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Mike Judge might be best known for his animated work, but his live-action feature debut from 1999, Office Space, is one of the most quotable cult classics out there. Today we'll dive a bit into what makes Office Space so memorable and so worthy of a re-watch 25 years later.
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No
No.
I wish you kept the original title, but I get it.
Same. I was hopeful. But it wasn’t quite working.
Here's why it also lives on so well...No Milton spin off movie! No Office Space 2, "Vacation Days"! It was allowed to be perfectly unique piece of art. Thank God it didn't do well at the box office, I say!
Agree
@@bender9353 You did exactly to him, what you accused him of doing. Just letting him enjoy his opinion, without shitting all over it, but I guess you wanna feel special too. 🤣 I bet you feel pretty righteous though. Edgelord.
@@MazzBCD Moron, that makes no sense. He didnt put out a product.
It made some money back, and even some money back, makes companies head toward a sequel. Also it blew up on theatrical release, which means a producer will see that and make one son. Everyone involved is still alive, so at least its got that going for it.
100%
The Hangover would've been the last classic comedy movie probably ever, but they just HAD to milk it's success to the point of killing it.
It's hard to explain it to younger people, but this movie perfectly encapsulates what the 90s felt like. The lighting, the clothes, the cars, the music, the work culture, the interior design absolutely, the malaise, no one talking about politics, immigration, terrorism. This is what it felt like to be alive in the 90s. Playing simple games on your pc, watching whatever late night movie was on, chatting with your apartment neighbors, work parties, Y2K. This was it.
I don't always count my blessings but when I do I count growing up in the 90's as a win!
And it was awesome that way.
It truly was.
We would look at hundreds of different websites, not just 5.
We interacted with objects and people.
Amazon was a seller of used books.
@@paradox7358 Is that Aniston after she gets married to Neo from The Matrix?
@@Croyles Mrs. Anderson, I'm surprised to see you with less than 23 pieces of flair
"Every single day is worse than the one that came before it. And so every time you see me,that's the worst day of my life."
I used to think that line was hilarious. Now I just find it to be extremely relatable.
Relatable for me too in 2020... holy fuck
Welcome to adulting
@@Gardner0871public why thank you! VERY helpful,my guy. I wouldn't have thought that I'd provided enough context for anyone to successfully determine that I'm just being dramatic about the everyday pressures that we all face. I'd like to think that I can be easily forgiven for that little oversight though,considering how rare it is to encounter someone as perceptive as yourself.
I'm curious about whether you employ these talents on a regular basis in your day to day life,or only ever from behind the safety and anonymity that the screen you're reading this on provides you. I only ask because of how much bolder people tend to be when speaking to a complete stranger,knowing that they're well outside of arm's reach. Everyone gets to be as brave as they fancy themselves to be in conditions as convenient as those. I'm sure that you'll agree with my assessment,given that you've already proven as much to be true. There again: convenient! And so again I must thank you. NOW all involved parties feel perfectly justified,correct!? Therefore everyone wins! Yay! 🥳🥳
I said shit like that when I was a little kid
@@newusernamehere4772 and I'll bet that you were just as clever and adorable then as you are now! 😘
“I did absolutely nothing today and it was everything I could imagine and more” is probably my favorite line of all time. I live by that
It's basically the unofficial sequel to Ferris Bueler's Day off. (but he has grown up and got a job working in an office instead of being in high school)
"Why don't you just go by Mike instead of Michael"? "No way! Why should I change? He's the one who sucks".
It helps, very zen like the big Lebowski. I think folks get laziness as well as giving up mixed up with a pissin’ in the wind attitude. Or mistake it for stubbornness or being an idiot.
"It's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care!"
@@GeebusCrust This quote sums up my life. Yeah, not necessarily a good thing.
I saw the movie when I was 25 working for a corporate bank. I was putting in like 12 hours a day before and was miserable, afterwards, cut my time by half, joined a gym and started studying for my dream job. Funny thing was that no one at my job notice my work hours, lost 20 pounds of fat, and I believe that I can crack my dream job as well. Thank you you whomever who was involved in this movie
I don't have a dream :(
Just start doing stuff. Doesn't matter what it is. Work more. Go to the gym more. Pick up new hobbies. Eventually you'll figure out what you actually want to do. But if you just sit around doing nothing or just doing the minimum you'll get stuck in a rut.
@@ActuallyJamesS Almost no one does
Remember, it's a job, not work. Working matters, but jobs . . . well there's always another one out there somewhere and probably a lot easier to get than you think. And if you simply show up when you're supposed to and don't give your bosses any shit, you're golden, Ponyboy.
@@Joe-sg9ll Want to work for my country. Policy making in my National Bank. It's pretty boring for other people lol but I find that peaceful. The moneys not good but I'll be happy working for the people.
Nobody remembers it for being a heist movie because that's how well the characters are portrayed.
Very good observation. Similarly for star wars, it was an epic fantasy that happened to take place in space and sci fi. But it's synonymous now with space and sci fi even though those were really secondary qualities. Edit: And it's not really a heist movie is it? I mean a heist takes place in it. But it's more of a questioning your entire life and why you work kind of movie.
The heist part is where it went of the rails, that's why nobody talks about that part.
@@Shauma_llama When I had a short sting doing coding, I would also think back to the decimal point line when code never worked right.
Probably because the heist scene is about 17 seconds long and it's definitely a comedy movie.
Yeah ,that's it! Like Richard Pryor in Superman III 😆
My favorite thing wasn't even a line. The sign for his apartment complex said "Morningwood apartments".
The flair thing really made me think. What really sucks about a crappy job is that no matter what you’re not supposed to let on that it’s a crappy job. And the criteria for being a good employee isn’t whether you’re earning your pay, but whether you have any energy left to give to the company. They didn’t want her to wear the flair, they wanted her to WANT to wear the flair. They don’t just want your time and energy, they want your soul, and they want it without pledging any loyalty to you in return.
Well said indeed. That's exactly it.
I don’t fully agree with most of the drivel in the comments but you kinda’ nailed it here. Take Apple. I could never work there. This constant level of “Hey! I’m here. And I’m happy and excited to be here. Let me get YOU happy and excited, too!” is something I could never do.
@@Zerpersande Read a great article years ago by a self-confessed introvert about the American happy-faced enthusiasm required at many jobs. She brought it over to a job in the Netherlands and when she wound herself up into open excitement mode and started vocally spewing about getting an ordinary project to do, she says people looked at her like she was a big phony and a nut. She didn't like the fake corporate culture she had gotten used to either, and felt much more comfortable being an introvert -- and just an ordinary person not expected to put on a clown show -- outside America.
well, if I'm analysing it on the employer's perspective and also a more healthy perspective for a person working those jobs, I'd say:
give your best, no matter what job it is. If you're feeling really down, then it's because you need to figure out the next move. That's it.
Them wanting you to WANT the flair is just them wanting an employee that's committed. It's their prerogative to want that or not for their employees.
I've had low paying jobs. Menial jobs. And advice given to me helped me do it with a smile, want to do it, even. Just like wanting the flair piece. It's not being broken and finally submitting. That would be the case if I or anyone else simply stayed at the job they dislike, and faking a smile.
That attitude of "I'll wear the flair, but only however the minimum is or however many you want me to" is the attitude of someone that isn't happy and doesn't have a plan for being happy.
In the end, it's one of the movie's motifs.
People who are miserable with their current job and have no way out, no plans. Until they find a way out, even if for a moment, in order to shake them up and get them thinking about themselves and the path they want to be on.
Then, you won't be fading away on the inside. You have a plan and are giving out the best attitude you have, in the present moment and current situation.
Hopefully that didn't come across as woo woo. It's just, for me, facts of life.
@@father3dollarbill The best attitude you can have definitely involves respecting yourself and not kow-towing to anyone just because they say so. You can do your job without pretending to be something you're not. Civility is not self-betrayal. Respect for customers is not self-betrayal. Faking a smile is self-betrayal. If you have a good attitude, you don't have to fake a good attitude. But you shouldn't have to sell your soul instead of just being a good worker. The idea that you must give your employer everything they want just because they ask or demand is the ultimate disrespect toward an employee, and everything an employer wants should not be okay "or you can just quit." Not everybody can, of course and as always. Just ask yourself if you want your girlfriend or mom or daughter groped at work because whatever the boss says goes. There is still right and wrong, and trying to claim your employee's soul is terribly wrong.
I worked with a guy on a Bering Sea fishing boat who had been a Wall Street broker. He watched Office Space and was unable to laugh at a single scene because it was SO true to his life. He said when he saw the movie, he HAD to get as far from that lifestyle as he could.
He ended up becoming a very successful archeologist.
Thus was the story of Indiana jones
Nice story. Good for that lad
I worked on a lobster boat in Rhode Island one summer. It wasn't fun at all.
@@gilmer3718crazy - I’m watching this in Rhode Island.
what is his name?
"That's my only real motivation is not to be hassled"
I don't think there's a single line in cinema that's resonated with me more, it perfectly sums up my previous job.
The sports world equivalent of "I'm here so I don't get fined." - Marshawn Lynch
"Let me tell you something else I have NINE bosses."
"nine?"
"Yeah."
Yes. That whole exchange with Bob and Bob.
My favorite is 'And it's not that I'm lazy, I'm just not motivated'. I've felt that way since fucking highschool.
Sums up my job now, except that it's my job to be hassled. I'm lucky my employer lets me do it from home so it's bearable.
Working life in general, for me. And most of the rest of it, too.
The use of the Geto Boys’ music in the soundtrack was brilliant. 😂
"take a look at my cousin. He's broke. Don't do shit." That was one of the best lines in the movie. Probably the one I remember the most. That guy is such a great character and so different from other characters played by Bader. I'm thinking in particular of that character on the show with Drew Carey. It's hard to believe that's the same guy. Good acting.
He's also been Batman in a couple animated series.
Watch out for your cornhole!
he was also in the Beverly Hillbillies movie lol
Two chicks at the same time
He was funny as a cop in Country Bears
This is one of those movies that when I meet someone, if they say “I really didn’t like that movie”, I know I will probably not like this person.
Spot on.
I lived my life by this comment
Never met that person, never want to
Anybody that says they don't like this movie are the people that have had everything handed to them and never had to work at a job that completely sucks the joy and life right out of you.
They probably had a case of the Mundays..
“What would you say… you DO here?” One of my all time favorite lines in any movie ever. That delivery is so fucking savage.
And a line I have wanted to ask so many co-workers over the years.
with that little head shake.😆
I have troubles not seeing him as Dr. Cox from Scrubs, but it works just as well that way.
*I'm a people person!*
I always respond with "They pay me to pick things up then to put them back down."
Been quoting this film for 20 years, it makes me angry when others don't get it.
I think Gary Cole should fan-service by saying "Yeah, that'd be great" in every project he does. Yeah, that'd be great.
Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays.
I work with a high strung clown that resembles the waiter at Chotchkie's ...he says he's never heard of it.
I quote this movie a lot, and when someone gets it, we both laugh our asses off! "Yeahhhh, I'm gonna need you to....(whatever)". 😆😆😆
Why don't these twenty year olds get my references!!!
One thing that always stood out to me about this movie is the way it 'feels' and 'plays out' like an animated film. Like, if you imagine each scene as an animated version of itself, it works perfectly. Even the characters' voices are uncannily cartoon-like - especially Milton, Lumberg and Lawrence. I guess it makes sense, given Judge's background, but I always wondered if it was deliberate or just a case of Judge's animation style influencing his live action stuff.
Great point!
Well, it's based on a comic
There's such a sense of visual design to it
They're written like cartoon characters. Perfectly framed for their role in the story, and no extraneous questions asked to distract from it. Which is what helps amplify the story, because the story is about feeling stuck in a proverbial box/rut, and the one path out you take checks as many cathartic boxes as possible.
It’s absolutely nuts to me that Swingline didn’t make a red stapler (and _wouldn’t_ make one when requested by Judge) and now _it’s their best selling stapler!_ 😂
When I bought one back in 2003 it read, "Sure to be the star of your office space!" right on the packaging.
I bought a special edition copy of the movie and it, of course, included a red stapler.
I have one from an office party years ago. No one is allowed to touch it.
I used to work with a guy who actually created his own. It looked just like the real thing from the movie - worked too!
I won’t buy a stapler that isn’t red.
I mean , I’ve bought one stapler in twenty years , but it was red!
Only stapler I've ever owned was a red, swingline one. I stole it from work after they laid me off without notice after working for them for 5 years. Seemed like the right thing to do
They probably bought a stock of them for that very purpose.
Workers create value for the ownership class. You earned your stapler
Glad you didn't set the building on fire...
A true Milton.
Fun fact: Swingline didn't make red staplers when the movie was made in 1999, it was spray painted red. Swingline didn't start making them until 2002 in response to fan response to the movie. I didn't believe it either. Look it up.
How good was Orlando Jones though? I mean everybody was great but his magazine sales person character was so on point. "Good evening sir. My name is Steve. I come from a rough area. I used to be addicted to crack...." Turns out, he was a software engineer. LOL
Lol
And he was making k3ller money selling the subscriptions, too.
Reminds me of a time I was grinding at two jobs and first saw Office Space. Struck up a conversation with some rando at a backyard BBQ. Dude was hauling in 80G a year selling mattresses!!
“I wouldn’t say I’ve been ‘missing it,’ Bob.”
1999 truly was the year of the disaffected middle class office drone: Office Space, Fight Club, The Matrix, American Beauty
those were such great movies
i couldn't believe it when he said 1999, another great film from that amazing year
This and Idiocracy are why i adore Mike Judge. It's absolutely one of my favourite movies.
He's a national treasure.
I actually like Idiocracy more
These were movies?
Mike Judge deserves to have his name amongst the greats like Ray Bradbury, George Orwell, and Aldous Huxley. He's no less prophetic in his dystopian visions.
They are the two best movie that depict America as it is today and where it's headed to in the, as it now appears, not to distant future.
As an early 20s recent graduate nerd working in IT during 2002, my colleagues and I fell in love with this movie! The PC LOAD LETTER gag was especially delicious🤣
Why does it say 'paper jam' when there is no paper jam!?!?!?
I saw this movie, in the theater, when it first came out. Parts of it were filmed in Austin, Texas, where I lived, and I saw it in a full theater. Everyone in the theater enjoyed it. I never had any idea it wasn’t successful until years later when people started talking about how it failed and it had become a surprise cult hit.
One of my favorite details of the entire movie is the sculpture in front of Initech is round peg trying to go into a square hole...sums up corporate work quite succinctly...brilliant
EDIT: it's a square peg into a round hole, with the round peg sitting right there beside it, ha!
I'd never noticed that!
I have seen Office Space at least a dozen times and never noticed that.Well,good excuse to watch it again thia weekend🤗Awesome!
I use that term "round peg in a square hole" often to haze my coworkers when their struggling with something.
It's also in the IQ test in Idiocracy..
Are you saying a circle can’t take a square? Well I’ve got news for you, buddy.
My experience is that it is not the job that makes people miserable, it's the boss. When I was in the Navy, they would switch out division officers every year or so. A good Div O made for a happy division; a bad Div O meant misery for everyone. In civilian life, I found the same to be true. I worked at a museum and had the worst boss ever. Everyone was miserable. I was sent to another department - doing the exact same job. Best manager I ever had, best job I ever had.
It's the system that makes people miserable actually
@@evergarden8592who gets to over see how that system works?
@@evergarden8592 The bosses ARE the system.
@@Abmotsad pff no. Most bosses are victims of it as well, the ones on the very top are the only ones who gain from it. Managers are also worth more than they will ever be paid for, just like the rest of workers.
@@apothecurio To get to not implode over itself, the government. Companies will of course just support it
Ron Livingston nailed the facial expressions of anguish and despair when Lumbergh or any of the other bosses came around. Like Paul Lieberstein as Toby in the office, nailing the look of sheer misery every time Michael showed up.
I’ve worked in offices exactly like this. This movie nailed the vibe exactly.
So many great characters in this movie. Danny left out the “O Face” guy.
This movie changed my life. I was considering leaving the Silicon valley to live somewhere with a slower pace of life. This movie was the trigger that helped me to make the decision. I moved out and never looked back.
Interesting---what did you end up doing?
Silicon valley is a good base.
@@barometerbanner212Now he lives in a van down by the river.
@@beer1for2break3fast4omg 😂 I laughed at that commment wayyyy too much
@@beer1for2break3fast4 😂😂😂😂
That movie resonates with me so strongly even today, I think my most constant thought from my 20s into my 30s changed from "what job will make me happy?" To "Is there a job thatll ever make me happy?".I think ultimately a lot of people this movie resonates with desire freedom and dont know how to obtain it.
Thats why during the movie, the scene where he talks about the guidance counselor and the million bucks and not having an answer... thats been me, and I imagine a lot of you. The uncertainty of not having a specific calling. Ive always envied people that had a clear goal, and I dont think I ever will and it worries me. So I rewatch this movie pretty regularly to at least remind myself that the cult following this movie has and had are the same as me and I dont feel so unsure knowing im not alone.
as a young autistic kid, i always just answered in ways i thought other people would approve of. being raised super religious as well, having a wife and kids was a huge part of it as well, and i knew that you had to have at least a serious job making consistent money to keep at it. that being said, as an intelligent and precocious kid, i heard how much of a scam student loans were, but also how punishing the trades were, and how policing or the military was..... yeah. so i went to technical school for IT. and that's how i became aware of office space. seeing how the sausage was made, how the satire hit every beat like a metronome........ to be honest those were dark times, and i had to find help. it took me awhile, i became an atheist and had a vasectomy, but i pulled through, and realized that some people just can't take the punishment, and i'm one of those people.
then i had time on disability to listen to history and political audio-books, analyze and think deeply about philosophy, and think about how our systems came to be, how they were changed over the years, and the weird quirks people usually just shrug and say that's just how things are. and that's how i became an anarchist. davidgraeber.org/articles/are-you-an-anarchist-the-answer-maysurprise-you/
I did a job I found painful to do for almost a decade and the question became “can I get a job of almost similar pay that I don’t absolutely hate”
Robert,we could be Great Friends! I am just like you in that I have never known what I wanted to do Career Wise and basically just bounced from one job to the next as opportunities presented themselves! Like you, I never had a clearly defined goal or Career Path! The only exception was when I was very young I wanted to be an Airline Pilot! I had several Flying Magazine Subscriptions, I built dozens of model airplanes and Commercial Jets, and went to bed dreaming of one day sitting in a cockpit of a 747 for American Airlines! I get severe Migraine Headaches and got out of the Army Reserves because of them! I was told that I would never be able to pass an FAA Physical! Knowing that, I realized that I could never be employed as a Commercial or Private Pilot! I envy my brother because he always wanted to be a Teacher/Coach and he ended up doing exactly that and loves it! If I could go back in time to when I was very young, I would absolutely research various occupations and would spend a great deal of time determining my skills, strengths, and preferences in an attempt to narrow down a Career Path that I could be “Passionate About”! I can honestly say that I have NEVER BEEN PASSIONATE about any job I have ever had other than to do the very best job possible due to personal pride! I’m sad to look back at my life in this manner but, I can’t change the way I have felt over the years and the decisions I made as a result! It is what it is!
I had just left college when this came out and it truly encapsulated our lives. We related to it so hard. It was an instant cult classic.
Every goddamn second of this movie is pure perfection. Even if you removed the plot, the themes, and the story, the performances, the cinematography, and the direction alone make this movie simply great.
This is perfectly exemplified in the shot where the guys are walking across the grass to get from the restaurant back to their job. That one throwaway shot tells so much:
- The fact that their only escape from their job (the restaurant on their lunch break) is literally a stones throw away from their personal hell
- the way they’re walking, like they’re begrudgingly trudging back to a slow death
- The slight dip in the grass for seemingly no reason is the cherry on top.
I absolutely love this movie. It’s a stroke of subtle genius.
Damn rights! Just try and take my red Swingline stapler from my dead cold hands.
The way Milton stumbles on the way up the other side of the ditch always gets me...like that little hill made him so tired!
💯 I always took the dip to reflect the absurdity of that kind of culture. It’s like a TPS report, an inconvenience that exists, as you said, for no reason.
@@tuttlespeachtree3413 it’s not Milton who slips going up the hill but Tom.
@@xxxafterglow Exactly!
This is one of the trifecta of most quotable movies from three consecutive years: Big Lebowski (1998), Office Space (1999), and American Psycho (2000).
This comment really tied the movies together. I bet you dine at Dorsia.
Three good movies right there.
I have to return some video tapes...
Is this your homework @schulzbrianr ?
Substitute in Meet the Parents (2000) for me.
got to see this movie when i was a kid. had never heard so many swear words, but i'm lucky my dad let me watch it cuz I thought it was hilarious then and still love it now
I was 34 years old when this came out , Im glad my dad let me watch it too
@@Theire1PEENUS FLAVORED SPORTS DRINK. LOGAN PAUL COMES OUT WITH A PEENUS FLAVORED DRINK AND SELLS TO HOMOSEXUALS! MASSIVE VEINY KOK ON THE LABEL. ONLY INGREDIENTS ARE PEENUS SWEAT AND GROUND PUBES!
it's my favorite movie, but I think it just fell flat in the second half.
My fav of the movie was “O face”
"Fuckin' A."
"Yeah I'm doing the drywall up there at the new McDonald's" is the funniest line in the entire movie. Better than "two chicks at the same time." The way Lawrence delivers the "drywall" line, is chef's kiss level of perfect.
Heck yeah. if you know, you know. lol
Whenever I drive through Las Gallinas I want to stop at the McDonald's just to tell them how great the drywall is.
It's true!😂
"Watch yer' cornhole Bud." Sincere and hilarious.
And remember, "Chicks dig dudes with money. "
Just saw this movie for the first time a couple months ago. It's amazing how the movie acts like a time capsule of that time period.
Not a time capsule, it's still relevant today
@@stellviahohenheima relevant time capsule
Time capsule? hahahahaha
A time capsule would imply that something changed ever since and the capsule gives you a throwback... Only the technology advanced, nothing else has changed...
@@stellviahohenheimLoved this film, saw it a like 2 years ago(as it was before my time)and I agree with you. But instead of tgifridays it starbucks/coffee Shops and instead of Innotech it's Google, Apple, tech company A, B or C.
This and Idiocracy are classics. Thankyou Mike Judge and company.
I remember around 2005, I was around 10. I was browsing my cable's VOD section and saw that movie, in French it is called "35 hours is already too much". Thought it looked funny and watched it, to this day it's still one of my favorite movie. Rewatched it multiple times after I learned English.
Thanks mr. Judge!
As a blue collar construction worker, that does a lot of work in government office buildings in Australia, i can confirm that this movie was and still is a window into the lives of many office workers. It is quite scary how plausible it is, that you could look at this movie and see it as being the playbook, of which nearly every government employee used Peter's answers in his meetings with the Bobs to model their entire career.
Happy New year everyone!! And hope none of you end up with a case of the Mondays
You can get killed saying that.
I remember seeing this in the theater with my brother and pops back in 1999. About 20 minutes in the power went out so the theater gave everyone vouchers for a free movie. Can’t remember if we finished it in the theater or if we rented it months later, I just remember it became an instant favorite of ours. We spread it among everyone we knew, like herpes. I honestly remember inviting friends over in middle school just to watch Office Space. I hadn’t worked a day of my life as a sixth grader yet the oppressive office atmosphere reminded me of school so I could still relate; that disgusting cubicle wall material, carpet that feels like concrete, and the off-white plastics of early 90’s computers/monitors. This movie saved me from a corporate life as I already hated it before I stepped foot in a business park.
lol dude. you are like, maybe, one year younger than me😅. 37? 36? haha i know i am close!
Like herpes. That's the comparison you went with. I mean I'll def remember this comment now
Great story… especially loved “off white plastics….”
@@user-cv8qe9ru8c Yeah I thought that was strange. I guess you relate to what you know or experience.
What did you end up doing?
The greatest thing about Office Space is that you don't even have to have had an office job to appreciate it. If you've been employed (like, at all) you can appreciate it. I worked at Guitar Center in college, and one day somebody brought in the DVD and put it in the player in the break room. That thing played on repeat for WEEKS. It was downright therapeutic on a lunch break at a garbage job.
I've watch Office Space every year with my wife on our anniversary. We watched it on our first date 10 years ago, made it a tradition to watch it every year.
shoutout to Stephen Root, going from Milton in Office Space to the only billionaire worth a damn, Jimmy James in Newsradio.
Stephen Root is absolutely masterful. He can play Milton and really make him shine, then when he plays the bad guy (Get Out) he can really make your skin crawl.
But he's also incredible at everything else in between. Real talent.
"L for LOVE!!"
His role in Barry shows his range.
Great in barry as well. I never knew that actors name but I always wanted to know. Thanks.
and also in the cartoon king of the hill too!
and also in o brother where art thou as the blind radio station owner!
this is my all-time favorite movie. mike judge, the other writers, the cast, created a masterpiece that still stands up today.
My son saw this as he was a high school intern at a tech company in the 90's. He ditched the cube world and became an econ professor. Never looked back and loves research.
"Office Space" is brilliant parody of the west coast cube farm tech companies of the late 80s and 90s. I understand Judge worked in one briefly, which is no surprise given he nailed every aspect. The TPS report bureaucracy and the stilted office birthday party--LOL, been there, done that, and that's exactly what they're like.
any government office job is like this. I interned for a state agency, and it was just like this minus the need for overtime
I have been working in IT for the better part of 20 years and when this came out it became one of thee most quoted movies at work among me and my colleagues. Today, with the younger crop of employees that were toddlers when this came out, they have NO idea what we are talking about when we reference "cover sheets on TPS reports" and why we call each other "Hello Peter" and who "Lumberg" is. Love this movie... 🤣
yeah i used to recite the entire movie to myself at work when i was bored. Had the whole thing memorized just from watching it so much.
"Lumberg f'ked her..."
I once had to write a paper on VMware's 'Transparent Page Sharing' technology. I did not include a cover sheet.
"it would be nice to have such job security" and
"I've got people skills ! " Are my favs. Mike Judge is a wonderful craftsman.
This movie was and is a favorite of every person I have known since it came out.
EVERYBODY can hear a line and repeat the next line or 6.
It has been a source of so much laughter in my life, there really isn't a way to quantify it.
Lawrence's lines are a particular favorite of mine, and I use them often.
Thanks to everyone involved with this movie- it is absolutely a classic.
I can assure you that this remains a 100% accurate reflection of office work and real personalities you do encounter.
Also, the little details of annoyance - electric shock on door knob, printer not working, computer not shutting down are so spot on.
gotta grab that doorknob like a boss
That static shock to show that not only is he being mentally punished by going into work, he's being physically punished as well lol
I am in my 40s and a huge movie fan. I fell in love with Office Space from the first time I saw it a year or so after it came out. It has since gone on to become my favorite film of all time. Office Space is such a unique film that encapsulates a period in time perfectly, but also portrays a theme that is still relatable today. Most people don't like their jobs. It's a simple as that.
same.. agreed lol
When this video was over, I was surprised it had actually lasted 10 minutes like it said it would. You really make captivating videos, that don't feel too long or boring. I like that. Keep it up Danny!
I’ve been in the petroleum industry since I was in my early 20s. Worked my way up the corporate ladder to managing an entire plant. I was miserable, and after Covid, I was literally losing my mind. I still work for the same company, but climbed back down the ladder and just drive a truck, and life is good.
This movie inspired me to make that change. I watched it when I was young and then rewatched it about a year ago and could relate to the entire plot.
The thing that makes me laugh is I make more money doing the job I looked down on than doing the job that my coworkers idolize.
Truly one of the greatest comedies ever made. If you've ever worked in an office setting, it is immediately relatable. And if you haven't, as you stated, it's still insanely relatable. And I can tell you from experience that being a young man when this came out who was nervous around girls, the scene where he nonchalantly goes up to Aniston and essentially says "whatever happens is good. I'm going to be over there if you want" was a revelation, a breath of fresh air. I'm almost certain that I was never ever that smooth, but it at least gave me a framework to work with.
That scene where they're all walking down and up the parking lot drainage ravine (3:22) is something we've ALL had to do to go eat lunch.
"What should we do with the employee morale fund?"
"A sidewalk to the food court would be nice."
"How's 2 cold slices of Little Caesars one Friday per year?
It was a classic, and a culturally significant film. I worked for IBM at the time, and I had a boss like that. Same hair, and suits, and ties etc.
Did he drive a car with a "MYPRSH" license plate? 😂
This movie was a hidden gem, I'm glad I found it in a Wal-Mart DVD bin. I have found many hidden gems that way.
this came out when I was 13. I first saw it in high school, and it was the inspiration for both my love of doing nothing, and also of rebellion, so now I'm a millennial vegetable farmer. thanks, Mike
Honestly, that's not a bad thing. In North America there's a lot of older farmers who their kids don't want to take over the farm, and I'm genuinely kinda concerned where our food will come from in say 50 years. So good on you!
That’s honest work…/ another reason why it’s a great movie.
If you are a farmer of any stripe, then you are working much harder than any cube hamster, but likely you are much happier. And at the end of the day you have something more than paper and pixels to show for it.
@@marieroberts5664 apologies for my slow response, but, yes, it's a lot of work, often hard work, and work requiring knowledge of tons of fields beyond just "growing food."
but it's honest af, and it fits.
really fuckin interferes with my love of doing nothing, I'll tell you that much. but this time of year? I'm getting a lot more nothing done 🤙
I saw this in theatres for a special premier on a Thursday afternoon I believe. "Skip work, free admission". Got a free t-shirt as well. Love it.
I have the Swingline red stapler. My son bought it for me. Best birthday gift ever. Love it.
I was lucky enough to catch this in theatres when it came out. I was a big fan of Beavis and Butthead as a kid, so I gave the movie a chance and it paid off! I remember telling all my friends about it, but nobody knew what I was talking about until a year or so later when it exploded on DVD.
Yep. Also, Livingston as Lewis Nixon III in that other thing he did was amazing. He needs to be in more things.
He slayed in band of brothers. Just crushed that role
I took a look at his bio. His first film/show was in 1992 and he's been in something every year since then, except 1993. In 1999 (the year Office Space was released), he was in 5 movies. In 2013, he was in six movies and a TV show. Talk about hard working!
Just a phenomenal movie. Endlessly rewatchable.
The guy with the walker in traffic was absolute GOLD!😂😂😂
I saw this in theaters...AMC Quail Spings in OKC. I was 24 and this movie was super relatable to a recent college Graduate working in an office cubicle dead end job the year before Y2K. People forget that Peter's entire job was to fix data for the impending doom of the new century. I went with about six or seven friends in the same boat. Great memories and a great movie!
I remember watching this with a buddy in my teens on DVD shortly after it came out. We both found it hilarious & wondered how we'd missed out on it in theatres. Maybe it wasn't well marketed. Jennifer Aniston was probably the biggest name on the cast at the time too.
This is true. I rented the film in college and none of my roommates wanted to see it. I watched it alone, then raved about it to them. They still didn't care to see it because the commercials for it made it look dumb.
I STILL quote Milton everytime I hate my job!
This movie is a time capsule of an era I loved. I worked as an CSR in 1999-2001. This was my corporation. The 90s was a great time with simple problems.
I worked at the Cabela's in tualatin Oregon years ago and it was off and like this office. I also had at least five managers that would come by my section because I was in camping and I was right next to the employee area and bathrooms so I had every manager coming through my area directly commenting. Whenever I did something wrong I feel these people's pain
This movie is actually a lot like Siddhartha by Herman Hesse on some level. Where Lawrence is kind of like the ferryman and peter is like siddhartha.
Office space is like a light hearted take on fight club. The look of shock on the friends face when he told his friend someone said “case of the Mondays” is something I can totally relate to having to navigate through this PC world.
3:20, little shots like this are so great, the group is returning from a coffee break at a restaurant and instead of having a nice path to make it easier for them to go to the neighboring restaurant, or even their cars, they need to walk through this valley in their nice work shoes.
The corporate world does a lot of tricks like this to make leaving work or taking a break difficult, and this is a nice visual representation of that.
My old company used to crank up the AC so high it made us shiver (some women even wore blankets at their desks) the reason? So we wouldn’t get sleepy throughout the day or sound tired on our calls.
One of those movies that just stuck with me throughout the years. I think about it a few times a year, probably even more often than the Roman Empire.
Nice one Danny, great video, as always.
Thank you for all your great content throughout ’23, looking forward to spending ‘24 in your good company.
(Steven Root stole every scene he was in and is easily one of my favourite character actors to this day).
Thank you! Looking forward as well. I’ve got a an awful lot planned for the new year.
And yeah, he’s quite the singular actor, in everything he chooses to do.
Happy new year!
I’m just here to THANK you for bringing these gems of films to us. I definitely wouldn’t have found this film if not for you. Thanks Danny for the amazing work !!
"And here's something else, Bob: I have eight different bosses" so relatable
The late 90s had an anti-corporate attitude that resonated throughout cinema. You had the Matrix, Fight Club, Office Space, and American Psycho all within 2 years of each other. I think that we're gonna see a resurgence of this type of movie with a focus on work from home/hybrid work. Maybe that's just me haha
This taught many lessons, one which has been invaluable to me: it doesn’t matter how hard you work, just that your boss’s boss likes you.
I'd be lying if I said this movie didnt motivate me to quit my job. And I've actually lasted for more than a year thus far with no work. I havent found something better but working on it.
good luck out there brother
Very curious what horrible job you had that had you set to last over a year without a paycheck and since you quit there would be no unemployment. There are so many possibilities
@@buttscarlton1490 i worked for a bank, it was so fucking horrible and truly a psychotic company. the tools, systems i needed to do my job never worked and no one knew how to fix it... i am not exaggerating the plce was run by absolute morons who als didnt give a shit about anyone. funny because like the guy in the film, I thought I would last maybe 1-3 months, live on savings, credit, then maybe wait to get evicted. but luckily I got on welfare which helps, but it is not even enough for rent so I had to sell a lot of my stuff. anyways, after a year, my cunt of a landlord decided to increase rent by %30 so I decided to fly abroad to live of hostels, airbnbs. will see how long I last this time.
thank you brother @@the_duke_of_gravity
@@buttscarlton1490 literally any job
It wasn't until I worked in an office that I realized Office Space isn't a comedy movie. It's a horror movie.
Office work is still like this too. They encapsulated it perfectly.
"Hawaiian shirt day" as a reward.
Having useless/redundant management (8 bosses)
Utterly useless people like Tom who work in the same place for decades and do absolutely nothing.
Consultants who fire the wrong people just because they don't like them.
The soul crushing way management tries to motivate "is this good for the company?"
It's all spot on. And nothing has changed.
Yet another great film from 1999. The peak of our civilization.
Came here to say this!
1999 was the peak of civilization, never really thought about it but it may very well be true
That's why the Matrix simulated 1999
@@MrDogfish83 exactly!
Agreed. Civilisation absolutely peaked. We all died in the Y2K bug and nothing else was ever made... the end.
I absolutely adore this channel.
I never worked a corporate or office job because of this movie. Im over 40 now & living a comfy life, traveling the world & working when i want. Inspiration comes from the strangest places
I swear.... "Happy " is the new "Case of the Monday's"
Makes my teeth itch to the point that I am ready to ban it from my Zoom calls if I am the host by dropping the idjit that says it.
That's how much this movie resonates to this day.
'The Castle (1997)' is an Australian Comedy/Drama that is so quotable it's effectively tattooed into Australian culture...
The serenity and vibe of it. It's a much watch if you actually want to understand 90s Australia.
Was that the one where their house was located near an airport and they took a road trip to Bonny Doone?
Singing “We’re going to Bonny Doone, we’re going to Bonny Doone’.
Another movie I liked was “Muriel’s Wedding”.
From looking at the poster, it looked like a chick flick, but it was so much more.
@@JesusChrist-xb7jqbonnie doon I think
The Mike Judge movie was popular for what was unsaid in the movie and what was unsaid in this review.
The boomer generation didn't care if they did uninspiring work, because almost any job would impress a girl and give you enough money to have a car, a house, a family, and a savings account. Almost any job you did consistently in the 50's through 70's was enough to give you an appropriate salary to live in a safe neighborhood with a real community of like minded people (religious and otherwise). I have a boomer stepfather that constantly whinges on about how he just doesn't understand why his children don't want to work. When he was getting out of high school he was desperate to go to work and everyone he knew wanted to start working as soon as possible. I asked him why and he said that work equaled independence and freedom.
The boomers communicated this to their children because it was true for them. However, this did not pan out for some in gen x, it didn't pan out for most of the xennials, and it really fucked over almost all of the millennials. People have been doing uninspiring jobs for a millennium, and it didn't really bother them because they weren't blocked from the truest form of happiness and satisfaction: procreating and having a family and a community.
For the first time in history you could slave your ass away doing mindless, boring, tedious work, and all it got you was a shitty apartment, no savings, no family and barely enough money to drown your sorrow in junk food, porn and frivolous distractions (like video games, pot, alcohol, and stupid comedy central rerun movies). Additionally, for the first time in history the previous generation not only lied to their progeny about what to expect, but refused to hand down property, wealth, and assets as they passed into retirement and the grave.
This is an incredible betrayal. My generation is still in the middle of it. The movie doesn't address this and neither does the reviewer. I think that the only reason we laugh is because we don't want to cry.
Absolutely right. Because crying would be sad.
Yip exclusively
Wow I've never heard it put so well
You should really add some paragraphs to your post.
Wow. Excellent comment.
Probably the funniest moment of the movie for me is when Milton is pouring his heart out and Peter, busy being mischievous, just goes "Okay well that sounds great!" I use this overtime somebody is bothering me or I'm just bored with the non stop blabbering
"Milten, well you see, he's kind of--he's kind of one of those characters that you don't really *want* to know what he does when he gets home, he;s just funnier when he hangs around."
I love this line so much, Milten was one of my favorite characters from the movie along with NextDoor Hippie Guy, which when i saw i imeadiatly knew what this video was gonna be about, good on you for putting that in the thumbnail. Those who know will know.
The marketers were DUMB to not put Jennifer Aniston on the poster, when she was already making a name for herself on Friends.
They should have done one of those posters with ALL the characters like those old comedies
Great video as always Danny, love your analysis of film and character writing. So awesome to see your channel grow and succeed. Wishing you all the best into the new year.
Thank you! Wishing you the absolute best as well :)
When I worked at Walmart I had a manager that always found a project for me to start about 10 minutes before my shift was over. I used to make sure I had my department cleaned up and ready for the next shift then I would walk around to make sure he wouldn't find me. I would take the long way around to the time clock and clock out. He usually was waiting by the main aisle to stop me. He'd always tell me he wasn't ready for me to leave yet. I finally got to the point where I just ignored him when I left in the evenings.
Mike Judge!!! Thank you for all the great memories. This movie, King of the Hill, Idiocracy
Beevis & Butthead
Every once in a while you stumble over those small comedies that hardly anyone has seen in Cinema but that are pure gold. You can just feel how everybody involved in the movie seemed to have a splendid time. My personal favorites are the gangsta culture references and, of course, the dream sequences. No funniness based on market research, just a genuinely funny movie.
I worked in a theater when Office Space was released. I watched it several times during its run.
It was (and still is) one of my favorite movies ever.
Freaking hysterical & so relatable!
Great video! Absolutely love this movie! It's so quotable and relatable. The characters and cast are fantastic. Most people are not doing what they really want to be doing and it was great to see someone just say "screw it, I'm not doing it anymore".
This movie was practically required viewing when I was in business school.