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.
Seriously, Rod, this site has been a favorite of mine for a long time and you’ve influenced my own writing and thought process when it comes to film a great deal. Thanks for being so consistently entertaining.
May 20th, 2008 at 10:19 pmWell happy anniversary (a late one at that). That’s pretty amazing it’s already been 10 years. Good Job.
May 21st, 2008 at 1:17 amCongratulations, Rod. Here´s to another 10 years!
May 21st, 2008 at 2:19 pmwe love you
May 22nd, 2008 at 12:38 pmDude, thats less than 20 scripts a year. Stop being so lazy and write more, MORE!!!
May 22nd, 2008 at 7:45 pmThanks to you for all your hard work, Rod.
May 22nd, 2008 at 11:42 pmThanks man, I wasn’t there from the start but here’s to another ten years of The Editing Room!
May 23rd, 2008 at 1:28 amobligatory ass-kissing comment
May 23rd, 2008 at 1:28 amCongratulaions on da 100 email marriage proposals rod. That i believe is the epecinter of your major achievments in the first 10 years of Editing Room.
So here’s just an idea, perhaps we could see in the next 10 years:
How about doing some scripts of TV shows aswell…there’s like a potential sea of horrible sitcoms and drama’s just waiting to be torn apart by astute critics like ur self eh?
May 23rd, 2008 at 9:47 am[QUOTE]Oh come now, Rod, all of your scripts are good.
… Except for maybe the Pokemon one.[/QUOTE]
Oh, come on! The Pokemon one was hilarious. Rod should bash more animated kids’ movies (but then again, it’s probably the equivalent to shooting fish in a barrel and therefore too easy for you to do. The movies for teens and adults are more your style). Here’s to ten more years of movie-bashing, Rod, and when I finally do become a big time screenwriter, I’d be honored if you trashed one of my films.
May 24th, 2008 at 3:55 am