Cube dwellers of the world unite! Take up your cordless drills and tear down the cubicle walls that ensnare you! Cast off your neck ties and suits! Rebel against your oppressors and come late to work!
If only the movie Office Space had even half the exuberance of that paragraph, it probably would have been a better film. Yeah, um, I think I’m gonna have to say that the movie was kind of dull. Okay? There were some brief moments of humor. I think I only laughed twice. Once when he gutted the fish at his desk and again…okay, maybe I did only laugh once. It wasn’t a total loss though. I love the scene where they destroy the copy machine. It was shot and edited like a scene from a mobster movie, the ones in which the big goons beat to death some poor fool that has really f*** up big time. There are slow motion shots, low-angle shots, shots of the copier busted up into pieces…all of that goes on while that awesome - and quite profane - rap song plays. It reminded me of the scene in Goodfellas where Joe Pesci’s character is beaten to death. Not a bad piece of film making by the Office Space director. What was he doing the rest of the time he was on set? Did he have a bad case of the Mondays the whole time?
As a former legal secretary, this movie was particularly funny to me because so much of it rang true. I could relate to almost everything that happened in the office. Right down to the stapler. If you didn't think it was funny then perhaps that means you've been lucky enough never to wake up in the morning DREADING going into work. Yet another day doing the EXACT SAME THING! Ack. This movie sums up too many working experiences I've had in the past!
Posted by: Jill at March 14, 2006 12:53 PM