This reddit thread mentions that "If you watch the movie `Jaws' backwards, it's a movie about a shark that keeps throwing up people until they have to open a beach". I thought it was a funny meme so I've collected the best ones here plus a few that I rewrote or made up. Try posting your own.
- If you watch "Scarface" backward it's about Tony Montana getting a cocaine habit, going broke, becoming a dishwasher, and getting deported back to Cuba to live with his parents.
- If you watch "The Wizard of Oz" backward it's about a girl who gets abducted from a palace by three oddly dressed drifters who abandon her in a Kansas farmhouse.
- If you watch "Memento" backward it makes sense.
- If you watch "The Matrix" backward it's about Neo giving up, taking the red pill, and getting an office desk job.
- If you watch "Borat" backward it's about a kidnapper returning home to Kazakhstan.
- If you watch "Pretty Woman" backward it's about a rich woman becoming a prostitute.
- If you watch "The Day The Earth Stood Still" backward it's about Keanu Reeves discovering that the earth is crap and leaving with a giant robot.
- If you watch "The Shining" backward it's about an alcoholic murderer who gives up drinking and goes on a nice vacation with his family.
- If you watch "The Bourne Identity" backward it's about a secret agent who goes to France to go swimming.
- If you watch "Rambo" backward it's about a guy who heals people with a bullet vacuum cleaner and repairs helicopters with a bow and arrow.
- If you watch "Lord of the Rings" backward it's about a guy who gets a cool ring from a volcano and spends the rest of the movie walking home.
- If you watch the 1997 version of "Episode IV" backward, Greedo shoots first.
- If you watch "Fight Club" backward it's about rehabilitating Ed Norton from a crazy street person into a productive member of society.
- If you watch porn backward it's about a guy who gets a little in the morning before going to work as a deliveryman.
- If you watch "Passion of the Christ" backward it's about a bunch of Jews frantically trying to get this poor man down off a cross.
- If you watch "MacGuyver" backward it's about a guy who breaks machines by removing their paperclips.
- If you watch "Titanic" backward it's about the citizens of Atlantis escaping to the surface world in a giant iron escape pod.
- If you watch "Alice in Wonderland" backward it's about a girl going to sleep in a surreal fantasy world and having a really boring dream.
- If you watch "Batman Begins" backward it's about Bruce Wayne overcoming his bat fixation through aversion therapy after being trapped in a well with thousands of bats.
- If you watch "The Sound of Music" backward it's about a woman who gets so annoyed by singing children that she runs away to become a nun.
- If you watch "Independence Day" backward it's about a race of benevolent aliens who help America found our capital city and establish our government.
- If you watch "Godzilla" backward it's the greatest fire and rescue film of all time.
- If you watch "Schindler's List" backward it's about a guy who gets rich selling Jews to the Nazis.
- If you watch "Oceans Eleven" backward it's about the Rat Pack losing a shitload of money on a really weird casino game.