If you play it backwards....

Rudy

A championship football player is frustrated after being relegated to the bench. Then, he’s kicked off the team.

If you try to play The Neverending Story backward, where do you start?

I think it’s more about how a nice woman keeps healing an injury prone writer, ironic since the movie ends with him in a car crash.

Star Trek II

Spock is sleeping in a pod on a planet. The pod takes him up to a somewhat broken Enterprise, where he wakes up. Spock tinkers with the ship, causing it to fly in reverse only.

Turns out, that planet was actually Khan’s broken space ship in disguise.

Kirk and Khan compete to see who can remotely repair the other ship fastest while flying in reverse.

Kirk takes a break to meet his family in a cave and tour a busted up space station.

The contest resumes, but Kirk completes his repair work on Khan’s ship first. Kirk manages to raise Khan’s shields and lock them on with a special code to signal victory. Khan accepts defeat by backing off after completing his final repair work on the Enterprise.

Khan retires to a planet, generously donating his ship to the Federation and helping some Federation crewmen remove ear worms.

Kirk leaves the bridge of the Enterprise, leaving a lieutenant in charge. The crew takes the opportunity hotbox the bridge and get some sleep. Klingons suddenly appear and suck all the smoke out of the Enterprise for themselves. Having their hotbox ruined, the crew wakes up and backs away.

“For instance, well, if you play it backwards, you see us help King up and send him on his way.”

-Bill Hicks :smiley:

Can someone take a shot at Shawshank? I tried it but got waylaid.

Shawshank Redemption

Two friends, Andy and Red, live on a tropical beach together. They get bored and decide to see what prison is like.

Red puts all his money in a box under a tree. Andy puts all his money in a bank.

Red sweet talks prison officials into letting him in. Andy manages to find a drain pipe that leads into the prison and into a vacant cell.

Before Andy gets into the cell, the warden tries to hide a big hole in the cell wall with a poster. The warden keeps his rock hammer in a Bible in that cell.

Once in prison, the warden finds Andy in the previously vacant cell. The warden apparently figures Andy won’t find the hole or the rock hammer.

Andy finds them both and spends years filling the hole in his prison wall with dirt from the prison yard with the use of the rock hammer he found in the Bible. He uses a vacuum hidden in his pant leg to secretly suck up dirt and rocks from the prison yard.

To pass the time, he learns accounting and does the books for people. Andy apparently screwed up some accounting for the guards and they get angry with him.

Andy is a bit strange, though, as he destroys and seals up the prison library.

A guy named Brooks attempts to hang himself in a hotel, but fails. He volunteers himself to the prison authorities to go to prison for his attempted suicide.

Having finished filling the hole in the wall, Andy refurbishes the rock hammer and gives it to Red, who then sends it away. Apparently, this irritates Andy, and Andy and Red become distant.

Prison officials discover Andy should not be there. They send him to the court to figure out what should be done. The court has the police escort Andy back to society. Red manages to sweet talk the prison board into letting him stay.

No longer friends, Andy steals Red’s money from under the tree, finds a wife, and uses the accounting skills he learned in prison to get an accounting job.

If you play “Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” backward, you get the story of an eccentric candymaker whose factory has been invaded by a bunch of kids and their parents. He searches for them, and each time he finds a child, he makes his Oompa-Loompa workers do something nasty to them to teach them a lesson. When he’s found them all, he lets them eat some candy, and kicks them out.

That’s good stuff.
Rocky IV backwards… Rocky, now a huge star in Russia, leaves the country to go train in the snow by running backwards down hills. Ivan Drago heroically resurrects Apollo Creed, and James Brown is so moved he busts into spontaneous song and dance. Drago has steroids removed from his body.

If you play the Rankin-Bass animated children’s special “Santa Claus is coming to town” backwards, a grumpy old Kris Kringle flies around the world backwards, stealing all the kids presents and leaving them milk and cookies, he then takes the booty back to his North Pole fortress where he has his captured elf workforce deconstruct the presents to their component parts, any wooden presents (most of them) are reconstituted into trees and planted back into the ground