It's a popular belief that most cinematic remakes pale in comparison to the original. But is that always the case? Sometimes, and more often than you think, the remake actually ends up better than the original.
The history of cinematic remakes starts around the beginning of cinema itself; maybe it's proof that maybe filmmakers have always been starved of ideas. In 1896, legendary French director Georges Méliès directed the 67-second long film Playing Cards, a movie that "remade" a similar film titled The Messers from Louis Lumière. Both movies have the same "plot" of men sitting around tables playing cards.
