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.
Congrats and thank you for the site.
May 20th, 2008 at 7:13 amCongratulations. I’ve been around for probably five or six of those years. Time flies.
May 20th, 2008 at 8:54 amThanks for the years of humor you’ve provided Rod, here’s to another ten.
May 20th, 2008 at 9:12 amCongratulations on 10 years. You have a real talent for detecting bullshit even I wasn’t able to pick up on in some movies.
May 20th, 2008 at 9:28 amThis site was one of my first bookmarks, and I still come back every so often to see how things are going. I got here the first time when some site had linked to your Matrix Abridged script. Absolutely love your take on the movies, good and bad. Love the upgrades to the site, and will continue to read as long as there are crappy movies to rip on!
May 20th, 2008 at 10:33 amWell done Rod, most people don’t stick with anything longer than afew years before gettign bored!
But you never DID explain where ter.aer0day.com came from… was it a reference to anything?
May 20th, 2008 at 11:35 amCongrats on the anniversary, Rod, and my compliments.
I’m curious, do you really hate all these movies? I find myself making fun of movies I like all the time, and I enjoy seeing them bashed here too.
May 20th, 2008 at 12:59 pmCongratulations, and thanks for all the laughs you’ve given me.
May 20th, 2008 at 1:48 pmAnd what happened to Baglor?
May 20th, 2008 at 3:59 pmLike Batman, you have a defining tragedy in your life (seeing Godzilla), which provokes you to crusade against villainy and shitty dialogue for the good of all.
May 20th, 2008 at 7:47 pm