If you play it backwards....

If you play “Lord of the Rings” backwards…
you get a story of a little mad man who finds a ring in a volcano and walks home with it, gaining more serenity as he goes.
If you play “Rambo” backwards…
you get a story of a man who uses his vacuum gun to miraculously pull bullets out of people and heal them.
If you play “Matrix” backwards…
you get a movie about a guy who decides to ditch the resistance and go take an office job.
Note: All of the above shamelessly stolen from various places around the net.

If you play “The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button” backwards, you get a very ordinary and slightly dull movie.

If you watch the Original Star Wars backwards, you get a story about a guy who retires from fighting with space ships and light swords to go live in the desert.
(Isn’t that what the 3rd prequel was about too?)

If you play Time After Time backwards, you get the story of a genius who responds to modern violence by going back in time to the simpler age of Victorian England and Jack the Ripper.

Friday the 13th (any of them) - Jason comes back from the dead, and so do at least a dozen teenagers who step back from having sex, put their clothes on, walk out of the woods and back into the camp, and finally go home to their parents houses.

If you play “Jerry Maguire” backwards…
you get a movie about an independent agent of a single player who decides to join a much larger firm.

If you play “Dances with Wolves” backwards…
you get a movie about a man who, having lived with Indians for quite some time, decides to go back to “his own people” and join the US military.

If you play Memento backwards, you get a movie that makes sense.

If you play Guys and Dolls backwards, you get two couples breaking up. One of the women returns to her roots as a Christian missionary, while the other becomes a dancer in a nightclub. Both of the men remain friends and become successful professional gamblers.

If you play Scent of a Woman backwards, Col. Slade rips a strip off the Baird School over its treatment of Charlie for witnessing a prank. Then, having made sure Charlie gets his scholarship to an Ivy League college, he and Charlie celebrate by heading off to New York for some adventures. Afterwards, they head home: Charlie returns to school, and Col. Slade returns to his garage, where he smokes cigars and listens to the radio.

If you play Requiem for a Dream backwards, you get a heartwarming story about four people who beat their harrowing drug addictions and go on to lead happy, fulfilling lives.

If you play The Blues Brothers backwards, you see two guys get released from prision as a reward for saving a Catholic Orphanage…

Don’t you mean “released into prison?”

If you play Eraserhead backwards, you get a weird plotless thing that makes no sense whatsoever. Oh wait…

If you play My Cousin Vinny backwards you get the story of two murder suspects who put a can of tuna on a store shelf while on their way to New York.

If you play Gone With The Wind backwards, you get the tale of poor people who fight a war for slavery, and then get rich by having slaves.

If you play Casablanca backwards, you get the tale of a guy who leaves the French Resisance and the woman he loves to open a little bar in some god forsaken desert.

If you played Forward to the Past:
You get the story of Marty McFly as he’s sucked backwards through a vortex into 1955. He then proceeds to single handidly screw up his entire family’s history until every life he touches is destroyed.

I interpreted it as 2 guys sent to prison for stealing the orphanage’s tax money.

If you play 3:10 to Yuma backward, you have a lot of angry people who just don’t want that guy to get off the train.

If you watch Burn After Reading backward, you see that would have been better to off to Burn After Writing.

If you watch Spartacus backwards, you see the Romans rescue Spartacus from near death, give him on the job training as an army general, and then retire him to a gladiator village.

If you play country music backwards, you get your woman back, your dog back, your job back…

If you play new age music backwards, you get new age music.

You are a brilliant person! :smiley:

Actually you get a story of a man who lives his life in an odd world where everyone around him gets younger as he grows older.

if you play The Departed backwards, Marky Mark touches off an epidemic of shambling zombie cops!

If you play Ghost World backwards, Thora Birch shows up on a Bus from Nowhere and carefully repairs every relationship in her life. Early on, she gets Steve Buscemi a job and screws his brains out shortly thereafter. I love this gal!

If you play Raising Arizona backwards, Nicholas Cage steals a football from some kid, sneaks him out a window after a lengthy conversation with his dad, rescues a scary biker and gives money and diapers to a string of convenience stores.

If you play Monk backwards, Adrian springs a guy out of jail, tells him how to commit an ingenious crime, and then goes to therapy while it happens.