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.
Thanks for the 10 years of spot-on commentaries… I love you!
May 19th, 2008 at 1:35 pmRod … are you … dying?
May 19th, 2008 at 2:56 pmOh there is another Ryan, I would better start using my last name!
May 19th, 2008 at 3:38 pmRod TER single-handily got me through law school. I’ve been reading your scripts since 2000 and I’ve loved them all. Thanx so much for all the entertainment over the years! :D
May 19th, 2008 at 3:57 pmI dont really know how long I’ve been reading, I just stumbled across it some time. At least when it was that weird url….
anyway..congrats. now make with cloverfield, i loved the movie, and i want to see what you can do with it.
May 19th, 2008 at 4:56 pmI’ve been coming to this site since I was twelve (coming up on 8 years now) and your scripts never fail to make me laugh. Thanks for being hilarious.
May 19th, 2008 at 7:56 pmRod;
Happy Anniversary! Ever since a friend turned me onto this site, it’s been a cherished treasure, and your scripts have been an amazing pleasure to read! Here’s to the next 10 years!
May 19th, 2008 at 10:08 pm:-)
Thank you! and keep up the awesomely hilarious work!!
May 19th, 2008 at 11:07 pmJesus, I’ve been coming here 10 years..? God knows how many people I’ve sent your way over the years. Whenever anyone asks for a funny site, I send them here, to tvgonehome (sadly stale for about 6 years now) or the Stephen Hawking robotic exoskeleton onion page.
May 20th, 2008 at 5:05 amAny chance you could kill some more sims as a 10th anniversary present to those who’ve been with you from the start, I was always sad you didn’t carry that on a bit…
Congratulations on the anniversary, Ron. Keep the good stuff coming!
May 20th, 2008 at 6:33 am