Office Space DVD
SUMMARY: Frigging funny! A must see for anyone who works a corporate office, or enjoys Dilbert.
I had seen this movie on TV several times, and finally decided to buy the DVD. They had a new edition out with ‘flair’ (reference to something in movie). I picked it up on sale at Target. Office Space was originally a short animated film by Mike Judge (creator of Beavis And Butthead, and King Of The Hill), and was made into this live action movie. Having only seen the movie on cable, I was surprised by many of the things that had been edited out. It made the movie all the funnier!
The story of the movie follows the happenings in an office setting. The main character Peter gets hypnotized, and no longer cares about work. He skips work, and stops doing much, and gets promoted. His friends get fired. They plant a program to steal fractions of cents, and it goes haywire. Jennifer Aniston plays Peter’s love interest.
The character Milton (excellently played by Stephen Root who played Jimmy James on Newsradio) was the main character in the original animated short film. He is the ultimate corporate victim, being moved from desk to desk repeatedly, until he moved to the basement. He was laid off, but nobody told him. Through a glitch in payroll, he still got paid. But after two years they discovered the glitch, fixed it, and still neglected to tell him he had been laid off. Milton’s most important possesion is his red Swingline stapler. In fact, Swingline had never made a red stapler like the one featured in the movie (the one in movie was created by prop people). But after this movie, many people contacted Swingline to get a red stapler. Swingline came out with one, and it apparently is their best selling stapler. Unknowingly, Milton saves Peter and friends in the end.
The special edition has a great featurette titled “Out Of The Office” which has lots of behind the scenes stuff. It was very entertaining as well.
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My wife was watching Charmed on TV last night (she enjoys the show, but I never really got into it) and I started thinking about the time I met Rose McGowan.
I think it was in 1998 or 1999, my wife and I flew to Seattle to visit our familys. We were waiting in line at the rental car place. I kept looking at the girl in line in front of us and thinking she looked remarkably like Rose McGowan. She wasn’t made up or dressed fancy. I kept looking at her, but tried not to be obviously staring. I whispered to my wife that I thought she looked like Rose McGowan the actress. The heavyset guy in front of the girl asked her something, and she replied to him. But me being half deaf didn’t hear. I was wondering if he had asked her if she was Rose McGowan. I whispered to my wife “what did he ask her?”, but the girl turned around and looked at us, and I told my wife nevermind. Finally as the girl was first in line to go to the counter, I got up the courage to ask “Has anyone ever told you that you look like Rose McGowan?” She looked at me and said “I never know how to answer that. I am.” I told her I enjoyed her movies. Then she went to the counter, and shortly afterward so did we. I actually had the DVD of her movie Phantoms in my suitcase, and I had almost brought my copy of her movie The Doom Generation (the director’s cut version with her great nude scenes) as well. I would have liked to have gotten a picture with her, or gotten her to sign my copy of Phantoms or something, but I was thinking that she might want at least some anonymity. She did seem nice.
Oh…I asked my wife later what the heavyset guy had asked her, and it turned out he had been trying to pick her, and probably didn’t have a clue that she was a movie star.
That’s my story of how I met Rose McGowan. Probably dumb, but I thought it was cool.