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Trailer: Horrible Bosses

Everyone's had bad bosses before, but have you ever wanted to...MURDER THEM? Dunh dunh dunh!

  
 

In celebration of Horrible Bosses next week, I had conducted a list of the white-collar/working-class employees exacting revenge on upper management or the boss movies/scenes. Although only five movies came into my mind, four of them are quite memorable to me even though one of them is a piece of trash; despite that there are specific scenes in these movies that contain "taking it out" at the boss in a fashion that everyone would dream off.   
 
Hopefully Horrible Bosses would be one of those movies that the trailer doesn't reveal all the funny parts, it has been a trend of movies doing that and the whole movie consists of a few minutes or less. I find it funny that Kevin Spacey and Jennifer Aniston is in this movie considering they had both done with these of movies listed on my top 5 list playing bad bosses as a Psycho and Maneater. While Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) "takes it out" on the boss from blackmailing him and demanding a higher raise to compensate his pathetic job in American Beauty, Joanna (Jennifer Aniston) is "a girlfriend" of Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston) who "does as much as possible to do little as possible" in his white-collar job and he and his friends plus Milton later on exact revenge on the company.  
 
What surprises me also is that Fight Club and American Beauty are somewhat alike with their themes and scenes like them "taking it out" on their bosses has the same certain degree of "goosebumps" despite Fight Club having the most disturbing scene after that but they both demand something out of the boss. 
  
The title of the blog is named after a youtube video of three movies that are in this list, I presented to you for your enlightenment. 
 
  
   

Ordinary Guys with Nothing to Lose


 
 
    

1. Office Space

This list would not be without Office Space; Mike Judge's non-animated film about a white-collar worker at a software company, Peter Gibbons who hates his job and the number of bosses pressuring him. One day his neighbour, Lawrence had changed his life as he skips work and does little as possible. He and his friends also gets back at the company by hacking the company's bank funds, draining it. We see much of Peter's hatred of his boring-ass company growing through an annoying parrot of a receptionist, his annoying boss, Bill and his boring job as a software developer. The best part of the movie is not only Peter's scheme to withdraw all the funds from the company but Milton getting teased due to being a squirrel, on having a bright-red stapler and neglects that he was fired from his job and doesn't get paid. What results from him is that "he actually burned the whole place down" as its a reminder of you shouldn't mess with Milton. It's typically a satire of white-collar jobs and the whole movie about it is awesome.

2. Fight Club

While Fight Club isn't about the revenge of employees, there is a particular scene that should merit in this list. As the boss is about to "fire him" and called security, The Narrator beats the shit out of himself to look like his boss has done it to him. This whole scene is just a gem to watch considering how everything in the room becomes trash and collateral damage to himself and eventually he gets 52 paychecks and most of the office equipment for himself. It's the most psychological and terrifying scene aside from the ending and its also funny. And this is how he and Tyler was able to fund the Fight Club.

3. American Beauty

Like Fight Club, there's a particular scene with Spacey's character where he demands "more" from his job and threats his boss along the way. Spacey's character takes it at the boss to compensate his "pathetic" job in an advertising agency and like Office Space doesn't care if the boss fires him but instead threatens him with blackmail. His life like The Narrator (before the Fight Club) and Peter Gibbons is both compared as a miserable and pathetic existence as white-collar workers. And of course he's a ordinary guy with nothing to lose.

4. Wanted

Like two of the films mentioned, Wanted is of course a comic book adaptation and of course it starts of like Fight Club where the protagonist works at a dead-beat job with a overbearing and miserable life but then it gets a sudden turn where the protagonist gains supernatural powers and beats the shit out of his boss as well as "friend" and then shoot guns with Angelina Jolie. While it doesn't compare to that awesome scene from Fight Club, it is reminded that bosses need to be excoriated.

5. Employee of the Month

More of a satire of white/blue collar workers and with Dane Cook this same time even though its not really a serious/revenge sort of deal. 

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