Sequels that got you interested in watching the original?

The Color of Money got me interested in seeing The Hustler...which was a much better movie than The Color of Money.

I was in about 3-5 random 007 movies before I finally dove into Dr. No.

Definitely not as good, but he had less time to shine too.

I saw 2 Fast 2 Furious before The Fast and the Furious.

I actually liked Speed 2 when I first watched it and I was 14 years old. I had already seen the original.

Re-watched most of it a couple years ago and didn't even bother finishing it. Yikes!!!

The prologue to DRACULA PRINCE OF DARKNESS had me interested in seeing HORROR OF DRACULA (although I had an inkling of the film's finale via pictures from the Crestwood DRACULA Monster book).

I saw THE MUMMY'S HAND first, and then a few months later I saw THE MUMMY (although I had a good understanding of the plot and film via, again, the Crestwood THE MUMMY book).

In other cases, it was more of seeing the predecessor first but having a dim memory due to being very young. I had seen STAR TREK II THE WRATH OF KHAN first, but I barely remember it aside from the Torpedo arming scene and- most vividly remembered- the scary Ceti Eels scene. Then I saw STAR TREK III THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK, which made such an impression that I wanted to see STAR TREK THE MOTION PICTURE and- a little reluctantly- WoK. Both rewarded from these viewings.

Again, I saw STAR WARS and RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK first, and some memory of them, but as I grew up, my watching the sequels left a better memorial, and then I got a more cemented viewing of the predecessors.

I can’t remember any. All the big ones from the past four decades I watched in order. I did watch one Transformers and one Fast and Furious movie that were not the first in the series, but since I didn’t like them I had no interest in going back and watching the earlier ones.

There were many REMAKES that got me interested in watching the original. True Lies for example, which is a remake of a French movie. Another one was the recent gender-switched remake of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. When it came out, I found out that the one I thought was the original (with Michael Caine and Steve Martin) was actually a remake of an earlier one with David Niven and Marlon Brando. 

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome....i think this was probably the first Mad Max film i saw. 

I saw The Matrix Reloaded before the first one.