FILMS THAT DESERVED BETTER is an ongoing feature here on The Movie Blog of movies that failed to attract an audience at the theaters and failed to perform well at the boxoffice, yet were exceptional films. We just want to give out a hardy slap on the back and say “We love ya anyway”.
When I first decided to do this feature I instantly knew one of the film that just HAD to be on this list was Office Space. A lot of people today forget that when office space came out, it was an absolute bomb. It just barely crawled over $10 million. No, not on opening weekend… that’s $10 million in total… and the damn movie has Jennifer Aniston in it, who was pretty much as hot as she’s ever been in her career in 1999.
Wrap your heads around that… a movie that makes a lot of people’s “Best comedies ever” list someplace, and yet we never gave it the love it deserved. This film was just beyond hilarious, and thankfully it has indeed found its audience after the fact on DVD. But still.. this was a movie that deserved much better when in theaters.
Who can forget:
Peter: “What would you do if you had a million dollars?”
Lawrence: “I’ll tell you what I’d do, man, two chicks at the same time.”
Or
Michael: “We get caught laundering money, we’re not going to white collar resort prison. No, no, no. We’re going to fucking federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison!”
Ah yes… good times, good times. This movie is in every sense of the word a classic. For those of you who still haven’t treated yourself, get out there and grab a copy tonight… laugh till 3am.
