# Flat lenses in glasses in movies/TV

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 20, 2010, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flat-lenses-in-glasses-in-movies-tv/554465 "2010-09-20T21:39:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flat-lenses-in-glasses-in-movies-tv/554465/41 "2010-09-22T12:35:18Z")

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Trope I hate:  
Fake Glasses + Hair Up = Ugly

I’m sorry, the ‘Nerd girl’ done up with a hairstyle + flat pane’d glasses is hotter than 90% of the people I’ll encounter this year. There’s a place in Hollywood for [ugly](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000114/) people.

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**Author:** ![Spectralist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Spectralist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectralist)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flat-lenses-in-glasses-in-movies-tv/554465/42 "2010-09-23T09:53:19Z")

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I’d always just assumed flat lenses addressed some sort of vision problem I wasn’t familiar with. Plus they look cool.

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