I’m very embarrassed to know this, but no. Theirs was steeped in Y2K backup intrigue. The idea, as I remember it, was that the bank was going to be backing up its systems globally at midnight on New Year’s Eve 1999/2000, so they had like an hour to get inside the building and siphon some money from/add some money to an account while the backup was in place before it got transmitted to some other location.
Or something like that. I was more interested in following Catherine Zeta Jones than following the “plot”, so I didn’t commit a lot of brainpower into retaining any of it and am embarrassed to remember as much as I do. (I don’t even the remember the name of the movie, either…)
Err, sorry – back to your originally scheduled Office Space discussion. Uh… yeah, okay.
Not much at this point – trailers and such. Somebody upthread mentioned that there’s a special edition DVD coming out next year though.
Favorite quote, severely mangled and/or paraphrased----
One of the Bobs: And this fellow - Samir Naga, Nagan, Not gonna work here anymore, so what difference does it make.
I can say with absolute certainty that the opening shots of traffic before we see Peter are of west-bound 635, just west of the tollway, and that you can almost see the Galleria. [I used to live right near there.]
DDG… I think the other eight Borg are Peter’s eight bosses.
Am I the only one who absolutely cannot take Ron Livingston seriously on the Practice? They’re trying to set him up as this relentless hardass, and he just amuses me! I feel bad about that…
The DVD is pretty mediocre–no commentary, no extra scenes, nothing. Just the movie and maybe some trailers. Maybe we’ll see a special edition someday.
The movie didn’t do well because IMHO it was poorly marketed. The trailers and commercials cast it as a Zany Comedy, when it isn’t really like that. Luckily it’s become pretty popular in the years since.
True story: I started recommending Office Space to everyone I worked with. One guy didn’t care for it. Quote: “Yeah, hmmm, it just didn’t ‘crackle’ for me.” I laughed a bit before I realized he wasn’t joking.
Cool little things I found in an early script:
Milton never mentions the squirrels, so it was probably adlibbed.
Lumbergh DIES in the fire.
At the end of the movie, you’ll see a guy in a white hat approaching Peter. In the script, he walks up and starts in with “Yeah, if you guys could just go ahead and sort of pick up the pace here that would be great…” There was originally supposed to be a sinister musical sting that transitioned to Milton on the beach. It seems to have been shot that way, so I guess they changed it to give it a happier ending.
