The Comic Vine 2013 Movie Awards VOTING: Best Visual Effects

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Poll The Comic Vine 2013 Movie Awards VOTING: Best Visual Effects (630 votes)

Iron Man 3 5%
Man of Steel 31%
Pacific Rim 35%
Star Trek Into Darkness 6%
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 15%
Thor: The Dark World 8%

Welcome to the second edition of the Comic Vine Movie Awards! We know there's plenty of fantastic looking movies heading our way in the years to come, but let's take some time to reflect on just how much awesomeness was packed into 2013. We each have our favorites and now you have the opportunity to tell the world why these films deserve praise.

Keeping it limited to just comic book movies would restrict matters, so we included a few films we know the community really dug this year, too. We've created 10 categories -- ranging from best director to best movie -- and ultimately, the winner of each category will be determined by your votes. Will Marvel and DC take a majority of the awards or will one of the other films swoop in and earn extra praise? Go get your vote on, Viners!

To vote in other categories, check out the main article which will be located on the homepage!

Winners will be announced next Monday (12/30/13).

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I voted MoS

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Best special effects goes to Pacific Rim hands down, although I wish they really did have more daytime action sequences :(

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MOS

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Pacific Rim, easily.

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#5  Edited By k4tzm4n  Moderator

The entire scene with Smaug = earned my vote.

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Pacific Rim

MoS was just green screen but Del Toro actually built the inside of the mechs.

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Pacific Rim hands down.

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C'mon the answer is Star Trek guys!!!

If you voted for Hobbit then that saddens me. The scene with the gold, bleurgh.

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#9  Edited By SynCig

I voted Pacific Rim but all of these deserve votes except The Hobbit. The liquid gold aka macaroni cheese was just horrid. The practical effects in the Lord of the Rings trilogy really blow away everything they've done in The Hobbit so far.

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I'm have to go with Pacific Rim.

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Man Of Steel. Krypton looked amazing!

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Hobbit easily

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PACIFIC RIM STOMPS!

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Pacific RIM damnit!!! Mon of Steel overdid it.

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#15  Edited By deathstroke19

@k4tzm4n: Agreed. Smaug actually looked real. Best dragon I've seen in any live action movie.

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MOS

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Easily Pacific Rim.

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Hobbit.....GOLDEN SMAUG...

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Not sure why MoS is getting so many votes. Making people fly and destroying cities is not so impressive.

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#20  Edited By tomlikesfries

Pacific Rim easily.

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Pacific Rim or MOS. None of the others come close.

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Have to give it to Pacific Rim, it's the only thing it does very very well.

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Pacific Rim's effects were awesome, that second-to-last fight looked freakin' epic on the big screen.

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#24  Edited By Lunacyde  Moderator

DoS...no other movie had something on the scale and grandeur of Smaug. MoS was a close second.

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@k4tzm4n: Same here. Smaug was just intimidatingly awesome

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Pacific Rim, it was awesome CGI.

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I found that Hobbit looked a bit cheap, like all the money had gone on the (admittedly utterly incredible) Smaug. Everything else looked impressive, but nothing really blew me away with its unique effects like Pacific Rim did.

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Pacific Rim's effects were the best I've ever seen, never mind the best of 2013. MOS doesn't deserve to win.

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The Hobbit iz the only right answer.

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I can't decide between The Hobbit, Pacific Rim, Man of Steel, and Star Trek Into Darkness.

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MoS is awesome and all but over Pacific Rim?Not happening

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I voted Star Trek, simply because I haven't seen Pacific Rim or The Hobbit

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Pacific Rim should win this one.

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#34  Edited By danaquinn

Definitely Pacific Rim. Most of the film was full CGI, yet each second was brilliant.

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Pacific Rim easily

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#36  Edited By TimeLordScience

Come on everyone, help Man of Steel lose a category! Lol, but really, Pacific Rim's visuals were great.

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Pacific Rim IMO

MOS comes in second place

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I love Man of Steel, but some of the CGI was uneven.

While a lot of it was impressive, there were some really bad CG shots.

Pacific Rim had perfect CGI, and a lot of it too.

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Pacific Rim hands down!

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MoS. As much as I think that parts of the Smallville fight looked weird and plastic the end fight with zod and the destruction in Metropolis really had my jaw on the floor, like nothing else. Pacific Rim may have better visual effects all around, but MoS wowed me much more nonetheless.

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Pacific Rim, no contest.

Didn't anyone but me notice that Micheal Shannon was walking on a treadmill when he said: "I'm going to make them suffer Kal. I will take them all from you 1 by 1?" And that Superman hovering directly afterward was cable suspension?

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Man of steel obviously,and pacific RIM was epic boredom

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Fast 6 was def the best movie for me but as its comics I wen't with Thor2.

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#45  Edited By M3th

Pacific Rim or Hobbit? Decisions.

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I am suprised this is not a tight battle between The Hobbit and Pacific Rim

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#47  Edited By The_Titan_Lord

PR

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pacific rim or Hobbit ( because of smaug duh...)
but probably pacific rim , that movies cgi was amazing

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Pacific or Mos I choose Mos