If you watch...

[tongodeon]

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

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[crisper]

BLADERUNNER: a cop fixes a bunch of humanoid androids one after the other before retiring from the force, but he breaks up with his android girlfriend along the way.

STAR WARS: the sudden assembly of a giant battlestation makes a jedi knight forget everything he ever knew about the Force; he lives the rest of his life on a quiet backwater desert world

BENJAMIN BUTTON: A dude lives his life, growing older.

SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE: Billy Pilgrim goes back and forth through his entire life in random-access order.

[qp4]

4 the w1n

[mr_bastian]

If you watch "The Neverending Story" backwards, it's about a little boy who reads a book about another little boy travelling through a developing fantasy world, and ends up returning it to the bookshop where he got it.

[flwyd]

If you watch Requiem for a Dream backwards, it's about a bunch of hard core addicts realizing that they made poor decisions and going back to light drug use, watching TV, and petty crime.

If you watch 2001 backwards, it's about a cosmic childlike intelligence creating an old man on Jupiter who finds a spaceship, repairs a computer, flies to earth, covers up a giant black rock, and dreams of apes.

If you watch Casablanca backwards, it's a about a couple who fly from America to Casablanca for a secret romantic liaison and hashing out old issues.

If you watch The Shawshank Redemption backwards, it's about a guy who sneaks into a prison through a long tunnel so he can help the inmates and administrators.

If you watch Nosferatu backwards, it's about a vampire who attacks a woman in her bed in America and then feels so bad about what he's done that he flees back to his castle in eastern Europe.

If you watch Cool Hand Luke backwards, it's about a rebellious prisoner who calms down and gets released for good behavior.

[eutheria]

I thought this was absolutely hilarious, but after I read him a few, my husband said "you don't have to actually laugh when your friends post things, you can just lie and tell them you thought it was funny."