we can argue back and forth on all the other aspects of this film, but on a technical level, those VFXs are the best. quote me on this fellas, DOTM will win.
Yeah ditching sam's social life and focusing on NEST either exclusively or more than currently would make for a better movie - the trouble is the sub videogame plot doesn't really help the films.
These movies are nothing but a din of nihilistic tripe, but ILM has done fantastic sfx work on them. That slo-mo BB TF/flip in the highway chase is certainly award winning, IMO.
Why wouldn't it win? It has better CGI then every film I've seen. More attention to detail. Ceaser was amazing looking but this deserves it. They probably will consider it and say ''no this is that movie everyone hates''
You didn't watch the movies, did you? Go back to school and learn how to write, or go to IMDb, they have high tolerance for people like you. :]
Seeing that part again, I can't help but wonder how Starscream's eye wasn't just completely ripped out of it's socket, especially when two fully grown men were pulling on it. Would love to see it win, the visuals were nothing short of amazing, though I'm not keeping my hopes up. Third time's the charm.
If this loses to a monkey who can frown then I'm going to (pardon the expression) go apesh*t all over the "Academy". Seriously, making the entirety of Chicago look destroyed, making a giant worm eat and collapse a building, making a whole new planet with ships and characters there, and making such distinctive and intriguing character designs, etc. is far superior than rock'em sock'em robots, monkeys, wizards, and one robot. Seriously, Dark of the Moon deserves to win. Considering how the first one lost to a polar bear, things do not bode well.
I understand that Real Steel and Rise of the Planet of the Apes both have amazing visual effects as well, but to my knowledge, a lot of the CGI characters in those movies were brought to life and integrated into the environments through motion-capture work. While under most circumstances I'm extremely impressed with what motion capture can do, the Bots and Cons in Transformers: Dark of the Moon were created WITHOUT the work of that, and they were integrated into the world just as nicely - if not better. I'm just sayin'. : D
This movie must win. The effects are incredible. All around this time, not like the obvious looking props of Frenzy and BB from movie one, or the "can't quite put my finger on why it looks fake all of a sudden" ending of ROTF. Since when has Starscream ever had a dignified death? Killed at his own farce of a coronation while utterly dumbfounded. Flying out of control through space while crying like a girl. Death by anime cliche in a ridiculaous DBZ-esque fight. Literally dropped dead when the Allspark shard was pulled from his forehead. In fact that only time I recall him ever having a semi-dignified demise was in Armada, but he was sacrificing himself because he was a good guy in that. Starscream does not deserve a dignified end. He's a whiney, cowardly, pathetic yet entirely lovable jerk in almost everything he's in. It's wholely fitting he go out with a whimper, not a bang. (figuratively speaking) I lose it when he pushes that car out of the parking garage. He's like a cat with a jar on it's head.
As much as I want DotM to win, I know in my heart it won't. It'll either be RotPotA or Hugo (this last one surprises me). But hey, a nomination is good too! In case anyone is interested, Todd Vaziri (one of the higher up artists at ILM) runs a blog and every year (for past few years), he's had his VFX Predicatinator. It takes into account several things when it accurately predicts the winner. FXRant: The VFX Predictinator, 84th Academy Awards Edition You know, it makes me quite happy when even the more avid movie-dislikers can give credit where credit it due. Kudos, Pauly T. "Should've", in your opinion. I also feel that EVERYTHING visual effects-related in the movie should've been put in the reel, but that's just me. The nominees have 10 minutes to showcase their best work. This is what the actual visual effects artists and supervisors felt would best represent their work and effort. If it's in this reel, then they felt it showed their best work. If it's not, then they obviously felt that there was more substantial/better shots/scenes to put in.
Because Michael Bay is involved in the movie. Hollywood are a bunch of snobs & I can see most of them purposly voting for something else on principle of Bay's involvement.
I hope DOTM wins, the whole series has been amazing, yes even ROTF. If it does win I think it will seal the deal permenatly for movie 4. Sam: "don't..move..." Epps: "RUN!!!!!" !!! Love that part !!!
Why the hell is hugo here? Yeah it was a wonderful movie but the visuals were pretty much 'meh...' (the sh*tty train crash scene comes into mind.) Seriously, the oscars do this EVERY year. The overall best movie is always nominated for a crap load of awards and half of them they don't deserve. Really after seeing that reel and the moment the driller went full on at the building and seeing millions of debris going everywhere I was amazed and thinking to myself 'If this dosent win best VFX, theres going to be a very angry email being sent to the oscars.' Well.... thats if I can get their address.
At least it's not the BAFTA's. The Transformers films have NEVER been nominated for best visual effects here. In 2007 they nominated the Bourne Ultimatum, and in 2009, they nominated The Hurt Locker. What??? But then, the BAFTA's are ridiculously snobby, even moreso than the Oscars I still remember reading a live stream on the EMPIRE website about the 2007 Oscars, and when The Golden Compass won, everyone went apeshit
After watching that reel, I really don't see how it shouldn't win. If it doesn't, it should definitely by Apes though, that was very impressive
