The Editing Room

A website that features film scripts of movies that are rewritten in a mocking manner for comedic effect. It was founded by Rod Hilton in 1998, and is still going strong to this day.

Common Tropes associated are:

"JOHN HAWKES: Yeah, this ending is getting a little too happy. This is an Indie movie, your options are bittersweet or fucking miserable."
 * The Abridged Series: The scripts are essentially an abridged series for movies.
 * Accentuate the Negative: He can be mocking even of films that he really did like.
 * Actor Allusion: Actors will make fun of each other by referencing each other's past roles.
 * Artistic License Physics: In-work. Fast Five plays so fast and loose with the laws of physics that eventually, the Laws of Physics walk off the set.
 * Bat Deduction: How Sherlock Holmes is depicted in Sherlock Holmes.
 * Bunny Ears Lawyer: The author has demonstrated a lot of in depth knowledge of various religions and cultures.
 * Cluster F-Bomb: Samuel L. Jackson, Chloe Grace Moertz, and Bradley Cooper's dialogue are peppered with curse words.
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Did Not Do the Research: Sometimes averted, but Hilton still gets the facts confused or misinterprets a plot device, and thus ends up misrepresents the films sometimes.
 * Downer Ending: Lampshaded in the Winter's Bone script:

"AYELET ZURER: Wait let me try one. Okay, so this guy was chained up… chains are often used for construction work… the fourth cardinal is at a construction site!
 * Genre Savvy: The cast in the scripts tend to be aware of the genre they're in and will state the role they fill in the movie.
 * Insane Troll Logic: How Robert Langdon's methods of finding each element location is depicted in Angels and Demons. Subverted for the water element:

TOM HANKS: What? Don’t be stupid. The fourth element is water, so he’s in a fountain."


 * Mineral MacGuffin: Called "Macguffium" in the Avatar script and "Plotresolvium" in Chronicle.
 * No Fourth Wall: The script is aware that the work is fiction, with actors dissing the movie they're in, directors arguing with the actors, and even the audience is given lines.
 * Running Gag: In the Winter's Bone script, every setting is described as bleak, up to the point that one scene is described as "INT. BLEAK SHERIFF STATION, BLEAKITY BLEAK BLEAK"
 * Samuel L. Jackson is listed as SAMUEL L MOTHERFUCKING JACKSON in every script he appears in.
 * Script Fic: The screenplays are this combined with The Abridged Series.
 * Serial Numbers Filed Off: In-work. The original scene descriptions for The Hangover are used in the sequel, but with words scratched out and replaced with new ones.
 * Take That, Audience!: Combined with Take That Me in the Kick Ass script. One character makes fun of Ron Paul supporters, then later makes a joke the only thing stupider than abandoning the Deconstructive Parody premise of the story was making fun of Ron Paul supporters on a website that allows comments.
 * Trope Name: Stock characters in the script will bluntly state their role in the movie.