Office Space (Widescreen Edition)

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Summary: SPECIAL EDITION coming in August 2005
Review: According to insiders at Fox Entertainment, "Office Space Special Edition, With Flair!" is scheduled for release on August 2, 2005. No details on what the extras are yet, but it's about time this hysterical flick gets some SE treatment! So, if you don't own this already (or even if you do), wait until August and we'll all be able to see this movie with the Flair it deserves instead of the no-frills version currently available.

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Summary: One of the top comedies of all time.
Review: It's simple, really: "Office Space" is one of the best comedies ever made. Perhaps one smidgen below "Ghostbusters" or "Caddyshack", but right up there nonetheless.

Ron Livingstone is perfect, Jennifer Anison makes up for the travesty that was "Friends", and Stephen Root provides more laughs than you can shake a TPS report at.

One of the most-quotable movies ever, "Office Space" had an inauspicious run in theatres, only to absolutely explode on home video. Now with an enormous cult following, the film is still not receiving the accolades it deserves. In ten years, this movie will be looked upon as we look upon the all-time classics of comedy today.

Originally, a friend and I decided to see it because there was nothing else interesting playing at the cinemas. Imagine my surprise to be writing this years later, having seen the movie 20+ times, and having it on my personal top-10 list of all-time.

Buy it, watch it, love it.

Just don't touch my stapler.

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Summary: Greatest movie ever made
Review: "OFFICE SPACE" SAYS IT ALL. WHO IN THIS WHOLE UNIVERSE WOULD LIKE TO GO TO WORK? IT DEPENDS IF YOU WORK IN A CUBICLE. NOBODY LIKES THAT. THIS MOVIE PROVES IT.

THE FILM BEGINS WITH PETER GIBBONS IN A TRAFFIC JAM. {I THINK THIS GUY LOOKS STRANGELY FAMILIAR TO RAY LIOTTA}. WHEN HE FINALLY GETS TO WORK, HE HAS HIS 8 BOSSES TELL HIM ABOUT HIS "MED". YOU WILL JUST HAVE TO WATCH THE REST BECAUSE THIS GUY, ALONG WITH HIS OTHER CO-WORKERS HATE THEIR JOBS.

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Summary: GREAT Movie!!!
Review: I Love this Movie and all the Characters in it. I recommend this to anyone who loves good Comedy.

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Summary: It's simply weak.
Review: Not agreat movie at all. I don't care about the performances (all of them good. Including Jennifer Aniston. This woman is gorgeous, astonishingly beautiful). And I loved the idea. Any piece of movie, paper, text, joke, about that awful consultants, that awful corporations, is to my pleasure. The movie shows waht happens when consultants are hired to "aid" the company: all the company wants them to do is to fire employees.

But this movie is not funny. It's low budget, of course, but that's not the point. Livingston is not a very brilliant actor, and his performance is boring. The supporting cast gives their best, but it's not enough: they don't have enough funny material to work upon.

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Summary: When I grow up, I wanna file all day
Review: A few years ago, monster.com instantly became famous with a Super Bowl commercial that featured a group of little children dreaming about growing up to hold unrewarding, miserable jobs. The kids said things like, "When I grow up, I wanna file all day...I wanna claw my way up to middle-management...I wanna be a Yes-Man." "Office Space" tells the story of a group of workers who hold such jobs.

Peter, the film's lead character, suffers with the realization that his work has no meaning. To his company, the workers are simply cogs in the machine, interchangeable and unnecessary. Their salaries and benefits convince them that they cannot live without their jobs, so they pretend to love their work, constantly justifying and rationalizing employment that numbs the spirit.

Peter describes his life as a never-ending string of days that continue to trump the previous with degrees of misery and angst. He comes to work late, avoids his boss and tries to do as little work as possible, taking pride in the hours each week he spends "spacing out" in front of his computer. He works with equally miserable employees who spend their days dreaming about destroying the copying machine and longing for the former model of stapler that the company once used.

After a Jerry Maguire-esque epiphany, Peter decides office cubicle life is not for him and the action of the film is set in place. His rebellion against his place of employment creates an ironic twist, as his forthright disdain for the procedures and protocols of the company earns him a reputation for honesty and outside-the-box thinking.

A subplot grows from Peter's infatuation with a local waitress who finds herself in an equally unrewarding job. Her boss paradoxically pressures her to seek individuality that conforms to other employees. She has no problem finding common ground with cubicle slaves who spend their days doing just enough to keep from getting fired.

Politically, the film lashes out against jobs that force workers to constantly repeat tasks and procedures until they can do their jobs without thought. The duties drain workers of creativity and uniqueness, building a graveyard of zombie-like beings who spout out acronyms and lingo in robot-like monotones. Those familiar with this type of work environment will find the film to be painfully funny.


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Summary: cult classic
Review: The ability of almost anybody to relate to this movie help elevate this movie to a cult classic. Upon the release of this movie, Twentieth Century Fox spent almost no money for promotion. In spite of this through word of mouth it has become an unbelievable success. Dealing with issues that almost anyone to relate to, relationships, dim-witted bosses, unruly electronics, frustration with the redundancy of bureaucracy, etc. has helped elevate this film to a cult classic. This is one of the few movies that can be watched and enjoyed over and over again. Save yourself the money of repeatedly renting it and the aggravation of waiting for it to appear on network or cable television and add it to your dvd collection.

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Summary: So real it hurt
Review: The year was 1999. I was working as a customer service representative in an office that looked eerily like the one in this movie. You know, one of those utterly bland suburban campuses. Our company had just hired "efficiency consultants" to "analyze" the business. Then one day a bunch of people get laid off. While there, management introduced a new phone system for tracking how we spent our time. We actually had to enter a code to use the bathroom so they could know how much time we were there.

I remember sitting in the movie theater, not sure whether I should laugh or cry. Now 5 years later I can definitely laugh. I love the bit about the TPS report memo and the red stapler. Lots of rough language, but otherwise a real gem.

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Summary: Give me a little space!
Review: This film is such an accurate satire of today's enclosed corporate environment that it's almost surreal. It was recommended to me by a couple of colleagues @ work and now I well understand why. All of the usual office politics, personnel clashes, annoying bureaucracy, ever-present red tape, silly rules / policies and the fixation of management on meaningless matters.

While watching this movie I sometimes almost felt like I was AT work myself. A few of the incidents brought back vivid memories of instances that I've experienced. I'm sure that most people who work in an office will find a whole lot in this story that they can relate to, just as I did.

The one big name in the cast is Jennifer Anniston (big hair and all!) who portrays a fed-up waitress. She doesn't have too many lines but she is the one bona-fide celebrity who appears on the screen. I don't recall seeing any of the other actors in anything else.

If you're a white color worker (and perhaps even if you're not a white color worker) then this film is certainly worth a look. I would especially recommend it to persons in management as they just MIGHT understand how foolish they look in front of the working bees whenever they make stupid decisions. Yes, for management types this flick might be VERY humbling indeed.