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Office Space (1999) [1080p] - Mike Judge's seminal office work comedy that holds up superbly well.

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I watched this for the first time the other day, and thought it was absolutely awesome.

While it's a comedy film, it surprisingly touched on a lot of areas seen in David Graeber's 'Bullshit Jobs' concept, 14 years earlier.

Well acted, supremely funny and well written, and a particular joy to anyone who's worked in an office, or had a family member who did. There's not really any low or slow point in the film, it's steadily excellent the whole way through.

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I watched it the first time last week with a friend. We both thought (not in a bad way), that we already knew everything through memes about the movie and it still was a nice watch.
What struck me was the psychologist scene, in which he asked to be switched off for office hours. And I was like: look he wants the severance procedure!!! Damn I miss this show already.

As weird as it sounds, this is the movie that made me want to work in an office when I saw it as a kid. Now, after having worked in several offices, I realize how spot-on it was.

While it's a comedy film, it surprisingly touched on a lot of areas seen in David Graeber's 'Bullshit Jobs' concept, 14 years earlier.
... Surprising?
Just ahead of the curve.
... Sorta like how people seemed to think Carlin was... joking.
Delivered in an entertaining, humorous way?
Yes.
Joking?
No.
- Surprising in the sense that I just wasn't expecting it, as I wasn't really familiar with it.
  
  Ah, my bad, I saw it decades ago, and you did say you just saw it, I was needlessly hostile.
  IIRC, ... I think the movie actually did inspire a number of people, in real life, to attempt to do the ... fractional penny slush fund.
  Yep, here's a more recent case:
  https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/30/us/office-space-inspired-washington-software-engineer-thief/index.html

My kid watched it when he was in high school. He enjoyed it, but I told him I don't think he really felt it. Then, as an adult, he got a soul killing office job. He ended up rewatching it a couple years ago. His response was something like,"Oh. Shit. Yeah. Fucking hell."

It's been at least months since I last watched it, maybe years. So I did it again, thank you!

What would you do with a million dollars?
- Scroll 2 Lemmy's at the same time.
  
  You don't need a million bucks to scroll 2 lemmys. Look at @ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net ... They post and scroll all day and they broke as shit.
  
  Fuckin' A.

My wife is Filipino and had never worked in an office environment. She still got it and had some solid laughs. That says something I think.

Thanks, I needed to rewatch that. Y'all do watch parties anywhere?
- Here's a list of watch parties on Mastodon and Bluesky:
  https://livetweety.wordpress.com/
  There's a b-movie watch party in just a couple hours (9pm EST), that's announced weekly on !bmoviebonanza@lemmy.world:
  https://lemmy.world/post/28694119
  I don't think we've done one here on !fullmoviesonyoutube@lemm.ee but I'd attend if we did!

You just watched it for the first time? Wow
- The movies 26 years old. I work with people in my office who weren't born in '99
- One of today's lucky 10,000

Wow this is amazing. I had a bad attitude about this when it came out and for a long time after because "I didn't work in an office." By 2015 I knew I made a mistake and now I will watch, probably tonight
- Its depiction of IT workers is timeless and fairly accurate. Fuck printers.