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Visual Effects Oscar Shortlist
nurble writes "The short list of films being considered for a best visual effects Oscar was released today. The biggest news is that the final two installments of the Matrix trilogy were snubbed in favor of Universal Studios' "The Hulk," New Line Cinema's "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King," 20th Century Fox's "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World," Universal's "Peter Pan," Buena Vista Pictures' "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl," Warner Bros. Pictures' "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines" and Fox's "X2". Finalists will be announced following the effects "bake-off" on January 21st."
That just proves that this whole thing is a sham.
LOTR III will get some stupid Visual Effects or Best Soundtrack or Biggest Boobs Oscar nobody cares about and the main prices go to generic, brainless, Disney-esque Hollywood shit like Jerkinator III, Green Dork or Find Goatse.
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Ludivine Sagnier has the nicest pair of visual effects I've ever seen.
Let's pit Gollum, Terminator, The Hulk, Peter Pan and all those undead pirates against eachother in a nicely computer-generated arena.
The winner claims the Oscar.
"And Gollum runs towards The Hulk, with his fierce hissed battle-cry of "Filthy greenthingses", eagerly a-snapping for fingers!"
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He ended up looking more like the Jolly Green Giant "Ho Ho Ho" :)
What does the academy have against the Matrix, anyway?
Probably that it sucked so bad that even the public noticed.
I'm trying to.
In my opinion, the Matrix could have easily been snubbed by Looney Tunes: Back in Action.
Let me get this off of my head at once:
Visual effects are NOT necessarily computer-generated images.
Sure, the Matrix movies had tons of CG, but were lacking in the more 'traditional' effects department. The sets weren't up to par, costuming was unoriginal, and there were no new cinematic techniques which actually added to the film. In fact, the effects were incredibly obvious.
On the other hand, ROTK did not rely exclusively on computers, and built scale-models, and used 'old-fashioned' camera techniques such as forced perspective which was brilliantly used to make the hobbits appear 3 feet tall - not once during all 3 films did I dobut that they were actually 3 feet tall. Lighting was perfect, and the times where WETA resorted to CG were perfect (read: Gollum).
I hope this is a lesson to future filmmakers not to over-use computers in film production. The old-fashioned stuff looks so much better!
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