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Not every scifi film can star a Brobdingnagian shark or lizard. Some movies must make due with giant livestock, vermin, and apes who aren't named King Kong. Here are 10 of the most superfluous creature features ever made.

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The history of genre movies is littered with massive, lavish failures — movies that took hundreds of millions of dollars and tossed the money down a sinkhole. But some of the movies that everybody "knows" were box office disasters actually did really well, when you look at the numbers. More »
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Yesterday, we met the world's most viscuous Dr. Who, a.k.a. a Singaporean brand of bottled water. Today we're looking at yet another Doctor Who...and this one had a bone to pick with King Kong. More »
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When we think of cryptozoology, we usually think of Bigfoot, the Yeti, and the Loch Ness Monster, creatures that are - let's face it - probably legendary. But some cryptids are real: just ask the platypus, okapi, and giant squid. More »
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Earlier today, when George R.R. Martin posted a picture of a dead King Kong on his blog, many of us wondered what it might mean. And we reached the reasonable conclusion that Martin had been reaching new levels of success in his side career as a hunter of mega-primates. But no — in fact, Martin has actually finished A Dance With Dragons, the eagerly awaited fifth book in the A Song of Ice and Fire series. More »
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Dino De Laurentiis, producer of Barbarella, Army of Darkness, Dune and many other classics, passed away in Los Angeles Thursday morning. He was 91. More »
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Behold the beast that could save Broadway from horrible emo Peter Parkers. This 20-foot animatronic could be the star of his own Broadway musical, King Kong — Live On Stage. But does he sing and dance? More »
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Artist Faith Pearson took empty ink cartridges and used them as the building blocks for these wonderfully demented scenes from Star Trek, Godzilla, and King Kong. It's incredible how futuristic our 21st century garbage can appear. More »
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Not every scifi film can star a Brobdingnagian shark or lizard. Some movies must make due with giant livestock, vermin, and apes who aren't named King Kong. Here are 10 of the most superfluous creature features ever made. More »
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Andy Serkis, the actor who totally owned the role of Gollum in the Lord Of The Rings movies and also played Peter Jackson's King Kong, will be Caesar, the ape who leads the simian uprising in Rise Of The Apes. More »
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On May 28, a dubiously legal Bangladeshi clone of King Kong (entitled Banglar King Kong) wowed audiences from Dhaka to Paltan. The film doesn't have the CGI of Peter Jackson's Kong, but it does have a shitload of musical numbers. More »
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While it's probably fair to say that most modern special-effects blockbusters aren't art, but they do allow some amazing artists to create some stunning, illusory artwork. More »
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Why do so many bad movies have one good scene each? All of a sudden, the awfulness goes away, and the movie starts living up to its potential. The performances click, the action is exciting. Here are 20-odd examples. More »
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This week, Michael Jackson's Captain EO staged an unlikely comeback and reopened at Disneyland. Here are six sadly defunct science fiction fairground rides that you can still visit, thanks to the magic of YouTube. More »
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While a lot of horror movies pit helpless humans against gigantic animals, it's often animals who fall prey to more powerful humans. An ad campaign from the Center for Migratory Species recasts humans as the monsters in classic movie posters. More »
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The 2009 summer movie season ended, with a record-breaking box office. But 2009 will also go down as the year with the most movies that cost $200 million or more. We've compiled the most expensive movies of the past decade. More »
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This compilation of visual effects over the past century is thrilling enough to make even the biggest CG critic misty-eyed. While it misses the Matrix, this video (compiled for students) certainly hits all the other greats. [via First Showing] More »
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A Sarah Silverman lookalike gets tied up and sacrificed to the mighty ape Gorga by the prehistoric villagers in this cheesetastic scene from 1969s' The Mighty Gorga. And click through to see Gorga fight a plastic toy dinosaur. More »
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It's wedding season again. Lovers, don't be fooled into using the boring old cake-toppers of yesterday. Get some science fiction icons, like Stargate heroes, or zombies, on your wedding cake and do it with style. More »
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Peter Jackson's Weta Workshop in New Zealand is where artists and crafters have made everything from the Lord of the Rings creatures and armor, to King Kong's dinosaurs. We're visiting Wellington, and took a tour. More »
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Over at Fashionably Geek, Sean Fallon points out that Loiter has a great new shirt that teaches both safety and giant gorilla love. If you're going to get with a big guy like Kong, that's no excuse to neglect the rubber, kids. And there's more. More »
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The skyrocketing number of special effects shots in the Star Wars movies has become a shorthand for the way movies in general have become more SFX-heavy. But while the Star Wars films may have started the SFX arms race, they didn't win it. None of the three Star Wars prequels has as many special effects shots as 1996's Independence Day. Also, the visually stunning first Matrix movie only has as many SFX shots as The Empire Strikes Back. Click through to find out the most SFX-heavy movie of all time. More »
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