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[theory]

How are movies or TV shows different if you watch them backwards? 

• In The Blind Side, Sandra Bullock is so disappointed in her black son's football play she abandons him on the side of the road.
• In Jeopardy, rich people pay Alex Trebek money for oddly specific answers to very generic questions.
• In Lord of the Rings, eagles drop some hobbits into an erupting volcano, and the hobbits are forced to embark on an epic trek back to the Shire.

[Awaclus]

If you watch Death Note backwards, it's about a serial necromancer who works with a crack team of police to cover up his identity.

[Teproc]

In the Curious Case of Benjamin Button, everyone has a weird disease where they get younger as time passes, except for that one guy who is perfectly normal.

[jonts26]

If you watch twilight backwards, it's a bout a girl who moves to Phoenix to get away from her stalker.

Also, inb4 still a better love story than twilight.

[Kirian]

If you watch Memento backwards, it's about a guy searching for the person who killed his wife, but has anterograde amnesia and can't remember what happened five minutes ago without writing it down.

Edit:  Post 4500 !  (Not to be confused with post 4500!)

[A Drowned Kernel]

If you watch FLCL backwards, it makes about as much sense.

[KingZog3]

If you watch Fight Club backwards, it's about a guy who creates a second personality for himself and moves into a nice apartment that is recently renovated from being blown up.

[GendoIkari]

If you watch Godzilla backwards it's about a giant lizard who helps rebuild a half burnt down city then moonwalks back into the ocean.

[LastFootnote]

If you watch The Muppet Movie backwards, it's not nearly as enjoyable.

[SirPeebles]

In the three little pigs, a wolf gets out of a bath and then builds houses for ungrateful pigs by deeply inhaling in front of a pile of materials.

[soulnet]

Porn videos are just palindromic videos.

[SirPeebles]

Porn videos are just palindromic videos.

Speak for yourself.  They call me 'The Arrow of Time'.

[SirPeebles]

Oh The Places You've Been, by Dr. Seuss

[soulnet]

Speak for yourself.  They call me 'The Arrow of Time'.

This seems relevant: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1318#comic

[Witherweaver]

If you watch Memento backwards, it's about a guy searching for the person who killed his wife, but has anterograde amnesia and can't remember what happened five minutes ago without writing it down.

Edit:  Post 4500 !  (Not to be confused with post 4500!)

I was going to do this one.  Notably, the first time I saw Memento, I walked in while my roommate was watching it about halfway through and watched it to the end.  Then, later, I watched the entire thing.  So, I saw the  movie more in order than  most people.

[Witherweaver]

If you watch Primer backwards, your understanding of the plot does not change.

[KingZog3]

If you watch Primer backwards, your understanding of the plot does not change.

I was going to do this one, but thought no one would have seen it. However, if you watch it 5 times in reverse, you still only get the gist of it.

[SirPeebles]

Groundhog Day:  Bill Murray relives the same day over and over.

[DG]

In the Magnificent Seven, outlaws attack a peaceful Mexican village because there are a few gunfighters in town. More gunfighters show up, and one of the farmers joins them too, making their number up to seven. The bandits are driven off and the peasants pay the gunfighters to leave town. The farmers don't have much but it is enough to persuade the gunfighters to go.

[Witherweaver]

Groundhog Day:  Bill Murray relives the same day over and over.

and falls out of love with some woman.

[Grujah]

If you watch Memento backwards, it's about a guy searching for the person who killed his wife, but has anterograde amnesia and can't remember what happened five minutes ago without writing it down.

Edit:  Post 4500 !  (Not to be confused with post 4500!)

Damn, this was going to be mine.

If you watch American History X backwards, it's about a guy who goes to prison after a black kid kills his brother, so he turns into a racist Nazi skinhead.
If you watch 12 Angry Men backwards, it's about 12 jurors about to acquit a young man accused of murder, than reconsidering the case they convict him.

[theory]

If you watch American History X backwards, it's about a guy who goes to prison after a black kid kills his brother, so he turns into a racist Nazi skinhead.

But he does come up with ingenious ways to restore people's teeth.

[Witherweaver]

If you watch the first part of Children of Dune backwards, some kids are born and then their father dreams of them as teenagers.

[DG]

In Total Recall, Arnie is a secret agent who uses alien machinery to create an atmosphere on Mars. This makes him an enemy of the governor who sends hit men to kill him. However he keeps seeing visions of a doctor who tells him he needs to swallow a 'pill' to return to reality. He therefore flies to earth in disguise and visits the doctor, but the treatment goes wrong and Arnie escapes. Reality has changed though and he finds himself married to a woman who had tried to kill him on Mars. She's cute though so he decides to forget everything and settle down to a new life as a miner.

[AndrewisFTTW]

If you watch Rat Race backwards, Whoopi Goldberg, Jon Lovitz and a bunch of other scumbugs steal two million dollars that was going to charity from Smash Mouth while they're on stage and proceed to drive backwards all the way to Las Vegas, endangering thousands of innocent civilians along the way.