I’m so glad that I am not the only one who noticed this OVERDO (as Aspyrider says) of an effect.
I think it works (as stated before) is a new type atmosphere or where they want to make us believe that the character actually is using a hand held camera in scene (ie: Diary of the Dead and Cloverfield). But where they are just to cheap to use a tri-pod (or whatever they use in pro-productions), it is just too much.
While we were watching Public Enemies today, my wife had to get up and leave the theatre for 10 minutes to take a break. She gets motion sickness. Not easily, but she does. So that is saying something as to how bad it was.
Thanks for the thoughts.
