If you watch x backwards, it becomes y

[-Drifter-]

You may or may not be familiar with this meme, but if not, here's the gist: You take a movie and say "If you watch it backwards it becomes a movie about [something completely different]" So for example:

- If you watch Gran Torino backwards, it's about a zombie who becomes more and more racist.

So, what are some of your favorite examples or, alternatively, what are some that you can come up with?

 

[Blemontea]

If you watch Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas backwards its about a druggy driving around backwards and catching grapefruits flying of peoples heads.

 

[Zap Rowsdower]

If you watch Jaws backwards, it's about a shark who unexplodes, throws up a boat, and throws up so many people that they open a beach.

 

[freakydan]

If you watch Scott Pilgrim backwards, it's about a guy who joins a band and is then driven away from his girlfriend by her seven exes, as the band goes from reasonable success to obscurity.

Captcha = studies iverYoun ...huh?

 

[Dogstile]

If you watch Charlie and the chocolate factory backwards, its about a man who cures kids of horrible afflictions through his machines before sending them back out into the world as poor as they were before.

 

[Shadow_Bunnies]

If you watch Star wars backwards you'll see it's about space Jesus who creates planets out of fire and is constantly fighting the evil rebellion that wants to stop Vader from making the universe a better place.

 

[Shimmyshake]

If you watch the Lord of the Rings backwards, it's about a pair of small volcanologists who reverse catastrophic seismic damage by removing the small catalyst and then traveling across the land to heal orcs and hide the catalyst in a small country town.

 

[Xpwn3ntial]

If you watch Pulp Fiction backwards, it is more or less the same.

 

[Hashime]

Because the PS3 users just got the game:

Spoiler

If you play mass effect 2 backwards it is about a man rebuilding a reaper and dooming the galaxy while destroying his interpersonal relationships leading to his demise through 2 years of torture and deconstruction after which he is deposited in space.

 

[SeaCalMaster]

If you watch Jeopardy backwards, it's about people paying money to receive cryptic answers to really stupid questions.

 

[TwistedEllipses]

If you watch Benjamin Button backwards, it's very unremarkable...

 

[billy-j]

If you watch 127 hours backwards it becomes a heart-warming story about a dismembered man being reunited with his lost arm in the middle of the desert

 

[theheroofaction]

If you watch any Indiana Jones movie backwards it's about a man who steals artifacts from museums so that he can put them into their original surrounding and rearms the traps to stop people from getting them.

 

[DasDestroyer]

If you watch How to Train your Dragon backwards, it's about a boy who tamed a wounded dragon, and how the dragon heals, gets pissed off and attacks the boy and his tribe. Oh, and there's this huge dragon who appears out of an explosion.

CAPTCHA seems to be into programming lately: areaRG integer.

 

[Plucky]

If you watch Ponyo backwards, its about a Human girl that regurgitates blood into another human then turns to a goldfish.

Never watched Ponyo though, so its more of an assumption.

 

[Thaluikhain]

If you watched Quantum of Solace backwards, you'd still wish you hadn't mocked Moore era bond films.

 

[A random person]

If you play Tales of Symphonia backwards it's about a guy who destroys a tree, revives some angel-dude, splits the world in half, and breaks up with friends as their relationships regress and, in one case, they become enemies. He finally retires in his home-town to complete his studies, accepting the truth about his paternity as if he forgot about it.

If you watch a Fist of the North Star episode backwards, it's about a guy who mutters a spell and massages mangled corpses to revive horrible mutant gangsters.

If you watch Nanoha backwards, it's about the main characters best friends' mother being revived and progressively driving them apart, until Nanoha finally stops bothering Fate, gives up her magical girl powers to another friend of his, and he goes on to live as a ferret.

 

[TwistedEllipses]

If you watch Godzilla backwards its about a Monster's grand civic building project and then retirement in Tokyo bay...

 

[Impluse_101]

If you watch Twilight backwards, its pretty much still the same crap- OBVIOUS JOKE IS OBVIOUS.

If you watch Totoro backwards, its a story of two girls who hop off a catbus and join the human world as the little one searches the enviroment while the other obvserves the people from the catbus from time to time, then finding a host parent to move into another city while riding inside the back of a truck.