The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science announced the top ten list for The Best Visual Effects award for 87th Academy Awards (2015 Oscars) yesterday.
Transformers: Age of Extinction is among the shortlist of movies which includes Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Godzilla and The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. It’s going to be a tough game since “Apes” seems to be leading the category. So at this point it seems we can’t go bananas if the Robots lose to a bunch of monkeys… Apes, I mean Apes.
The shortlisted films are:
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier
- Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
- Godzilla
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
- Interstellar
- Maleficent
- Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
- Transformers: Age of Extinction
- X-Men: Days of Future Past
Decepticons
Yeah, DotM was much better.
aikitim
Lmao the grass exploding when scorn rolls through the park.
FanimusMaximus
Yeah it's not gonna win.
We never get nice things.
electronic456
People complained how they couldn't tell apart the CGI in the previous TF films.
I think AOE's CGI helped distinguish the robots more. In some way that's a good thing about the CGI there.
My vote for best VFX would probably go to Godzilla. Though I have a feeling it should be Interstellar which I have not seen.
Coffee
AOE was alright… but there are a great many movies that deserve the reward more than it does.
Huffington
It's funny when you can see plebes who have no idea about the industry try to chime in. Keep plebe-ing.
Shizuka
I don't think that's true. While DOTM certainly had the best and most consistent good CGI, AOE certainly wasn't as "fake" looking as the 2007 film.
The Iron Magnus
Please. Those movies were old news. Compared to half the movies listed this one is actually decent.
EnerJohn
Is this a joke??? Out of all 4 transformers movies, AOE had the worst CG effects! And that's saying a lot, considering the first 3 movies had the most real special effects of any movie to date. AOE looked incredibly fake. It looked like ILM had nothing to do with this film.
Fallout
interstellar oughta win. what an amazing movie in all regards, effects bein no exception.
prfctcellrulz
Every year I flip the Oscars the Double Bird for their extreme incompetence and their disrespect of what the true Holy Cinematic Masterpieces are.
Case in point: Age Of Extinction. It is the absolute best movie of 2014 and 100% DESERVES to sweep the Oscars. But of course the elitist dirtbags that run the awards choose to snub the rightful movies every year.
That's why only I know movies and I flat-out HATE awards shows.
Godzilock Prime
Godzilla or Apes should win.
Megatron118
I love Transformers, I genuinely do; after all, it's my favorite franchise. However:
Interstellar was the most profound movie of not only 2014, but at least the last few years, if not the decade (seriously); and it has become one of my top three favorite movies of all time.
The visuals in AOE were great, but I think Interstellar should win that accolade, plus many more.
Autovolt 127
I liked AOE but once again it's outclassed by just about every better movie this year. I may not have seen all of them but they are most definitely better movies.
That would be wonderful.
Galvatross
Honestly I thought the CGI in AOE looked great in most instances, as did most all of the other films to be honest; these films all have good effects for what they are trying to portray. The robots, spaceships, and even the Steeljaws, Psittacosaurus, and alien hand in the beginning all look great. If anything, it's the difference in robot designs that make it appear less realistic to some viewers. I also like how the interior of Lockdwon's ship was not entirely CGI but an actual set with green screens, and I like how Bay almost entirely uses actual explosions instead of CGI explosions.
If there's CGI in recent big budget blockblusters I don't like it's the molten gold in Desolation of Smaug and the fake explosions in Man of Steel. That and the trend to have very human-like non-human soldiers be CGI, such as the Orcs in the Hobbit movies, or the Chitari in Avengers. I understand it when there's a million Orcs running around or when the Chitari are flying around, but it would be nice to have actors in costume when they're up close, few in number, and on the ground. The Lord of The Rings' costumed Orcs looked much better in my opinion.
Other than that, at this point in time all big budget movies have great effects, whether it's AOE, Guardians, Interstellar, Apes, or The Hobbit.
jestermon
Here come armchair critics to the complaint.
Raiyuki
While I liked the CGI in the film, the excessive explosions, fake looking Megatron head, and the fact that during the Grimlock vs Optimus fight you see water land on the camera and stay there all make me feel that AOE doesn't quite deserve to win.
agent j 15
The CGI in AOE was NOT Oscar worthy. They got so damn lazy it isn't funny.
Micronautsdeep
Would be nice if there was an actual story-line and if the Decepticons were Transformers. This is the first Bay-former film that I can defend in no way, shape, or form.