Comments on: Mike Judge’s Ongoing Workplace Comedy

By: Mike Jones

Mike Jones — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 20:35:15 +0000

I was teaching some college classes between 2005-2010 and one of the things we did to introduce ourselves to one another was name our favorite movie. For at least half, usually closer to three quarters it was Office Space hands down.

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 15:58:18 +0000

The movie ending was just fine. Everything worked out in the end, Peter’s friends went back to another office job because none of them were brave enough to make the career jump, and Peter found out exactly why Lawrence was so relaxed and laid back in life when he started doing construction work with him. I’m assuming he got his job through him, so its a positive outcome. Peter loses his malaise and eventually snaps out of the hypnosis, and he gets his girl back. Milton gets an unexpected reward after being abused almost daily for 5+ years by management. We all assume the rest of the world goes back to normal….Lumbergh and the crew probably move to different mind-numbing computer companies and continue on as before.

By: Jon Construction Worker

Jon Construction Worker — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 21:04:34 +0000

I am in the construction business right now, as well as a film major in college. The authors statement in the last paragraph about the guys new job after cleaning up the burnt down mess is rubbish. There is A LOT and I mean A TON of downtime in construction. About half of the day is spent standing around doing nothing as other departments ship their materials into the worksite. The author was also wrong about the end of the movie, atleast partially. The solution that i saw was to change careers out of the office world. I have worked in construction, restaraunt, and office work (all 3 represented in the film office space), so i can relate to everything the movie was about. All together office space was a GREAT MOVIE given the budget that it had- 10 million- which is peanuts intodays movies. Keep it coming mike judge.

By: george

george — Sun, 15 May 2011 18:41:12 +0000

i loved all 3 of these movies. they were all different to me, but they all had that same mike judge quality. they have these subtle moments or instances that i actually experience and relate to in real life. just simple character reactions to the moronic moments in everyday life. somedays i just think about how dumb brad sanchez was or lines like, “go away i’m ‘batin”, and i just crack up.

the overall story arcs could be stronger, but the real comedic genius shows through the character development and delivery.

none of these movies would stand a chance in the idiocracy world. the people that don’t get his movies are the ones that he makes fun of anyway. i guess people don’t like being made fun of. what such irony…