I know that some people found it annoying, but to be honest I barely noticed it. There were times that I did (and I did more the second time) but it was never distracting. In fact, I never even mentioned it in my review!
Am I the only person that likes 'lens-flare'?
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After reading that article where JJ explains the lens flare, I think I get what he means. Remembering the interior scenes that I can remember with lens flare, and imagining them with out lens flare, there does seem to be something 'missing' from the look without them, feels a bit too sterile...Not sure what I mean, but I don't mind them, guess I kinda like the style of them and the camera shakes and the like.
That's great first step for "Lens Flare's Anonymous". First you have to admit there's a problem! Only 11 more steps to go, JJ.
Lens flares are one thing, these things were borderline solar flares.
Except 2-3 times on the bridge where they completely overwhelmed the screen, I had no problem with them.
How? Lens flares are not a natural thing, they are an artificial effect created by light shining on the lens of a camera. If you look around on a sunny day, or you enter a room with a lot of bright lights, your eyes will not see a lens flare.
For that reason I found the lens flares took me out of the movie because it constantly reminded me that I wasn't there, it constantly reminded me that there was a camera on set filming everything I was watching. I did not like that feeling, it was completely unnatural.
If you're somebody who wears glasses, that's not entirely true.
The ubiquity of the lens flares defies belief.
Even the freakin' movie title has one:
http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/xi/publicity/ST_newlogo_022009_black_72DPI.jpg
Even the freakin' movie title has one:
http://movies.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/xi/publicity/ST_newlogo_022009_black_72DPI.jpg
ST-One
Vice Admiral
Or that camera was on the bridge filming everything...
The famous "cloaked anti-gravity camera for inter-ship communications," no doubt.
ST-One
Vice Admiral
That is obviously not what I meant.
The camera in todays film is as much an 'actor' as any real actor in a scene.
If having lens flares is an "updated look" then why doesn't every tv show and movie use them?
This paticular counter argument baffles me.
ST-One
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Because it is still an artistic choice made by the director and his DP.
And if you are talking about VFX-heavy TV-shows... well, lens flares are not easily recreated in a realistic fashion in CGI.
Like it or not (and I admit, I don't)... lens flares are a creative decision and very much part of Star Trek's new look. In much the same way, the 60's Trek often overdid soft focus, to glamourise the female guest cast. By the 70's, low rent movies used it alongside guitar riffs to much the same effect... 
Like it or not (and I admit, I don't)... lens flares are a creative decision and very much part of Star Trek's new look. In much the same way, the 60's Trek often overdid soft focus, to glamourise the female guest cast. By the 70's, low rent movies used it alongside guitar riffs to much the same effect...
Hated them.
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