like many folk who watch project greenlight and i be hop that the hbo show be just be dramatic and playful about the filmmaking event . but at the end of the day and everything would be okay . unfortunately for the battle of shaker height and everything be not okay . with a million budget and this team have the tool to make a decent movie . all one have to do be look at clerk and chase amy and the original halloween and and good luck tomorrow to see what can be do for a few hundred grand or less . instead and shaker height look like it be make by a group that conclude a million dollar be no money and they would put on a good show ( more for the hbo audience than the theatre audience and apparently ) . once the project be pick and this group have the luxury of make a feature film without use their own money and go in debt to finish it up and feverishly look for investor and or the chore of find a distributor ( that may explain the mediocre result ) . this movie have nine producer and two director and and the writer on set to answer question . sadly and it look like little get do . the director add a custom hot lip license plate to the army jeep serve no grand purpose . that use of thought and power could have be good serve elsewhere . a a whole and the movie look like it be hack to piece in the editing bay . one minute the lead character kelly ( play quite nicely by shia lebeouf ) get to drive the jeep . then he huff it on a bike . then he have the jeep again . then be back huff it on the bike . it look like info be miss a to why the character would alternate . as far a location and they do not have many represent 3 house and a school and a hospital and some wood and and a grocery store . funny thing be and there be never many customer in the store . heck and the quick stop in clerk have more customer ( a. k. a. production value ) . even more strange and the filmmaker appear to recycle establish shot . i could swear i saw the same establish shot of kelly house and the grocery store recycle a if they do not shoot different angle . and use the same shot more than once . then and there be the kiss . we have wait most of the movie for kelly big kiss with tabby ( amy smart character ) . and it a jr. high kiss . all in all and the battle of shaker height play like a cheap tv movie that lack a clear leader . in the future and i hope miramax and project greenlight take a good look at their system . maybe a million dollar be too much . maybe nine producer be too many . maybe the crew be too big . maybe have too many truck doesn not allow the filmmaker to be mobile and do good work . but one thing be certain represent with all the resource give and the movie of project greenlight need to get good than the first two .