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.
…Godzilla came out ten years ago?
Jesus Christ. I feel old.
May 19th, 2008 at 7:54 am#12: That’s exactly what I was thinking. And I actually rather liked Godzilla. It was fun. Meh. *shrug*
May 19th, 2008 at 9:05 amOh come now, Rod, all of your scripts are good.
… Except for maybe the Pokemon one.
May 19th, 2008 at 9:13 amThanks for giving me giggle fits during work. I hope you keep it up for a long time.
May 19th, 2008 at 9:29 amThank you from the bottom of my heart for your site My personal favorite favorite were the scripts for the LOTR and Star Wars trilogies
May 19th, 2008 at 9:37 amI’d be more concerned with the marriage proposals than the death threats. You can only die once, but marriage can make you suffer for years ;)
May 19th, 2008 at 10:25 amFunniest site ever man. Well maybe next to Cracked.com :P Jks. But keep it up. I hope u post the final Harry Potter, and the remaining bourne movies as well as possibly Shoot Em Up. I’d love to see that abridged coz the movie was terrible.
May 19th, 2008 at 11:06 amThanks Rod. Of all your scripts I think the Transformers one changed my life the most.
May 19th, 2008 at 1:12 pmAww Rod. Thank you so much for all these years of hating. We want you to know that we hate you too. You mean nothing to us. We really really hate you.
May 19th, 2008 at 1:17 pmLots of hate,
Movies.
ps: we’re plotting against you too.
Your site has been high up on my bookmarks since I first read one of your scripts published in Total Film (Gone in 60 seconds, I think it was). It had me laughing out loud, and so far you have never ever disappointed me; and I have read all 196 of them, and also all the other hilarious stuff like the Awards and the Message from Maltin (BTW, I wish you would write some more of that stuff, I love it). You are a truly talented man and I salute you.
May 19th, 2008 at 1:19 pm