The Bourne Idiocy.
Chris

Why do directors feel that the only way to make a fight exciting is to use the worryingly increasing trend of baffling quick cuts and excessive camera shake?

What happened to two actors/stuntmen duke-ing it out? Gladiator (especially the first battle with the Germanic tribe) used the technique pretty much perfectly, but since then it's just got stupid, the most heinous exponent being The Bourne Supremacy. It's all very well trying to convey the raw struggle of a frantic, life-or-death fistfight by putting the viewer as 'close' up as you can to the action but if the use of lightning quick cuts, extreme close up and excessive camera shake has the audience puking in their popcorn, what's the fucking point?

I remember reading an interview with Matt Damon about the new Bourne movie where he talked about the main fight with his Russian counterpart, how they strove to make it very realistic and convey the
concept of these two lethal killers trying to dispatch each other as quickly as possible and how they both took a few knocks during the filming.
Well, their admirable effort was sadly wasted because the cuts were SO QUICK and the camera was SO SHAKY I had no idea what was going on. They might just as well have been doing a tap-dancing routine, it would have looked the same.

Actors and stuntmen are there to create the action, not cameras. Get rid of this vomit inducing style, it's fucking annoying!