I will never understand why video games want these effects in them. Am I playing as a fucking camera? The only games where these lens effects make any sense is like a cyberpunk game where you have robot eyes or you’re actually watching through a camera.
Real eyes don’t get lens flares. Real eyes don’t see chromatic aberration. Or film grain. Or have vignettes. Real eyes realize real lies.
Aha but I have astigmatism.
So I really do get lens flare in real life.
It’s rather annoying. Some TVs in certain lighting situations actually compound my astigmatism with the lens flare to make ultra flares.
And traffic lights at night, they’re the biggest offender
People who wear glasses can get all three of those.
Wearing glasses makes you get chromatic aberration and film grain? 🤨
Maybe if they get really really stoned they unlock those additional effects
Film grain was mostly a joke. When your lenses get dirty, it does look like film grain is everywhere.
Chromatic aberration, definitely. The middle of the lens is typically clear, but anything off-center gets shifted a bit, the stronger the lenses, the more noticeable it gets.
your supposed to clean your glasses? aw shit
Yep. I eventually realized the car headlights don’t actually have a blue LED dot included in them…my glasses and/or crappy eyes are doing something funny that splits out a blue dot.
Real eyes see through the lies of the Jedi!
Oh, wait. Wrong community.
Still the best variant of this idea:
Polarize the view screen
At some point there was an explanation that the lens flares were supposed to be subtext, a visual representation of the old phrase “bright future” and for a microsecond it almost made sense…until you realized how stupid that sounded and unbelievably annoying it was on screen.
Them: how can we justify making money?💲💰💸
You, with an actual brain: hrmph!😦😞
I think JJ attempted to use lens flares as a kind of directorial “signature,” (like Lucas’ wipe transitions or Wes Anderson’s symmetrical framing) but it just annoyed people and JJ is a hack.
Loved when LD:Crisis Point: Rise of Vindicta poked fun at this.
Although honestly, moderately enjoy at least the first Abramsverse film - not peak Trek, but fun enough. For a while, I thought Pine was the best Kirk performance in the franchise, but then SNW Kirk grew on me with the La’an episode and I think it’s tied.
“THERE ARE AN UNCOUNTABLE NUMBER OF LIGHTS!”
