Blade Runner gets its Revenge, 2 Oscars baby
Well deserved. Fcuk the world for dissing this movie.
sharecool. Which two?
shareCinematography
Visual Effects
Both deserved. The effects in in Dunkirk looked CGI as f-all.
shareI thought the effects in the Ape Planets movie was the best out of this year in that category, The apes were photorealistic and seamless with the environment and other characters...
But yeah, the cinematography of Blade Runner 2049 is well deserved, even though I personally prefer the look of Dunkirk and think Hoyte Van Hoytema will get one eventually. Great to see Roger Deakins finally win one after 14 nominations! I think some of his earlier work was too subtle for the Oscars, who seem to like a bit of flare... 😉
I haven't seen the behind the scenes stuff for Blade Runner 2049 as I haven't bought the disc yet and I don't usually check those making-of extras out. But I wonder how related the visual effects and cinematography were in this movie.... I wuldn't be surprised to learn that there was a lot of work coordinating the two...
Think everyone bored of the mo-cap FX for monkeys, golems etc now with Serkis always droning on about how best actor should include mocap performances (i.e him). The spellbounding cityscapes of Blade Runner were far more impressive and exciting (plus it gave us the most realistic deage mo-cap FX so far in Rachel 2.0)
shareDid Serkis really say that? hahahaha...
This last Ape Planets movie is the first one that actually looks good in terms of the CGI apes, so it's as much the graphics guys as it is his performance... Also, none of his performances are Oscar worthy. Didn't the Ape Planets movie have other actors for the other apes?
Motion Capture FX is only just starting to look good and the accolades that Serkis got are mostly from the various nerds and fans of Ring Lords movies (in particular) and other such properties... Nearly any half decent actor can do this, as the computer and cartoon folks do all the heavy lifting... That Golem character looks pretty dated and bad now, whereas real acting from 60 years ago still works 😉 ... Even the CGI of Jurrassic Park is less dated than Serkis Golem...
So yeah, if snubbing Serkis is an added bonus of Blade Runner 2049 winning than that's great 😁
He always brings it up. Thing is the Apes movies (and other mocap stuff Avatar, LOTR, Kong etc) everyone is so used to it now and expect it to be flawless its like its no longer impressive
shareGolem, hm?
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