10 Years of Hating Movies
Tomorrow is the 10-year anniversary of The Editing Room. Seriously.
It all started on May 19th of 1998, after seeing the movie Godzilla and hating it. I put a fake script for the site up on my ISP’s web space (5MB free with each account!) Not long after, I saw Armageddon and hated that as well. I wrote another fake screenplay and put it in the same place. After a while, I had quite a collection of scripts, so I created a subdomain on a real web site and called it “The Editing Room“.
The site has changed a lot over its many years, but it has always been a great place for me to take a piss on movies I hate.
The site has experimented with visitor-contributed scripts, fake movie rumors, and even awards, but consistently the people who visit only care about one thing: abridged scripts.
I’ve written 196 abridged scripts on the site. Most of the earlier ones are fucking dreadful, and I can barely even remember seeing many of the movies I’ve mocked (I saw Simply Irresistible? Really?). I leave them up on the site because any time I remove one, someone e-mails me to say it was their favorite.
The site has been featured in Total Film, Entertainment Weekly, Forbes, Internet Advisor, Cracked, and recently the National Lampoon Humor Network. My Abridged Scripts have been copied verbatim onto countless blogs, livejournals, forums, humor archives, newsgroups, and forwarded emails. I’ve recieved at least 100 e-mailed marriage proposals and at least 1,000 e-mailed death threats. I like to tell people that I’m famous on the internet.
The Editing Room has always been the most popular personal web site I’ve ever created, and I hope it continues to grow in popularity. It staggers me to think I’ve been writing Abridged Scripts for ten whole years, but it staggers me even more to realize that there are so many people on the internet that enjoy reading them.
Thanks for visiting the site and making it what it is today.
Did you ever see a movie you liked?
June 9th, 2008 at 5:51 amI been reading your air0day website for a long time now (remember the funny glasses photos of you :P), and I can honestly say you are best entertainment available on internet in text format(sometimes pictures :P)
June 10th, 2008 at 12:24 amKeep on with the great job and please do new Indiana Jones if it passes the test of being not too lame to rip off on.
If you made a shirt that said air0day on it, I’d totally buy it. Do this.
June 10th, 2008 at 8:49 amLove the site, I come here often. It puts a smile on my face after a rough day. Keep up the good work!
June 11th, 2008 at 2:33 amI love this site, and I love reading it on my employer’s dime. But sometimes that’s not a good idea because nothing work-related makes me laugh that hard. Thanks!
June 13th, 2008 at 12:23 amDo you hate every movie you parody? Somehow I didn’t know that. Now I’m wondering how you could hate Iron Man…guess I’ll have to read the script to find out. :)
Congrats on ten years. It’s funny, funny stuff.
June 18th, 2008 at 3:36 pmWow good to see you’re still at it.
June 18th, 2008 at 7:45 pmI’ve been reading for just shy of ten years now. Clearly you and your site have achieved true “classic” status. Although not like Coke Classic, because that would imply that you sucked at one point. Congratulations on ten years of not sucking! :)
June 20th, 2008 at 3:03 pmLove the site - been reading since 1999. Keep it going man!
June 23rd, 2008 at 7:07 amMarry me!I’m going to kill you!
June 28th, 2008 at 5:56 am