Sarah Deming has filed a lawsuit against "Drive" distributors FilmDistrict and her local theatre Emagine Novi for using a "misleading trailer" to get her to see the film according to Click on Detroit.
Seems that Miss Deming expected "Drive" to be more akin to "Fast and Furious" rather than the retro art house drama with minimal actual driving that was the Nicolas Winding Refn-directed project. While she may have object, "Drive" is currently one of the best reviewed films of the year.
Deming also claims that the film features "extreme gratuitous defamatory dehumanizing racism directed against members of the Jewish faith" and plans to turn her individual lawsuit into a class action suit next week.
FilmDistrict didn't comment on the story, an Emagine theatres spokesperson called it an extremely frivolous lawsuit.
Gotta say, this is a new level of stupidity.
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From: OctilIery | #004 They really did not. They were a standard trailer. I could read into them knowing nothing about the movie and tell it would be nothing like that.
There is nothing in that trailer that implies it will be anything more than a crazy car stunt movie with pretty cars.
In fact, I specifically remember being surprised that Ryan Gosling would star in a movie like that.
So if she actually enjoyed the film would she be suing? Unlikely. Typical American attitude. Something didn't go as I'd hoped - must be somebody else's fault.
Also where is written that what is shown in a trailer is a proportional representative sample of what occurs in the movie.
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Justin_Crossing posted... not nearly as misleading as The American
Oh. My. God. Yes.
I watched a trailer and thought it was a spy movie starring George Clooney. Instead it was boring as s*** and absolutely nothing happened for 99% of the movie.
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