OSCARS: VFX Shortlist Pared To 10

COMMENTS (9)

• What knucklehead watched Rise and thought those apes looked real!? It should be in the Razzie category for VFX, fake apes took me out of that movie.

  Comment by Dude — Wednesday January 4, 2012 @ 3:46pm PST  Reply to this post

  • Good thing you’re not on the nominating committee.

    Comment by dudette — Wednesday January 4, 2012 @ 5:52pm PST  Reply to this post

  • Obviously, you are from The Planet of the Idiots. The visual effects work from Weta enhanced the glorious motion capture acting performance of Andy Serkis which provided a most believable perspective from the point of the apes.

    Dude, you don’t have a clue….;

    Comment by Confused? — Wednesday January 4, 2012 @ 7:18pm PST  Reply to this post

    • I won’t debate my location.

      Are the effects an advancement over guys wearing ape suits, within the world of vfx, yes. Did non-realistic looking digital apes provide more of a distraction than actors performing in costumes and make up, yes again.

      Of course I don’t have a clue, I just watch movies…

      Comment by Dude — Wednesday January 4, 2012 @ 11:23pm PST  Reply to this post

  • Your brain must be a VFX.

    Comment by filmstudent — Wednesday January 4, 2012 @ 11:06pm PST  Reply to this post

• I didn’t care for the apes in Rise. But then, what do I know… I’m just a mom. The ape suits and makeup/masks from Planet of the Apes… I’ll take those any day!! They had character, emotions… I didn’t see them as actors in a costume. Their makeup took talent and time. The acting then brought the “apes” to life.

  Comment by Zandra Pendleton — Thursday January 5, 2012 @ 12:07am PST  Reply to this post

• Some people already seems extremely nervous about Rise of the Planet of the Apes winning this award hahahaha, GO RISE.

  Andy Serkis acting performance was just brilliant and deserves an Oscar award plus Weta is no.1 in my book.

  Any fool who questions that needs their head tested. You can’t really fault this movie even though people still try.

  It was complete shock to some, so well done Andy and James Franco and the rest of the team involved.

  I hope they get rewarded at the Oscars with something, it will be a crime if not.

  Comment by mjrules — Thursday January 5, 2012 @ 6:55am PST  Reply to this post

• Those who sway too heavily towards biased opinions are fools. You liking the movie is an opinion not a fact. The movie not being good and the vfx being half assed is more of a fact and less of an opinion . The people who worked on it may be proud of their work but there is a fine line between being a fan of something/ idea and it actually being a piece of art. Glad you liked it. The movie was made for people like you. Don’t blind yourself behind an unbalanced point of view. Good thing about movies you can take it for what it is. Leave it at that.

  Comment by Mbl — Thursday January 5, 2012 @ 2:16pm PST  Reply to this post

• While members of the Visual Effects industry that are also members of the Academy my choose the nominees, it is the Academy at large that selects the winner. So, technique and degree of difficulty be damned, the winner will likely be chosen based on how the voter liked the movie.

  Comment by InTheTrenches — Thursday January 5, 2012 @ 6:51pm PST  Reply to this post