figured if i was a millionaire i could hook that up. Cuz chicks dig dudes with money
@@K37-h1z Well, not all chicks.
I actually saw this in the theater. I was 24 and in my second job. It changed my life. I got out of the corporate world two years later.
I love reading comments like these.
What do you do now?
@@cordeliachase601 I was thinking the same thing!! 24 years and counting for me.
I was 29 and at a job that I liked when I saw this in the theater. 21 years later the company and industry I work in has turned upside down and I and almost everyone who is any lower than upper mgt. counts the years, months and days until retirement or the sweet relief of death.
@@cordeliachase601 teach
"The thing is Bob, it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care."
Funniest line in the movie. 😂😂😂
Think I say that more than anything
Truly, words to live by!
My favorite is, "What would you say… ya' do here?" by the Bobs.
I've only seen it 93 times.
I have a piece of flair for each instance.
That's terrific.
93 is the bare minimum for a cult classic but fine.
Jamie Burke 93? For posterity, no doubt!
I can't see it enough times as well!!
I had a problem with the movie when i was in college.
I was addicted to it.
Like a child, i could watch it and then immediately start watching it again.
It never got old.
Judge is a genius. That poster was terrible.
The poster should have been of them smashing the printer!
With the message "Is this Good for the Company!"
When I got a new job in an office I looked at one of my new co workers and asked what the day to day was like around here his response...
"ever see that movie Office Space"
I knew I was doomed.
So how's the TPS reports?
did you do your TPS reports ?
there was a memo
Lol
Don't worry, when hired, you will get all the TPS reports training and Memos!
Fat women serving cake at 4pm on Friday?
A comedy turned documentary.
And this is a documentary about a comedy turned documentary. :)
Just like Idiocracy!
It's a part of my auto-biograpy.
What's hilarious about this, is when I returned to Norway after being sacked by Norton Antivirus, I started selling street junkie magazines..(Like The Big Issue)
Earning more as a junkie magazine seller than I ever did in IT.
Being my own boss.
Nobody dictates my working hours.
@@mattbeatgoeson Next we need a comedy about your documentary on a comedy turned documentary.
Apparently this film was also the reason TGIFridays dumped the flair requirement for their employees.
oldbittercraig - You beat me to it ... I heard the same! Great Movie 👍👍
I forgot to add that tidbit. Thanks for sharing!
You know the Nazi's also made people wear flair...
@@JO-ly3hi Put them in cubicles too!
Amazing and true!
This film literally changed my life, I switched to a university course I wanted to do instead of a business course and while my new line of work is unstable and often not very well paid, I find it so much more fulfilling. I far prefer to be happy with my work and poor than not poor but hating 40-50 hours of my week. Life is too precious to waste it making someone else money. I think the ending is kinda good though, Peter finds happiness in simpler work, one that while difficult and physically demanding gives you a sense of doing actual work with people that aren't robots.
Same, I had worked at a company for 18 years of misery and this film gave me the courage to choose happiness over security.
@Dr Deuteron You'd be surprised. A lot of blue collar workers make more money than white collar office workers.
WORLD'S BEST Indeed. Blue collar trade workers (plumbers, electricians, etc.) make very good money, and they’re in great demand as well, as everyone’s seemingly been convinced that going to college and getting a degree over trade school is the path to success.
@@johncampbell4534 This is so true. Took me many years to figure this out but still haven't ditched the office job. College is completely overrated at this point depending on what you are doing. Sure doesn't work like how my parents taught me as a child. K-12 + College = Job, Money and Security.
That is so fuckin' true; Staff Accountants only earn $50K to $60K a year on fixed salary without overtime pay although they work 70-80/hours per week on average every year. While corrections officers can earn around $50K to $80K per year base pay not accounting for shift differential, holiday pay and overtime which COI's can earn over $100K to almost $300K. Law enforcement make even more money base salary too. Even Oil Rig workers in Texas and North Dakota are earning over $100K per year and Truck Drivers get on average of $80K per year and do not have to deal with customers and get to travel the USA for a living
It's incredible that big names in the industry auditioned for parts and yet less known people got the parts and they took the right decisions about it, because the cast in this movie is pitch perfect!
It was probably because they couldn’t afford the big name actors with a $10 mil budget.
Found the Anniston quote I was curious about: "Aniston: Fun fact: I’d gone to high school in New York with David Herman. I was a sophomore when he was a senior. He was a quiet, genius actor-type back then. I was sort of madly in love with him, and also terrified of him."
yeahh she's full of crap
When I am talking to friends about great movies, I am still am surprised at how many people have not seen this masterpiece. The witty script, the brilliant performance by the actors are a perfect mix. This film has to be one of the most underrated of all times. I'm glad that it has earned a cult following.
No superheroes? No sequels planned? Why don't you know that is what makes films great!?😂
This is absolutely one of the best comedy movies ever.......... I feel certain in saying that countless people will say they've watched it more than twice.
Gar An ...I watch it once a year. It’s brilliant.
Gar An
I've watched it 25 maybe 35 times in the last 20 years and laugh so hard that my gut aches. It's a classic that will live forever!
It's up there with Big Lebowski
When meeting new co-workers for the first time I ask, "Have you seen Office Space?" If they haven't, I let them borrow my DVD. They always love it.
I've watched it at least 5 times. How many times I've repeated lines form the movie I cannot even guess. My girlfriend has some TPS type reports to do...at the office, today, in 2020. So I was quoting the movie this morning. So long as there are mundane tasks at the office, this movie will be relevant.
Even with a strong cult following, it's still one of the most underrated comedy films of the last few decades (if not of all time!)
The offices haven't changed. The computers are newer :)
You are mostly right...sadly.
More meetings now.
offices are now planned out more open,which isnt really better.
I can argue it even became worse. With new shitty huge open-space plans I'd yearn for some good old cubicle. At least a cubicle offered some personal space.
@@rafaelvarga8185 makes it easier for Lumborgh to approach with the annoying "What's happening?"
Also stops Peter from avoiding him to not be asked to work on Saturday.
All the drama of the film stems from Lumborgh occasionally walking up to cubicles and talking, with open offices he just has to look up, he's constantly there.
The white board with “planning to plan” writen on it always gets me
My fave part of the movie is the beginning showing the commute to work. Especially when Michael raps and then locking his door. Its hilarious af
I feel like I've been trapped in Office Space my entire adult life.
What the fuck does that mean?! 😉
TPS reports. Job security.
You need hypnotherapy, my friend!
Me too!!
It must be nice to have that kind of job security.
I've had so many jobs like this, and I remember there was one project where everyone on the team really liked each other, we all became good friends, and our energy was super positive. We would gladly work long hours, we would hang out after work. Management absolutely could not stand it, they called us "rowdy" and "unproductive" even though we pumped out more work than probably any team in the entire company. Amazing how upper management doesn't think your working hard if your having a good time, and they actually only think your being productive if your quiet, low energy, and depressed in your little cubicles.
There was a scene in Seinfeld where George pretends to be upset and angry at his desk, know that it made him look like he was working hard and cared! Lol
One of the greatest satirical comedies of all time. The characters so realistic that the comedy is completely natural. It is actually viewers laughing at themselves and everyday life because for most people there is no getting away from stuff like this. Virtually everyone by the time they reach age 40 has known a Lumbergh.
It is the corporate world equivalent of Napoleon Dynamite. It’s funny to most people…but if you’ve worked in a dysfunctional corporate environment (read: most companies), then what it captures is painfully familiar, satirical GOLD.
Such a classic. Every 18 year old should see it before they finish school or go off to uni. An unbelievably enduring look at what real life actually is.
funny enough i watched it in highschool on one of our slow days, though at the time i just thought it was a funny movie.
I'm 18 and have seen Office Space many times, it's one of the reasons I am avoiding office work. My goal is to get into acting
I used to have a job washing windows for office buildings including those corporate centers just like this movie. I also would do the interiors and those people in the cubicles seemed all excited that something different was happening for once. Some even watched us as if they were thinking that the way we used the mops and squeegee's was like seeing art being made.
because if they take my stapler then I'll set the building on fire
I started in IT in the 1980's so I can relate to the movie in a big way. The office scenes and restaurant where Jennifer Aniston works are places I've worked in from years ago. It's amazing how Mike Judge captured the dialogue and the whole atmosphere of the work place in this movie.
I missed it when it came out. The first time I was introduced to it was around 2002 in an MBA class when my Organizational Behavior professor showed us the beginning of the movie as an example of what not to do in a business. We all laughed so much when ended up watching the first half hour before he shut it off and told us to go rent it if we wanted to watch the rest. That’s exactly what I did.
Please see this before you consider a career in IT. It just might save your life.
You are so right. After 20 years of the hell that is IT I had a quintuple bypass last year. If you love your children don't let them get into IT.
@@toad8840 There is a youtuber that is known for a spoon clanking sound, from his tea, who is a frequent user of the word "lamestream". Of course, he didn't coin the phrase, but I was making an assumption.
Also, we both have Konaka avatars, very cool.
@Lassi Kinnunen Can you elaborate?
@@Gorilla_Jones At one time, IT was pretty good and offered many men professional jobs even as manufacturing jobs were sent to China. Two disasters happened (ok, maybe 3)
1) H-1b cheap labor making management view IT as little better than textile work.
2) Jack Welch of GE coming up with "stacked ranking" and continuous layoffs to crack a whip at office workers' heads.
3) Silicon Valley and the romance of the "open office" floorplan where cheap office space that resulted in billion dollar companies was viewed as magically "happier". If someone worked in a basement sharing their space with 20 other guys becoming millionaires, that is different than a $30/hour job.
So true!
This film is my life. As an IT professional for over 35 years, watching this (many times!) is like watching reality. One of my all time favorite films!!!!
I missed that part when the hypnotist dies leaving him under hypnosis, this is the key of the whole movie!
This film made me realise that I was in no way alone, or unreasonable, in my hatred of corporate office 'life'. The mindless paperwork the stupid petty bosses, etc, etc. A very good summary of this film that really resonated, and made us laugh. One of my fave lines, 'this isn't just about me and my dream of doing nothing...'
80% on rotten tomatoes is way too low
Rotten tomatoes is owned by Disney nowadays, no longer trustworthy. They serve corporate interests, that's all.
@@lucasv3701 Nice conspiracy idiot
@@truedarkness4052 It's not a conspiracy, moron. It is 25% owned by Warner Bros.
@@lucasv3701 you would be surprised at how many channels disney actually owns
Kavallero Fandango owns Rotten Tomatoes, Disney sold it
What I love about this film the most is that Peter is such a good dude that he's practically telling his friends, "Look bros, they're laying you off but giving me a promotion. Fuck that, I value my friendship with you guys more than I value this job... let's come up with a way to take advantage of them as much as possible before your time runs out." LOYALTY is the most important word in the English language to me, and this dude has it. It's not unseating Empire Strikes Back from the number 1 spot, but you better believe Office Space is on my Top-10 films list.
Nice job on they 101. I love all the small nuances in Office Space. After watching it many many times, I find new gems all the time. Most recently, I noted the whiteboard at 12:52. "PLANNING TO PLAN" Definitely speaks to the annoying little company processes in corporate world.
bet you never saw this gem...Office Space and The Matrix both came out in 1999, and in both movies:
1. There is a scene early in each movie where the main character tries to evade some authority figure(s) in an office with cubicles by peaking over the tops of the cubicles
2. Both main characters are computer programmers who have done some illegal hacking of some sort that gets them into trouble.
3. Both main characters have an existential crisis throughout the movie, which causes them to question the "reality" around them. And both main characters finally see the truth of their "reality" after some specific intervention (Neo taking the red pill, and Peter being hypnotized).
4. Both main characters are bachelors who live alone until they meet and fall in love with the main female character in the movie.
5. In the first level of the ENTER THE MATRIX video game from 2003, there are guards talking about "the new TPS reports".
6. After Peter becomes hypnotized there's a scene where he is looking at a badge saying " we're not in Kansas anymore" and in the matrix Cypher is quoted as saying to Neo "Buckle your seat belt, Dorothy, cause Kansas is going bye-bye." as he's about to be plugged in. plugged in or hypnotized hmmm.... something, something about the wizard of oz being the mk ultra/ mind control re-programming's favorite...
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@@airplayrule Now that's are some really interesting findings. Never tried to compare these two movies like that.
Anyway, were there any connections between the creators of these movies? Going in the same restaurant, playing tennis together or something? You know where they could share some ideas.
I think I have watched Office Space about 90 times. After watching this YT vid, I think I'm gonna go watch it again for 91.
I used to work in an office that was virtually identical to Initech. The movie spoke to me so much that I left that job and got into a career that I have absolutely love.
@Stephen Ritger - I am an airline pilot.
Working at Texas Farm Beau as a programmer intern was exactly like office space.
What makes Office Space such a great movie is all the small details most of us who work or have worked at a corporate environment can relate to. Most of us have worked with a Smykowski who's always paranoid about his job security. Most of us have a "Drew" who randomly pops up out of nowhere to talk and try to be cool while only being annoying. Most of us have interviewed for our own jobs. Most of us have had good co-workers laid off while the not so good ones stay. Most of us have had multiple "bosses." Even when Lumbergh is giving his "is this good for the company" speech and there's that one co-worker smiling and nodding in agreement to everything he says.
This movie was an immediate classic. I saw it in 2000 and was working as a programmer/systems analyst at the time, and identified with it immediately.
I actually have this movie in my computer DVD as we speak. As a matter of fact, it stays in my computer 24/7.
i'm going to need you to play that DVD every day, including Saturday... Fine .. Ok...
In the mid 90s I worked at a bank processing center where we made copies of checks for customers, child support enforcement, The FBI etc. You weren’t allowed to talk to coworkers or to have any moment of down time whatsoever except for a lunch that was exactly 30 minutes and 2 five minute breaks. You could only clock in 2 minutes early and had to clock out within 2 minutes of your quitting time. It was fucking drudgery.
I'm in this exact scenario including no nothing, non contributing management who ask questions about something that's right in front of their face, weak attempts to boost morale with themed dress Fridays, everyone is isolated from coworkers, the fake generated excitement of new ideas which everyone automatically understands as more work with no raise. Drudgery fits it perfectly.
At least you didnt have ridiculous overtime like i do
Squid GamingYT you described my job to a T 😫 My coworkers and I ask have been asking ourselves for years why do we still work there. 🤦🏻♂️ It’s like a black hole. The longer you stay, the deeper you get sucked in and the light fades that much more. This reply is making me sad. Why is my next thought to have a beer?
"PC LOAD LETTER -- what the F^&% does that mean???"" God, how I relate to that. Someday there will be no one left who ever used an HP Laserjet II and this line will become a cultural mystery.
Screen: "Catastrophic Failure"
Me: *Looks around* "Well, there doesn't seem to be any blood anywhere and everything seems jus.."
*Machine explodes*
Me: *Picks up my own severed limb in one hand and starts typing DBCC CHECKDB on what's left of the keyboard*
There will always be technology giving us inexplicable error codes...the exact meaning of PC Load Letter may be lost, but I suspect the gist of the comedy will always be relatable.
Back up in your ass with the resurrection...
John Maher or how a fax machine used those rolls of paper and would jam up.
@Stephen Ritger ah but you forget, if you used A4 paper in the UK and your PC document settings were left as "Letter" then the printer spat out this error even when paper was there.. you could of course just hit the button on the printer to tell it to get on with it anyway and it would.
the HP laserjet 4 - a devil of printers.
Judge allowed the actors to improv, and so many of the brilliant bits of Office Space are due to that. Like the bald Bob saying, 'Naga, naga, na-gonna work here anymore', that wasn't scripted and I'm pretty sure scenes with Lawrence were improved as well, just as examples. Also 'ass clown' was coined by Dave Herman in this movie as well. So much goodness in this movie.
Just thinking… Peter with his neighbor almost Seinfeld ish… that guy was a “Kramer” type for sure!
Damn it feels good to be a gangsta.
sarcasmo57 back up in dat ass with the resurrection
The little fat kid in Deadpool 2 said that too. I wonder if he was just quoting the song or referencing Office Space
indeed, it feels like that lol
So wait corporate didn't get the movie , because it was too realistically accurate to the real companies ? Lmao That's about right. #CorprateDumbasses Luv this movie. Mike Judge needs to do more movies.
They get it, trust me they do. If you read on Cultural Hegemony, you'll get it too.
That was precisely Pac Bell's argument for firing Scott Adams over Dilbert.
Ron Livingston was perfect.
Yeaaaaaaah, I'm going to have to go ahead and agree that this film is great.
I watched this movie when I was like 7 but now since I graduated college and have a corporate job… it’s scary how well this movie captures all the gripes I’m experiencing right now.
This movie is a cultural icon! I've been in high tech/IT/office/computers my entire professional life - 50 years, and nothing comes close to portraying the corporate drudgery of IT companies. I worked at one called "ImageSoft" whose receptionist answered EXACTLY like the "Initech" receptionist in the movie. Once a year the president of the comp[any used to bring in pizza for staff and we'd all watch a movie together. After Office Space was was released on DVD, almost the entire staff of around 150 (except for the sales people and the executives) voted for Office Space. The president vetoed it and showed some other lame thing. That day 23 people called in sick and another 43 were "too busy" and preferred to write code and technical manuals :-). Office Space is one of the most memorable events in my life, and I've had some events, believe you me.
I wish i could go back to 1999 and live it all over again. It was the best year for movies ever.
The damn it feels good to be a gangsta scenes were the pinnacle of the film. A great movie, I rewatch it regularly. One of my favourites.
I made my own playlist from the music soundtrack and listen to it in the car often.
My favorites...
No Tears - Scarface (Michael Bolton bumping to rap in traffic) and
Still - Geto Boys (from printer smashing scene).
I even have an mp3 of the quote:
Peter: Lawrence what would you do for a million dollars?
Lawrence": I'll tell ya what I'd do man....... two chicks at the same time.
Me too!😮
“PC load letter? Wtf does that mean?”
"Two chicks at the same time man."
Fuckin' A.
Parker Johnston “shit man you don’t need a million dollars to not do anything. Just look at my cousin. He’s broke and and don’t do shit.”
@@Nmdixon-cu7vm best line in the movie
I have shown this movie to so many people over the years. I loved it when it came out and still watch it at least once a year. This shows why you should let those with a vision put it out there and production companies should step back and not interfere so much.
Considering all the money this film has made in home video sales, you'd think studios would learn that lesson, but it is even more rare now for a talent like Judge to get left alone without massive tinkering by clueless studio execs.
Watching this while working makes me understand better that the misery is normal
It's funny how in 1999 the thing we were pissed off about was being "stuck" in a dead-end, stable, office job and a house/apartment filled with IKEA furniture... And then 2001 happened, and 2008, and 2016, and 2019, and then 2020 started and never ended... And now there's a whole lot of people who'd give a lot to have that kind of "boring" now.
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14:49 - When society tells you "it's always been this way" instead of asking why. The reason I hate retail and other jobs like it.
Being a teacher and having changed different schools so far I can assure you that they told me the same "It's always been this way everywhere you go, deal with it."
Who else has a Red Swingline Stapler because of this movie?
Swingline didn’t even make red staplers till after this movie! 🤣😂🤣😂
@Nicolas Santos at one of my former jobs, I wore a strapless bandeau one piece swimsuit and presented the “Employee of the Month” with a ham, a plaque, and a discount coupon book. Our boss gave his personal thumbs up and placed the photo of the employee of the month on the wall and let them use the parking space next to his.
Yeah, guilty. The sent it to Australia for me and its next to me right now. its symbolic and I don't let anyone borrow it. Plus, its a pretty good stapler.
This movie shows why I am happy to be a college instructor.
Between grad school and getting my first teaching job, I worked as a messenger and never walked into an office that I wasn't happy to walk out of.
This movie is awesome and after watching you video about I wanna watch it again. The clips were making me laugh out loud, and showed me how I feel about my job.
On the DVD, there is is a section to where you can actually Print a TPS Report. Classic movie!
I loved this video! I’m so happy that mike judge stuck to his guns with the gangster rap! My old friend and I often quote the movie saying “I can’t talk to my mom, so I talk to my diary” 😂 mike judge is the man! Office space will always be in my top ten list of movies I can watch over and over and not get tired of, I just love it more every time! Thanks for posting the video! Mandy Whittaker 🙏🏻🍄☕️🤓insert swing line stapler here! ✌🏻
“Yea I’m doin the drywall up there at the new McDonald’s!” Ended up being my favorite line after several viewings and years later. It just cracks me up. He’s so proud of that fact.
Having worked in a cubicle environment for years, I totally related to this flick. It's one of my favorites. Totally hilarious, yet low-key (no Jim Carrey crapola).
How dare you take the name of the Carrey in vain
hey cable guy was good
In the mid-eighties we had a massive IBM dot matrix printer the size of a refrigerator in our office. Every day we would waste at least an hour untangling paper jams or some other "high maintenance" issue so we could produce mountains of paper reports nobody would ever read. We collectively despised that huge beast. When a "new" one (only a quarter the size of a fridge this time) arrived three of us dragged that old thing out into the back alley and smashed it to bits with a sledgehammer. It was the most violent yet therapeutic event I've ever experienced.
I've been around for 71 years, and Office Space was my favorite comedy ever probably because I worked in a similar situation for Sears, and Roebuck back in the mid 70's. This type of job only increased substantially after the so-called computer revolution. Every minute of the film had me on the floor laughing my head off.
Stephen Root is awesome.
I saw this in college and thought it was lame. As a working adult, I revisited it and saw the masterpiece in it. It's a regular occurrence to rewatch this movie just because of how relatable it is.
I used to have a ringer on my phone that would go "Ummmmm.... Yeaaaahhhh"
I've worked in this type of work environment for over a decade and can easily say this is so hilarious because you can sit back and watch the ridiculousness happen here without you dealing with it yourself or worrying about losing your job. Every company around this size has a Lumburgh (The boss with zero empathy for anyone below him). Has a Tom (overly paranoid guy that's always worried he's going to lose his job or the company is going to lay off people everyday). Has a Milton (That one really strange dude that you don't bother because you think he might go on a shooting rampage). Also, people may find the scene with the Bobs and Lumburgh/Dom over the top how they're talking over who to lay off and it's sadly really on point, i've been in those meetings and yea they really talk like that.
We used to watch this every week when I worked at Dell in the late 90s.
I worked at a "psuedo tech company" when this movie came out. We had cube farms, with some DC space. My boss was NOT a Lumbergh type and in fact, he was awesome. The whole team went to see this movie as a team building exercise. It was hilarious! "Just a moment"....LOL I've loved the movie ever since!!
Office Space is one of my favorite all time movies 👍👍 I think anyone that works can relate to this movie in one way or another.. the movie "Waiting" with Ryan Reynolds is also on the top of my list 👍
Yep, I used to be a waiter myself.
Both movies really capture the reality of the workplace. I don't know too much about acting but I felt that Ryan Reynolds deserved an Oscar for Waiting. He was Cochise. Cochise was him.
Don't forget Slammin' Salmon as far as restaurant movies go.
I saw this movie in 2003 for the first time. Worked a job in an office that I hated. The next day I just decided not to go! Slept late and went to play golf later that day. Felt great and never went back! Of course eventually I found another job but the break was great.
I was a huge Beavis & Butthead fan as a kid so I got some friends of mine to go see Office Space opening week. Classic movie.
Mr. Beat is the goat. Just decided to do a UA-cam search about my favorite film, and my oh my whos familiar voice is that. That’s so crazy, didn’t know you had this channel too. Day is made and Office Space lives on
We are never going to to see another movie like this
It's funny, if I was compiling a list of the best movies of all time, I probably wouldn't think of Office Space, but if I'm randomly flipping channels and it's on, I ALWAYS stop and watch it, usually to the end, I can quote it almost in its entirety, and my Office Space DVD gets watched more often than any other one in my collection. Move over Godfather and Casablanca, Office Space really does deserve a spot in my top five.
How was he paranoid and gossipy? He had the scoop and his boys back. Need more like him.
Thank You! Thank You! Office Space! This film helped me resign my position, Quality Control Lead Man, at a Dietary Supplement facility where no one knew or cared about what they were making. This proved to be a tremendous educational experience as I now embark upon a project of my own design...
This movie is so great because we've all met these characters in our real life at some point or versions of them. It's hilarious because it hits so close to home
I think it's time to pull it off the shelf and watch Office Space again!
New subscriber thx to your extremely informative backstory of creators and actors delivered in a non-pretentious manner - so many guru-types on youtube ramble to the sound of their own voices - your voice over work could easily be that "101" as well.
Stephen Root was THE actor that made this film for me as I just loved how he lost himself into his character. Doesn't happen too often where the actor gets completely immersed into his part by voice, mannerisms and some inspired makeup. Eddie Murphy has done it in a few films, De Niro and Theron(Monster), and a few others. Generally though it's just an actor playing a part which is what sells at the box office. People want to see and recognize their favorite actors.
Best movie ever! I worked at a call center in the late 90s and this movie was spot on and so funny! Mike Judge is brilliant.
When Michael Bolton said...PC load letter. What the fuck does that mean.
I knew this novie wqs talking directly to me.
My 2 buddies didn't find it nearly as funny as I did. They obviously never experienced that error message on an almost daily basis like I did
I saw many boring office job movies. Office space was the 1st to get it right.
In 1996, I hadn't seen or heard of this movie, but I was an engineering student and I got an internship in SoCal, and the similarities were eerie. Nobody wore blue jeans then - it was all slacks or khakis and button-down dress shirts with ties. My boss was an idiot who also drove a Porsche 911, and after work we'd go to TFI Friday's. The building I worked in was in a business park and the movie could have been set there. Me and the rest of the interns all lived in apartments that looked just like Peter and Lawrence's apartment complex. And the large interior space in our building was packed with cubicles that seemed to go on forever. Good times!
"Waiting..." is the Food & Beverage version of this movie. Eerie levels of accuracy!
I used to be a waiter and can confirm that you are right :)
@@mattbeatgoeson I figured, since you look like you are/were in a band. It just follows
One of my other favorite movies of all time
You should also check out Slammin Salmon for an accurate, hilarious portrayal of restaurants.
The office that I work at has internal software that we use made in house. There is a "TPS Report" tab that we can use to see who did what and was clearly stated in training that it is an Office Space reference.
That is awesome
Who is the hero of the movie to you? Milton or Peter?
I'm going Milton
I think Milton is someone we can endure but not necessarily associate with. He is a guy lost within himself, a milque-toast individual, and someone we all secretly question as to why he has a job. He comes across as too soft, low self esteem, and hardly a leader. And his appearance / complexion etc. leaves a lot to be desired. We can emphasize with someone like that but not fully embrace them. I think this is what the movie tries to do.
@@CRuf-qw4yv well I think the whole point of milton's character is that when he began he was bright eyed, smart, and full of life (like peter prbly was when he began too) and years and years of working at a place like that turned him into what u see now, a babbling incoherent mental case, that's what peter had to look forward to had he stayed there that long
I don't think I have laughed harder while sitting in a theater at any other movie. I saw this in 1999 when living and working in Silicon valley. I had been waiting tables but also working in offices. I think one of the most poignant yet saddest parts is when Tom is in a wheelchair saying that "if you hang in there long enough good things can happen in life I mean look at me!" But it does free up the time for him to create the jump to conclusions mat. Judge is a genius and I celebrate his entire catalog!
something of a "black" comedy in that the comedy comes from how relatable the characters are in their general hatred of their day to day life. I've been in a company like Initech and didn't really "get it" intil I watched this movie after that.
Yes. If youre going to do a movie about real life, make it real.
Im ok with transformers or mission impossible doing unrealistic stuff. But if youre doing sociL commentary about monotony of boring life, u have to show it.
Mike judge showed enough of it to be relatable without making a boring movie. Bery difficult to thread that needle and he did it perfectly.
The movie is fast paced. Scenes arent long and are either longer and funny or short enough to communicate what it needs to. Whether it was done conscisouly or just happened that way, he seemed to just make the right moves...IMO
I remember when I first watched Office Space. I had a neighbour that was moving out and he gave me a box of VHS tapes and one of the tapes was Office Space. This was back in the early 2000's. I watched that movie first and I got hooked. I still love the movie today.
No matter how many times I’ve seen this movie, it never gets old. It’s held up very well. Its message transcends all industries of work, because at some point this movie has touched upon all the BS in the working world.
I could give two shits less what RottenTomatoes thinks. This movie is 100% in my book.
I was complaining to my wife's cousin about my job I had in the early 2000s. I spent an hour with my manager discussing my font choice on an Excel Spreadsheet. We were reviewing the different fonts and discussing readability. In reality, I was really the only one who had to read and create the spreadsheet and I thought the font was fine. The cousin laughed and made a reference to the TPS Reports. And started to talk about the movie Office Space. He suggested that I watch it. Which I did and it was the most relatable movie I've ever seen.