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.
Hey man
May 24th, 2008 at 10:27 amyour an amazzingly funny guy
but i may have to destroy you for
taking the piss outta 8 mile.
grrrr…..
Oh my god Rod please please Rip that god fucking awful Indiana Jones movie a new asshole as soon as you can. What a piece of shit movie, I was so close to walking out.
May 24th, 2008 at 12:50 pmI guess it good Godzilla inspired to do something out of someone. Keep up the good work.
May 27th, 2008 at 9:44 amYeah, Indiana Jones has to come next. Even Steven is such a douchebag.
Steven Speilberg: Ok, Shia, we want you to watch these James Dean movies, then attempt to reenact them exactly.
May 27th, 2008 at 9:16 pmShia LaBeouf: Best supporting actor, here I come!
Steven Speilberg: Er, I didn’t say act like John Travolta in Grease.
Stupid Audience: SHIA! WE LOVE YOU! WE DEMAND MORE SHIA IN EVERY MOVIE WE SEE! WE WON’T SEE IT IF IT DOESN’T HAVE SHIA IN IT!
Steven Speilberg *rolling in his piles of money*: Fuck it, do whatever you want. Aliens? Sure, why not.
after reading all of rod’s scripts, i pretty much hear his “voice” in my head now whenever I’m at the movies. it’s creep and funny. oh well.
May 28th, 2008 at 8:16 amjim:
That’s because I sit behind you in theaters and whisper in your ear.
By the way, can you go to an earlier show next time? I’m kind of sick of staying up so late.
May 28th, 2008 at 8:38 amThis site is a testament to the genius that one can stumble across on the Internet. Thanks for all of your hard work and please keep the scripts coming for another ten years.
May 28th, 2008 at 11:10 amI only found this site a few months ago so I have some catching up to do…
Love the picture captions by the way. I laugh every time at the one for ‘jumper’.
May 28th, 2008 at 6:21 pmholy shit, i just realized how long i’ve been reading this site. i REALLY need to get out more. keep kicking ass Rod, your scripts are awesome.
May 28th, 2008 at 6:22 pmYou’re the best damn part about watching movies, Rod.
Keep batting them out of the park.
May 29th, 2008 at 2:10 pm