Latest action movie craze meant make the viewer feel "in the moment".
Also attributed to big budgets spent on fancy props and trinkets none of which matter since you can't see a damn thing thats going on.
When your macintosh or Apple computer repeatedly stops working or displays the "spinning rainbow ball of death", the common cure is to pick your mac up and move it in a shaking motion.
An all to common phenomina that occurs with Macintosh computers. When a Macintosh computer stops operating and displays the "Spinnng Beach Ball of Death" for a prolonged period of time, the common fix is to pick up the screen of your iMac and shake it until it either continues to work at its usual sluggish pace, or just stops working completely, and can be diagnosed with Shaken Mac Syndrome.
"Dude, my Mac stopped working!"
"Did you try shaking it?"
"Yeah, it probably has Shaken Mac Syndrome now."
"Uggh Fucking Macs"