Revenge of the Fallen earns Oscar nomination for Best Visual Effects

I think hell would freeze over if TF2 won anything at the oscars. I also don't see why avatar is so highly regarded. It's a bloody pocahontas remake, nothing original in it at all. And the visuals gave me a major migrane, so avatar is at the bottom of my list, tied with TF2 for suckiest film.

Devastator makes me sad. The only reason why Spielberg sweared after watching him in action was because of Devastator "attributes". I'm not a GEEWUNNER but I wish Devastator was made more like his G1 namesake, It would had looked cool.

Well something has to lose ...

Personally i'm hoping for District 9 to be an unexpected big winner.

DAMNIT! Avatars in this! While I think ROTF has the better quality of CGI, Avatar looks like it has more quantity. Plus the 3-D, and people say its awesome. I even hear some people say that the story was un original but the CG saved it and or took up for it. Must be some good-ass CG to save a story. But the two TF movies have the most realistic special effects I have seen when it comes to this category. But last time, they lost to a f8kin polar bear! Really?

last month, i posted a comment about avatar winning the oscars and i got rebuked as a reply. it's going to be a miracle if ROTF won.

TF2 has no chance of winning, and I'm shocked that it was even nominated. The visual effects weren't that great. And since everyone's calling Avatar the Star Wars of our Generation I think it's obvious that it's going to win. Also James Cameron > Michael Bay.

maybe thats why it wasnominated everyone expects avatra to win but if it was nominated fro mlast year it might have won something and poeple in charge of the oscars didnt want transfromers to win anything,

OR

there desperat fro more nominations & they put transfromers in there if you ask me every catargory that avatra is in it will probably win, that harrypotter, or twilight new moon

should avatar even be there? i was pretty sure it missed the cut-off date and would just get nominated at next year's awards.

but considering a movie with terrible effects like golden compass won before, i dont hold out much hope this time. i can't believe all the people saying TF looked like crap etc.. wow, hate the movie itself all you want but thats the one place where it did amazing work.

of course it'll probably go to avatar because everyone seems to be blinded by its "awesomeness". lol

While the visual effects of ROTF are intense and definitely worthy of an award (probably the only part of the film that is truly award-worthy), I'm betting Avatar ends up winning.

Those trashing the Golden Compass effects miss the point entirely. The Academy doesn't just look at the "prettiest effects" but the effects that deliver the best performance. That extra effort that makes it more than just shiny.

The Golden Compass wasn't a great film (still better than either Transformers film) but the CG animals all expressed emotions and "acted" alongside the flesh and blood people- and not one of them peed or break danced or tried to rape characters with robot tentacles.

The Bayformers just rolled around a lot and looked shiny.

The same goes for Revenge of the Bayformers.

Don't be surprised if the pics this year are:

-Avatar
-District 9
-Harry Potter

it should be nominated for crappiest lead actress(megan fox)

decepticonblitz77 wrote:it should be nominated for crappiest lead actress(megan fox)

Why the hate against Megan Fox? I think she was all right, not good, but definitely not worse than the rest of the human cast.

Tough year as I love Avatar, District 9, Terminator: Salvation Star Trek, and Transformers 2 and their effects.

I would go with the underdog on that list and say District 9 wins this year. District 9's effects does so much in the movie with little amount of money. The CGI that were used were able to emotionally connect the audience with the aliens. The movie was a perfect marriage between live action and CGI.

Agreed with that guy's list on the article. Avatar and District 9 both blew me away with their visual effects. 2012 had the great California destruction scene, but the other bits were sub-par. Transformers does have some mind-blowing scenes, but it also has lots of "that's soooo fake!" scenes. It should come over Terminator though.

I'm not surprised that RotF is on the list. The effects were better than the previous movie. I remember hearing on the documentary DVD that they increased the resolution of the effects. I don't remember what that resolution was off-hand, but it was ridiculously high.

It may not win, but I do hope it does.

The Fallen Prime wrote:I'm not surprised that RotF is on the list. The effects were better than the previous movie.

There were still less details than in the first movie - in the battle in Egypt, Megatron once runs out of smoke without any sign he was there; also, Megatron fires his fusion cannon multiple times without any kind of projectile/bullet/laser leaving the cannon - all in all, RotF's effects were very weak or blurry.

SoooTrypticon wrote:Those trashing the Golden Compass effects miss the point entirely. The Academy doesn't just look at the "prettiest effects" but the effects that deliver the best performance. That extra effort that makes it more than just shiny.

The Golden Compass wasn't a great film (still better than either Transformers film) but the CG animals all expressed emotions and "acted" alongside the flesh and blood people- and not one of them peed or break danced or tried to rape characters with robot tentacles.

What movie did you see?

Whether they win or not, I think it's a good movie. I don't think they will win though..

Avatar first, ROTF second, Harry Potter third, Terminator Salvation fourth.

I'v lost faith in the Oscars ever since Saving Private Ryan lost to Shakespeare In Love for Best Movie.

The title is a bit misleading. ROTF was not nominated for an Oscar, yet. The short list are not the final list of nominations.

Hopefully it wins.
But the oscars are not about rewarding a film which is good. It is about who is flavour of the month and who paid more.
Avatar is a gimmick. There are pretentious promos for that thing on every day on Film4 and doughtless other channels.
Look at the list and think who is most promoted. Avatar.
So yeah the precious Avatar will win probabely.
Harry Potter has terrible effects. It is all unnnesssesery, pretentious blurring that messes the film up.
If you are going on application rather than resolution then it fails massively.
If that thing wins then someone paid a lot of money.
ROTF has some not so good effects but most are well executed.
Avatar grinds my gears.
And if it is Star Wars of this decade then it means it is overhyped drek that will have obbsessed fans spouting over it and more promotion than any other franchise to the point nothing is safe.

ROTF being nominated for visuals......

I remembered all these things when I first watched it:
-lots and lots of recycled decepticons
-really brightly colored robots
-a really bad shot of scavenger(?) right before he smashes into the bridge
-the doctor "pulling" on Sam's lips at a different framerate than his lips
-absence of motion blur when jet-optimus fights the fallen on the ground

The visuals besides that were okay, but just excessive. They weren't exactly an improvement over the first either. Quantity over quality.

My votes go to Avatar and District 9.

Revenge of the Fallen's effects were mediocre. Especially for all of the hype behind them. None of the characters emoted worth a damn, the fight scenes were clusters or repeated characters, and what should have been a show stealing epic transformation of Devestator ending up being a huge let down. Devestator is arguably the best visual effect for this movie. And he does jack shit other then combine and dig a trench. Just like Golden Compass deserved to win the best Special Effects award two years ago, Avatar deserves to win it this year.

Well, the nominations are in and TF2 didn't make the cut for visuals(thankfully):

-Avatar
-District 9
-Star Trek

But it did make it for sound.

Loki God Of Mischief wrote:Revenge of the Fallen's effects were mediocre. Especially for all of the hype behind them. None of the characters emoted worth a damn, the fight scenes were clusters or repeated characters, and what should have been a show stealing epic transformation of Devestator ending up being a huge let down. Devestator is arguably the best visual effect for this movie. And he does jack shit other then combine and dig a trench. Just like Golden Compass deserved to win the best Special Effects award two years ago, Avatar deserves to win it this year.

While I agree with you, and apparently this is a non-issue at this point anyhow, someone earlier said that the real measure of the best effects in this category is how the effects work within the overall movie, which means that District 9 should win the Oscar. (Have not yet seen Avatar)

ROTF had halfway finished effects that weren't even worth seeing, honestly. I know, "it's better than G1 could be in 30 million years!!!!!!!1111!!!!!" but hell, half the time the characters were indistinguishable from each other. So, you've seen the DVD 12 times today, and you can tell all the robots apart? Congrats, but I don't think the people voting give a darn. District 9 had clear effects that drove the storyline, ROTF had lame effects that underscored a lame story about an imbecile going to college and his stupid parents eating hash brownies. District 9, all the way.

Well, mistakes can be made. A mention is a mention. Doesn't mean squat. Let's save our bellyaching for if something more happens.

Hopefully it will not win this award or any other award
The movie STUNK all the way, and while I am not an Amish, many scenes were uhhhh "not good" for younger types. Also why focus on the moronic fleshlings? all they do is whine, get high, fix motorcycles, and make the CGI guys jobs easier.