IF YOU WATCH JEOPARDY! BACKWARDS, IT'S ABOUT RICH PEOPLE PAYING MONEY TO GET ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS: Also: "If you watch Harry Potter backwards, it’s about a young wizard who gets sent into witness protection after a violent altercation" and "If you watch 127 Hours backwards, it's a lovely film about a disabled man finding an arm in the desert."
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If you watch Cocoon bakwards it is about aliens giving birth to old people.
ReplyDeleteIf you watch Field of Dreams backwards, it's a movie about a guy who deals with the problem of ghosts taking over his baseball field by tearing up the field and planting corn in its place.
ReplyDeleteIf you watch Love Actually backwards, it's the interwoven stories of a bunch of British men who gradually realize that they shouldn't be dating women who work for them.
ReplyDeleteIf you Watch Gone in 60 Seconds it is a touching story about a bunch of misfits giving cars away to rich strangers.
ReplyDeleteAssuming that we're going with a spoilers-everywhere policy given the nature of the meme, I'll submit:
ReplyDeleteWhen you've watched a movie about a woman who commits suicide but is resurrected for a second chance at life in which she falls in love with a much younger man, plants trees, and steal cars, you've just watched Harold and Maude backwards. As a bonus, you also get a brilliant sequence about how to repurpose a hearse into a beautiful 1971 XKE Jaguar.
(Somewhat related, if you're at all a car nut, and you haven't found the ICDB yet, here's the page for all the cars in Harold and Maude: http://www.imcdb.org/movie.php?id=67185)
Say Anything is the story of a girl who deals with her ambivalence about returning from England with her slacker boyfriend by breaking up with him and spending all her time with her father who has just been released from jail. The boy, in response, spends more and more of his time with his loser high school friends,
ReplyDeleteIf you watch The Godfather backwards, it's the story of how Michael Corleone quits the mob, visits Italy, and joins the Army.
ReplyDeleteIf you watch Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind backwards, it's kinda the same movie.
ReplyDeleteWhich isn't to say I don't love it.
ReplyDeleteI think maybe the way you've done it here is to take the spoilers-everywhere policy a bit far. At least by putting the name of the movie first, a person can choose not to read the rest.
ReplyDeleteIf you watch Legally Blonde backwards, it's the story of a successful trial lawyer who is gradually made dumber by auditing classes at Harvard Law School.
ReplyDeleteThere was a stand-up comedian who did this bit in the 80s. The one that I remember best is "If you watch Jaws backwards, it's a movie about a shark who keeps throwing up people until they agree to open up the beach."
ReplyDeleteIf you watch Casablanca, it's about an idealistic American ex-pat who descends into cynicism after his long-lost love arrives in town by plane, forcing her to sneak away into occupied Europe.
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ReplyDeleteIf you watch Memento backwards, it's not that interesting.
ReplyDeleteIf you watch Memento backwards, it's ... well, never mind.
ReplyDeleteIf you watch the video for "Born This Way" backwards, it's about the entire universe being sucked into Lady Gaga's hooha.
ReplyDeleteIf you watch Gattaca backwards, it's about a man who returns from Saturn, uncremates his friend, hangs out with his fellow astronauts for a long while, then becomes a janitor so he can work out certain childhood psychological issues.
ReplyDeleteThis does work really well with science fiction, I think, because if you watch the Star Wars trilogy backwards it's the story of a boy who wants to run away from his evil father and hide with his aunt and uncle on Tatooine, having to hire a smuggler to help him escape from the Empire and, ultimately, lose the two droids who have been on his tail the whole time.
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ReplyDeleteIf you watch the Princess Bride backwards, it's about how a couple finds true love, is separated by a series of adventures, but finds true love again in the end.
ReplyDeleteIf you watch Dodgeball backwards, it's the story of the owner of a large gym losing in the championship round of the dodgeball tournament and ending up the owner of a crappy gym of misfits. Simultaneously, his girlfriend breaks up with him to become a lesbian.
ReplyDeleteIf you watch Thelma and Louise backwards, it's about how a convertible magically saves two women from a horrible death so that they can uncommit a bunch of crimes and return to their happy and/or disappointing everyday lives.
ReplyDeleteif you watch "The Graduate" backwards, Ben Braddock wins the approval of his girlfriend's parents by sleeping with the mother.
ReplyDeleteIf you watch The Wrath of Khan backwards, an entire planet is stripped of its life in order to bring Spock back to life.
ReplyDeleteThank you, throwers, esp. Adam, for making my day.
ReplyDeleteIf you watch The Wire backwards, it's about institutions failing to change the culture of the drug war or urban poverty, while one drug gang replaces another drug gang, but the institutions carry on largely unchanged.
ReplyDeleteIf you watch House MD backwards, you will witness the healing powers of an MRI.
ReplyDeleteIf you watch the Muppet Movie backwards, you'll see a frog's dreams get crushed after a bizarre accident during the filming of his first motion picture ends up destroying a studio, forcing the frog out of Hollywood and into an arduous journey, ending with him alone and friendless in a swamp.
ReplyDeleteIf you watch Pride and Prejudice backwards, you will see a movie about a wife realizing that her husband acts like a jerk at parties.
ReplyDeleteThis made me laugh so hard I had to shut my office door.
ReplyDeleteThe Wizard of Oz is a palindrome - either backwards or forwards, it's about a girl who talks to a bunch of her friends, has a dream in which she leaves home by air, has a walkabout adventure with a bunch of weird characters who remind her of the friends she talked to before she went to sleep, gets back home by air, and then wakes up and talks to a bunch of her friends.
ReplyDeleteIf you watch Back to the Future backwards, it is a movie about a teenager who, apparently unhappy with his perfect family life and disappointed that armed terrorists were unsuccessful in their attempt to kill the creepy old scientist who hangs around with him, goes back in time and breaks up his parents and prevents the scientist from learning about the terrorists and then returns to future where the scientist is killed and the home life is far less pleasant.
ReplyDeleteDon't forget that the climax of the dream in either direction is killing a wicked witch.
ReplyDeleteI thought it was about the best diagnostician on earth who subjects his patients to a battery of unnecessary tests until, in the end, they get sick again.
ReplyDeleteIf you watch The Breakfast Club backwards, it's about five miscreants in detention hall who over the course of the day realize how little they actually have in common and decide to avoid each other thereafter in school.
ReplyDeleteIf you watch the Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie backwards, it's the story of a girl who puts out a fire at her high school prom, breaks up with her motorcycle-riding boyfriend, and escapes a life filled with vampires and monsters (and a creepy old man stalker) to become a popular high school cheerleader.
ReplyDeleteIf you watch Carrie backwards, it's about a girl who starts killing her high school classmates at prom, and then is subject to comparatively mild social ostracism.
ReplyDeleteIf you watch The Curious Case of Benjamin Button backwards, it's about a man who travels backwards through time as he ages.
ReplyDeleteIf you watch The Naked Gun backwards, it's the same old story: girl dies in tragic blimp accident over the Orange Bowl on New Year's Day, boy remembers girl, boy forgets girl, girl finds boy, boy loses girl, boy finds girl.
ReplyDeleteIf you watch King Kong backwards, it's a movie about a giant ape lost in New York who flies to the top of the Empire State Building to let everyone know he'd like someone to take him home where he can be left alone.
ReplyDeleteIf you watch Twilight backwards, it's about an awkward girl who goes to the prom with a vampire. She then gets attacked by his friends so avoids all of them more and more until they finally stop bugging her, but she moves out of town anyway.
ReplyDeleteIf you watch Hoosiers backwards, a successful high school basketball team, and the coach's relationships, are sabotaged by one of the players' alcoholic father.
ReplyDeleteIf you watch The Biggest Loser backwards, it is about a bunch of thin people who exercise fanatically and gain massive amounts of weight.
ReplyDeleteIf you watch Space Camp backwards, it's about a bunch of teenagers (and "Leaf" Pheonix) who go into space to heal a teacher and fix a space station, then celebrate by going to Space Camp.
ReplyDeleteIf you watch Superman: The Movie backwards, Superman speeds up time in order to kill Lois Lane. He then starts fighting Lex Luthor when Luthor brings Lois back to life. It ends with Marlon Brando showing up out of nowhere and saying that we're all going to die.
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