wombat tries to watch movies again

[Limmo]

You want to see a movie?  This looks like one to be reckoned with.

Grindhouse is supposed to be like a night at a 70's drive-in.  It's going to be two movies - a Tarantino slasher film and a Robert Rodriguez zombie film - with fake trailers interspersed.  One of the fake trailers is for Machete - "he knows the score, he gets the women and he kills the bad guys."  I don't give a shit about the zombie stuff, but God help me, I want to see a full-length Machete movie. 

[smick]

Machete needs no one, but Machete.

[AlohaDawg]

I'd like to get some of you on my Netflix Friends list to see what you have to say about movies.

[pmcd9]

I'd like to get some of you on my Netflix Friends list to see what you have to say about movies.

Yeah totally.  You need e-mail addresses to invite people to be your friend.

Me   pmcd9_2000 at yahoo dot com

[jough]

I'm dvd at jough dot com there.

Friend me!

[KeithHernandez]

I went to jough.com, because I had never been.  The last song you had listened to was Mother by Danzig.  That is awesome.  That is all.

[wombat]

We saw Office Space.  I have to say that sometimes I wasn't sure whether I wanted to laugh or run screaming from the room.  The thing is, corporate culture these days has gone so far beyond self-parody that a well done parody of it is so realistic that it almost isn't funny. Definitely if I am ever on the verge of giving up and getting a desk job again, I will watch this movie to remind me not to.

I will also say in its favor that it was the perfect length, one and a half hours.  It is my belief that no movie should ever be more than one and a half hours.

We have Fight Club and Big Lebowski in the queue.  I will report back.

[AugustWest]

I have to say that sometimes I wasn't sure whether I wanted to laugh or run screaming from the room. 

Sounds like someone's got a case of the Mondays.

[side_show]

I notice you're wearing the minimum amount of flair.

I saw Office Space while working in a cubicle, having come from a place where I had to wear flair, and it was basically as sad as it was funny for me.  the "Every day is the worst day of my life" line was something my friend and I muttered to each other all the time when we worked in the veal fattening pens. 

Also, people steal so much shit from my desk at the theatre, but since there is no soul crushing aspects to my job there, I never find myself thinking of Office Space when I'm wandering around searching for my stapler.

[AugustWest]

but since there is no soul crushing aspects to my job...

Do you know why this is?

It is because you are the boss there...





LUMBERGH!!!

[wombat]

Oh!  I forgot to mention - they have Hawaiian Shirt Fridays at the Technical Staff's office.  I assume this a reference to the movie, but is this something people did before that the movie imitated?  It is not initiated by the bosses and they actually think it is fun, so I suspect it is a reference.

[CortJstr]

Oh!  I forgot to mention - they have Hawaiian Shirt Fridays at the Technical Staff's office.  I assume this a reference to the movie, but is this something people did before that the movie imitated?  It is not initiated by the bosses and they actually think it is fun, so I suspect it is a reference.

We're not allowed to have Hawaiian shirt days at my office. There might be Visitors in the Building.

[jay-ell]

I haven't seen Office Space, but I've worked a cube farms.   

When I worked at Major Pharmaceutical Conglomerate (eight years ago), we had "casual Fridays."  That meant you could wear jeans with your golf shirt instead of khakis, if there were no Visitors scheduled to be in the Building. 

Now that Pedro works at Enormous Computer Company, his boss's boss wears Hawaiian shirts every day.  They also have an Always Wears Black Guy and a Guy Who Wears That One T-Shirt Every Day.  (The shirt says, "I'm out of bed and dressed, what more do you want?")  Apparently they have several Kicks Off His/Her Shoes And Forgets To Put Them Back On People.  Pedro is going for Excessively Professionally Dressed Guy by wearing a shirt and tie every day, even though he doesn't have to. 

You've got to make your mark somehow, I guess. 

[jough]

I don't even own a Hawaiian shirt, so I don't have to worry about when I can or can't wear it.

[CortJstr]

Now that Pedro works at Enormous Computer Company, his boss's boss wears Hawaiian shirts every day.  They also have an Always Wears Black Guy and a Guy Who Wears That One T-Shirt Every Day.  (The shirt says, "I'm out of bed and dressed, what more do you want?")  Apparently they have several Kicks Off His/Her Shoes And Forgets To Put Them Back On People.  Pedro is going for Excessively Professionally Dressed Guy by wearing a shirt and tie every day, even though he doesn't have to.

I'm going to assume that Always Wears Black Guy is known around the office as "The Darkness."

Last year a woman at my office was pregnant and walked around with no shoes on the entire time. People kept asking, "why ain't you in the kitchen?!" We also have Guy Who Thinks the Ban on Printed Shirts Doesn't Apply to Trite religious Slogans. He's also Rules About Radio Volume Don't Apply to Me Guy.