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YTNOM LLUF EHT - Unconventional male strippers give up the business and go to work in a factory.

NWAD DER: The Kindly Soviet Army find a rag tag bunch of lost teenagers and help them find their way back home to their parents.

KRA TSOL EHT FO SREDIAR: A box is pulled from a warehouse and is hidden in Egypt.

GNICNAD YTRID-Baby gradually gets put in a corner.

TNORFRETAW ETH NO

Terry Malloy dives up his dream of being a prize fighter and instead takes a one-way ride to Palookaville.

Wait, are we limited to 80's movies, or any movies?

Posted by: El L Cool J at October 19, 2011 4:38 PM

Right there. Winner.

As keeper of EE, I would like to thank Dustin Rowles personally for this article. Obrigado, Dustin!

ANIHC ELTTIL NI ELBUORT GIB

Jack Burton is a truck driver that is charming and heroic in spite of being extremely full of himself and a bit of a doofus.

Hmmm...that one works the same in forward or reverse.

FFO YAD S'RELLUEB SIRREF: Ferris Bueller, dying from kidney failure, is given one last day of freedom by his best friend Cameron before returning home to die. Cameron is left in the midst of a crippling depression, after his girlfriend confesses that she really love Ferris all along.

GNIHT EHT

A quirky alien discovers a scientific expedition that has fallen to pieces in Antarctica. It uses its unique ability to "fit in" to help put the station back together and once again create an atmosphere of camaraderie amongst the crew members. Its job done, it shape-shifts into a dog and runs off to the nearby Norwegian camp to lend them a hand.

8-1 HT31 EHT YADIRF: Angelic hockey player give life to chaste teenagers before tragically dying in a series of uplifting films.

GNINIHS EHT

Jack and his family realize the hotel is haunted and get the fuck out of there.

MOOD FO EHT DNA SENOJ ANAIDNI - Indiana Jones and companions lead village children to diamond mine where they are enslaved by a heart surgeon.

Double dog dammit!

Neila - Ellen Ripley and the crew of Nostromo must return a xenomorph back to its egg to restore it to its original form.

POC NETRAGREDNIK

An Austrian baby must disguise himself as a cop and infiltrate the force in order to find out who the mystery robber of pacifiers is. Hilarity ensues.

Take two. Got beat to the punch on the last one.

DEDULCNI TON SEIRETTAB*

A sci-fi horror film in which malicious alien-robots harass an elderly couple and destroy their home, despite the best efforts of a friendly Latino stereotype.

DIK ETARAK

The Righteous and Pacific Cobra Kai Club must fight a rebel fighter intent on destroying their peaceful ways. They must also defeat his evil, scheming master, a PTSD-crazed WW2 veteran intent on shedding the blood of his enemies.

NOTTUB NIMAJNEB: Child grows old normally and eventually dies of old age.

Dov Charney?

OWT TRAP HTNEETRIHT EHT YADIRF: A masked surgeon uses a machete to perform emergency surgery on victims of horrible accidents whose friends left them for dead, and makes them completely whole. At the end of the movie, the surgeon cures a young girl, granting her his powers and setting up a sequel that starts with the young girl performing a sudden head attachment on the surgeon's mother, who then goes on to save countless other lives.

seldnaC neetxiS: Nerd learns to drive stick but never gets a girl's underpants, cute guy Jakie Poo sticks with horrific shallow girlfriend, Long Duc Dong disappears into a tree, never to be seen again while a young girl wakes up thankful for never having been felt up by her grandmother.

NAMOW YTTERP

Millionaire and his wife fall out of love. Wife begins life anew as a hooker.

T.E. - Sick alien is dropped off on earth. He regains his strength by stealing the magic powers from a group of willfull teenagers, who are so upset that they leave the alien to die in a make-shift Government holding facility. Eventually the alien escapes and the children hide the creature until things die down.

Alien vomits Reeces Pieces and one of the boys collects them in a bag.

That was freaky.

ODNAMMOC

Realizing the military will never recognize his same-sex union, John Matrix tearfully abandons Bennett, his longtime companion, and says a series of heartfelt goodbyes to old comrades before retiring from the Army to live a life of sorrowful exile with his adopted daughter, Alyssa Milano.

SEMAGRAW

A room full of happy people decide to decline a game of chess in favor of a game of tic-tac-toe. Much to their dismay, one sociopathic kid (Broderick) decides he'd rather play a game with maps and more colors. Everyone hates "Risk", so they force him to leave their secret mountain club house. Traveling home, he finds himself enjoying the game more and more, despite the time commitment forcing his girlfriend (Sheedy) to leave him. The film ends with the boy changing his grades to lower them, in hopes of getting held back and having more time to spend with the game.

Working Title for 2012 Reboot: WarcraftGames

Gnihtyna Yas, Frasier's Dad saves mouthy girl from kickboxing early version of John Cusack's character in Grosse Point Blank. Finishes with crap graduation speech but Frasier's dad is a great father so laughs before the joke.

SRORROH FO POHS ELTTIL

A giant plant produces a bunch of assholes from it's mouth until it shrinks and disappears in an eclipse.

FLOWNEET

A star basketball player loses the love of his life when he becomes a werewolf and starts dating a bimbo. Instead of helping his team win championships, he begins to hog all the glory for himself and to neglect his good friends. In the end, the werewolf curse reverses and, with it, whatever talent he once had. The star team has lost its groove, due to a season of depending on one player, but their now shared lack of ability brings together old friends. The bimbo is no longer interested and, after one last makeout attempt in a closet, the basketball player and his lady love decide to just be friends.

YLF EHT-Heartwarming romance where a horrible mutant invents a teleportation/gene splicing device to turn him into a handsome scientist and win the woman he loves.

TROPSDOOLB- JCVD kicks people then goes home. Another cinematic palindrome.

SEINOOG,
A rag-tag group of young historians struggles to place stolen treasure back onto a pirate ship. After doing so they must chase a family of criminals trying to steal the treasure out of a series of caves, resetting booby traps along the way to stop others from stealing the treasure later. Upon chasing the criminals out of the caves the kids steal a bunch of bicycles and ride back to their secure homes and the criminals turn one of their brothers over to the authorities.

...I'll take a large.

DAUQS RETSNOM- Dracula comes to town to stop a rag-tag group of kids from taking over the world with a shiny jewel, while Frankenstein makes passes at said kids.

TSOHG-Gripping tale of supernatural terror-Patrick Swayze is brought back from the dead by Whoopie Goldberg as an evil spirit. He forces Demi Moore to make crappy pottery until he's shot at the end. (Spoiler!)

paT lanipS sI sihT A hardcore hair metal band turn it down to -11.

I understand younger folk not getting what a 'hardcore hair metal band' might be, but kids those were the times we lived in. Be grateful for small mercies. Or sad about missing out on AWESOME. Your call, you're adults now,

EVOL EM YUB T'NAC: A girl begins to fall slowly out of love with her cool boyfriend when he starts dressing like a dork and behaving awkwardly around her friends. The last straw is when he robs her of $500. They never speak again.

SEPIRTS

Bill Murray and Harold Ramis flee their Soviet Homeland after rebuilding an army base, become a song and dance group in America, grow their hair long and wind up falling through the cracks of America's poor Veterans program. In the end, Murray has lost everyone he loved and winds up driving a cab in Louisville, where he's so starved he picks up pizza off the street.

NODROG HSALF

An upstart Earthling quarterback discourages a rebellion in the distant intergalactic kingdom of Mongo, forcing Vultan, Prince Barin, and the other denizens to suffer under the cruelty of Ming The Merciless. Ming's daughter Princess Aura, who had been displaying unusual flashes of humanity, retreats into duplicitous, sex-crazed sexiness. Out of gratitude, Ming sends Flash, Dale Arden, and Hans Zarkov back to Earth and ceases a catastrophic assault on their home planet.

POC SLLIH YLREVEB

A mouthy police officer assists a bunch of criminals in shipping drugs out of the country. He slowly alienates all his coworkers and is transferred to Detroit.

Daed Gnivil Eht Fo Nruter
Renegade artillery specialist halts a tactical nuclear deployment, a girl's boyfriend is brought back from the undead, another girl is reunited with her clothes and the boyfriend and his new coworker save the world from a zombie outbreak by tightly sealing up the Trioxin agent.

NIUQENNAM

A man gets married to the woman he loves at the department store where he works, but tragedy strikes when an ancient curse takes into effect and changes her into a mannequin. Gradually, his life falls apart as he loses his sanity, gets demoted, loses his sassy best friend and eventually, falls out of love of with her. As 'Everything Stopped Us', (sung by Rihanna!) plays mournfully in the last scene, he forgets she ever existed.

Oscar gold right there.

ERUTUF EHT OT KCAB: a teen from the 1980s uses a crazy scientist's Delorean time machine to go back to the 1950s, meets his teenage parents, and then returns to the 1980s.

NIAR ELPRUP: A successful musician alienates his audience, band, and girlfriend with a harrowing performance of "Little Nikki" after hearing of his abusive father's suicide. His career dwindles into non-existence until he too commits suicide in the waters of Lake Minnetonka.

NOOCOC

Aliens land on earth under the guise of senior citizens in hopes to commit slow suicide by water.

Pocobor

A pacifistic robotic policeman in a futuristic utopian Detroit finds love and acceptance on his mission to find a mysterious do-gooder.

Tagline: "Iron skin, heart of gold. Pocobor"

Pet-Oh AbbuB: Elvis Presley, an old man in a retirement home, teams up with a black man to fight mummies that make people younger. He then magically becomes younger and becomes the musician he was supposed to be all his life, dethroning an imposter paid by himself. The black man is then caught by the CIA, who subsequently turn him into a white man who gets elected as John F. Kennedy.

ECNEICS DRIEW:
A beautiful mysterious woman ruins the lives of two suddenly popular teens, magically revirginizing them, causing them to become horrible geeks that wear bras on their heads.

TCEJORP ECNEICS YM

John Stockwell watches as dinosaurs and Vietcong are sucked into a machine that is unplugged by Dennis Hopper. Stockwell rises out of junkyard, retracts a middle finger device into his car, and returns home to worry about grades. Fisher Stevens laughs and is awkward.

You picked absolutely the right decade for this, because it makes just as much sense in reverse.

Man reading these has reminded me just how hard it is to read things backwards.

GNITTOPSNIART

Taking drugs to Edinburgh turns out to be a BAD THING.

HTNIRYBAL: A woman parties with some goblins, but reveals her true nature when she callously breaks Jareth's heart time and time again. He gives her gifts, even takes her to a ball where he professes his undying love, and in return she leads an insurgency against him. Eventually, though, the goblins begin to question Sarah's legitimacy and leadership, eventually abandoning the revolt and leaving her to struggle alone and find her way home (a lot of grunting, sighing and complaining ensue)

She also keeps complaining about some baby, but when he gives it to her, she just complains. WOMEN!

Nug Pot

rejects from the school of fighter pilots come together to form a homosexual grow operation located in Berlin. eventually they all asphyxiate from a deadly combo of pot smoke and pubes.

LIZARB - Despite the bleak take on society in the future, everyone lives happily ever after.

OBMAR VI: The SEARCH for OBMAR BIN NIDAL

Obmar gets called out of retirement for one last mission to join a LAES team to do one last blacks ops mission to shoot someone's face off (shot if shaky handicam...real life footage)

YAD GOHDNUORG

A kind, wise weather man who has life and the universe fully in perspective is gradually driven insane, as he is forced to relive the same day over and over again. The nightmare finally ends when he completely drives the love of his life away from him and becomes the epitome of cynicism, giving up the bucolic small-town life of Punxsutawney for a profitable but spiritually empty existence in Pittsburgh.

Sraw Rats - In the aftermath of a surprise terrorist attack against a new peace-keeping space station, the Galactic Empire pursue those responsible. Leading the investigation from the repaired space station is Darth Vader, a loyal servant of the Empire. Upon discovering that his children were involved in the terrorist plot, Vader blows up the planet he suspects of housing the terrorists in order to destroy evidence implicating them. He then allows his daughter to escape and strands his son on a desolate planet in the middle of nowhere, having already resurrected his old mentor Obi-Wan Kenobi so that he could watch over the boy and make sure he stays out of trouble.

OOLAGOOB CIRTCELE 2 'NIKAERB -

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LRIG YELLAV - A teenage girl leaves her weird boyfriend and learns the value of fitting in with her peer group.

GNIHT THGIR EHT OD A group of blacks and Italians work together on the hottest day of the year to stop a riot from happening by setting a good example of how to get along.

This is too much fun! and I noticed that no one has done the header picture yet...

YLLAS TEM YRRAH NEHW: The chronicle of a man and woman's purely platonic friendship, completely free of sexual tension or innuendo. After having a few random encounters over the years, they eventually lose interest and drift apart forever.

DRAOBREVO: A bitchy housewife is pulled from the water by a rich yachtsman, and learns to find happiness living as a spoiled princess.

EVIL YEHT: In the future, an alien culture invades Earth and uncovers the secrets of corporate and government subliminal manipulation. Rowdy Roddy Piper stars as the rebel who discovers the secret of the alien's sunglasses, which allows the wearer to live in blissful ignorance and mindlessly consume himself into submission. Piper and his band of followers overthrow the aliens and the reinstated politicians subsequently pick him to run the Office of Homeland Security.

This is one of my favorite Pajiba threads ever. Thanks for the fun creativity, all!

OOLAGOOB CIRTCELE 2 'NIKAERB.

To their chagrin a group of idiot kids don't learn that breakdancing will cost you everything including your youth center. A Very Special Movie of The Week.

***"Ma Christine Lahti's and Pa Judd Hirsch's twenty-year plan"

Dammit.

OOLAGOOB :2 'NIKAERB
A crew of classically trained ballet dancers try to prevent construction of a community rec center in an affluent neighborhood because they fear it will devalue their pristinely landscaped, whitebread gated community.

RETHGIFRATS TSAL EHT

An intergalactic war hero repopulates a galaxy with weird reptilian creatures and then becomes a pacifist, retiring to a trailer park and mourning his lack of acceptance to technical college.

NUG POT
A classic tale of male bonding and competition, set around a group of former fighter pilots who now provide guidance to military drones. The drone program is led by a semi-attractive woman who knows almost nothing about military strategy or male behavior patterns. The two main protagonists have a history of conflict and reluctant collaboration, from their days in fighter pilot flight school. [I think we can figure out the casting here.]

The competitive natures of the former jet jockeys threatens the overall military objectives, as they seek to intimidate or undermine each other, and yet once confronted with a serious external threat, they put aside their differences, and figure out how to use their respective strengths to help the military target a remote terrorist leader squirreled away in a desert stronghold.

The denouement arrives as the two men confront the fact that their value to military has eroded to the point that they offer merely clues as to human tactical thinking, and are obsolete in terms of actual combat. Do they continue to offer their assistance, in the face of their realization? Or does this existential crisis play out in a more personal and profound way?

Daed Ffo Retteb: Moody teen Lane Meyers repeatedly ignores his French foreign exchange student girlfriend, Monique, busying himself instead with several suicide attempts. In the process, he climbs up the slopes of the K-12, pursues his newspaper boy, and wins drag races against some Korean twins. He eventually drives Monique to the arms of his socially awkward neighbor, Ricky, and finds love and happiness with a new blonde girlfriend.

Rubble44: That's what me and my gay friends do during any given activity.

WEIV A HTIW MOOR A: A woman in a passionate, sexual marriage leaves her husband to embrace rigid conventionality with a boring suitor in middle class rural Britain. (Director's note: the story should function as a metaphor for gay men returning to the closet, all the better to reflect our times)

ONACLOV EHT SUSREV EOJ - A god is born out of fire; the villagers give him and his girlfriend a feast. He sails with her to Los Angeles and then flies to New York, where he sells some luggage. Deciding that he is sick of Meg Ryan's ever-changing hair styles, he fakes a brain cloud to get rid of her and goes to live a meaningless existence working in an office building.

FFO YAD SRELLUEB SIRREF: A privileged young ne'er-do-well avoids all responsibility until his comeuppance comes in the form of a crippling disease

Eyepop- A strong, yet waterfearing man finds his inner weakling by embracing everything he is not.

Despite a weak cast and a poor special effects budget and being filmed in the tundra, this film is a raging success.

ESOOLTOOF-A conservative Midwestern town is horrified, confused and strangely aroused by Kevin Bacon's bitchin' 80's dance moves. As a result they outlaw dancing, and drive he and his mother back to the big city.

SELIBOMOTUA DNA SNIART, SENALP

Starting with a close up of the late John Candy's face, Del Griffith arrives at the home of his friend Neil Page on Thansgiving Day to escort him back to an important marketing meeting in New York.

Along the way, they remodel a motel room, repair a rental car, and make almost $1,000 when a kindly local breaks into the Braidwood Inn and puts money in their wallets.

HTNIRYBAL

Jennifer Connolly spurns the advances of David Bowie's bulge and then steals his baby.

SYUG EHT FO ENO TSUJ

Delicate crossdresser gets fed up with being geeky bully-bait in love with his charming and offbeat buddy (who, of course, doesn't think of him in "that way") so transforms himself into a brainy chick who looks incredible in a teeny bikini and hooks up with college douches.

Hijinks pretty much cease.

NAMREPUS- The intricate portrayal of a man overcoming the Hoveround, donning a cape, flying backwards, and then finding happiness as a member of the press (and modeling Armani).

KCAHSYDDAC - A groundskeeper builds a private golf course with the help of a loveable gopher.

THGIN THGIRF - A popular but troubled teen who wants to be young forever seeks out a vampire to convert him, only to find the vampire unwilling as he hates his own eternal life and thinks he would be better off dead. He seeks the help of the boy's mother, who is horrified by her son's plan, and together they seek to rescue the kid from his own immature and twisted dreams.

Ecneics Dreiw - Two cool young guys, one with a hideously deformed brother, thwart a sex crazed woman with strange powers who is terrorizing their town. They turn her into a doll, in the process alienating their girlfriends and turning the brother into a raging douchenozzle. Realizing the power of science, the boys embrace their inner nerdiness as their friendship deepens.

SYOB TSOL EHT
A kid and his dorky friends save the lives of a bunch of vampires to get the kid’s brother out of the vampire gang and turn him human again. The kid eventually leaves his friends behind and his family moves out of a sketchy neighborhood. There is a crucial scene where everyone gets turned off by a sweaty beefcake playing the saxophone, so they all leave the concert.

RETNUH REED EHT
Michael proceeds to go on two amazing adventures for his friends. First, he heads to Saigon to find a man who can revive his dead friend Nicky with a magic handgun. Then the whole gang heads to Vietnam so Steven can get a new pair of legs for his wedding. Getting back out of the country is a wild ride, but the group of friends makes it back to their hometown just in time for a hunting trip bachelor party, what a blast! After the wedding they all go back to work at the steel mill.

STCEPSUS LAUSU EHT
A man walking down the street is arrested and interrogated for mysteriously acquiring a limp.

EDIRB SSECNIRP EHT

The story of a man losing his friends and eventually his wife, when he rolls up a hill.

LLURK
Huge, friendly fish face unites hero with his true love and a mystical weapon. Hero and bride run away, raising undead companions as they go. The hero carefully places the weapon in a pool of lava. They return to his castle, where the young pair defeat an army of Slayers and are wed.

YROTS SAMTSIRHC A

A marksmanship prodigy and noted Chinese food enthusiast is stripped of his rank, title and weapon following an eye injury for which he alone is responsible. Slowly he descends into psychosis, wearing full-body pink bunny pajamas and releasing his violent inner rage upon an innocent ginger in a coonskin cap; he even attempts to climb a plastic slide (representative of his "slide" into the abyss of insanity) to assault Santa Claus in a local department store. Later he purposefully loses the lugnuts to a spare tire in an attempt to strand his family in the middle of nowhere with the intention of murdering them later. His schoolwork declining, he retreats into a twisted fantasy world in which his now-long-lost marksman skills render him a hero instead of the delusional sociopath he has become. When he sees his best friend forced to lick a frozen pole by the local fire department, he suffers a total psychotic break and spends the rest of his days as an invalid, staring blankly into toy store windows and muttering nonsensical sentences such as, "Flick says he saw some grizzly bears near Pulaski's candy store."

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