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Movies Told Backwards

hurtinbuckaroo said:
Lawrence of Arabia - Sharply dressed white guy single-handedly saves the Turkish army from multiple Arab attacks, causes the disintegration of the Arab National Council, and then reveals himself to be an undercover British officer.
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So.... history, mostly.
 
SING!
Beautiful old theater in a world of anthropomorophic animals falls apart. Friends get together and have a wildly-successful music festival for its benefit. Reconstruction is delayed by constant impromptu singing breaks and growing personal issues that were ignored for the festival.
Eventually the Koala producer and his crazy lizard secretary are left alone, gazing wistfully at pictures of the planned reconstruction.
 
The 13th Warrior
Viking Necromancy. In 922, a Muslim Explorer (kind of lapsed) watches a band of Vikings resurrect their greatest leader to face a horde of zombie horsemen.

Eventually the zombies prove too much and the heroes retreat to the south where they get lost in the boundaries between civilizations.
The Muslim goes home, writes up his adventures and breaks up his affair with the Sultan's wife.
 
Star Wars

The movie starts with some sort of ceremony, where medals are given to people. Maybe some sort of sporting event like the olympics? Or a literary or science prize. We have no idea. Then these sportsmen/authors/scientists go fly out to space to celebrate, until a huge space station materializes out of nowhere. They have to take some swift evasive action near its surface to avoid collisions. One of the medalists and his hairy buddy says, "fuck this shit" and flies away almost immediately. The shorter fellow is apparently distracted by some hallucinations and he takes longer. But in the end, most of the fliers are able to get away safely.

Then they go back to the planet and wonder what the heck happened. A small robot shows blueprints of the mystery globe on a computer, so obviously they know something about it. The coward who flew away during the crisis comes back as if nothing happened. He flies the little guy, the princess, and two robots out of the jungle planet in his clunky space ship. The little guy is sad, maybe because he has to leave his jungle friends behind. They head for the giant space orb to find an old guy, who is the same person from the hallucinations from earlier, fight with a Darth Vader. After bumbling about in a garbage compactor disguised as robots, they all reunite and get back in their ship. Except for the princess who stays behind because she needs a vaccination against space covid.

Our olympic medalist heroes and the old dude seem confused, because they think there ought to be a planet where they are but there are just some asteroids. They shrug and head to a desert planet, where they end up fighting in a bar and split up again. The owner of the ship goes his own way, the old guy, the young dude, and the two robots continue their journey. The old guy retires in his cave eventually, the young man is reunited with his foster parents, and presumably lives happily ever after, and the droids find a space capsule in the desert which they use to fly to the orbit where the princess and Darth Vader are waiting for them. The end.

We never find out what the medals were for, except that it's probably not basketball. Maybe in a prequel.
 
Having won a contest, out heroes take a vacation to a large moon like station and enjoy some fighter racing. After the vacation they all get together to watch a slideshow of the vacation.

Afterwards, they fly away, give a large moon worm a tracheotomy, drop the princess off in prison, and pick up an old hitchhiker / surgeon who was heading to the same planet they were.

Surgeon helps cauterize an arm back into place and drops Luke off at home where he then sells the droids to buy power converters.
 
Elvira, Mistress Of The Dark
Backwards, it's just a vehicle for Elvira's [admittedly glorious] rack, with a few other gratuitous shots of her legs, ass, hair. Oh, wait, that was the actual release. Hang on. Backwards, on hang. Release actual the was that, wait, oh. Hair, ass, legs her of shots gratuitous other few a with, rack [glorious admittedly] Elvira's for vehicle a just it's, backwards.
 
Fight Club - A movie about a modern-day Jesus attempting to rescue God's children by beating life into them. After many resurrections, he leaves a self-contradictory warning for mankind.
 
Mad Max: Fury Road.

A truck goes one way, then turns around and goes the other way. Max ends up on his own.

I guess Fury Road is the palindromes of movies.
 
Your submission reminded me of:

Duel (1971)

After witnessing a horrific truck accident, traumatized businessman David Mann starts hallucinating visions of the doomed truck and driver, uncannily following him and getting involved in more horrific accidents. But with the help of many odd strangers he meets on a long road trip through the desert, he gradually recovers. His visions become gradually less violent in character, and less frequent. As the film ends, he sees the truck pass him on the highway one last time, and he sighs, knowing that he has come to accept the dangers of the road without being unhealthily obsessed with them.
 
Maybe someone else can do it justice but in honor of what I still think is a masterpiece, I have to try. :whistle:

Citizen Kane: A borderline human who ages backward (like Mark Zuckerberg) wakes and speaks his first word; "Rosebud". He then sets off on a journey to find its meaning. Capitalizing on himself being a media magnate he used his powers to gaslight the public into leading the way. After finally finding his mother she presents a document explaining everything before watching from a window as Mark Zuckerberg(?) played with a slay called Rosebud.
 
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