YMMV / The Editing Room

• Accidental Innuendo: Used in Carrie (2013), which is doubly funny if you remember the metaphor of the movie.
  CHLOË is getting ready to go to PROM with ANSEL.
  JULIANNE MOORE: The hell she is! You get back in your closet you harlot!
  (is TK’d into the air)
  CHLOË GRACE MORETZ: Bitch I got powers now. I’m out of the closet and I’m never going back in! (thinks) You know what I mean!
• Alternate Aesop Interpretation: Us has Lupita Nyong'o and Evan Alex deliver two different morals (They share these before The Reveal that Lupita and "Repeata" switched places as girls, but unbeknownst to Lupita, Evan has already figured it out):
  Lupita N'yongo: Well, son, let that be a lesson to you. Always confront your personality flaws by succeeding in combat against an archetypal other. Only by externalizing your fears and physically killing them can you achieve self-actualization as a character.
  Evan Alex: You sure? I still feel slightly sympathetic for those wretched souls trapped in a literal underclass. Almost as if my consumerist middle-class existence is built on the backs of invisible millions suffering just out of view while I distract myself with familiar hobbies and the trappings of unappreciated wealth.
• Alternative Character Interpretation: The script for Raiders of the Lost Ark offers a new take on Sallah:
  Karen Allen: John, you're okay? Last we saw, the Nazis had you at gunpoint. They just let you go?
  John Rhys-Davies: Er, yes. But let's not worry about that. And let's also not worry about how they track down the boat that I'll put you on, later in the movie. Or how they knew that you were in Cairo in the first place. Or how I manage to support a wife and twelve kids doing menial labour. Ha, ha ha.
• Aluminum Christmas Trees: The site's...err, script (and that's being generous) for "Gooby", the only one on the entire site not to have a star rating, is so nonsensical and nightmarish, you'd assume the whole thing is just a bizarre joke, right? Wrong. Gooby is actually a real film.
• Anti-Climax Boss:
  • Wrath of the Titans Lampshades this for the Minotaur.
    Minotaur: OH YEAH BABY! I'VE BEEN STUCK DOWN HERE FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS AND I'M READY TO KICK SOME FUCKING ASS! COME ON SAM! GIVE ME YOUR BEST SHOT!
    (gets punched)
    (dies)
    Sam Worthington: What's the point of introducing these mythical creatures only to kill them off in less time than it takes to microwave popcorn?
  • Also in the script for Parker:
    CLIFTON COLLINS JR.: Come out and face us, Jason, we got J-Lo! You have no choice but to—
    (explodes)
    JASON STATHAM: Ha ha, I came by earlier and planted weapons everywhere! And disabled most of YOUR weapons, knowing that you would never test them before a big heist. I was concerned that being the star of the movie might not be enough of an advantage.
    MICHAEL CHIKLIS: Then I guess it's finally time for our climactic showd—
    (torn in half)
    MICAH A. HAUPTMAN: You won't defeat ME so ea—
    (crushed into singularity)
• Broken Base: The Spring Breakers script lead to a huge debate in the comments whether the movie was a satire of the inherent nihilism of youth culture and the author missed the point or he was correct in criticizing the movie for just being long, repetitive, and pretentious.
• Crosses the Line Twice:
  • From Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, after some excessive pacing:
    Richard Harris: OH MY GODRIC, you guys. This is a Chris Columbus movie with Chris Columbus pacing, if you keep delaying things I'll be Michael Gambon by winter. Move along!
  • In Captain America: Civil War Bucky Barnes tries to placate Tony Stark by telling him their mothers have the same name. Keep in mind the latter just found out that the former killed his parents.
• Crossover Ship: Referenced in the caption under the picture for Maleficent, which reads:
  Okay, who's been shipping Loki with Catwoman?
• Ending Fatigue: Lampshaded in several scripts.
  • The script of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ended four times.
  • In the script of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the audience yells at David Fincher for the movie's reluctance to end.
• Esoteric Happy Ending: While Pet Semetary’s new ending is much more hopeful than the original’s with Gage escaping, getting adopted, winning the Super Bowl and becoming President, his family are still zombies and he will never see them again.
• Genius Bonus: For the W. script, the words "MISERABLE FAILURE" show up capitalized. This would be a reference to the infamous Google bombing that tied W's homepage with the string "miserable failure".
• Glurge: La La Land's "Audition (The Fools Who Dream)" sequence goes from Emma Stone rambling about believing in yourself and your dreams, to literally the word, "glurge", written repeatedly.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • This quote from Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix script, since the actor Richard Griffiths died of complications from heart surgery at the age of 65:
    DANIEL RADCLIFFE: Holy Jesus, what happened to you? It's time to lay off the snacks or you'll never make it to the last movie, buddy.
  • The Doctor Strange (2016) script's fabricated cameo from Captain Marvel "recalls" Spider-Man helping save the day in Avengers: Infinity War. Instead, Thanos destroyed him until Avengers: Endgame.
  • Towards the end of the Venom (2018) script, Michelle Williams expresses disgust at the thought of this movie potentially having one of the last Stan Lee cameos. Stan Lee passed away little over two weeks later, meaning that this one was indeed the last one shown before his death, making this comment sound especially morbid.^note Although he did finish filming a few more for upcoming Marvel films that was shown posthumously, including one for this film's sequel, Venom: Let There Be Carnage (as a cover image on a magazine).
  • WandaVision Episode 7 ends with Kathryn Hahn wielding a Grammy, and musically mocking inaccurate fan theories to the tune of "Agatha All Along." The original song would earn a Grammy nomination for Best Song Written for Visual Media, only to lose to Bo Burnham's "All Eyes On Me."
  • In the Baby Driver script, Christopher Plummer snarks about George Takei being exposed as a sexual harasser after model Scott Brunton accused him of drugging and groping him. Brunton's story was later discredited and he retracted the accusation.
• He Panned It, Now He Sucks!:
  • There's a star system at the end of every review that shows what the script writer really thought of the movie that was intended to show that they don't hate every movie they mock. It still doesn't stop this reaction (though it's usually on Cracked which doesn't show the rating).
  • It doesn't help that the scripts for movies they like and movies they don't tend to take on much the same level of negativity.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • The script for X-Men mocked Magneto's plastic prison, suggesting that Magneto could simply use the iron in a guard's blood to kill him. Then X-Men 2 came out...
  • On August 4, 2013, Peter Capaldi was revealed as the new Doctor. In the script for World War Z, published three weeks earlier on July 11, 2013:
    Peter Capaldi: Hee hee, we're all credited as "WHO Doctor", which is like Doctor Who backwards. Hee hee.
  • This line from the Captain America: The Winter Soldier script can also apply to the ending of Avengers: Age of Ultron:
    Captain America: Our team consists of two black guys, two white women, and one white guy, so I guess it's pretty clear who's in charge.
  • Then the script for Avengers: Age of Ultron came out and revealed that the irony wasn't lost on the writers:
    Captain America: Okay, I got two black guys, two women, and a robot. That should keep the bleeding-heart pinko Commies satisfied... until this team horribly fucks up and starts the Civil War, of course!
  • The first sentence of Oz the Great and Powerful sarcastically states that the Deliberately Monochrome, 4:3 opening successfully evokes The Wizard of Oz despite "eye-popping stereoscopic 3D". The Wizard of Oz received an IMAX 3D conversion six months later.
  • The Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) Abridged Script has Chris Pratt figure out Michael Rooker as his father, and stubbornly disregard any denials of obvious hints. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 ended up revealing someone else as Star-Lord's dad. The Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 script has "Dave Bluetista" start to recall Pratt's first guess, only for Pratt to cut him off by denying that he ever believed it.^note Ironically, in the actual Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Drax says he believed Yondu was Star-Lord's father, then Star-Lord calls it an unbelievable guess.
  • In the script for Avengers: Age of Ultron, Captain America asks Black Widow "Could you go soothe Hulk Ruffalo with gentle caresses and whispers? We could ask Thor, who can actually survive a Hulk punch, but last time it got kinda ewwww." Then comes Thor: Ragnarok, in which Thor does try to use Black Widow's calming method on Hulk...and does get a Hulk punch for his trouble.
  • When Ben-Hur galley workers compete over who could have the most over-the-top faint, the last one disintegrates upon touching the ground. Had this script come out at least two years later, someone would've likely exclaimed a Big "NO!" afterwards.
  • The Star Wars Holiday Special has Boba Fett end his premature victory gloat by asking, "Dammit. This shitty movie's my finest hour isn't it?" He'd eventually top himself in The Mandalorian, to critical and audience acclaim.
  • The alternate title for Venom (2018) is "Box Office Poison" and one line is "Make it go viral and maybe we can recoup our losses from all the people seeing this movie ironically." There are quite a few comments noting the author managed to be both wrong in it being "box office poison" (the movie's opening weekend alone was $389 million worldwide) and right in how it managed to be financially successful (while reviews seem to be pretty mixed, many people appear to have gone to watch it ironically due to word-of-mouth about it being a Guilty Pleasure). The script for the sequel Venom: Let There Be Carnage includes this tongue-in-cheek Retcon:
    TOM HARDY: I'm sorry Venom. The first movie worked beyond anyone's wildest dreams, and our chemistry gained us legions of fans, exactly like the abridged script predicted. I shouldn't have tampered with the formula, except for the rule of sequels kind of demanding that I do that.
  • Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) ends with instead of Tails, the original design for Sonic coming out seeking revenge on the replacement. Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers would feature 'Ugly Sonic' as a character, only he's a chill guy coming to terms with how he was denied his lucky break.
  • In Rogue One, Diego Luna assures Felicity Jones that even though they won't survive the movie, they could come back in prequels. Jones would later reprise Jyn Erso in Star Wars: Forces of Destiny, then Luna would reprise Cassian Andor in the aptly-titled Andor. This doubles as Heartwarming in Hindsight for Luna; despite the script predicting that he would only play a supporting role in a disposable prequel, he instead got to headline one of the most-acclaimed Star Wars TV shows.
  • Before a security guard in Everything Everywhere All at Once Ass Shoves a buttplug-shaped trophy into himself, he remarks, "Hope this movie didn't have any Oscar aspirations." It went on to receive seven Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay.
• Ho Yay:
  • Made fun of in the Men in Black 3 script:
    WILL SMITH: Hell with it. Let's just get out of here before they decide to add some weirdly homoerotic overtones to the end of the movie.
    PITBULL (serenading Tommy and Will over the closing credits): Baby/ My sweet baby/ You're the one.
  • And again in Captain America: The Winter Soldier (not that it was that hard to notice).
    Chris Evans: Don’t you recognize me, Sebastian?
    (trades punches)
    Chris Evans: We grew up together!
    (trades punches)
    Chris Evans: We’re best friends!
    (trades punches)
    Chris Evans: We touched willies once!
  • The theme continues in Captain America: Civil War when Cap meets Black Panther:
    Chris Evans: Hm, I wonder who this mysterious newcomer is, with his ripped body, skin-tight black bodysuit and sexy sharp fingernails... er, um, I mean, beer and sports! Har har. War is hell.
• Like You Would Really Do It: Lampshaded constantly!
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • Gooby and Jack and Jill, well, let's just say the writers are surprisingly good with horror.
  • From Sonic the Hedgehog (2020):
    (On the edge of town, a new PORTAL opens up. A small, FURRY CGI CREATURE hops out.)
    CGI SONIC FROM THE ORIGINAL TRAILER: (eyes glowing red) Must. Kill. Impostor.
    (FLOWERS WILT and BIRD DROP DEAD as the horrible visage speeds towards town.)
• Shallow Parody: Many of the "screenplays" are little more than plot summaries with a snarky, nitpicky, and condescending tone. The script for The Mummy (1999) was especially derided for being very lazy and rushed, with Evey being reduced to a single scene where she's called "Random Female Lead" turning risible given Rachel Weisz became a star afterwards (to the point that in 2020 that script was superseded by one that actually recapped the whole movie).
• Spiritual Successor: To the movie parodies in MAD, and also Mystery Science Theater 3000 and all other forms of MSTing.
• Squick:
  • The script for There's Something About Mary ends every scene with Ben Stiller ejaculating.
  • In The Mummy (2017), Annabelle Wallis reminds the audience that Tom Cruise's stardom is older than she is. This was immediately after mentioning that they'd had sex.
• Tearjerker: The script for Love Actually doesn't miss the fact that Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson and Laura Linney all got completely dicked in this film that celebrates the power of love.
• The Woobie: The Flash (2023) highlights how unfair it is that Michael Keaton's Batman and the newly-introduced Supergirl are doomed to die senseless deaths. The Flash's mother is also given plenty of sympathy for having no purpose but to die so the timeline can be saved, but since she's completely unaware of any of this it means she won't even get the dignity of performing a heroic sacrifice.

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