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Special Effects Lessons From JJ Abrams' Star Trek

Posted by timothy on from the know-where-the-release-valves-are dept.

brumgrunt writes "JJ Abram's hugely successful — on many levels — reboot of Star Trek has, for Den Of Geek, brought to the fore a lesson about special effects that many movie makers have been missing. Surely it's time now that special effects were actually used properly?" (The new film is not without some goofs, though only a few of the ones listed by Movie Mistakes' nitpickers are sciency.)

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  1. What I learned by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Even in a black hole there are too many lens flares.

    1. Re:What I learned by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Amen - the shaky camera ruined it for me, and makes it unwatchable on IMAX.

      Michael J. Fox's residual check isn't cutting it so he got a job doing camera work. Cut the guy a break.

  2. Re:Two words by Anubis350 · · Score: 5, Funny

    better than "lens cap"! :-p

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  3. Re:Two words by stjobe · · Score: 5, Funny

    What's that then, when you move your lens in a particularly talented way?

    Or did you mean flare?

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  4. Re:Two words by schon · · Score: 5, Funny

    What's that then, when you move your lens in a particularly talented way?

    No, no, no. Lens Flair is the stuff you put on your lens to express yourself. I believe the minimum is 18 pieces.

  5. Re:Science errors (spoilers) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Or my favorite: Why drill to the middle of the planet if you're about to create a black hole? Just make the black hole and let it do the rest.

    (I suppose if all you have is a mining ship, every problem starts to seem like a drilling issue?)

  6. Re:Underwhelmed by M.+Baranczak · · Score: 4, Funny

    I had always imagined Kirk was much more subtle

    Shatner? Subtle??

  7. Re:Enough Shakey Cam! by pwfffff · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Seconded. I had to leave the theater due to vertigo (I've got nasty seasonal allergies and some blockage in my ears, I think)."

    You left the new Star Trek... due to vertigo... caused by allergies...?

    *hands you my Geek Card*

    Yeah. You get TWO.

  8. Re:He could have been captain of a bucket by Darinbob · · Score: 3, Funny

    After all, in the Star Trek universe, the Earth is saved every other week. It's not such a big deal.