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Office Space
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Charles Foster Kane said:I'm always game for some good old fashioned fisticuffs, however that aside, you really need to see this movie. It should be in the T&C's that you cannot post until you have watched Office Space IMO.
So who was in it? I have never heard of it....is there nudity, murder, car chases etc???
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It's written by Mike Judge, the guy who created Beavis and Butthead and King of the Hill, it's based on his Milton animated shorts.
Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston) is a computer programmer working for Initech in Houston. Every day, he and his friends Samir (Ajay Naidu) and Michael Bolton (David Herman as not THAT Michael Bolton), suffer endless indignities and humiliations in their soulless workspace from their soulless boss, Bill Lumbergh (Gary Cole). For Peter, stuck in his cookie-cutter apartment with paper-thin walls and IKEA furniture, every day is worse than the one before it -- so every day is the worst of his life. To cap it off, Initech has hired a pair of "efficiency experts" to downsize the company. One Friday night, Peter's soon to be ex-girlfriend Anne (Alexandra Wentworth) forces him to go to an occupational hypnotherapist to relieve work stress. While Peter is under hypnosis, the therapist keels over and dies. As he never snaps out of his hypnotic state, Peter has a new outlook on life. If something annoys him, he just ignores it or walks away from it. He is completely relaxed and enjoying life for the first time in a long time. On Monday, Peter skips work and sleeps in. He gets up for lunch and drives down to a restaurant next to his office and asks the waitress he's had a crush on, Joanna (Jennifer Aniston), on a date. When Peter stops into the office to pick up his organizer, he's called in to talk to the efficiency experts. Relaxed and friendly, Peter charms them as he describes everything wrong with the office, including his boss. Even as Peter now appears at work only as the mood strikes him, the experts decide he's management material and give him a promotion even as they lay off the hardworking Samir and Michael. Peter then convinces his friends to exact revenge on Initech based upon an idea from Superman III. Not everything works out quite as planned. Office Space originated from writer/director Mike Judge's first animated short of the same name, created in 1991. The short was about Milton (reproduced in the film by Stephen Root), a damaged office drone whose complaints and threats about his sufferings go unheeded. Ron Wells, All Movie Guide
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just ordered it from lovefilm...verdict to follow
I watched it last night, I thought it was excellent!
The scene where they smash the printer up was well funny!
And JA was looking *hot*
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Ok. you have almost convinced me to watch it.
Just one more thing ????
Can I watch it for free and where?
I decided to see it again. Got it from - http://btjunkie.org/ - took about 1 hour to download.
"The ratio of people to cake is too big."
One of my favorite films of all time. While I was working in the states.. we used to quote lines from it all day long.. its a cult film over there.
Hopefully it will catch on here in the UK.
A must see for anyone working in IT.
Now.. where did that I put that dam cover sheet...!?
One of my favorite films of all time. While I was working in the states.. we used to quote lines from it all day long.. its a cult film over there.
Hopefully it will catch on here in the UK.
A must see for anyone working in IT.
Now.. where did that I put that dam cover sheet...!?
