The whole transformers series should win for special effects since it’s been changing over the years and becoming more realistic

 

Ehhh that's debatable. I think 2007 is still the most realistic looking back, they had to invent so much tech for that movie.

 

Sure. But then it got stupider and stupider.

 

Yeah, I mean the effects did technically get better but they started doing progressively more unrealistic stuff so it looked stupid. Devastator in 70MM IMAX made me nerdgasm though—still unmatched in my mind.

 

Oh totally. That devastator is amazing. Regardless of wether or not it deserves that name. And even the KSI Drone “transformations” looked really cool. And it was a great way to get past already impossible and cool designs.

 

No look at each film the cgi changes and becomes more realistic

 

No.

 

Infinity War should win. I don't recall a single bad effect, and the overall scale that the effects were used on was spectacular.

I am shocked that Black Panther is on that list. I thought the effects for Wakanda (in the backgrounds and whatnot) were really good, but nothing groundbreaking. Some of the fights were pretty bad, especially the final fight - I found it especially jarring that it was so CGI-reliant, after the gritty, practical waterfall fights earlier in the movie. I thought Black Panther's final fight would have been a lot more entertaining if they actually had the actors in suits instead of CGI.

 

Yeah. Inifinity war deserves it. So impressive.

And black panther was a bit sad with its effects.

 

It had its moments of nice screening, but not even the....'three minutes of awesome' it had are enough to make it prize worthy.

 

Hm, I don't remember anything that particularly stood out in Infinity War. Like if we're talking about just scale, I'd say The Last Knight's final battle was on par with the Wakanda battle.

 

I can see what you don’t

 

Even after all I’ve been through. I still love these boards.

It’s more like Thanos that are the amazing effects here. Like all the realistic emotions and facial definitions were just incredible. Also the amazing effects and attention to detail in the fight on Titan, the ship on earth and the bleeding edge armour. Even if the third didn’t look realistic it was incredibly layered. They’re all just well put together.

 

 

OK, I'll give Thanos to you; he looked incredible.

 

Yeah. That’s what people mean when they say the effects are incredible. Even on the black order guys they were impressive despite having small screen time.

 

Going by Academy track record it will be either First Man, Welcome to Marven or Mary Poppins Returns. The movies that win are usually critically acclaimed stand-outs: Ex Machina, Blade Runner 2049, Gravity, Jungle Book, Interstellar, Life of Pi.

Some news outlets are calling First Man and Infinity War frontrunners, so I assume it'll end up being First Man.

 

Yep. Golden Compass won? The '07 movie got hosed.

 

Well, CGI was pretty much used for the entire movie of Infinity War. For instance, the battle on Titan was probably almost entirely CGI environments, as was the scene where Thor makes Stormbreaker. With that much CGI, It's amazing that none of the effects come out looking like a cartoon.

I agree that The Last Knight's final battle was on par with the Wakanda battle in Infinity War. But most of the settings in TLK were practical, the CGI was used mostly for the robots and Cybertron (when it's seen at a distance). Infinity War has a lot more greenscreening.

 

They didn't want a Michael Bay movie winning an Oscar.