Oh yeah, I was confident in my complete mastery of the movie.   Yup, the way we spout off the lines, you’d think all of us at work had a hand in writing the script for Office Space.

Yet, when it came time to prove my stuff?   Well, not so much.   Think you can fare better?   Take the Office Space Movie Quiz for yourself and let’s just see how many you can score correctly out of the 100 questions.

A word of warning, some of these questions are brutally tough even for the most hardcore of fans!   Good luck, Lumberghs!

Update:   Big props go out to Eric J. for the link to the Bill Lumbergh Soundboard.   Pop on over there and listen to some hilarious sound clips of Gary Cole’s character from the movie.
 

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We finally went to see Spiderman 3 today and it was awesome!   I think it is my favorite Spiderman so far (Rob still likes 2 the best) but this one just had it all for me:   A great story line with the continuation of the Peter / M.J. relationship along with 4 villians — and another one of those sexy upside-down kisses!

We’ve become so spoiled from watching movies at home that we rarely go to the theater anymore.   It takes a movie like this - one that has to be experienced on a large screen - to entice us to go.   As soon as we arrived, we were reminded of the downside of movie theaters.

First, there’s the line to get tickets.   Next, there’s the line at the snackbar (we gave up on that line since there was no way we were going to get through it before the movie started).   After the movie began, the cell phone issues began.   One behind us started ringing and the guy let it ring a few times and then answered it and then finally got up and walked out of the theater - still talking as he went down the aisle.   A couple of rows in front of us was some guy who was too busy text messaging to be bothered with watching the movie.   Naturally, every time he received or sent a text message, the cell phone screen lit up like a torch, which was really annoying.

I mean, c’mon, I realize people need their cell phones for emergencies but can’t they a least break free of them during a movie or, better yet, just stay at home to be entertained by their gadgets instead of annoying others who’ve paid for movie entertainment at the theatre?

Anyway, I’ll get off my soapbox now and get back to the point of this post...   If you haven’t seen Spiderman 3 yet, I highly recommend it!   Next on our Summer movie list is probably Shrek 3.

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Just as I was getting excited about Pixar’s new movie for this summer, Ratatouille — about a rat named Rémy (voiced by Patton Oswalt) who dreams of becoming a fine chef in a Parisian restaurant (by The Incredibles director Brad Bird) — I found out about next Summer’s release...



Details about Pixar’s Summer ’08 movie, "WALL•E" (from Finding Nemo director Andrew Stanton) are sparse, but apparently it’s about a young robot looking for a home in outer space.

Oddly enough, with the smorgasbord of films set for release this summer, some are already wondering "How will Ratatouille fare in Hollywood’s Summer 2007 rat race?

Pixar is also rumored to be working on "Toy Story 3" for Summer ’09...
 

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Oh man, I can't get enough of movie trailer mashups where fake movie trailers are created with feature scenes from a film that have been re-cut and cleverly edited to give them a whole new spin. Recently, Dede blogged about a trio of classic movies reimagined with a Brokeback Mountain theme. These side-splittingly clever remixes cast questionable new light on scenes from some of these movies.

Well, now the geniuses over at What the Maynard? have recut scenes from Office Space into a horror flick trailer that recasts Milton as a creepy, mumbling, red Swingline stapler-wielding psychopathic killer:



And of course, you also owe it to yourself to go watch Shawn Nee's This Place Sucks, which is a mashup of Office Space and the Superfriends cartoon that's almost guaranteed to cause convulsive laughter. (Warning: Includes some NSFW language.)

While you're at it, you'll kick yourself if you don't immediately go watch the Maynard crew's insanely clever Brokeback Mountain spin on "Planes, Trains & Automobiles" which had me in tears from laughing so hard.

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As I mentioned back in February, Eric Schlosser’s excellent exposé "Fast Food Nation" is coming in movie form to theatres this Fall.   Below you’ll find the first trailer for the movie:


 

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I just discovered that one of my favorite books, Eric Schlosser's "Fast Food Nation" is being made into a movie! Schlosser's exposé on the fast food industry is less about what you already know — that fast food is really bad for you — and more about how the fast food industry has fundamentally changed the economic and cultural landscape of not just America, but the world. The book reveals disturbing secrets about how the fast food industry both feeds and feeds off of the young, uses and discards workers, and contorts the government against its own people for the sake of ever-increasing profits.

One of the many nuggets (pun intended) of info revealed in "Fast Food Nation" is that the meat produced at packing plants for shipment to fast food restaurants in other countries has 3 times better the quality control than that of the meat that feeds our military personnel or public-school children. So there's a good chance that the burgers at the McDonald's in Kuwait (there are actually 42 there) is of better quality than the food provided to our armed forces.

The film by Texas director Richard Linklater (whose previous films include "Before Sunrise" and "School of Rock") will be a star-studded character study adaptation of Schlosser's nonfiction best-seller book. The film's ensemble cast includes Ethan Hawke, Greg Kinnear, Kris Kristofferson, Patricia Arquette, Luis Guzman, Avril Lavigne, & Esai Morales.

Linklater's other highly-anticipated new project, the rotoscope-animated retelling of Phillip K. Dick's "A Scanner Darkly" is due out this summer.

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If Dede's movie trailer mashups post left you chomping at the bit for more, here's another few video clips that might have you reeling:

"Sleepless In Seattle" horror re-cut trailer by Demis Lyall-Wilson

"The Shining" re-imagined as a romantic comedy by Robert Ryang.

And if that's not twisted enough, how about...

Psycho: A Love Story

(Note: Requires Apple's QuickTime player.)

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Some of the funniest stuff we've seen recently has been mashups of trailers of older, popular movies re-cut with a Brokeback Mountain theme. These clever re-mixes put a questionable new spin on scenes from some of these movies.

Here are some of the best:

Top Gun 2: Brokeback Squadron

Star Wars: The Empire Brokeback

Back to the Future: Brokeback to the Future

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Sometimes you see a movie that just crawls right under your skin. Maybe when you first saw it, you thought it was pretty good, but then as you thought back upon it after a day or two, it worked it's way into your heart and/or mind.

Crash is one of those sorts of movies. It's a "day in the life of..." kind of movie that weaves a handful of seemingly unrelated stories together atop of the backdrop of Los Angeles over the course of about 36 hours. This movie sets you up for what you expect to be one cliched situation after another, only to spin off in unpredictable and often gut-wenching directions. "Crash" is an unflinching, thought-provoking, gripping, and sometimes funny look at race and tolerance.

Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Brendan Fraser, Thandie Newton, Matt Dillon, Ryan Phillippe, and a boatload of other powerfully talented actors star in Crash, but I was especially impressed by Michael Peña, who's previously been a mostly low-key player in FX Networks' The Shield. Check it out and let us know what you think!

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Yup, Billy Bob is a Lone Star Booster. Well, so it seems anyway. First he starred in the historical drama The Alamo that's set to release April 9th. And now Friday Night Lights, which is set for release on October 15, 2004. Billy Bob & crew had ascended upon Odessa for 3 weeks to complete post-production location filming, which wrapped this weekend. Having the film crew around gave our town's economy and morale a much-needed shot in the arm.

For those not in the know, Friday Night Lights chronicles life in the football-driven West Texas city of Odessa and the feats of the '88 season of famed Permian Panthers - the "winningest high-school football team in Texas history."

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