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* "TheBourneIdentity" feels very different in tone to its sequels. "Supremecy" and "Ultimatum" are contiguous to the point that there is no time-cut at all between the last scenes of the second film and the first scenes of the third film (not counting the Bourne-in-New-York-scene, a "Supremecy" note which is "also" tied up in "Ultimatum"...). But when you have recently seen "Supremecy" and/or "Ultimatum", it can come as a bit of a shock to rewatch "Identity" and realise how different it is, though it was setting up all the Bourne tropes the later films played on. Notably, the soundtrack is a very different beast, employing techno-ish and pop-y background music. Damon's Bourne is also surprisingly chatty and even smiley compared to his later silent stoicism. The editing takes a different approach completely, and the camera work is free of the JitterCam that pretty much defined the sequels. Most of this change in tone has to do with he first film being made by a different director to its seqeuls, and the fact that there was several years' gap between its release and the release of its first sequel.
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* "TheBourneIdentity" ''[[Film/TheBourneSeries The Bourne Identity]]'' feels very different in tone to its sequels. "Supremecy" ''Supremacy'' and "Ultimatum" are contiguous to the point that there is no time-cut at all between the last scenes of the second film and the first scenes of the third film (not counting the Bourne-in-New-York-scene, a "Supremecy" ''Supremacy'' note which is "also" tied up in "Ultimatum"...''Ultimatum"...). But when you have recently seen "Supremecy" ''Supremacy'' and/or "Ultimatum", ''Ultimatum'', it can come as a bit of a shock to rewatch "Identity" ''Identity'' and realise how different it is, though it was setting up all the Bourne tropes the later films played on. Notably, the soundtrack is a very different beast, employing techno-ish and pop-y background music. Damon's Bourne is also surprisingly chatty and even smiley compared to his later silent stoicism. The editing takes a different approach completely, and the camera work is free of the JitterCam that pretty much defined the sequels. Most of this change in tone has to do with he first film being made by a different director to its seqeuls, sequels, and the fact that there was several years' gap between its release and the release of its first sequel.
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* The original ''Film/PoisonIvy'' was a character-driven thriller with A-Lister DrewBarrymore in the title role, and (here's the kicker) no female nudity at all. The following three sequels were a [[InNameOnly loosely connected]] series of erotic dramas starring B-List actresses, known for their gratuitous sex and nudity...and not much else.
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* The original ''Film/PoisonIvy'' was a character-driven thriller with A-Lister DrewBarrymore in the title role, and (here's the kicker) no female nudity at all. The following three sequels were a [[InNameOnly loosely connected]] series of erotic dramas starring B-List actresses, known for their gratuitous sex and nudity...and not much else. In an odd subversion, though, the original is probably the most well-known of the four.
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* ''{{Saw}}''. In the first two films, Jigsaw is a brutal SerialKiller CompleteMonster 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 TorturePorn 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 [[FromACertainPointOfView with his heart in the right place.]] While still a psychotic villain, he is no longer the CompleteMonster of the first two films. [[spoiler: That role, instead, gets taken over by his apprentices, especially Hoffman.]]
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* ''{{Saw}}''. In the first two films, Jigsaw is a brutal SerialKiller CompleteMonster 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 TorturePorn 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 [[FromACertainPointOfView with his heart in the right place.]] While still a psychotic villain, he is no longer the CompleteMonster of like the first two films. [[spoiler: That role, instead, gets taken over by his apprentices, especially Hoffman.]]
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* MadMax bears very little relation in terms of story, tone or aestethic to its sequel.
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* The first film in ''TheLandBeforeTime'' series films is actually the only one that is not a musical. It also has significantly higher animation quality and a much darker tone.
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* "TheBourneIdentity" feels very different in tone to its sequels. "Supremecy" and "Ultimatum" are contiguous to the point that there is no time-cut at all between the last scenes of the second film and the first scenes of the third film (not counting the Bourne-in-New-York-scene, a "Supremecy" note which is "also" tied up in "Ultimatum"...). But when you have recently seen "Supremecy" and/or "Ultimatum", it can come as a bit of a shock to rewatch "Identity" and realise how different it is, though it was setting up all the Bourne tropes the later films played on. Notably, the soundtrack is a very different beast, employing techno-ish and pop-y background music. Damon's Bourne is also surprisingly chatty and even smiley compared to his later silent stoicism. The editing takes a different approach completely, and the camera work is free of the JitterCam that pretty much defined the sequels. Most of this change in tone has to do with he first film being made by a different director to its seqeuls, and the fact that there was several years' gap between its release and the release of its first sequel.
* "TheBourneIdentity" feels very different in tone to its sequels. "Supremecy" and "Ultimatum" are contiguous to the point that there is no time-cut at all between the last scenes of the second film and the first scenes of the third film (not counting the Bourne-in-New-York-scene, a "Supremecy" note which is "also" tied up in "Ultimatum"...). But when you have recently seen "Supremecy" and/or "Ultimatum", it can come as a bit of a shock to rewatch "Identity" and realise how different it is, though it was setting up all the Bourne tropes the later films played on. Notably, the soundtrack is a very different beast, employing techno-ish and pop-y background music. Damon's Bourne is also surprisingly chatty and even smiley compared to his later silent stoicism. The editing takes a different approach completely, and the camera work is free of the JitterCam that pretty much defined the sequels. Most of this change in tone has to do with he first film being made by a different director to its seqeuls, and the fact that there was several years' gap between its release and the release of its first sequel.
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* The first ''AustinPowers'' was slightly darker in tone than its sequels, parodied JamesBond tropes more directly, had those short segments with Austin dancing to music in-between scenes, and there was no Fat Bastard or Mini-Me.
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* The first ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'' film featured humans and portrayed all of the animal characters more realistically (they walked like the actual animals always, and could not speak to humankind). In the sequels however, the tone turned LighterAndSofter, all of the humans are written out of existence, and all of the animals are now the main inhabitants of the world.
* In the first ''{{Madagascar}}'' film, Melman the giraffe is only ''slightly'' less neurotic than he is [[{{Flanderization}} in later installments]]. He also speaks with a slight [[BigApplesauce Brooklyn accent]], and in some scenes even shows hints of [[BrooklynRage a Brooklyn attitude]].
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* In the first ''{{Madagascar}}'' film, Melman the giraffe is only ''slightly'' less neurotic than he is [[{{Flanderization}} in later installments]]. He also speaks with a slight [[BigApplesauce Brooklyn accent]], and in some scenes even shows hints of [[BrooklynRage a Brooklyn attitude]].
* The first film in ''TheLandBeforeTime'' series films is actually the only one that is not a musical. It also has significantly higher animation quality and a much darker tone.
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** And of course, it's the only ''Star Wars'' without the BigBad (Palpatine) and the [[CoolOldGuy old]] [[BadassGrandpa and powerful]] {{Muppet}} (Yoda), who debuted in the follow-up - though the Emperor is mentioned in dialogue.
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** And of course, it's the only ''Star Wars'' without the BigBad (Palpatine) and the [[CoolOldGuy old]] [[BadassGrandpa and powerful]] {{Muppet}} (Yoda), who debuted in the follow-up - though the Emperor is mentioned in dialogue. He wasn't supposed to be the main villain in the original treatment, just a puppet that held nominal authority while Vader was TheManBehindTheMan. It wasn't made clear until the sequel that he was even a Force-user.
* Jabba the Hutt wasn't a slug monster in the original screenplay, he was supposed to be a furry creature like Chewbacca, and the only scene in the original movie where he appears was cut. It was restored in the Special Edition, but Jabba appears much more mobile and less bulky in his CGI form than his puppet form from Return of the Jedi. This is because he was inserted into the footage over the stand-in actor, who was much shorter than Harrison Ford. Note that Han calls Jabba a "wonderful human being," a sentiment that seems quite odd when said about a slug. Additionally, "Hutt" was not a species name but a title, much like a mafia boss would be called Don.
* Jabba the Hutt wasn't a slug monster in the original screenplay, he was supposed to be a furry creature like Chewbacca, and the only scene in the original movie where he appears was cut. It was restored in the Special Edition, but Jabba appears much more mobile and less bulky in his CGI form than his puppet form from Return of the Jedi. This is because he was inserted into the footage over the stand-in actor, who was much shorter than Harrison Ford. Note that Han calls Jabba a "wonderful human being," a sentiment that seems quite odd when said about a slug. Additionally, "Hutt" was not a species name but a title, much like a mafia boss would be called Don.
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** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'' plays with this, given [[TheSixties its setting]]. Xavier is a rather cocky ditz, Erik/Magneto's not above using guns to suit his goals, and Hank/Beast is shown to be rather insecure with himself.
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* In the original ''Film/{{Friday the 13th}}'', Jason not only isn't the killer, he doesn't even appear save for a dream sequence. He becomes the killer in the second film but doesn't get his trademark hockey mask until the ''third''. Also, in ''Part II'', he's considerably less physically imposing than subsequent movies.
** And of course, in the original films with Jason as a killer he was alive, rather than the indestructible undead human of later films. In the second and third films, he would run after his victims, back away if someone came at him with something dangerous, and would sometimes even grunt in pain. Surprisingly, despite not yet having his undead killer status yet in ''The Final Chapter'', his behavior is actually closer to as it is in the later films.
** And of course, in the original films with Jason as a killer he was alive, rather than the indestructible undead human of later films. In the second and third films, he would run after his victims, back away if someone came at him with something dangerous, and would sometimes even grunt in pain. Surprisingly, despite not yet having his undead killer status yet in ''The Final Chapter'', his behavior is actually closer to as it is in the later films.
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* In the original ''Film/{{Friday the 13th}}'', ''Film/FridayThe13th1980'', Jason not only isn't the killer, he doesn't even appear save for a dream sequence. He becomes the killer in [[Film/FridayThe13thPart2 the second film film]] but doesn't get his trademark hockey mask until the ''third''. ''[[Film/FridayThe13thPartIII third]]''. Also, in ''Part II'', 2'', he's considerably less physically imposing than subsequent movies.
** And of course, in the original films with Jason as a killer he was alive, rather than the indestructible undead human of later films. In the second and third films, he would run after his victims, back away if someone came at him with something dangerous, and would sometimes even grunt in pain. Surprisingly, despite not yet having his undead killer status yet in''The Final Chapter'', ''Film/FridayThe13thTheFinalChapter'', his behavior is actually closer to as it is in the later films.
** And of course, in the original films with Jason as a killer he was alive, rather than the indestructible undead human of later films. In the second and third films, he would run after his victims, back away if someone came at him with something dangerous, and would sometimes even grunt in pain. Surprisingly, despite not yet having his undead killer status yet in
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** The first film also features a different actor as John Allerdyce (Pyro) in a brief cameo. John becomes a main character with a different, lasting actor for the next two films.
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* The first ''AustinPowers'' was slightly darker in tone than its sequels, parodied JamesBond tropes more directly, had those short segments with Austin dancing to music in-between scenes, and there was no Fat Bastard or Mini-Me.
* The first ''AustinPowers'' was slightly darker in tone than its sequels, parodied JamesBond tropes more directly, had those short segments with Austin dancing to music in-between scenes, and there was no Fat Bastard or Mini-Me.
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** Carrie Fisher's infamous British accent ("slip through your fingers") as Princess Leia, which she seems to drop halfway through the first film.
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** And of course, it's the only ''Star Wars'' without the BigBad (Palpatine) and the [[CoolOldGuy old]] [[BadassGrandpa and powerful]] {{Muppet}} (Yoda), who debuted in the follow-up - though the Emperor is mentioned in dialogue.
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* How many people [[SequelDisplacement remember]] that ''Film/FirstBlood'' was a depressing film about a ShellShockedVeteran fleeing the law?
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* Kitty Pryde(Shadowcat) appears in all three ''Film/{{X-Men}}'' films, is notably discussed in the US Senate in X1 and referenced by Xavier to the President of the United States in X2, but her on-screen appearances are very brief, almost cameo-sized, and she's played by different actresses in each. In X3, she finally becomes a main character with whole sequences from her perspective, and is portrayed by EllenPage.
** The first film also features a different actor as John Allerdyce(Pyro) in a brief cameo. John becomes a main character with a different, lasting actor for the next two films.
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* Kitty Pryde(Shadowcat) appears in all three ''Film/{{X-Men}}'' films, is notably discussed in the US Senate in X1 and referenced by Xavier to the President of the United States in X2, {{X2}}, but her on-screen appearances are very brief, almost cameo-sized, and she's played by different actresses in each. In X3, ''XMenTheLastStand'', she finally becomes a main character with whole sequences from her perspective, and is portrayed by EllenPage.
** The first film also features a different actor as JohnAllerdyce(Pyro) Allerdyce (Pyro) in a brief cameo. John becomes a main character with a different, lasting actor for the next two films.
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* ** Kitty Pryde(Shadowcat) appears in all three ''Film/{{X-Men}}'' films, is notably discussed in the US Senate in X1 and referenced by Xavier to the President of the United States in X2, but her on-screen appearances are very brief, almost cameo-sized, and she's played by different actresses in each. In X3, she finally becomes a main character with whole sequences from her perspective, and is portrayed by EllenPage.
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* ** Kitty Pryde(Shadowcat) appears in all three ''Film/{{X-Men}}'' films, is notably discussed in the US Senate in X1 and referenced by Xavier to the President of the United States in X2, but her on-screen appearances are very brief, almost cameo-sized, and she's played by different actresses in each. In X3, she finally becomes a main character with whole sequences from her perspective, and is portrayed by EllenPage.
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* The 1954 film ''Film/{{Gojira}}'', which kick-started the Godzilla franchise, is a surprisingly dark (and seriously scary) horror film rather than a campy monster movie. Because Godzilla is the only monster appearing in the film, the focus is on the humans' response to his rampage rather than on a battle between opposing monsters. Also, Godzilla is unambiguously presented as a villainous monster incapable of reason or sympathy, and definitely ''not'' as a NobleDemon and defender of humanity, as he evolved into as the series went on.
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* The 1954 film ''Film/{{Gojira}}'', which kick-started the Godzilla franchise, is a surprisingly dark (and seriously scary) horror film rather than a campy monster movie. Because Godzilla is the only monster appearing in the film, the focus is on the humans' response to his rampage rather than on a battle between opposing monsters. Also, Godzilla is unambiguously presented as a villainous monster incapable of reason or sympathy, and definitely ''not'' as a NobleDemon and defender of humanity, as he evolved into as the series went on.on.
* ** Kitty Pryde(Shadowcat) appears in all three ''Film/{{X-Men}}'' films, is notably discussed in the US Senate in X1 and referenced by Xavier to the President of the United States in X2, but her on-screen appearances are very brief, almost cameo-sized, and she's played by different actresses in each. In X3, she finally becomes a main character with whole sequences from her perspective, and is portrayed by EllenPage.
** The first film also features a different actor as John Allerdyce(Pyro) in a brief cameo. John becomes a main character with a different, lasting actor for the next two films.
* ** Kitty Pryde(Shadowcat) appears in all three ''Film/{{X-Men}}'' films, is notably discussed in the US Senate in X1 and referenced by Xavier to the President of the United States in X2, but her on-screen appearances are very brief, almost cameo-sized, and she's played by different actresses in each. In X3, she finally becomes a main character with whole sequences from her perspective, and is portrayed by EllenPage.
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** 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.
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* The 1954 film ''Film/{{Gojira}}'', which kick-started the Godzilla franchise, is a surprisingly dark (and seriously scary) horror film rather than a campy monster movie. Because Godzilla is the only monster appearing in the film, the focus is on the humans' response to his rampage rather than on a battle between opposing monsters. Also, Godzilla is unambiguously presented as a villainous monster incapable of reason or sympathy, and definitely ''not'' as a NobleDemon and defender of humanity, as he evolved into as the series went on.
* The 1954 film ''Film/{{Gojira}}'', which kick-started the Godzilla franchise, is a surprisingly dark (and seriously scary) horror film rather than a campy monster movie. Because Godzilla is the only monster appearing in the film, the focus is on the humans' response to his rampage rather than on a battle between opposing monsters. Also, Godzilla is unambiguously presented as a villainous monster incapable of reason or sympathy, and definitely ''not'' as a NobleDemon and defender of humanity, as he evolved into as the series went on.
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* If your knowledge of ''{{Literature/Twilight}}'' comes from PopCulturalOsmosis, you'll find the first movie awfully strange. It's essentially a low-budget indie ([[SleeperHit 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. TaylorLautner 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.
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* If your knowledge of ''{{Literature/Twilight}}'' comes from PopCulturalOsmosis, you'll find the first movie awfully strange. It's essentially a low-budget indie ([[SleeperHit 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. TaylorLautner 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.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.
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*** Although Obi-Wan's been using this lightsaber for decades, and it's probably in disrepair- [[FridgeBrilliance the crystal could be fizzling out after all this time.]]
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** The lightsaber battle in '''StarWars Episode IV - ANewHope'' is quite stiff and awkward compared to the more dramatic and gymnastic swordfights in later installments. This can be somewhat explained by Obi-Wan being too old for it and Vader being a few steps away from JustAMachine. According to MarkHamill, the original lightsaber props had motors to rotate the "blades," making them too heavy and dangerous for any impressive {{flynning}}. Also of note, Obi-Wan's lightsaber "flickers" in mid-battle, while most subsequent lightsabers do not.
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** The lightsaber battle in '''StarWars Episode IV - ANewHope'' is quite stiff and awkward compared to the more dramatic and gymnastic swordfights in later installments. This can be somewhat explained by Obi-Wan being too old for it and Vader being a few steps away from JustAMachine. According to MarkHamill, the original lightsaber props had motors to rotate the "blades," making them too heavy and dangerous for any impressive {{flynning}}. Also of note, Obi-Wan's lightsaber "flickers" in mid-battle, while most subsequent lightsabers do not.
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* How many people [[SequelDisplacement remember]] that ''[[{{Rambo}} First Blood]]'' was a depressing film about a ShellShockedVeteran fleeing the law?
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* The original ''ThePinkPanther'' from 1963 was written to be about the thieves rather than Inspector Clouseau. It was in the sequel, ''A Shot in the Dark'', where [[BreakoutCharacter the series shifted to focus on Clouseau]], and the recurring characters Cato and Dreyfuss were introduced.
* ''StarWars Episode IV - ANewHope'' has a number of elements that can seem strange in comparison to the series as a whole.
** The film has a number of plot elements that were changed or outright retconned in the later canon, with Anakin and Vader as different people, Obi-Wan adopting his alias before Luke was born, Anakin being still alive when Luke was at least a child, the Jedi and the Force being widely considered a myth, "Darth" being a first name rather than a title, etc. A video showcasing all this exists [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhdk0YOrVCg here]].
** The lightsaber battle in '''StarWars Episode IV - ANewHope'' is quite stiff and awkward compared to the more dramatic and gymnastic swordfights in later installments. This can be somewhat explained by Obi-Wan being too old for it and Vader being a few steps away from JustAMachine. According to MarkHamill, the original lightsaber props had motors to rotate the "blades," making them too heavy and dangerous for any impressive {{flynning}}. Also of note, Obi-Wan's lightsaber "flickers" in mid-battle, while most subsequent lightsabers do not.
** Many can find strange the lack of Yoda and the Emperor, and that Darth Vader is subordinate to Grand Moff Tarkin. This, however, sets up Vader's status as TheDragon.
** Darth Vader's {{leitmotif}}, "The Imperial March," does not appear until ''TheEmpireStrikesBack''. The first film has more generic fanfare.
** Carrie Fisher's infamous British accent ("slip through your fingers") as Princess Leia, which she seems to drop halfway through the first film.
** There is also a {{leitmotif}} for the Death Star, which is not used in "Return Of The Jedi".
* In the original ''Film/{{Friday the 13th}}'', Jason not only isn't the killer, he doesn't even appear save for a dream sequence. He becomes the killer in the second film but doesn't get his trademark hockey mask until the ''third''. Also, in ''Part II'', he's considerably less physically imposing than subsequent movies.
* Throughout the ''Film/HarryPotter'' films, [[GeographicFlexibility more and more areas are added to Hogwarts]], making the Hogwarts of the first film almost a kind of bare-bones version with, for example, nothing between the back of the castle and Hagrid's hut but a field of grass.
** In the first two films, Professor Flitwick is an [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100114172044/harrypotter/images/thumb/7/73/Charms_Master_Flitwick.jpg/200px-Charms_Master_Flitwick.jpg elderly-looking midget]]. From the third onward, he became a [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100410144823/harrypotter/images/thumb/f/f3/Copia_de_uhpfilius9it%282%29.jpg/180px-Copia_de_uhpfilius9it%282%29.jpg small man with brown hair and moustache]]. It was so unexpected that quite a few people joked that he now looked like Hitler. (the story is complicated: as Flitwick wouldn't appear in ''Prisoner of Azkaban'', actor Warwick Davis was instead offered a cameo as the chorus conductor - credited only as "Wizard"; through RetCon, that guy became Flitwick in the fourth movie)
** It's also worth noting that many of the films ongoing additions to the castle were invented for the screen - most notably the clocktower and pendulum, the covered wooden bridge and the small island in the lake - so it's likely a matter of the films wanting to establish themselves as being as faithful as possible to the books (which the first two films are, more so than each of the rest) and then getting more creative once they'd secured their audience. Other later-film additions like the Owlery and the Astronomy Tower were added when it turned out important scenes took place there in books that hadn't been published when the movies started filming. The Astronomy Tower in particular was a bit jarring to suddenly spring up after five films' absence, given that it's faithfully portrayed as being ''the tallest tower of Hogwarts Castle''.
*** There's also a drift away from on-location shooting and towards soundstages. At the start of the series, they couldn't afford to build every room in Hogwarts, so there were only a few purpose-built sets and most of the Hogwarts interiors were filmed at various castles, cathedrals, and universities. As the series went along, they built up more and more sets, which was coupled with improvements in CGI technology. ''[[HarryPotter/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone Philosopher's Stone]]'' was filmed at locations all across Britain, while ''DeathlyHallows, Part 2'' was filmed almost completely at Leavesden Studios. Some places that were originally filmed on location were reproduced as sets later in the series, often accompanied by changes in design -- compare the hospital wing in the first movie to the hospital wing in the second movie onwards.
** In the first movie, the students wore pointed hats with their uniforms during formal scenes in the Great Hall (you'll recall these hats being tossed in the air when Gryffindor won the House Cup). The hats disappeared in the second film and were never seen again. Probably because they looked rather silly.
* How many people [[SequelDisplacement remember]] that ''[[{{Rambo}} First Blood]]'' was a depressing film about a ShellShockedVeteran fleeing the law?
* If you watch ''Film/DrNo'' after other ''Film/JamesBond'' films, it'll be a shock: it's basically a hard-boiled detective story instead of a spy action thriller - mostly because the budget was low. The fight scenes and car chases are rare and short; the only gadget per se is a mook's CyanidePill (Q - here, Major Boothroyd, and not played by Desmond Llewellyn - only appears to change Bond's gun).
** 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 ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''.
* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory''. 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 ''TheIncredibles'' 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.
* ''EvilDead'' 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 CatchPhrase spouting, BadAss and JerkAss we see in the sequels, instead being a rather bland FinalGirl 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 TakeOverTheWorld.
* ''{{Saw}}''. In the first two films, Jigsaw is a brutal SerialKiller CompleteMonster 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 TorturePorn 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 [[FromACertainPointOfView with his heart in the right place.]] While still a psychotic villain, he is no longer the CompleteMonster 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 BreakingTheFourthWall.
* The first ''[[TransformersFilmSeries Transformers]]'' movie is a more straight-forward story with a relatively short number of robot characters (SequelEscalation and SerialEscalation 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 ''{{Literature/Twilight}}'' comes from PopCulturalOsmosis, you'll find the first movie awfully strange. It's essentially a low-budget indie ([[SleeperHit 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. TaylorLautner 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.
* ''StarWars Episode IV - ANewHope'' has a number of elements that can seem strange in comparison to the series as a whole.
** The film has a number of plot elements that were changed or outright retconned in the later canon, with Anakin and Vader as different people, Obi-Wan adopting his alias before Luke was born, Anakin being still alive when Luke was at least a child, the Jedi and the Force being widely considered a myth, "Darth" being a first name rather than a title, etc. A video showcasing all this exists [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhdk0YOrVCg here]].
** The lightsaber battle in '''StarWars Episode IV - ANewHope'' is quite stiff and awkward compared to the more dramatic and gymnastic swordfights in later installments. This can be somewhat explained by Obi-Wan being too old for it and Vader being a few steps away from JustAMachine. According to MarkHamill, the original lightsaber props had motors to rotate the "blades," making them too heavy and dangerous for any impressive {{flynning}}. Also of note, Obi-Wan's lightsaber "flickers" in mid-battle, while most subsequent lightsabers do not.
** Many can find strange the lack of Yoda and the Emperor, and that Darth Vader is subordinate to Grand Moff Tarkin. This, however, sets up Vader's status as TheDragon.
** Darth Vader's {{leitmotif}}, "The Imperial March," does not appear until ''TheEmpireStrikesBack''. The first film has more generic fanfare.
** Carrie Fisher's infamous British accent ("slip through your fingers") as Princess Leia, which she seems to drop halfway through the first film.
** There is also a {{leitmotif}} for the Death Star, which is not used in "Return Of The Jedi".
* In the original ''Film/{{Friday the 13th}}'', Jason not only isn't the killer, he doesn't even appear save for a dream sequence. He becomes the killer in the second film but doesn't get his trademark hockey mask until the ''third''. Also, in ''Part II'', he's considerably less physically imposing than subsequent movies.
* Throughout the ''Film/HarryPotter'' films, [[GeographicFlexibility more and more areas are added to Hogwarts]], making the Hogwarts of the first film almost a kind of bare-bones version with, for example, nothing between the back of the castle and Hagrid's hut but a field of grass.
** In the first two films, Professor Flitwick is an [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100114172044/harrypotter/images/thumb/7/73/Charms_Master_Flitwick.jpg/200px-Charms_Master_Flitwick.jpg elderly-looking midget]]. From the third onward, he became a [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100410144823/harrypotter/images/thumb/f/f3/Copia_de_uhpfilius9it%282%29.jpg/180px-Copia_de_uhpfilius9it%282%29.jpg small man with brown hair and moustache]]. It was so unexpected that quite a few people joked that he now looked like Hitler. (the story is complicated: as Flitwick wouldn't appear in ''Prisoner of Azkaban'', actor Warwick Davis was instead offered a cameo as the chorus conductor - credited only as "Wizard"; through RetCon, that guy became Flitwick in the fourth movie)
** It's also worth noting that many of the films ongoing additions to the castle were invented for the screen - most notably the clocktower and pendulum, the covered wooden bridge and the small island in the lake - so it's likely a matter of the films wanting to establish themselves as being as faithful as possible to the books (which the first two films are, more so than each of the rest) and then getting more creative once they'd secured their audience. Other later-film additions like the Owlery and the Astronomy Tower were added when it turned out important scenes took place there in books that hadn't been published when the movies started filming. The Astronomy Tower in particular was a bit jarring to suddenly spring up after five films' absence, given that it's faithfully portrayed as being ''the tallest tower of Hogwarts Castle''.
*** There's also a drift away from on-location shooting and towards soundstages. At the start of the series, they couldn't afford to build every room in Hogwarts, so there were only a few purpose-built sets and most of the Hogwarts interiors were filmed at various castles, cathedrals, and universities. As the series went along, they built up more and more sets, which was coupled with improvements in CGI technology. ''[[HarryPotter/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone Philosopher's Stone]]'' was filmed at locations all across Britain, while ''DeathlyHallows, Part 2'' was filmed almost completely at Leavesden Studios. Some places that were originally filmed on location were reproduced as sets later in the series, often accompanied by changes in design -- compare the hospital wing in the first movie to the hospital wing in the second movie onwards.
** In the first movie, the students wore pointed hats with their uniforms during formal scenes in the Great Hall (you'll recall these hats being tossed in the air when Gryffindor won the House Cup). The hats disappeared in the second film and were never seen again. Probably because they looked rather silly.
* How many people [[SequelDisplacement remember]] that ''[[{{Rambo}} First Blood]]'' was a depressing film about a ShellShockedVeteran fleeing the law?
* If you watch ''Film/DrNo'' after other ''Film/JamesBond'' films, it'll be a shock: it's basically a hard-boiled detective story instead of a spy action thriller - mostly because the budget was low. The fight scenes and car chases are rare and short; the only gadget per se is a mook's CyanidePill (Q - here, Major Boothroyd, and not played by Desmond Llewellyn - only appears to change Bond's gun).
** 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 ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''.
* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory''. 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 ''TheIncredibles'' 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.
* ''EvilDead'' 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 CatchPhrase spouting, BadAss and JerkAss we see in the sequels, instead being a rather bland FinalGirl 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 TakeOverTheWorld.
* ''{{Saw}}''. In the first two films, Jigsaw is a brutal SerialKiller CompleteMonster 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 TorturePorn 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 [[FromACertainPointOfView with his heart in the right place.]] While still a psychotic villain, he is no longer the CompleteMonster 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 BreakingTheFourthWall.
* The first ''[[TransformersFilmSeries Transformers]]'' movie is a more straight-forward story with a relatively short number of robot characters (SequelEscalation and SerialEscalation 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 ''{{Literature/Twilight}}'' comes from PopCulturalOsmosis, you'll find the first movie awfully strange. It's essentially a low-budget indie ([[SleeperHit 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. TaylorLautner 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.
