So I'm currently watching the Oscars and there are three nominees for best visual effects. Batman, Iron Man, and Benjamin Button are the nominees. And the winner is... Benjamin Button!I won't go into a tirade or anything, especially since I haven't seen Ben Button yet (but I will someday), but really? Is making Brad Pitt look old visually more impressive than either of the comic book movies? Putting super heroes, super villains, and super cool explodey things on screen is visually impressive. Putting an old person on screen? Maybe not so much.
Hooray for Heath Ledger getting the Best Supporting Actor. He won tonight and he won at the Golden Globes as well, and both times the camera panned to Robert Downey Jr. looking kinda pissed. Boo on the academy for not even nominating Dark Knight for Best Picture. Why they gotta hate?
And, before I get back to the show, the next movie I want to see has got to be Slumdog Millionaire. I wanted to see it before, and want to see it even more now to see if it lives up to the Best Editing award (I like editing).
i think 'dark knight' should have been up for best picture. popularity isn't everything, but it should be one of the many considerations. i would never put iron man up there, even though it was solid... but i think people underrate how hard it is to fit all the legacy behind the joker/batman relationship into a movie. i think it was expertly done.
ReplyDeletebut, i'm going to have to defend 'ben button' for a minute. yes, the visuals in batman and ironman were fab. i respect the batman visuals more because they were creating a whole world instead of just putting cool visuals inside of the real world. but i feel like the benjamin button visuals were such a big part of the story. if the batman visuals weren't perfect, it would make the movie a little worse. but if the ben button visuals weren't perfect, it would have completely ruined the movie. just my two cents.
I have no problem with Batman not WINNING best picture, but not even getting a nomination is BS. I've read a few blogs that suggest Ledger might not have even been nominated if he hadn't died, and I suspect that'd be true. I'll have to see Benjamin Button to compare the effects thing, but to be honest, even after I see it I don't think I'll fully figure this one out. Why aren't animated films in this category? I know they have their own category, but really, if the visual effects for Benjamin Button are done a computer the same way Wall-E is, why not nominate Wall-E too? And, even though Steve will likely comment that he hates me, I thought "Wanted" had better visual effects than Iron Man. I liked Iron Man WAY more, but in Wanted there was some crazy visual stuff that I hadn't seen since the original Matrix (Keanu: "Whoa").
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