I like it. Especially in the Bourne movies. It makes you fee like you're more involved, if you get what I mean.

I don't think it's needed in a lot of movies. Actually, it might take away from your experience. Definitely when you can't see what's going on clearly.

The "walking" with the camera in Cloverfield was pretty cool. It really made you feel as if you're walking in the Subway tunnels, etc. to a certain extent.

It may be a little overused, but it definitely has it's part in filmmaking. In cloverfield, the shaky camera was necessary because the camera was being held by one of the characters. I didn't really notice the shaky camera thing in Star Trek until you mentioned it. I guess it was well used there. IMO

But you're right in that there are times (maybe even whole movies) where the camera should just stay still. I guess we just have to wait for the excitement of this new "technique" to calm down before its use it balanced out.

I don't mind a little shaking, but excessive shaking actually pushes me out of the movie instead of drawing me in. When the shaking is so severe that everything turns into a blur, that's just way too much.

A still camera is a thing of beauty.

MTV ruined Hollywood.

It's what all the cool kids are doing!

It happens in The Office, and while I think it probably helps it not seems like a soap opera (don't get me -started- on still camera shots in soap operas), it makes me feel like one of the characters is filming and I wonder who it is. XD

It happened in Transformers Animated, but I think it helped because there were times when there wasn't a whole lot of animation.

It happened in Cloverfield, and I got nauseous and had to leave the movie.

I don't care most of the time, but sometimes I do wish the cameraman would settle down a bit. It's hard to follow action sometimes when the camera's moving around like that. However, if the director is aiming for an illusion of -being- there then it works and I don't mind it. And I think it's interesting how sometimes it passes over some special effect, making it seem more immersive - since you're not focusing on some special effect spectacle, it's more like a normal part of the movie world.

What J. J. Abrams did was tap furiously at the sides of the camera as it was filming. So while it was mostly standing there, it was shaking.

NOT like someone was holding it without a stand.

-CF

Lol.