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** Even the ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q9QyChJeNU opening sequence]'' is all wrong. It starts with a series of weird electronic beeps, and the familiar theme doesn't play until Bond shoots the gun barrel, and even then it starts on the wrong cue (the big dramatic part of the song, instead of the actual intro). Then the barrel wiggles down to the bottom of the screen and the opening scene wipes in from-- oh? No, it moves on directly to the opening credits while still playing the Bond tune, over some colorful dots appearing all over the screen. Then it jarringly switches to some upbeat salsa music (note - not a theme song including the movie's title) over some colorful silhouettes of people dancing for a minute or two, when it again suddenly switches to a salsa rendition of "Three Blind Mice" over the silhouettes of the title mice, which then fade into the actual opening of the movie. To call that opening schizophrenic is being a little too kind to it.

*** In fact, the music-video Bond titles didn't appear in their best-known form until ''[[Goldfinger]]''.

* ''[[Toy Story]]''. Watching the film 15 years after it was originally made, while the composition of the elements is still impressive, it is noticeable how certain textures (hair and fabric) are left rather ambiguous and that the faces of human characters other than Sid are often out of frame. This was due to the technology not yet being at point where it could render organic things realistically: it wasn't until ''[[The Incredibles]]'' that they took the plunge and made an entire film about people.

* ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]''. Watching the film 15 years after it was originally made, while the composition of the elements is still impressive, it is noticeable how certain textures (hair and fabric) are left rather ambiguous and that the faces of human characters other than Sid are often out of frame. This was due to the technology not yet being at point where it could render organic things realistically: it wasn't until ''[[The Incredibles]]'' that they took the plunge and made an entire film about people.

** It's also strange because when stacked up against later CG toons, the film is remarkably low-key, lacking the bombastic flourishes that people grew to expect of the medium. The opening scene of the film is a child playing with his favourite toys, nothing more.

* ''[[Evil Dead]]'' is more a [[Gorn]] horror film, rather than the horror comedy of the second. Also none of the other cabin members besides Linda is mentioned in the other films. Ash is far from the [[Catch Phrase]] spouting, [[Badass]] and [[Jerkass]] we see in the sequels, instead being a rather bland [[Final Girl]] played by a guy. The Necronomicon doesn't have that name and the look of it is completely different from the other films. And lastly, in a subtler example, the Deadites (which aren't named as such until the second movie) are originally just pissed off that the teenagers awoke them from their eons-long sleep, whereas in the sequels they implicitly want to [[Take Over the World]].

* ''[[Saw]]''. In the first two films, Jigsaw is a brutal [[Serial Killer]] [[Complete Monster]] with an interesting MO. Also, the first film contains very little gore, and the second only contains a lot of blood, but nothing too explicit beyond that. The [[Torture Porn]] that the films became known for didn't really start until the 3rd film, at which point Jigsaw was toned down considerably into a very deranged man with a tragic past, but [[From a Certain Point of View|with his heart in the right place.]] While still a psychotic villain, he is no longer the [[Complete Monster]] of the first two films. {{spoiler|That role, instead, gets taken over by his apprentices, especially Hoffman.}}

* ''[[Road To]] Singapore'' is a fairly typical adventure-comedy movie, and doesn't do much in the way of [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]].

* The first ''[[Transformers Film Series|Transformers]]'' movie is a more straight-forward story with a relatively short number of robot characters ([[Sequel Escalation]] and [[Serial Escalation]] were ''heavy'' in the two movies that followed). Also, while Bumblebee drops Sam and Mikaela out of his vehicle mode before transforming into his robot mode to fight Barricade, the sequels have the transformations fast enough to safely eject any passengers and quickly convert into robot mode in one quick go.

* If your knowledge of ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' comes from [[Popcultural Osmosis]], you'll find the first movie awfully strange. It's essentially a low-budget indie ([[Sleeper Hit|a very successful one, of course]]) and it feels like it. There are only the most basic special effects and it generally just feels "small". In contrast, the sequels had higher budgets, so they feel bigger and have a blockbuster "sheen" which the original lacked. [[Taylor Lautner]] does appear as Jacob in the first film, but he's just barely in it, never mentions being a werewolf, and (gasp!) keeps his shirt on the whole time.

** To be fair, Taylor Lautner wasn't as impressive physically in the first movie. It's why they were going to recast his character, but he was dedicated to providing the fans continuity and bulked up considerably.

* ''[[X Men First Class]]'' plays with this thematically, being set around the [[Cuban Missile Crisis]]. Professor Charles Xavier for instance is shown to be a rather cocky beatnik in his youth, while Erik (aka, Magneto) was a [[Nazi Hunter]] who had no qualms using guns alongside his powers.

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