JC's Official next project: Avatar 2 & 3

[Human No More]

Yes, but I was still remarking that deliberately creating lensflares is tacky and in my opinion just looks bad. Good cameramen AVOID setting up shots that produce them and modern equipment is designed to reduce the chance and severity of them. A film should be made as if there isn't a camera there (also means no effects like stuff visibly hitting a camera, and no shaking camera during explosions etc). Avatar got it right, where you should be actually able to feel you ARE there, rather than feel you are watching a recording of something.

The problem is sometimes people EXPECT these bad effects, just like they expect a 'silenced' gun to make no noise (when in actual fact, there is no such thing as a 'silencer', there's a reason it is called a suppressor). There is a whole list of these which people have come to expect in films despite the fact that reality does not work that way.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph...yIsUnrealistic