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Summary: Great Movie
Review: This is one of the funniest movies I have ever seen. It's so funny, don't bother renting it, just buy it! From the first scene to the last scene I was almost always laughing. All the actors are good, and the mumbling guy is great. See it now!
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Summary: A Hilarious look at Office Society!!!!
Review: This has to be one of my all time favorite movies, and it was a real shame that it was so over looked at the box office. Our hero Peter Gibons just another faceless drone working for Intitech. So disillusioned is he in fact that his cubicle looks as if he just started that day. After a freak hypnosis accident Peter no longer cares about his job, his cheating girlfriend, or in fact anything at all. Least of all his Boss Lumberg. Peter, and friends hatch a plan to rip off the company since they are all being fired anyway. The movie is far from academy award faire, but it is a fun 90 mins. It includes many situations that even though are "funnied up" are still pretty close to the average drone's day. My job is similar so I can totally relate to Peter, and Michael, and that other guy who no one can seem to pronounce his name. Stephen Root steals the show as Milton who was the star of several animated shorts entitled 'Milton' shown on Saturday Night Live that was the original basis of this movie. A fun movie, and proof that Every Drone Has Its Day!!! enjoy.
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Summary: A very fine film
Review: Spot on parody of office life. Good cast, good laughs, great music and hillarious one liners give this movie a special place in my heart.
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Summary: I love this Movie!
Review: Because I was never a fan of "Beavis and Butthead", I did not pursue seeing this movie in the theater. But when my hubby advised me to watch it, I reluctantly did so and BOY AM I HAPPY I DID!. "Office Space" is hilarious. It's one of those movies you can watch over and over and enjoy every time! I can't believe a film so funny and clever was not a box office hit and was overlooked by the critics! I think it has something to say to anyone who has ever worked in an office.....or actually to anyone who has ever worked!! I recommend it to all my friends.
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Summary: Incredible
Review: This movie is the funniest I've seen in a while. Anyone whos worked in an office environment can relate. Witty dialougue, hilarious characters, Mike Judge has created a timeless Comedy Masterpiece.
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Summary: The time has come
Review: The time has come for a movie of this caliber! It should be played in all Board(bored) rooms in corporate America, projected on the billboards that clutter our highways and made a mandatory requirement of Business 101. Office politics, absurd policies, and Jennifer Aniston (sorry had to say it)make up this extraordinary farce of corporate America. Chain restaurants, sparkling clean suburbia, and traffic jams. What else can be said. To truly appreciate this movie does not require you to be an engineer or programmer, all you need is to have a mindless meaningless job and the inspiration to take matters into your own hands. Oh yeah, one thing you do need, however, is to make as many people as you can gather around the tube and watch with you.
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Summary: Lives of quiet desparation
Review: From the standpoint of one who's worked in software for thirty years it is dismaying to see the effect on the younger generation of the real computerized office, for it is either dystopian or perceived as such.In Office Space, the worklives of TwentySomethings have been structured by Baby Boomer technical obsessions and Romanticism. The offices which the Baby Boomers manage are computerized by unrelievedly bad software: the restaurants in which they eat lunch demand of the invisible "help" that the "help" cater to a commodified freedom and "flair." Of course, this dystopia is dystopia in part because of perceptions. Certainly, Java or HTML experts fleeing Kosovo in 1999, the year of the film's release, would be delighted to work in air conditioned offices not subject to artillery barrages. However, Herman Melville's 1850s short story, Bartelby the Scrivener compels us to take seriously the complaint that work is boring and unfair. In the short story, Bartelby, after years of clerical work (that was brutally boring, owing to the lack of office automation: Bartelby was a human Xerox machine, and even in the 1940s, Microsoft exec Charles Szymonyi was grateful to be hired as a human "computer"), "prefers not to", like the hero of Office Space, do any more fair copies. Office Space notes the unnoted ability of computer technology to generate absurd work at its margins, for its hero is engaged in manually scanning code for Year 2000 problems. Now, I'd ask why this fictional character did not write a Perl script (a computer program) to do his job for him, but only to be a smartass: for in the type of organization portrayed in Office Space, ideological control prohibits such vernacular creativity. Unfortunately, had this movie been resolved at all realistically, there'd be, as they say, no movie. For in fact very few people seem to ideologically rebel as our hero, who gets a job in construction (as if modern construction itself has not been Taylorized so as to render the construction worker equally subordinate as the computer programmer.) Here in the Research Triangle Park, it still seems the case that when most people are laid-off or otherwise maltreated by companies like Nortel, they respond by stronger adhesion to individualist narratives and at best form their own firms, wherein they replicate, in the small, the failure to address needs and narratives higher than the individual. Note that the hero of Office Space does not transform into someone who becomes a team player because he is informed by a mystical vision of the necessity of absolute care-for-others, to name one possibility. He is at first transformed into the type that our system says it desires: the whats-in-it-for-me individualist. The consultants like him precisely because he so perfectly "does" the entrepreneural spirit: but note that in reality, employment specialists have found that in the actual job market, the person who has in the past formed his own company or in other ways foolishly tried to act out a capitalist scenario is less desired than the long-term corporate type. Mike Judge does not, in other words, question some core assumptions of the business movie narrative. Our narcissistic question throughout Office Space is how the hero will fare. Like Herman Melville, Mike Judge sees no way out and has none of Hamlet's good sense: "I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself king of infinite space." Perhaps this is an important limitation of the way the American Transcendentalists narrated the money-mad lives of their fellow man when in the 1820s it became clear that we were not about to become a country on their model, where instead of working in sordid offices, or on the farm driving the slaves, we'd sit about listening to blue-stockings recite poetry, and Think Uplifting Thoughts. The real story is not escape from the counting-house or the modern office it is the ability of most real people to be bounded in a nutshell and count themselves kings of infinite space. Some Americans do this through religion, others through drugs, still others by posting reviews on Amazon. Redemption consists in the final realization that hegemony for good or ill is here to stay and there really is no way outa this place. So get back to work on that perl program.
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Summary: "Having a case of the Mondays?"
Review: Oh man, I couldn't stop laughing when I watched this realistic and timely comedy. I started an internship as a software engineer a little over a month ago, and this movie is MY LIFE! Do you live in a cubicle, working on meaningless projects with stupid managers and annoying bubbly secretary-types around? Yep, you'll like this. Dilbert fan? It's like Dilbert, The Movie. I think the absolute best-est part is in the beginning where the small nerdy guy is stuck in rush hour traffic, and is blasting really loud rap music and singing along...and suddenly realizes he's NOT the only guy on the freeway. Ah well. Check it out, it's hysterical. Maybe I should quit this job and go work outside and never ever again be asked if I'm having a Case Of The Mondays.
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Summary: When Did They Film My Life?
Review: Well, considering most of the reviews basically cover what anyone who loved this movie would say, I don't have much to say but I can relate to it 100%! What a great movie. So much hilarity, and it's even funnier if you can relate to the whole work environment they're in because you'll be like, "Oh my God! That's so true!" Never has a comedy hit so close to home for people in that work force. Definitely worth purchasing.
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Summary: Pure pleasure
Review: This is one of the funniest movies and I have seen it several times. Anybody who's worked at a troubled midsized engineering or software company will relate immediately. The hours seem to go on forever and almost everybody and everything around is an annoyance. The casting is perfect, from the consultants (Bob and Bob) brought in to fire some people; to the main characters (three young guys bored to death, including one foreign-born whose name noone can pronounce); to some overcheerful staff; to copy machines that jam constantly. There is only one escape from this ordeal for the main character (Ron Livingston)and that is to shrug it all off and just do whatever he feels like doing from now on. For starters, he removes one side of his cubicle to get a better view out the window, openly plays video games (Tetris) at his computer, tells his boss to get lost, invites the girl he's always liked (Jennifer Aniston) out on a date. There is a hilarious scene when he meets with the consultants and tells them what he really thinks of the place. The consultants decide this new attitude shows he is a straightshooter and born leader. So he gets promoted while his two buddies who toe the line get the ax.
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