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Giant monsters stomping across your gaming table, thrashing each other and destroying an entire city in the process: Is this heaven? Nope, just Monsterpocalypse, a forthcoming collectible miniatures game of kaiju combat by Privateer Press. The pre-painted collectible minis and the buildings they will stomp will come in random booster packs starting this fall. Privateer is ramping up for a grand roll-out, with a comic book series and promo monsters to get the kaiju fans drooling.
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Giant Monsters Destroy All Cities
Giant monsters stomping across your gaming table, thrashing each other and destroying an entire city in the process: Is this heaven? Nope, just Monsterpocalypse, a forthcoming collectible miniatures game of kaiju combat by Privateer Press. The pre-painted collectible minis and the buildings they will stomp will come in random booster packs starting this fall. Privateer is ramping up for a grand roll-out, with a comic book series and promo monsters to get the kaiju fans drooling.More »
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Do Giant Disasters Provide Inspiration for Giant Monster Movies?
It's practically a truism to claim that the giant monster movie craze of the 1950s was inspired by the atomic bombs the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as the hundreds of atomic tests done afterwards. And some have argued that the Cloverfield monster's attack on New York was a not-so-subtle reference to the terrorist attacks on New York's World Trade Center in 2001. But is there a real historical basis to these claims? We've charted some of the biggest disasters of the last century, and lined them up next to a timeline of giant monster movies, to see what the temporal correlation is between giant disasters and giant monsters. The results revealed an interesting giant monster cycle in pop culture. More »
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Giant Monsters vs. Giant People - Who Wins?
The bitter debate that rages between the proponents of giant monsters and the advocates for giant people is one that will probably never be settled, but we can at least attempt to explain what each side brings to the table. On the one hand, giant monsters like Godzilla and Space Godzilla (pictured here in an awesome fight) can do things like gnash their teeth and fly. But human giant monsters can actually talk and also flash their breasts (see video below). We lay out the pros and cons of giant monsters, and the pros and cons of giant people, and you can decide for yourself which mega-forms will rule. More »
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How to Destroy an Evil Plant Monster
Plant monsters are making a comeback, with The Ruins giving us an ancient Mayan plant thing in theaters and M. Night Shyamalan about to try our patience again with his forthcoming plant toxin movie The Happening. But there's a long history of evil plants on film, which seemingly has been forgotten in these new offerings. Now it's time to water the soil of the scary plant genre, and remind you how plant slayers in history have defeated their chlorophyl-loving foes. More »
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Superman Writer Moves Onto Monsters, Robots
Not content with making Superman Returns a movie that separated the mainstream audiences from the Superman obsessives (I'm in the latter camp, surprisingly), screenwriter Michael Dougherty is turning his nerd gaze to the Godzilla genre with a new project Calling All Robots, which promises to merge Beowulf-style animation with giant green lizard levels of carnage and destruction. Potentially greatest movie ever, or just Cloverfield with even less-lifelike actors? Find out more under the jump. More »
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Godzilla in the Mist
Over on Flickr there's a great collection of Japanese toy robots who've been Photoshopped to look half-menacing, half-romantic by giant robot enthusiast Jeff Simmermon. Here's his do-up of Godzilla (click to see full-size glory), who looks like he's ready to pounce — or kiss. Check out the whole set.
Roland Emmerich Goes Apocalyptic -- Again
Roland Emmerich has written a spec script with Harald Kloser called 2012 which is "apocalyptic." It was read around Hollywood yesterday and it could start a bidding war among studios today. It's a sure sign of the coming apocalypse if people are falling over themselves to give the man who butchered Godzilla another project before we find out what he does to Fantastic Voyage. I must admit, however, that I actually enjoyed Emmerich's The Day After Tomorrow — I hope I don't have to turn in my io9 ID for that. [Variety]
Roland Emmerich has written a spec script with Harald Kloser called 2012 which is "apocalyptic." It was read around Hollywood yesterday and it could start a bidding war among studios today. It's a sure sign of the coming apocalypse if people are falling over themselves to give the man who butchered Godzilla another project before we find out what he does to Fantastic Voyage. I must admit, however, that I actually enjoyed Emmerich's The Day After Tomorrow — I hope I don't have to turn in my io9 ID for that. [Variety]
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Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?
Now that the Cloverfield monster has won a place in the giant-monster canon, everybody wants to know how he'd do in a fight against Godzilla. The answer: he'd have a chance against the original 1954 Godzilla, but none whatsoever against the newer, twice-as-tall version. See how Cloverfieldy stacks up to other giant monsters in the crucial giantness department, after the jump. (Very minor spoilers only.) More »
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io9 Talks To Cloverfield Director Matt Reeves
Cloverfield opens today, ending months of internet speculation and Slusho tie-in controversies. We spoke to the man behind the movie, Matt Reeves. He took time out of his busy day, where he's poised to count bags of incoming cash and laugh maniacally, to talk to us about Gojira, David Schwimmer, and the big secret at the end of the movie. Check out the interview inside, and steel yourself for one of the nicest guys we've ever met in Hollywood. More »
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Nevermind the Monster -- Cloverfield Is All About 9/11
All this rampant speculation about the Cloverfield monster has been distraction from the real thrill of the movie: Getting to watch a reenactment of 9/11 without all the scary political implications and the guilt over one's fascination with mass death. Like the disturbing original Gojira from 1954, Cloverfield is a monster movie whose purpose is nakedly therapeutic. New York must recover from the historical trauma of 9/11, and what better way than by containing its reenactment in a completely generic story whose monster-comes-to-town-monster-leaves-town narrative structure is as familiar as the fairy tales we heard as kids? (spoilers ahead) More »
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New York is famous as a breeding ground for monsters. With the metropolis about to get ripped to shreds on Friday in giant monster flick Cloverfield, NY's love affair with deadly, inhuman beasts is on our minds. HP Lovecraft wrote back in the 1920s that the Red Hook neighborhood was built over a vast, subterranean chamber where demons worshiped ancient monsters; and in 1933, the first King Kong movie gave the world an iconic view of a giant gorilla battling planes on top of the then-ultra-modern Empire State Building. But there are some other New York monsters you might have forgotten. We've got ten to remember.
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Ten Great New York Monsters (OK, One is from New Jersey)
New York is famous as a breeding ground for monsters. With the metropolis about to get ripped to shreds on Friday in giant monster flick Cloverfield, NY's love affair with deadly, inhuman beasts is on our minds. HP Lovecraft wrote back in the 1920s that the Red Hook neighborhood was built over a vast, subterranean chamber where demons worshiped ancient monsters; and in 1933, the first King Kong movie gave the world an iconic view of a giant gorilla battling planes on top of the then-ultra-modern Empire State Building. But there are some other New York monsters you might have forgotten. We've got ten to remember.
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Secrets of the SNAFU Behind the Name "Cloverfield"
Director Matt Reeves dropped the news that the name Cloverfield came about entirely by accident, almost like playing a game of telephone. More »
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The monster in the J.J. Abrams-produced Cloverfield movie has had everyone speculating about what it could be. For months people have been wondering if this was a new Godzilla movie, a return of the Loch Ness monster, or something more sinister.
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Cloverfield Monster Is Free Willy With Pubic Lice
The monster in the J.J. Abrams-produced Cloverfield movie has had everyone speculating about what it could be. For months people have been wondering if this was a new Godzilla movie, a return of the Loch Ness monster, or something more sinister.
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