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Comedy is job one (Office Space Thread)
Newsday ^ | 10/31/05 | Gene Seymour

Posted on 10/31/2005 11:04:16 AM PST by Millee

'Office Space" opened in theaters in February 1999 and pulled in roughly $4.2 million in its first weekend. By May of that year, its total theatrical gross had crawled to about $10.8 million. For perspective's sake, consider that two weekends ago, "The Fog" opened - opened, do you hear - with $14.2 million.

Of course, any movie tempts lackluster receipts when it opens in the dead of winter with no big-name stars except Jennifer Aniston - regarded back then as a small-screen fixture, with no Brad Pitt in her immediate vicinity.But I, at least, expected better initial results. When reviewing "Office Space" for this newspaper, I figured that there were so many people disgusted with their jobs (or, at least, who weren't too far removed from jobs they hated) that a big, quick, box-office score was inevitable.

I was wrong. But in the long term, I wasn't.

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To: rwfromkansas
I had no idea she was that hot.

Does this give you any ideas?

61 posted on 10/31/2005 11:43:57 AM PST by drjimmy
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To: drjimmy

GULP!!!


62 posted on 10/31/2005 11:45:40 AM PST by RockinRight (It’s likely for a Conservative to be a Republican, but not always the other way around)
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To: Millee

So the same amount of tickets has went up 14 million since 99 ?!?!?!?..........:o)


63 posted on 10/31/2005 11:45:51 AM PST by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet. ©)
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To: Maximus of Texas

Hee-hee-hee! If you waste your week looking for that, I can show you where you recinded your interest. So my full, round, soft ample bosom will remain safe! (Inserting more evil laughter..)


64 posted on 10/31/2005 11:46:52 AM PST by Millee (As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!!)
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To: YouPosting2Me; Cagey
O-face


65 posted on 10/31/2005 11:46:59 AM PST by MotleyGirl70
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To: Millee
Oh, and by the way, they are real and they're specatular.


66 posted on 10/31/2005 11:49:19 AM PST by Maximus of Texas (On my signal, pull my finger)
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To: Millee

When I get really aggravated at work, I think of this movie and I feel better.

Kind of like when Peter says "I don't think I'm going to go to work anymore." I just sit in my box and stare at my computer screen and everyone thinks I'm working really hard.


67 posted on 10/31/2005 11:51:48 AM PST by subterfuge (Obama, mo mama...er Osama-La bamba, uh, bama...banana rama...URP!---Ted Kennedy)
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To: dfwgator

Same difference. I didn't watch Friends.

It was still a miscasting, just for the fact that Schwimmer is typecast.


68 posted on 10/31/2005 11:53:29 AM PST by Terpfen (Libby should hire Phoenix Wright.)
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To: Millee; TheBigB; Constitution Day; Fierce Allegiance; Tijeras_Slim

I dunno -- I rented it after reading all the buzz about the movie here, thought it was only moderately funny.

< /fogeymode >


69 posted on 10/31/2005 11:56:34 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: PaulaB
TPS reports according to Wiki
70 posted on 10/31/2005 11:56:40 AM PST by Tribune7
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To: martin_fierro

Never seen it.


71 posted on 10/31/2005 11:57:54 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim (Now that taglines are cool, I refuse to have one.)
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To: Millee

There's a new DVD version coming out - more flair!


72 posted on 10/31/2005 11:58:04 AM PST by highball ("I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." -- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Tijeras_Slim; TheBigB; Constitution Day; Fierce Allegiance; Millee

Bottom line: ALL YOU WHO RAVED ABOUT IT OWE ME A REFUND

so neener


73 posted on 10/31/2005 11:59:28 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Millee

Lawrence, what would you do if you had a million dollars?


74 posted on 10/31/2005 12:02:55 PM PST by day10 (Wherever you come near the human race there's layers and layers of nonsense.)
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To: martin_fierro
ALL YOU WHO RAVED ABOUT IT OWE ME A REFUND

You probably think Napoleon Dynamite is dumb too... Loser. ;)

75 posted on 10/31/2005 12:04:06 PM PST by smith288 (Peace at all cost makes for tyranny free of charge...)
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To: martin_fierro; Tijeras_Slim; TheBigB; Constitution Day; Fierce Allegiance; Millee
Bottom line: ALL YOU WHO RAVED ABOUT IT OWE ME A REFUND

If you really are a fogey, your refund comes out of my check every month on that line labeled "Social Security Tax".

so neenerinfinity

;^)

76 posted on 10/31/2005 12:06:10 PM PST by Constitution Day
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To: smith288
Naw, I thought that was pretty darn good.

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77 posted on 10/31/2005 12:07:14 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: MotleyGirl70

ROFL


78 posted on 10/31/2005 12:09:28 PM PST by PaulaB (No comprende..... it’s a riddle)
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To: martin_fierro

Napoleon pimps Utah St Fair

http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2681271?htv=12


79 posted on 10/31/2005 12:19:49 PM PST by smith288 (Peace at all cost makes for tyranny free of charge...)
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To: martin_fierro
I dunno -- I rented it after reading all the buzz about the movie here, thought it was only moderately funny.

It's much funnier if you've ever worked in the cubicle farm of a large company - in that case it isn't even much of a satire, more of a tragic reality. Thank heaven I've left those days behind forever.

80 posted on 10/31/2005 12:49:45 PM PST by Mr. Jeeves (Speaking several languages is an asset; keeping your mouth shut in one is priceless.)
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