Every time I saw a lens flare (and there are TONS of them in this movie) it completely took me out of the movie. It was

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vicky_lc2001 — 11 years ago(August 01, 2014 01:34 PM)

If it's done naturally, you normally wouldn't notice it but if it's exaggerated and over the top like Star Trek, then that's another matter.

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westal_sage — 12 years ago(January 20, 2014 12:05 AM)

Yes especially the long blue horizontal things. Man this movie is pretty bad.

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vonseux — 11 years ago(April 14, 2014 01:26 PM)

don't you think it adds mood ?
I do

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mikesod — 11 years ago(May 15, 2014 04:39 PM)

Alright I just watched this. And I also watched the first Star Trek movie from JJ. Honestly, yes, at first I notice them. But they're not distracting to me at all. In fact, I completely forgot about them for the rest of the movie. Same thing when I watched Star Trek. I only noticed them a couple times during the movie, for like a minute, then I forgot about them. Hmm, I must be one of the very few who's not bothered by them.

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jeklor — 11 years ago(July 06, 2014 05:59 PM)

I agree they are very distracting and make it seem like the camera is broken. Get used to it, though. Probably see a lot of lens flare in the new Star Wars movies since it seems to be the director's trademark.

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SpiltPersonality — 11 years ago(December 26, 2014 04:11 AM)

you and I should get together. You buy a camera, and I'll buy a flashlight. We'll make a fortune.
Yes, the lens flares were OTT and annoying.

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Anticitizen — 11 years ago(January 05, 2015 10:55 PM)

The worst lens flare was the one that appeared, improbably, when they first entered the underground cave. IT'S AN UNDERGROUND CAVE WITH NO LIGHT! A camera in the real world wouldn't produce a lens flare in this situation, so it came across as super fake.

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I_Created_U — 11 years ago(January 26, 2015 02:19 PM)

Just finished the movie and i have to say i didn't even notice one lens flare Guess it didn't bother me at all.
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Neil_Williamson — 10 years ago(November 08, 2015 07:15 PM)

Amazed you didn't notice it - the long blue parallel lines. I thought it was something signifying the alien's presence as the final shot as the ship takes off fades into the same lens flare

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john-1899 — 9 years ago(August 06, 2016 03:14 PM)

Like another poster earlier in the thread I came here to see if there was a thread about the repeated blue lens flare. Almost as annoying as me having to come here and find out about it. I thought it might have been a novelty but used far far to many times in stupid ways