10 Great Movies With ONE Terrible Element

In spite of basement-low expectations from Star Trek fans, J.J. Abrams' big-budget Trek reboot was a pleasant surprise indeed - fun, emotionally satisfying, brilliantly cast, and slick in a good way.

The single big mistake, though? Those damn lens flares.

Now, lens flares can certainly add visual pizzazz to a scene, but Abrams went outrageously overboard on both of his Trek films, bathing the majority of the shots - especially those onboard the Enterprise - in lens flares to the point of distraction.

Abrams even admitted that he deliberately shone powerful lights at the camera lens to create even more flares, in an attempt to give his film a unique aesthetic.

And unique is one thing, but good? Something else entirely. It quickly became a running joke that Abrams was addicted to lens flares, something his own wife even pointed out while he was shooting sequel Star Trek Into Darkness, prompting him to pull back on the technique.

But Trek '09 is often rendered laughable by the sheer parody-level number of lens flares in any given shot - an aesthetic choice that feels ridiculously dated barely a decade after the movie's release.