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* [[Charlie Chaplin]] and [[Buster Keaton]]. Silent comedians like them were hilarious for a very long time. Chaplin's tramp was subversive and constantly undermined any authority figure he came into contact with, including the police, who arrested him pretty frequently. Nowadays many people don't find Chaplin that funny, but he pioneered many jokes, situations, gags in comedy films and in comparison with many other slapstick comedians of his time his work was groundbreaking.

* [[A Clockwork Orange]] and the fight scene in question. Back then it was violent, nowadays it comes off as a comedic fight scene. If it was done in today's definition, the violence will be a lot more bloody.

* ''[[Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon]]'', the first truly successful (in western markets) Chinese [[Wuxia]] (periodic Kung-Fu) movie, suffers from this. It's much harder to screen such a movie nowadays because people can't look past the "tacky" kung-fu with its flying about and running on walls - which has been imitated repeatedly in many "Hollywoodian" action films for the past 10 years. Of course, it wasn't original per-se, as Wuxia films were already seen as tacky in their homeland (China), but in the west this was regarded as a new phenomenon and therefore taken with more respect. It won an Academy Award and still lingers around the middle of the IMDB's Top 250 list - and for many good reasons other than the dazzling fights.

* ''[[Daredevil (film)|Daredevil]]'', the 2003 film, despite its shortcomings and disappointing box office performance, it was praised as a superhero movie done right, compared to each of its predecessors which gives out a varying degree of surrealism throughout each scene as if telling the viewers that they should never forget that they're watching a superhero movie. Viewers who enjoyed watching ''Daredevil'' in the theaters noted that certain scenes made you almost forget that this is a superhero movie. This apparently became a measuring stick for the superhero movies that followed, which used higher levels of realism, thus overshadowing this movie that, so to speak, took a dare.