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Miscellaneous => General Discussion => Topic started by: theory on July 29, 2014, 02:41:52 pm
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!)
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If you watch FLCL backwards, it makes about as much sense.
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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.
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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.
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If you watch The Muppet Movie backwards, it's not nearly as enjoyable.
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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.
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Porn videos are just palindromic videos.
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Porn videos are just palindromic videos.
Speak for yourself. They call me 'The Arrow of Time'.
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Oh The Places You've Been, by Dr. Seuss
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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
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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.
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If you watch Primer backwards, your understanding of the plot does not change.
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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.
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Groundhog Day: Bill Murray relives the same day over and over.
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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.
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Groundhog Day: Bill Murray relives the same day over and over.
and falls out of love with some woman.
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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.
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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.
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If you watch the first part of Children of Dune backwards, some kids are born and then their father dreams of them as teenagers.
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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.
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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.
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If you watch Primer backwards, your understanding of the plot does not change.
Oh! Another Primer fan. Excellent.
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If you watch Primer backwards, your understanding of the plot does not change.
Oh! Another Primer fan. Excellent.
http://xkcd.com/657/
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The first time I saw this question, the example was Jaws. If you watch Jaws backwards, it's about a shark that vomits out person after person until they all decide to open a beach.
I am +1 pretty much every post here for any media I've watched (or understand well enough). No, I actually haven't watched Fight Club.
Indiana Jones (in general): a highly respected professor and archaelogist steals valuable treasures and artifacts, then goes to great lengths to hide them in various exotic locales and set up numerous dangerous traps to protect them.
The King's Speech: The king's brother gets a divorce, allowing him to take over the throne by some complicated legal shenanigans. The former king is so flustered that he develops a speech impediment.
Gravity: a woman ascends into space where she meets a hansome middle-aged man. Together, they construct a giant telescope out of clouds of debris orbiting the earth.
Romeo and Juliet: two teens wake up in bed together. Juliet is holding a knife and Romeo's spits out a mouthful of poison. They run away from each other, thoroughly distressed and confused, but they run into each other repeatedly even as they try to get some distance. By the time they forget the whole ordeal, they've ignited a gigantic blood feud between their families.
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The Shawshank Redemption: Andy Dufresne crawls through a river of shit to end up in prison
Pulp Fiction: Oddly, not much changes
Lord of the Rings Trilogy: Frodo travels back to the Shire, feeling better as he gets closer to home
The Green Mile: An electric chair brings people back from the dead
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The Internship: Two Google Employees are fired after a painfully slow series of demotions. Fortunately, they are hired by a guy that owns a mattress store, who is, admittedly, kind of an asshole.
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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.
This just destroyed my mind. I probably need more practice in reverse-thinking.
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2001 a Space Odyssey: A cosmic space baby disguises itself as a human astronaut, boards a spaceship and activates a psychotic computer, and then starts making its way towards earth.
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If you were to watch Dr. Who backwards it would be called "Professor Song".
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In the Wolf of Wall Street, a rich pen salesman is sent to jail. He comes out of prison and loses his money on a wild lifestyle of cocaine and hookers before realizing he could be an honest stockbroker.
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The First Pokémon Movie: Mewtwo and his best pal Mew hold a kickass theme party where pokémon fight their clones. One trainer spoils the fun by locking the non-clones inside black pokéballs. Mewtwo promptly releases them and scolds the trainers for abusing their pokémon. This abuse is made apparent again when the trainers have their pokémon travel through a raging storm backwards. Meanwhile, Mewtwo finds work with Team Rocket and begins to resent his old pal Mew, who left the party early. Mewtwo ends up saving one of Team Rocket's labs from a fire, then donates his body to the lab for science.
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Stand by Me: Four young boys get in a fight with some teenagers over a dead body in the woods, then the younger kids follow the older ones back home.
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Dark City: An idyllic floating city is captured by aliens, who vanquish the sun. The most powerful mind in the city is subjugated by the invaders, and he gradually loses his abilities.
Donnie Darko: No, not even.
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In Frankenstein, a monster brings to life a human named Frankenstein who lives in fear of his creator until one day he meticulously dismembers the creature bit by bit.
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A masked superhero who is secretly a news photographer resurrects his best friend's dead father, then loses his girlfriend while cleaning up cobwebs all around the city and also resurrecting his beloved uncle. He then becomes a clumsy teenager when a radioactive spider sucks all of his powers away.
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A young boy destroys an entire fantasy universe with a few wishes, then teleports himself to our world, where he reads about the hero who rebuilds the fantasy universe.
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A group of toys are stolen from a young girl and given to a garbage boy, who takes them to the dump. From there, the toys find sunny side daycare, a hellish torturechamber. After discovering that the daycare is actually pretty nice, they take off to the thief's house, where they are promptly forgotten about.
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A man steps down from a car, and develops a limp as he approaches the police station, where he meets with an agitated police officer who just saw a drawing of his face. Once the police officer calms down, the man proceeds to tell the story of a mythical Turkish criminal mastermind, but he quickly transitions to a made up tale about his team of five overly violent criminals who forced other people to smuggle for them, up until the dissolution of the group. The erratic police officer then speaks to a Hungarian survivor of their first job, who has to remind him that the story was originally about the Turkish criminal mastermind.
Usual Suspects
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After stumbling into a battle on the side of a river between Orcs and an Elf, a Dwarf, a ranger, and a man who rose from the dead, four Hobbits decide to find somewhere safe and quiet to live. Sometimes and old guy with a beard shows up along the way to help them find their new home. One of the Hobbits gives his family ring to the old man to show his gratitude.
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A princess is happily married until her lover gives her the kiss of death. Fortunately, her disguised stepmother is able to revive her with some sort of apple vomit magic. The princess trashes the home of the midgets who were eyeing her dead body, then goes back to live with her mom.
Human laughter no longer functions as a source of usable power. The monsters must turn to more sinister and morally questionable methods in order to preserve their way of life.
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Following a deadly automobile accident, a convict imagines himself to be a young girl who slowly begins resurrecting other people from gruesome murder scenes, who then fight for dominance over the convict's personality.
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Beauty & the Beast: A monster and his human wife are in love but the wife quickly changes her mind and starts inciting mobs with torches to kill the monster. After many failed attempts, the monster is driven into solitude in his castle and the human woman lives happily ever after in the town.
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A man rises from the dead, falls in love with a teenager and ends up jerking off in the shower.
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If you watch The Blair Witch Project backwards, the movie itself ends up never existing.
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Dominion: The Movie
A wealthy lord starts selling his valuable land. He then employs a witch to cleanse his neighbours of curses and a militia to provide them with extra support. Meanwhile the economy he controls is gradually becoming weaker and weaker. Finally, after he has lost almost everything he owns, he goes to a chapel and steals from it a bunch of copper and a few small estates.
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Inigo Montoya kills his father's murderer. Almost immediately, the six-fingered man arises from the dead, and Inigo goes mad, wasting away drunk in a corner and picking fights with the Dread Pirate Roberts to hone his skills. After chasing Roberts off, he returns Princess Buttercup to her castle and vanishes. Fred Savage was not impressed with his story.
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If you watch Memento backwards (which I have done, chapter by chapter) the protagonist becomes a completely psycho asshole antagonist to everyone he meets. Of course, this movie was actually supposed to be watched backwards to get exactly this effect.
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The wheelchair-bound ex-captain of a controversial top-tier high school football team is backed over by an unwary driver, but the accident miraculous heals him. The all-American player returns to the team, which continues to play admirably. However, the team dynamic soon crumbles and friendships dissolve from racial tensions. A tough training camp fails to revive the team's past camaraderie and all involved realize that integration was a bad idea all along. :(
A young widow uses her mystical Japanese sword and various firearms to raise from the dead several more powerful necromancers, as well as their numerous henchmen. The strain causes her to fall into a 4 year coma. When she awakens, she is mysteriously - but joyously - pregnant. At last, she and her necromancer friends gather together in a church to revive her deceased husband. She then annulls the marriage and joins the necromancers in bringing life back to many more lucky people.
Undead "monsters" have the power to bestow true human life upon other undead beings by regurgitating grey matter and human flesh. These noble creatures shamble across a post-apocalyptic landscape, literally giving their all to restore the human race to its former glory. Eventually, the last remaining zombies return themselves to the warmth of the earth to rest. After some time they emerge from their slumber, reborn with a soul. They reunite with their families in the happy ending.
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It's rather amusing how many of these end up with multiple resurrections.
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Once the misunderstanding was cleared up and he understood that the princess was, in fact, held in another castle, the plumber helped Bowser out of the lava pool and repaired his bridge. He left the castle and, on his way home, pulled goombas out of the mud and found shells for many homeless koopas.
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In World War II, a group of men secretly enter Nazi Germany from neighboring countries and are joined by English spies who are freed by the SS. They break into a prison camp using a secret tunnel, which they then fill in behind them, forge their identity papers, and learn how to pass as German citizens.
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A huma spits out a potion that turns him into a llama after deciding to not put his summer house on a certain peasant's hill, then goes on a crazy adventure with some peasant trying to chase down an old lady and large man. Slowly, the peasant convinces the llama to build his summer house on his hill, and the old lady becomes empress. The llama, now much meaner than at the beginning, reaches the castle, spits out a potion that turns him into a human, takes over as emperor, and finally decides to take down the peasant's home and build his summer home on his hill.
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A swashbuckling pirate returns a runaway princess to her kingdom. The pirate is carried into the forest by his two companions, where a weird old man almost kills him. Fortunately, the grateful prince revives him with a giant machine. The pirate repays this act of kindness by running off with the princess again. The two of them journey through a swamp, but then he abandons her on a hillside. The princess joins up with the pirate's former companions one by one and they attempt to chase him down, but eventually outruns them. The companions drop her off at her old kingdom, but years later the pirate shows up again and they finally go to retire happily on a farm.
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It's rather amusing how many of these end up with multiple resurrections.
I was just thinking this... you can get a sense for the "entropy" of a movie by how sensible it works backwards.
Against all calculable odds, bits of space dust coalesce to form a humongous rock hurtling away from Earth, and also Bruce Willis?! So they go to space in order to rescue Bruce Willis.
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An ecstatic man's mood turns sour as he regurgitates green eggs and ham. He proceeds to angrily rhyme about his refusal to try this plate of vomit despite the insistence of some small fellow, although he gradually calms down.
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127 Hours: An uplifting story of a one-armed man who finds a severed arm and attaches it to his body.
Mean Girls: A high school girl becomes so unpopular she moves to Africa.
Superman: Superman flies around putting people in dangerous situations before flying away feetfirst.
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If you watch my league match (http://www.twitch.tv/shecantsayno/b/552458134) against Rabid backwards, I'm actually having a great start.
The real thing went 0-1, 0-2, ... , 0-5, 1-5, with me giving away game 1 through a blunder and doing something totally nonsensical in game 2.
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If you play pacman backwards, it's about a bulimic who chases ghosts through a maze.
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I've always liked Phineas and Ferb, so here goes:
Local boys have mysterious inventions appear in their back yard after a kind pharmicist beams the inventions down to them, but after they let other people enjoy their inventions, they disassemble them for scrap metal, which makes their sister angry. After the man beams down the invention, a platypus is then captured, but always escapes by kicking down the man's front door. Then the platypus gets thanked for his work, reappears after the boys find out he's missing, and the boys then eat breakfast.
EDIT : I know it's a kids show, but I channel surfed, saw the first few minutes, and continued to watch, and I enjoyed it.
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Hugh Grant ditches his American girlfriend to marry an Englishwoman, but leaves her at the altar. He then sees one of his friends die and all his other friends get divorced.
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A group of outlaws give an infinity stone to a fanatic. After deciding it causes conflict with his partner he decides to give it back. The outlaws fly all over the galaxy before deciding to split up and hide the stone on a deserted planet.
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A terminally ill drug lord slowly rebuilds relationships with his estranged family members and dismantles his criminal empire while his cancer goes into remission. In the end, he settles down and puts his "cooking" skills to good use as a high school chemistry teacher.
A huge ensemble cast of (mostly British) characters have flourishing, fulfilling relationships with each other. One month later, at Christmas, all of those relationships begin to crumble. By the end, they have all become strangers.
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A terminally ill drug lord slowly rebuilds relationships with his estranged family members and dismantles his criminal empire while his cancer goes into remission. In the end, he settles down and puts his "cooking" skills to good use as a high school chemistry teacher.
There's a lot of necromancy in this one too.
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A terminally ill drug lord slowly rebuilds relationships with his estranged family members and dismantles his criminal empire while his cancer goes into remission. In the end, he settles down and puts his "cooking" skills to good use as a high school chemistry teacher.
There's a lot of necromancy in this one too.
Makes magical acid solution that puts people back together.
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A terminally ill drug lord slowly rebuilds relationships with his estranged family members and dismantles his criminal empire while his cancer goes into remission. In the end, he settles down and puts his "cooking" skills to good use as a high school chemistry teacher.
There's a lot of necromancy in this one too.
Mortal Kombat even features a twisted necromancy festival as the main plot.
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Winter is Leaving
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Kill Bill: A woman with a magical katana that puts heads back on goes in a murderous rampage until a group finally catches up with her at her wedding and leaves her in a coma.
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Kill Bill: A woman with a magical katana that puts heads back on goes in a murderous rampage until a group finally catches up with her at her wedding and leaves her in a coma.
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A young widow uses her mystical Japanese sword and various firearms to raise from the dead several more powerful necromancers, as well as their numerous henchmen. The strain causes her to fall into a 4 year coma. When she awakens, she is mysteriously - but joyously - pregnant. At last, she and her necromancer friends gather together in a church to revive her deceased husband. She then annulls the marriage and joins the necromancers in bringing life back to many more lucky people.
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Technically speaking, much of what I have here is not much of a spoiler for Guardians of the Galaxy, but there is a rather unexpected post-credit scene that I would not want to spoil for anyone.
A badass group of do-gooders/ne'er-do-wells steals a powerful artifact from the government and creates a mighty warrior out of nothing. After much mayhem, they decide in prison to go their separate ways and get into a fight once they're free. Starlord safeguards the infinity stone on a ruined planet. Meanwhile, the entire time, the comedic relief states, "Groot am I!"
Super secret spoiler:
...after an intro by Howard the Duck
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Kill Bill: A woman with a magical katana that puts heads back on goes in a murderous rampage until a group finally catches up with her at her wedding and leaves her in a coma.
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A young widow uses her mystical Japanese sword and various firearms to raise from the dead several more powerful necromancers, as well as their numerous henchmen. The strain causes her to fall into a 4 year coma. When she awakens, she is mysteriously - but joyously - pregnant. At last, she and her necromancer friends gather together in a church to revive her deceased husband. She then annulls the marriage and joins the necromancers in bringing life back to many more lucky people.
Ah I missed that.
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Any Fred Astaire and Ginger Rodgers Movie: boy gets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.
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After being beckoned by his father, a young man uses mystical powers to ascend from a spaceship to a cloud city, a process that leaves him in deep disarray. His father reminds him of their family ties, which promptly calms him down; he then proceeds to graft an organic hand on his son's stump and unfreeze his closest friend. Then, in direct opposition with his orders, he gives control of the cloud city back to its inhabitants, and sends off the young man with his friends. Despite the show of goodwill, the young man and his friends, with a myriad other rebels helping them, brazenly decide to capture a frozen planet from the official government, establish a base, and go into hiding, much to the displeasure of the young man's father.
Also, the young man goes out of his way to drive a small green hermit living in a swamp into insanity. What a jerk.
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Technically speaking, much of what I have here is not much of a spoiler for Guardians of the Galaxy, but there is a rather unexpected post-credit scene that I would not want to spoil for anyone.
A badass group of do-gooders/ne'er-do-wells steals a powerful artifact from the government and creates a mighty warrior out of nothing. After much mayhem, they decide in prison to go their separate ways and get into a fight once they're free. Starlord safeguards the infinity stone on a ruined planet. Meanwhile, the entire time, the comedic relief states, "Groot am I!"
Super secret spoiler:
...after an intro by Howard the Duck
Something like this?
A group of outlaws give an infinity stone to a fanatic. After deciding it causes conflict with his partner he decides to give it back. The outlaws fly all over the galaxy before deciding to split up and hide the stone on a deserted planet.
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An insane Jack Nicholson is found frozen outside an old country hotel and undergoes a long thawing process of six months. The severe damage leaves him murderous insane, but a controversial therapy based on repetitive typing of meaningless sentences helps calm the insanities down to mild hallucinations, and, eventually, nothing worse than generic alcoholism and unpleasantness towards his wife and child with mildly violent undertones; rehabilitated, he moves back to the small town.
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Technically speaking, much of what I have here is not much of a spoiler for Guardians of the Galaxy, but there is a rather unexpected post-credit scene that I would not want to spoil for anyone.
A badass group of do-gooders/ne'er-do-wells steals a powerful artifact from the government and creates a mighty warrior out of nothing. After much mayhem, they decide in prison to go their separate ways and get into a fight once they're free. Starlord safeguards the infinity stone on a ruined planet. Meanwhile, the entire time, the comedic relief states, "Groot am I!"
Super secret spoiler:
...after an intro by Howard the Duck
Something like this?
A group of outlaws give an infinity stone to a fanatic. After deciding it causes conflict with his partner he decides to give it back. The outlaws fly all over the galaxy before deciding to split up and hide the stone on a deserted planet.
You didn't have the super-secret introduction, Smarty Pants.
Also, I have the memory of a gnat.
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Technically speaking, much of what I have here is not much of a spoiler for Guardians of the Galaxy, but there is a rather unexpected post-credit scene that I would not want to spoil for anyone.
A badass group of do-gooders/ne'er-do-wells steals a powerful artifact from the government and creates a mighty warrior out of nothing. After much mayhem, they decide in prison to go their separate ways and get into a fight once they're free. Starlord safeguards the infinity stone on a ruined planet. Meanwhile, the entire time, the comedic relief states, "Groot am I!"
Super secret spoiler:
...after an intro by Howard the Duck
Something like this?
A group of outlaws give an infinity stone to a fanatic. After deciding it causes conflict with his partner he decides to give it back. The outlaws fly all over the galaxy before deciding to split up and hide the stone on a deserted planet.
I forgot all about that. I have the memory of a short-lived bug.
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Braid's last chapter doesn't change one bit!
Yes, yes, secret ending, I know.
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With this concept, it's a wonder people get healthier in action movies. Guess it's because they get their "shots"( couldn't resist 8)).
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It was a movie about American bombers in the Second World War and the gallant men who flew them. Seen backwards by Billy, the story went like this:
American planes, full of holes and wounded men and corpses took off backwards from an airfield in England. Over France a few German fighter plans flew at them backwards, sucked bullets and shell fragments from some of the planes and crewmen. They did the same for wrecked American bombers on the ground, and those planes flew up backwards to join the formation.
The formation flew backwards over a German city that was in flames. The bombers opened their bomb bay doors, exerted a miraculous magnetism which shrunk the fires, gathered them into cylindrical steel containers, and lifted the containers into the bellies of the planes. The containers were stored neatly in racks. The Germans below had miraculous devices of their own, which were long steel tubes. They used them to suck more fragments from the crewmen and planes. But there were still a few wounded Americans, though, and some of the bombers were in bad repair. Over France, though, German fighters came up again, made everything and everybody good as new.
When the bombers got back to their base, the steel cylinders were taken from the racks and shipped back to the United States of America, where factories were operating night and day, dismantling the cylinders, separating the dangerous contents into minerals. Touchingly, it was mainly women who did this work. The minerals were then shipped to specialists in remote areas. It was their business to put them into the ground, to hide them cleverly so they would never hurt anybody ever again.
The American fliers turned in their uniforms, became high school kids. And Hitler turned into a baby, Billy Pilgrim supposed. That wasn't in the movie. Billy was extrapolating. Everybody turned into a baby, and all humanity, without exception, conspired biologically to produce two perfect people named Adam and Eve, he supposed.
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Earth gets destroyed, leaving Arthur Dent to drift aimlessly with Ford Prefect, Zaphod Beeblebrox, and Trillian in the Heart of Gold spaceship. Zaphod shoots Arthur and Ford into space, but some Vogons kindly pick them up and progressively soothe them through poetry. The trip was not without its tribulations, as Arthur loses the Babel fish in his ear, so now he cannot understand any language other than English. The Dentrassis discover the hitchhikers and teleport them to a new planet just created by the Vogons via tearing up the galactic bypass. Arthur throws up some beer and peanuts and then walks to a new house, built by Mr. Prosser, who is the ancestor of Genghis Khan. Zaphod also drops off Trillian, who then goes to change her name to Tricia McMillian. Humanity loses the use of digital watches, but that was all moot because then God erased his great message, "We apologise for the inconvenience
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It was a movie about American bombers in the Second World War and the gallant men who flew them. Seen backwards by Billy, the story went like this:
American planes, full of holes and wounded men and corpses took off backwards from an airfield in England. Over France a few German fighter plans flew at them backwards, sucked bullets and shell fragments from some of the planes and crewmen. They did the same for wrecked American bombers on the ground, and those planes flew up backwards to join the formation.
The formation flew backwards over a German city that was in flames. The bombers opened their bomb bay doors, exerted a miraculous magnetism which shrunk the fires, gathered them into cylindrical steel containers, and lifted the containers into the bellies of the planes. The containers were stored neatly in racks. The Germans below had miraculous devices of their own, which were long steel tubes. They used them to suck more fragments from the crewmen and planes. But there were still a few wounded Americans, though, and some of the bombers were in bad repair. Over France, though, German fighters came up again, made everything and everybody good as new.
When the bombers got back to their base, the steel cylinders were taken from the racks and shipped back to the United States of America, where factories were operating night and day, dismantling the cylinders, separating the dangerous contents into minerals. Touchingly, it was mainly women who did this work. The minerals were then shipped to specialists in remote areas. It was their business to put them into the ground, to hide them cleverly so they would never hurt anybody ever again.
The American fliers turned in their uniforms, became high school kids. And Hitler turned into a baby, Billy Pilgrim supposed. That wasn't in the movie. Billy was extrapolating. Everybody turned into a baby, and all humanity, without exception, conspired biologically to produce two perfect people named Adam and Eve, he supposed.
So it goes.
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Any hospital show becomes a terrifying butcher shop. Frankenstein-style necromancy is common enough, but the true horror is when perfectly healthy people come in, are surgically disfigured, and then sent off to suffer in death ambulances. I guess the patients get paid for it at least...?
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Hannibal Lector story backwards: Man figures out way to create life by regurgitating food.
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http://www.sporcle.com/games/anodetonothing/if-you-watch-it-backwards
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Any hospital show becomes a terrifying butcher shop. Frankenstein-style necromancy is common enough, but the true horror is when perfectly healthy people come in, are surgically disfigured, and then sent off to suffer in death ambulances. I guess the patients get paid for it at least...?
It's always sipul.