Would you have taken the money at the end like Milton?! Comedy Playlist: ru-vid.com/group/PLQHhQlj8i5dom33r48W9VdQjINncfXrLh 90's Movies Playlist: ru-vid.com/group/PLQHhQlj8i5dr8dJVR7bb5cRjIvAT-MeIM
Hello Jen. Whaaaaaat's happening? We're gonnna need you to go ahead and post reactions through the weekend... Oh, and we'll also need you to post a reaction on Christmas. If you could go ahead and do that, that would be greeeeaaaat. Thanks a bunch, Jen.
Fun fact: The restaurant was not TGIF's but it was based on them. As a result of this movie, they stopped requiring their servers to wear blings. Also, Swingline did not make red staplers. The props department painted it them selves, then Swingline got so many requests for red staplers they started offering them in that color.
@@Jeff_Lichtman lol. Nope. It was at a Social Service office where my cubicle was at a corner where there were a lot of people traffic passing through.
It’s crazy that this movie was a flop at the theatres and now it’s become a cult classic. It’s also very relatable because I have worked in an office before and that’s what it was like.
It was deliberately and intentionally quietly distributed by a major studio in order to avoid antagonizing (lawsuits, etc.) the corporate entities that were parodied. That’s Showbiz………self sabotage at it’s finest.
@@diarrheagondolano amount of marketing was going to save this at the box office. Way too many hits came out that year. It’s like every time someone says “mArKetiNg rUiNeD LaSt aCtiOn hErO” completely ignoring that it was released along with a dinosaur movie that cleaned up at the box office for a year. Sometimes good movies just have the bad luck of being made and released at the same time as monster hits.
I work in IT and it is universally accepted that EVERYONE hates printers. Hardware, software, drivers...printers are the worst. Also, just get older. The grunting and groaning occurs organically.
The thing about printers is that the printer itself - at the very least, in a home use sense - is a loss leader that drives ink sales. The cartridges contain a dismally small quantity of ink, and the method by which the printer does 'head cleaning' is designed to be wasteful. And - here's the real fun - HP is currently the defendent in a class-action lawsuit because they designed their "all in one" printer/scanner/fax/copiers so that those functions that would not require the use of ink - like scanning documents or sending faxes - are disabled when ink levels are low.
Possibly the worst enemy, many years ago, was the fax machine. Those evil devices were only created to infuriate and tempt otherwise normal people to destroy them. A mechanical test of willpower.
@@mblackwl Me as well, especially the episode where he imagined his life going down the tube, sitting on the window sill and he just falls out then he wakes up from a daydream, LOLOLOL
The guy that played Jennifer Aniston’s boss, the one that kept talking about her flair, is Mike Judge, who came up with Beavis & Butthead, this movie, ‘Idiocracy’, and ‘King of the Hill’. The character of Milton was in shorts back when Beavis & Butthead were super popular, and was a big inspiration for the film’s storyline. Also, I was working in an office when this movie came out in theaters, and while it’s an exaggeration of the office experience, it hit much closer to home than I expected.
This movie has a personal connection for me. In January 1999 I saw this in the theater on a Saturday night with my wife. I had been in my first official office/cubicle job six months as an engineer. The Monday morning after seeing this movie I was downsized. I walked out of the back of the building, through the snow covered parking lot, with all my things in a box. The corporate helicopter took off next to the lot and flew right over me. It proceeded to kick up all the sand put down on the freshly packed snow so that I was pelted from every angle. At that moment I remembered Initech burning down on that screen and dreamed of having a stinger surface to air missile. Great memories.
PC Load Letter: It's the copier asking you to load letter-size paper into the paper cassette. The poor machine was asking for help and they murdered it.
Poor Milton, he tolerated constantly being shifted about, but his last straw was having his beloved swingline stapler stolen. You can't blame him for snapping. 💔
The great Stephen Root (Milton) had to wear thick contact lenses to counteract the visual corrections of the huge (farsightedness) glasses he wore. He pretty much had a hard time with depth perception for all the filming of the movie.
This movie is hilarious for workers but I think more bosses should watch it. Employers should really understand that if you don’t appreciate your workers, they will work just hard enough to not get fired. Rockin it Jen. You can relate so well.
I worked as a welder, and I've known so many guys like the construction worker. Also, I agree. Saying "It looks like someone has a case of the Mondays." would get your ass kicked.
I once said to a guy I was working construction with that it looked like he had a case of the Tuesdays. He kicked my ass so evidently this applies to multiple days of the week.
This movie came out the year I started my own career in software development. Although I didn't ( and still don't ) work on business software, there's still so much about how white collar business operates, how middle management works ( even though I'm middle management myself these days ) and the general stupidity of the day-to-day of corporate/office operations that rings true in this movie. I think everybody who works in an office environment can find something relate to. And I think that's the genius of this movie. It basically tells every depressed, disenfranchised, overworked and under appreciated office-drone "I see you." And every one of those poor souls who watches the move feels as if they are seen.
Because of demand for red Swingline staplers after this film, Swingline started producing them which they didn't before. I ordered one on Ebay in the early 2000's for my desk at work.
For those of us who have ever worked in a cube farm, this movie is so incredibly relatable. I worked in an office job for a while with a really fun boss, who also loved this movie. I had bought a red Swingline stapler that I had at my desk (Swingline didn't make one, but the movie guys needed something that would stand out, so they painted one red. After the movie came out, people started calling Swingline and asking where to get the red stapler because it wasn't listed. For a bit they told people no, they don't make a red one. Then someone said maybe we should. So they did, and it's their best seller.) and every so often he'd wander by and pick it up, to which my response was always (in my best Milton mumble) "I believe you have my stapler". Not the most exciting or witty of interactions, but when you're in a cube farm anything even remotely humorous like that is a much needed relief. The guy who played Milton is really good. He was also in Dodgeball, as the obscure sports fan, which I highly recommend if you haven't seen it.
Before emigrating from the US, my wife worked in offices like the one ine the movie. She loved this movie, and got herself a red Swingline stapler which bears the quote "If they take my stapler, I'll set the building on fire".
I had a friend who had a VCR that would not eject this movie. Hit the button and it would not do anything. This movie was in his VCR for a year. He bought another VCR and set the broken one next to his movie collection. Just called it a big tape case. When he wanted to watch the movie he hooked up the VCR.
When this came out people had ALMOST stopped giving me shit about my name. Eventually I embraced it as an icebreaker, but it was hard. This was the first movie I ever purchased on DVD. It was necessary. When this came out I was a few months into my first IT job and so many things about the office struck home. Too many bosses, possessed printers, shocks from every metal surface.
Back around the time this movie came out, I was working in an office with a group of people and we actually would occasionally watch stuff together in the conference room at lunch. One of the things we’d watch was this movie- it became a staple of ours and it never got old. That same year, our company merged with another, and a consulting group was brought in to determine what would happen to us. Literally everything that happened here happened to us - from having to justify our jobs, to new bosses to getting canned, etc. We couldn’t help but laugh at the parallels lol. Keep up the good work - you rock 😊
THe number one reason I love this movie: Lawrence I know that guy. I've drank with that guy, I've gotten stoned with that guy, I've hunted and fished with that guy . . . Hell, I probably helped him hang the drywall up at the new McDonalds
fun fact: in the online spaceships game Eve Online there was a player named Michael Bolton III. He was a commentator during one of the game's big tournaments, and during that tournament one of the servers crashed and died during a match... so the game company and MB3 recreated the printer scene. I really wish they had left the clip on their youtube channel, it was hilarious to watch. he even physically punched the server with his bare fists, just like Mike.
This movie is just so much better to anyone who has ever worked in an office. lots of stuff is lost on others even if they find it funny, but this is just how offices work and it was brilliant
Mike Judge, the creator, was also in this movie. He played Joanna's boss. Lumberg's "That'd be great" is one of my favorite classic memes, that used to be all over the internet.
When I was on a military deployment, this was our favorite movie. My captain even had a red Swingline stapler. This sort of thing in the movie happens in every big structure of an operation, military or civilian.
Joanna's boss is played by Mike Judge, who among other things, voiced Hank Hill in "King of the Hill." I always liked how he doesn't sound exactly like Hank, but you get little hints of Hank when you listen to him.
In a former life as a junior at a media company, we were required - in the days of physical tape media - to make regular use of tape decks. One of those decks, in that particular office, was the most temperamental, devious PoS's that ever rolled off a production line. The spool controls were permanently 3-4 frames off, half the buttons worked 45% of the time, and it had a habit of chewing up DigiBetas at the worst possible moment. It was Satan's own tape deck. When the day came that we transitioned to fully digital workflows, and all the other decks were respectfully mothballed, that particular tape deck was rolled out to the car park and laid waste to in a pure, cathartic homage to the printer scene in this masterpiece. It felt great.
The restaurant manager, Stan, is played by Mike Judge (the writer/director of this movie). He is also the creator and voices behind Beavis And Butthead, and King Of The Hill.
Back in the 90s all they had was black staplers. When people watched this movie and seen the red stapler, everyone wanted a red stapler. No one had red staplers at that time. After this movie years later they came out with different color staplers. I was lucky to see this in the theaters. In 2006 I got to meet Jennifer Aniston. She was a really nice person
omg, i had an existential crisis at the early age of 12 when i was asked, ‘what would you do with millions dollars?’ now i’m 40, and i would want rescue and comfortably house all the senior animals that were not adopted… if i had millions of dollars.
I spent 10 years working IT for one of the biggest online travel company and when this movie was release. It hit the corporate world straight in the nose whilst we laugh/cried at this movie. It struck a very strong nerve with everyone that has ever worked an office job!! I love this movie!
The satire in this movie is SO spot on. Mike Judge at his best imo. There's also so many little moments in this that I think are so small but hilarious like the tongue wag you noticed at 19:11. I also love that the answering machine shakes when she says she's cheating on him. Cuz obviously its not going to actually do that so you know that specifically rigged that to shake just to emphasize the nastiness of his ex and it makes me laugh every time. And maybe my favorite is 13:49 when Milton is watching Lumburgh talk and you get that close up of his lips voicing "stapler". Cracks me up every time.
A few items of interest here, Mike Judge who wrote and directed this is also the manager that tells Jennifer she needs to wear more flair, Mike is also the creator of Beavis and Butthead as well as King of the Hill. Mike is from Texas and this Movie was filmed in Austin Texas. T.G.I.Fridays, a restaurant chain in the U.S. consulted their employees about their feeling on "flair" after this movie came out and no longer required them to wear it. Peter (Ron Livingston) also played Lt Nix in The Band of Brothers.
Notice the complex he lives in, "Morningwood Apartments." That's Mike Judge humor through and through. BTW, everyone needs to see his show "Silicon Valley" through at least once. It's one of the funniest TV shows of all time and yet nobody talks about it.
Yours seems to be the only comment here that mentions Silicon Valley. Criminally underrated. I know Jen doesn't watch too many TV shows on the channel (maybe only Firefly?), but I think she would love that show.
@@RobbHollen I get the feeling it's being systematically silenced, for whatever reason. It's a six-season HBO show with a ton of critical acclaim and cameos, but somehow never shows up anywhere.
I love this movie. I don't have an office job, I work in a bottling plant and I have management that takes two hours to do 20 minutes worth of paperwork because they barely read at high school level. Oh and they can barely do basic math which can lead to days of having an extra 10,000 gallons to bottle or come up short 15,000 gallons. Oh and I have a sanitation supervisor that got fired from his last job. Knows nothing about this job but tries to tell me how to do my job that I've been doing for 18 years.
Just so everyone knows, Jennifer Annistons boss at the restraunt who yelled at her for not wearing enough flair is actually Mike Judge himself the voice of "Dale Gribble" in "King of the hill" and the creator of this movie.
I have probably watched this 20 times, and I laugh every time. His interviews with the two 'Bob' consultants is my favorite part. Second place is when they assassinate the Fax machine. Oh, I have copies of blank TPS reports (easy to find online) at the top of my in-boxes in my office. That has raised a few eyebrows.
They don't know it, but they based this movie on me. That montage scene is filled with things I literally did when I stopped caring at my corporate job (except for the cleaning fish part). When I saw this movie, I loved it, but I was also freaked out by how similar that scene was to my shenanigans.
I worked in the building used for the exterior shots of Initech and then later worked next door to the restaurant used for the interior shots of Chotchkie's.
Missed this when it first came out, but then worked in an office where a co-worker insisted I watch it, but I suspect that's how a lot of people came across it.
Jennifer Anistons boss is played by Mike Judge. Swingline didn’t make a red stapler when the movie came out but after it came out there was a huge demand for one so they started making it.
14:09 the iconic red stapler - a prop made for the movie, not a product you could buy - became such a symbol that Swingline actually started making them! (They apparently got so many requests for it that they decided “why not?”.)
😂 Love this movie. I still quote this a lot with my friends. Whenever we can't pronounce something it's "Ny.. Nyeen - not gonna work here any more" and, of course, "That'd be greaaat"
This and Waiting are two films that really depict how working is in these companies is, but I kinda miss those jobs. Rose-tinted glasses may be involved.
I love this movie. It's not going to ever make the #1 spot on any list, but it is definitely one of my faves, having worked in IT since 1992. One totally unbelievable aspect of it though is that there is no way that a tech worker working on Y2K would have been fired in 1999. Businesses all waited until late 2000 for that.
I saw this movie as a kid (1999, I would have been 13), and I thought it was boring as hell. I watched it again after I got a job, and this movie is peak comedy. It was the same for "Waiting..."
There was a time when a Swingline stapler was one of my prized desk accessories. One only has to use some crumby brand of stapler a few times to unironically covet a quality item like a Swingline.
Mike Judge has a real knack for tapping into "the everyman" experience in a way that is totally silly but still relatable. As a kid I found King of the Hill boring but once I reached my 20s it was one of the funniest shows I had ever seen
32:45 - everybody always misses that Lumbergh's door was unlocked. Peter could have just opened it and get the envelope back if he hadn't assumed the door was locked...
This movie (and Apollo 13) kinda mean a lot to me…. Office Space wasn’t so well known when it first came out, but I watched it over and over and showed it to all my office coworkers. Everybody loved it. It really hit home. ‘No talent ass clown’ became a favorite insult. All through school growing up I got straight ‘A’s in all AP classes, with an eye towards becoming an astronaut, a childhood dream ever since my Grandma gave me the second volume of the ‘Peanuts SuperBook Of Questions And Answers’ on Space. I was all set to go into the Naval Academy, they had my spot reserved, when I decided I didn’t want to give up that much control of my life. Fast forward 7 years and I started working in an Office at Paramount Pictures, which I’ve talked about in other reaction comments. This movie is EXACTLY like my 13 years working in offices. Right down to the cheating gf. In the cubicles, we all always talked about what we would do if we had a million dollars. I always said I’d only need $500,000 to retire. Fast forward to 2016, I sold my house and moved to Oregon with $250,000 in my pocket. Bought two houses. Today I’m worth $500k, and don’t do anything I don’t want to. Don’t get me wrong, I probably work harder today than I ever did in an office, gardening and raising animals, but to people outside my life who don’t know me, it looks like I don’t do anything. And I love every minute of it. Loved your reaction. Enjoy watching your channel. Your reactions are the best. You’re just so smart and aware. 🙂
The manager from the Chotchkie's restaurant where Joanna (Jennifer Aniston) worked is the voice of Bevis and Butthead, Hanks from King of the Hill and also was the director of this movie, Mike Judge.
