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Jupiter Ascending no longer a contender for the Oscar VFX

posted 9 years ago by whatisthisidonteven2017
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It was included in the initial 20 film long list but it has been removed from the new 10 film list. The final list of contenders will consist of 5 films.

The current contenders are: http://www.digitaltrends.com/movies/2016-oscars-vfx-shortlist/

Ant-Man
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Ex Machina
Jurassic World
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Tomorrowland
The Walk

They also removed Chappie from the list, easily one of the very best 100% CGI characters in film history in terms of rendering quality and animation, probably because like JA it wasn't well received or was popular.

[–] Rachael89 9 years ago

Sad and unjust, but unsuprising. The Oscars are basically a popularity contest, and a film as reviled by the mainstream as JA never stood a chance, not even with the technical noms.

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[–] lajohn 9 years ago

This is B.S. How in the hell is the Revenant still in the running.

[–] catdogpyro 9 years ago

Because the models and designs for Jupiter Ascending were pathetically generic and boring to look at. Most of the VFX for Jupiter Ascending translated directly as visual noise. There were very few unique visual styles to film's "varied" environments. Meanwhile, The Revenant is purely practical film making and some of the shots in the movie are beyond incredible and some of the best you will ever see.

Because you couldn't give less of a damn about what happened to anyone or anything in Jupiter Ascending, it was hard to think of the environments as anything significant or interesting to say the least. Jupiter Ascending was garbage.

[–] Rachael89 9 years ago

You're free to think that, but don't act like your view is the only one. To me it's obvious that the VFX of Jupiter Ascending is very beautiful, striking and original. I have never seen spaceships that look like that before. I've never seen an effect like the hoverboots before. I have never seen such rich, beautifully realised fantasy environments in a film before.

And I'm not speaking from an ill-informed perspective - I've seen many, many sci-fi films, and I honestly can't think of any film that impressed me more (on a visual level) than Jupiter Ascending.

I also hate that people are so hung up on 'practical effects', since the obsession with them and the scorn of everything else grossly devalues the artistry and beauty possible with VFX. I love practical effects as much as anyone, and many of my favourite films are spectacle movies made long before computers were even conceived of (Metropolis, for example). But I still have great appreciation for VFX when it is used well and achieves things that would have been impossible to create practically, which was the case with Jupiter Ascending.

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[–] gate_angel_2001 9 years ago

Nice points. Have to say I hated the Revenant. Leo has had better Oscar prospects. And I'd never have know about the difficulties and "practicalities" of the filmmaking if it hadn't been RAMMED DOWN EVERYONE'S THROAT the entire time anyone talks about it.

Much prefer to bask in the beauty of JA.