I hope Planet of the Apes wins. Those apes looked pretty real, as opposed to when I looked at the TFs. I knew I was looking at a computer-generated effect throughout the entire movie.

 

It is a shame that ILM’s breathtaking work on the Transformers films hasn’t been recognised yet. Say what you want about the actual films themselves, but the VFX have always been top notch. As I said before, they will win something for Transformers eventually, just not this time. Yet again.

Having said that, as I said earlier, Planet of the Apes deserves it more. The apes looked photo-real. That’s all there is to it. There were a few times when they merely looked average, like when Caesar was a baby and the CGI for his mother, but I would say that about 99.5% of the film was perfect. There were times when I was fooled for a few seconds. To anyone who has seen the film, would you agree that the orang-utan character actually looks 100% real at all times? My friend I saw it with actually thought he was real.

BTW, Planet of the Apes also proves that CGI characters can be the leads in a live-action film, but that’s a discussion for another time.

 

Yes the visual effects are great and deserve recognition but if Bay gets up there to except that award........?


Grrrrr!

 

But he wouldn’t. He’s not part of ILM.

 

Of the movies I saw this year's special effects:

"Captain America: The First Avenger" = Nothing Spectacular. Effects on Green Lantern were better. Best effect was putting Chris Even's head on a nerd's body... but even that was done before in Spider-Man 1.

"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2" = Seen it 7 times before. Yay... another green light splashes against a red light... another dragon... ooooo more fireworks.... yaaaaawwwwn...

"Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" = First movie still the best, effects wise, and Davey Jones far exceeds anything in On Stranger Tides...

"Rise of the Planet of the Apes" = Greatest effects since LOTR. Far more realistic digital actors than Gollum or Avatar. Superb. The orangutan looked so real, it was creepy.

"Thor" = Fire-spewing robot aside, the effects were average by today's standards.

"Transformers: Dark of the Moon" = Looks the same as it did in 2007. OOOOO more robots... oooooo... big deal. We get it... you can make robots out of car parts... now can you make a decent movie with a plot and acting out of Michael Bay? Nope.

"X-Men: First Class" = weakest of the group. Emma Frost's diamond skin was a joke, most effects looked like recycles of previous films, and the Beast looked just plain silly. Couldn't even be bothered to put the air distortions around Magneto's hands when he uses his power.
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Ummm.... hello... CGI leads are common before POTA... Avatar, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Pirates of the Caribbean, Lord of the Rings, the list is exhausting...

 

AAAAAAHHHH! That's awesome that they got nominated!! I hope they get into at least the top ten :3

 

I think Transformers 07 got robbed but I also think that with every subsequent movie the likelihood of Transformers actually winning gets less and less.

I'm not a SFX expert, but I imagine part of what the award gets handed out for is doing things no one has ever done before. While the Transformers movies have added more shots and such with each movie, they're still largely just building on what they did in the first movie. There's less and less reason to award the innovation each time. If DotM doesn't win this year (where at least they added the 3D element) I can't imagine any subsequent TF films doing anything so amazing that they pull out the win.

Rise, this year, did some amazing work getting digital characters to emote in subtle ways not yet seen AND just pulling off the risk of resting a dramatic movie on the shoulders of a digital animal like they did...it was work I think is much more likely to get rewarded by the industry peers.

 

Unfortunately, Transformers won't win this one only because there is so much bias against them critically. The effects in DOTM were just spectacular and they need to be recognized for it. The only other contender that really blew my mind was Rise of the Planet of the Apes.

 

Considering the first TransFormers lost to, The Golden Compass, I don't know if DOTM will win. It should win, the effects in DOTM and the first TF movie look so damn real!!!!

 

If they would give us nothing, then there is nothing fair in this world!

 

Take solace in the fact that if Transformers loses out to another hairy CGI mammal, it’s a darn sight better than the polar bear in The Golden Compass.

 

I'm having flashbacks to the first movie losing to that shitty looking polar bear.

 

Rise of the Planent of the Apes DESERVES to win - that motion capture was nothing short of revolutionary and Serkis at least deserves an Oscar nod this time around for best actor/ supporting actor

 

Harry Potter's in there, so I'm inclined to think that the Academy will find a way to give said movie as many Oscars as possible. Given that TF1 lost out to the Golden Compass I have very little hope.

 

After the first one was robbed of the VFX Oscar, I feel like they're owed it. I think they definitely deserve it this year, too.

 

DOTM should win, but sadly it probably won't. I mean, the first movie and ROTF didn't win any Oscars, so it wouldn't surprise me if DOTM doesn't get an Oscar for the VFX.

 

best visual effects: yes

best acting or story telling:
NOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - YouTube

 

The Golden Compass is the worst fantasy movie of all time. I had to literally pause it every five minutes to get up and do something else because I feared that I'd fall asleep because of how boring it was. The CGI in that movie was nothing special either. The polar bear was an obvious special effect and every other effect had been done before. Transformers changed the game when it came to CGI.