Oscar 2015 - VFX

I'm having a really bad week (try replacing a CPU fan in an ultrabook with a piece directly ordered from China manufactured following the typical "cable length economy" design & get also a power kill static discharge in the process .. and that's a light experience ...). So I'm not really in mood for long debates. Despite the fact that VFX is one of the few of this years Oscar sections where we actually have decent contenders.

The first nomination is for "Captain America: The Winter Soldier". Although one of the movies that put me to sleep last year while watching in the cinema (no kiddin' = I really got my eyes closing), that was not the fault of the VFX. As usual the guys from ILM did their job and the result looks really good. Still, I wouldn't bet on it considering what follows ...
The first serious contender here is "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes". The first part surprisingly lost the VFX Oscar in 2012 against .. "Hugo". So this year I won't find surprising if what WETA did here is again ignored (especially since the competition is more solid). And that's unfortunate ... because we have more than we had in the first movie, and it's by far ( at least based on my unauthorized :) but objective opinion ) the movie that had the most complex work done on VFX of all the nominees. I think it's probably the most impressive film in respect to motion capture released by now. But, I'm not picking the winner, so ...
"Guardians of the Galaxy" is the opposite of the first nomination above. We have a movie that doesn't let you check out your watch, but where the effects (except some of the characters) do not really shine compared with the usual Marvel movie offering. Still, they're not bad :) ...
And the winner is ... "Interstellar". I'm expecting for this to get the Oscar, despite the lack of objectivity in the decision. This movie was totally snubbed on this year's nominations. I find it unbelievable comparing with last year's position of "Gravity" as a favorite for everything. I don't know if we're gonna witness a "Matrix reloaded" from the Oscar perspective (= long, long ago, in 2000 "Matrix" was getting 4 awards out of 4 nominations, although not on the most important sections), but for VFX I'm almost certain for this result. The fact that the choice is not an objective one relates also to the cinematography. Where, unbelievable, but "Interstellar" didn't get a nomination, and where Hoyte van Hoytema shows why 2D is still far to be dead even in a SciFi. But since "the Academy" is not really able lately to distinguish where VFX ends and cinematography begins (or vice versa) ...
"X-Men: Days of Future Past" is the third Marvel movie that got here and the one which sums the negative parts from the other two. More boring than "Captain America 2" (sorry, but for movies involving time travel has also the worst plot line of what I've seen in the last years), and with effects that don't show much more than what we've seen in the previous episodes ...