Star Trek: Into Darkness is een hele coole film die elk zelf respecterende geek gezien moet hebben, al is het alleen om af te zeiken. Maar veel mensen waren met deze film geïrriteerd door de "trademark" van J.J.Abrams, namelijk lensflares. Maar hij heeft nu zelf ook door dat hij iets te ver is gegaan, en heeft zoals je hier onder kan zien zijn excuus aangeboden.

"I know I get a lot of grief for that," says Abrams. "But I'll tell you, there are times when I'm working on a shot, I think, 'Oh this would be really cool... with a lens flare.' But I know it's too much, and I apologize. I'm so aware of it now. I was showing my wife an early cut of Star Trek Into Darkness and there was this one scene where she was literally like, 'I just can't see what's going on. I don't understand what that is.' I was like, 'Yeah, I went too nuts on this.'"

"This is how stupid it was," J.J. Abrams added. "I actually had to use ILM [Industrial Light & Magic] to remove lens flare in a couple of shots, which is, I know, moronic. But I think admitting you're an addict is the first step towards recovery."