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.
Congratulations!
…and thanks for all the laughs.
May 18th, 2008 at 10:01 pmI always get a laugh from your scripts, regardless of whether I’ve seen the movie in question or even somehow managed to like it. :) Please keep up the good work!
May 18th, 2008 at 10:16 pmAnd thank you for all you do, Rod. Your site has made me laugh countless times. I’m shocked when I look back and realize that I have been coming to this site to read your scripts since 2001. I think that is the longest amount of time I have returned to any website on a regular basis. Thanks for all the laughs and here’s to make more funny scripts :)
May 18th, 2008 at 10:59 pmCarry on the good work, mate! This is one of the few websites I make a point of checking up on, truly excellent stuff. Here’s tp another 10 years!
May 18th, 2008 at 11:24 pmIs the ten years taking into account there can be months between posts?
Really its been about 6 weeks.
May 18th, 2008 at 11:26 pmYou are a candle in a never ending dark cloud of shitty movies
Keep up the good work
May 19th, 2008 at 3:31 amAmerica needs you
Hi…
May 19th, 2008 at 4:36 amThough I don’t leave comments often, but I’m a big fan and I hope that you continue your successful and funny “pissing” on movies :)
Aw, it’s been ten years already? I’m sorry I took so long to discover this place.
May 19th, 2008 at 5:53 amLove it!
May 19th, 2008 at 5:58 amHurray! I have been visiting this site for a few years now *Don’t know how many* and still love it, Keep it up!
May 19th, 2008 at 7:23 am