The Battle of Shaker Heights

I guess it's impossible to judge this film objectively after watching the 6+ hours of drama behind-the-scenes, not like one of those everyone's so-fuckin-awesome, press junket things you see on studio DVDs. As I said in my previous post, the producers chose wrong directors for the script and the movie is the proof.

The movie paced pretty well, and Shia LaBeouf literally saves the picture with his charms. However, like the production team said in so many meetings with so many notes, there's a few reasons to care for Kelly's rebellious behaviors that offer a little drama arc. And I didn't understand why people found the jokes in the movie to be that funny. They offered light moments in the heavily dramatic screenplay, but they weren't that funny material to begin with. The producers chose the drama script yet because they chose directors with inclination for (macabre) humor, so the film came out to be far light-hearted than it should be. The film lost its gravity of the situation and the characters that the audience didn't really care for it despite good acting & characters.

So we got a movie that's not really humorous yet there seems to be a glimmer of dramatic depth hidden between scenes. I guess this is the example of how a movie comes out after the 'committee' of people that has different ideas about the material, mixed with studio marketing people.