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The other three nominees are probably all in contention for the win. Guardians of the Galaxy may not have the most dazzling effects, but it’s got enough to qualify, plus the advantage of being the summer movie people most enjoyed (to their own surprise). If you go back a ways, Cocoon and Independence Day are movies that won on that basis.
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Unlike Captain America, this movie DOES have a lot of noticeable effects – all of Mystique’s transformations, for openers – but they just don’t have the kick they once did. The “Time in a Bottle” sequence was the only moment in the movie that truly impressed me on a effects level.
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I just watched this latest chapter of the X-Men, and 1) I haven’t see all the films – I skipped Brett Ratner’s contribution – so I’m not sure if I missed the intro of some characters or simply forgot them from so long ago, but I had no clue who many of these people were; 2) good god, I’m sick of time travel stories; and 3) too many years of special effects are like too many years of porn: after a while, what once excited you leaves you cold.
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Categories One-by-One: Visual Effects

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Thanks to timely DVD releases, I’ve seen all five.

The Nominees:

Captain America: the Winter Soldier
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Guardians of the Galaxy
Interstellar
X-Men: Days of Future Past

Start with the two lesser Marvels.

I may be forgetting stuff, but I don’t recall much in the way of effects in Captain America: the Winter Soldier. Yeah, there was a lot of flying around, and that’s all technically effects, but it didn’t strike me as particularly magical: it felt like glorified stunts.
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