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Bracket Battle 2024

Brackets [Quarterfinals] 2001: A Space Odyssey vs. Office Space

[Quarterfinals] 2001: A Space Odyssey vs. Office Space

solarwinds_worldwide_llc 5 months ago Less than one minute read time

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
An iconic film where the machine shows more emotions than any of the humans. HAL 9000 is going to have a long discussion with HR when he returns to Earth.
— versus —
Office Space (1999)
I don't think any movie has accurately captured corporate mediocrity better than Office Space. Part documentary, part wish fulfillment, all hilarious.

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Top Comments

KMSigma.SWI 5 months ago in reply to ecklerwr1

And thus ecklerwr1 's lesson in Film Appreciation is ended. Please join us next week where we'll discuss the shift form teen sex comedy to college stoner comedy.
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ecklerwr1 5 months ago in reply to kris.barton

Liked it but the HAL 9000... come on! He taught me to sing a song... would you like me to sing it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7WQ1tdxSqI
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ecklerwr1 5 months ago

As much as I loved office space... 2001 a space odyssey and Stanley Kubrick... plus the sound track OMG! The beginning that spawned many follow on movies like scene in Lucy: Besson stated that he intended for the first part of Lucy to be like Léon: The Professional (which he also wrote and directed), the second part to be like Inception and the third part to be like 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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amore1329 5 months ago in reply to andy.garibay

Yessss... Well played, Sir.
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kris.barton 5 months ago

I think this community need to stick to its roots of Hating existence in the cubicle farm. We'll deal with AI later by being too stupid to reason with. That was always the plan.
DAMN it feels good to be a gangster.
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