The good people at Reddit started a thread summarizing the backwards movie plots of their favorite movies. And it seemed pretty clear that Hollywood needs to de-boot (that should be a word) some of these movies plots and repackage them as new and totally different. Here's a bunch of them and I have to say, 127 Hours and Jaws would be huge blockbusters. Here's what some of the most popular movies ever would look like if their plots were backwards:
127 Hours
An uplifting story about a one armed man who attaches a severed arm he found in the desert.
The Blindside
Sandra Bullock is so disappointed in her black son's football playing she abandons him on the side of the road.
Gone in 60 Seconds
Just a bunch of dudes and Angelina Jolie parking cars all over town.
Mean Girls
A high school girl becomes so unpopular she moves to Africa.
Superman
Superman is a total asshole who flies around putting people in dangerous locations then flying away.
BackDraft
It's about an evil fire fighting department, that takes crying people into burning buildings.
Shrek
A sad movie about a divorced ogre who he moves back to the forest and his wife gets way hotter but becomes a recluse and gradually grows to despise a donkey.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
A story about a kid growing up while everyone else gets younger.
Harry Potter
An 11-year-old boy fights three-headed dogs, flies a broom and meets centaurs inside a magical castle, accompanied by an annoyingly smart girl and a ginger. He then awakes from his dream only to find himself in the same cupboard under the stairs he has lived in all his life.
Godzilla
A giant monster that rebuilds Japan and then moonwalks into the sea.
Titanic
A magical boat that emerges from the ocean and saves a bunch of drowning people. They then have an extravagant party to celebrate.
Jaws
A shark throws up so many people that they have to open a beach.
Wall E
A small robot who rids the Earth of humans by putting them on a ship and slowly draining them of their humanity through technology so he can be alone with his girlfriend on Earth. However by doing so he ruins their relationship. After an extended silent treatment, she ends up leaving him and returning to the humans, with nothing but a potted plant to remember her by. Wall•E, now depressed and alone, spends his days forming giant piles of junk.
The Lion King
On the day of the king's son's birth, hyenas cough up a full-grown lion who proceeds to chase off the king. A meerkat and warthog then proceed to drain the king of his life until he is just a cub and flees back to his kingdom. The child king then summons a herd of wildebeests to resurrect his dead father, who holds a celebration for his son's bravery before he is unborn.
Breaking Bad
A man who finds millions of dollars buried in the desert, and uses the money to buy dangerous drugs and turn them into harmless chemicals using his chemistry knowledge. He spends his entire fortune to rid the world of these drugs, until he runs out of money and retires to become a school teacher. He becomes a nicer friendlier man through it, and he also convinces his former business partner to go back to school and become his student.
The Social Network
Two rich guys who hate each other becoming friends as they go broke.
The Sound of Music
A family that moves to Austria for the Nazi occupation. They drift apart due to the mother's constant singing, and eventually the father falls for a baroness, treating the mother as nothing more than hired help. The mother makes the children's clothes into curtains, then leaves to join a nunnery.
Saving Private Ryan
A movie about hanging out with Matt Damon, then getting angry at him and ditching him. Then the rest of the guys walk to the beach, get on a boat and leave France.
Shawshank Redemption
A guy drives from mexico to break into a prison by crawling 500 yards through shit-smelling foulness. Then stays there to launder money, make friends, get raped, and at the end he gets released for being suspected of killing his wife and her lover.
Gravity
After a swim in a pond, a woman discovers a spacecraft under the water. She gets in and it launches her into space where she has to become an astronaut and seeks the company of George Clooney.
Scarface
A man who gives up cocaine and crime to follow his dream of becoming a dishwasher to earn enough money so he can visit Cuba.
Gran Torino
A zombie that gets more and more racist.
Karate Kid
A martial arts champion who is on the top of his game but gets injured. Then he slowly gets shittier at Karate, gets the piss kicked out of him by local teens and finally moves back to Jersey with his mother.
The Crow
The story of a man who wakes up on his own grave and proceeds to resurrect a group of criminals from the dead all the while messing with the mind of a beat cop and a small girl. He finally watches the criminals he brought back to life rape his girlfriend and lives a happy life with her after words.
Fight Club
Edward Norton unshoots himself and gains an alternate personality, Brad Pitt. Brad Pitt slowly turns explosives into soap with the help of some friends who have increasingly bad amnesia and Edward slowly pushes a woman away. Toward the end, Edward grants others the ability to heal people's wounds by punching them and they all move out of a basement and onto the street. After all of his adventures, Edward goes through some counseling and Brad Pitt is no longer needed after helping Edward on his journey. The movie ends with Edward sadly thinking about his adventures.
Alien
An alien containing a massive explosion before running throughout the jungle healing everyone it killed with his advanced medical lasers. As they are healed they join him in healing others with their magic bullet vacuums. Then they all rock out on the way home.
Ocean's 11
11 men have too much money for their own good and so go about surgically placing it in a casino vault without anybody noticing. The whole ordeal ends with a man losing his wife to the casino owner and ending up in jail.
Forrest Gump
An mentally challenged person leaves his son with his girlfriend only to tell people the stories about how evil he was and how he once ruined a persons smiley t-shirt while breaking the record of the world's longest backwards sprint. While trying to break the world record however the people Forest ran with slowly realize how evil he is and stop admiring him. He stops and his handicapped friend invests money into apple and looses money making him forced to sell his prosthetics. Forest tries to become a better person by helping the handicapped man fulfill his dreams of rescuing captive shrimps and releasing them into the wild. They stop after loosing contact and Forest learns chinese to play ping pong but slowly becomes weaker due to an damage in his ass from running so much. Finally ending up at an military hospital he gets his ass fixed and has an reunion with Dan. Dan explains how he want to join the army now and Forest helps him. They join the army during the vietnam war but Forest's evil nature makes him drag damaged soldiers into a fire. While he tries to drag dan into the fire dan realizes how dark and twisted forest is, he tries to escape but fails. However japanese people come to the rescue and give dan new legs. Dan is angry at Forest though and they loose all contact. He meets a man called bubba which is a fan of Forests deeds with rescuing shrimps. They leave the army and forest starts playing american football. He meets up with his girlfriend. But he finally needs crutches from running so much and lives the rest of his life chasing a car and in the end he has a flashback to once where he took a feather out of his book and watched it fly away. tl dr; Forest Gump is an evil man that turns good
Bonus:
Jeopardy
The TV show Jeopardy is rich people paying money for the answers to questions until the go broke.
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