The modern cameras of the Old West.

Why don't they show the microphone boom in movies? It's obvious. Because it would destroy the illusion of reality. It would say, "This is  a sound stage. This is a movie. This is not real." Yet, for some unfathomable reason most directors don't seem to appreciate that a camera flare makes the same statement. How can I be moved by Schindler's List when the camera flare reminds me that these are extras, this concentration camp is a movie set? How can I imagine that Tom Hanks is marooned at sea and running out of food and water when a camera flare reminds me that he is surrounded by crew and probably not far from the well-stocked Craft service buffet?  I know. I know. These arty cinematographers and probably most moviegoers think that a camera flare is real cool. They like the way it looks. But it's still stupid and intrusive and completely illogical. In the golden days of moviemaking, if a camera flare showed, they reshot the scene. I just watched The Lone Ranger, a perfectly horrible multi-million dollar mess of a movie that didn't know whether it wanted to be a slapstick comedy or a serious and violent western, so it succeeded at neither. Since it was filmed by a completely inept director, I wasn't surprised to see that it had dozens of camera flares throughout, constantly proclaiming, "There is nothing real about this crappy film. It's all sets and makeup, extras and stuntmen, actors and—most of all—cameras. with big glassy lenses."