What was the point of...

for some reason it felt like napoleon dynamite to me

not sure i ever figure out what that movie was about either

but for some reason i liked them both
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have a zIpPiTy doo dah day!............

I didn't necessarily need it to have a point but I agree that there seemed to be nowhere for it to go towards the end. That said, Jason Bateman's sense of timing and delivery can make almost anything funny, just sorry it had such a flat ending. And Ben Affleck in the smaller role was actually funny to me.

I really enjoyed it. Very similar to Office Space. The ending where the office burns down in that wasn't exactly a thrill either, but it still worked because there were a ton of laughs during the middle of the film.

Agree

the point is it ended without some hokey BS... sorta like real life. it's clear they'll probably get back together or at least try but, just like real life, it will take time to sort out the issues that caused the problems. many movies end with the characters happily reuniting (or splitting up), which is fine because they're MOVIES, not documentaries, but this one didn't.

Extract is more character-driven than many flicks, with a great cast of believable people -- the crew at the factory are hilarious and fairly authentic. i've worked with constantly griping, "it's not my job," "see that, we always get blamed!" people like Beth Grant's character, and dimwits like T. J. Miller's disinterested, inept fork-lift driver/rock star wannabe, and Clifton Collin's "I could pack 40 crates a day, Paco!" would-be floor manager. They are caricatures of course but still realistic. Ben Affleck is the most overdone but even his "Xanax is good for everything" dipstick is funny.
I'd never been a fan of Mike Judge's stuff before -- Beavis & Butthead was funny for a few minutes before it got grating, Office Space still puts me to sleep, and by the time King of the Hill came on I'd stopped watching TV so don't know (I think it's on Netflix but I'm too lazy to click the remote every 22 minutes). He creates amusing, realistic(ish...) characters who are flawed (like most humans) but doesn't savage them mercilessly. But I digress.

I just saw this movie last night, and I think the point was that in life, you can only trust yourself, and when you ask that others do something for you or trust that things will work out on their own, things will probably go horribly wrong. But I think it also is saying that you can't stop trusting people just because they screw you over. Strange message.

Bateman's character trusted the bearded Affleck and was screwed over multiple times. He trusted the dressed down Mila Kunis and she was just a criminal all up in his life. He trusted that Brad would stop seeing his wife, that Step wouldn't sue, and that his company would be bought and he's make millions and enjoy retirement. He put all of his fortunes in the hands of others and it wasn't until he starting using his leverage and fighting back that things returned to his control.

Oddly, the hotel sex scene and the final scene with Brad in the bar (plus the very last scene) show that Bateman continues to trust others and in at least one of those scenes, it pays off. Maybe the movie is so weird because the point he's making is so weird. Idiocracy and Office Space are much better, but the pot smoking scene made me laugh so, so, so hard.

The guy had a heart attack over his neighbor having a bad atitude?

cliche criticisms of movies:

it has no plot
it has no character development
it is too cliche

These are only valid if you finish the movie thinking "that sucked what went wrong"

I finished this movie thinking "that was really funny in a subtle and clever way, i really enjoyed that"

movie: mission complete