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Drive">Indignant woman sues over "misleading" trailer for ,Drive
By Jeff MillsOctober 8th, 2011, 7:45 pmComments (24)
A Michigan woman named Sarah Deming is suing the distributor of the movie Drive, as well as the movie theater where she watched it, over what she claims was a misleading trailer which seemed to promise more action than it actually delivered.
According to Deming's lawsuit, the distributor, FilmDistrict, touted the Ryan Gosling "vehicle" as being "very similar to the Fast and the Furious, or similar, series of movies." And since the Emagine Theater in Novi, Michigan played the movie, might as well throw them in too. Deming's lawyer is claiming that the anti-climactic trailer is a violation of the Michigan Consumer Protection Act.
The suit is already sketchy enough, but then, according to the plaintiff, we learn that the film "substantially contained extreme, gratuitous, dehumanizing racism directed at members of the Jewish faith, and thereby promoted criminal violence against members of the Jewish faith," as if she were mixing it up with a Mel Gibson movie.
Surprisingly, Deming isn't seeking damages for emotional suffering, she only wants a refund of her ticket price. But since the actual movie "bore very little similarity to a chase, or race action film...having very little driving in the motion picture," she really felt betrayed by the trailer's tricky bait and switch, to the point that she's planning on turning the case into a class-action suit, so fellow suckers can fight back against these duplicitous entities, taking our money under false pretenses. Someone should warn Deming that the movie Brazil is not what she thinks it is.
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Commentarium (24 Comments)
I hope she gets fined for wasting the judges time.
i live in Michigan myself and i hope she loses the case. people should be fined for filing BS lawsuits like this. it's COMMON SENSE that she's in the wrong here. it's a movie for crying out loud.
"Best director at Cannes" does NOT suggest an action movie, and "I'm stupid" won't hold up in court.
Anyway film trailers have been lying to us for most of a century - deal widdit honey.
Seriously. What's most upsetting about this is she seems to be angry she ended up with a BETTER movie she was expecting.
I thought the same thing nope.
As long as everyone is distracted, we are happy.
It sounds like we are delusional thinking that we speak for more than one person. But I guess that being a troll can get lonely.
I see that you are distracted...
Oh, I love it. I would love to get a check in the mail for every sucky movie that Hollywood tricked me into watching. Seriously, some movies are so bad that I would be touched by a heartfelt apology by the director, producer, and everyone involved.
Wouldn't it be great, if studios had to worry about putting sucky movies out, because someone might force them to pay back every customer with a class action suit? We'd only get good stuff in the theaters. Oh, wait, it's been such a long time since a good movie played. We'd end up with empty theaters...
Drive was fucking awesome.
Yes it is.
Anyone remember that one guy who got charged with assault for shooting some dad for talking to his kid during a movie. Whatever happened to that guy, he was awesome.
I haven't seen it, is there actually anything remotely anti-Semitic in there?
The two main villains are Jewish, and one of them complains about receiving anti-Semitic slurs. Unless I'm missing something, that's the only thing that's vaguely anti-Semitic.
By the way, Drive is a wonderfully thoughtful and artistic action thriller.
It was beautiful. I liked how every time there was blood on a wall, it contrasted well the colour on the wall. Amazing.
i dont get all this hate because the point is good, i liked the movie but i didnt pay for it. if i saw the trailer and then used my hard earn to see it on a friday night to get me hyped before going. just example there are many others i would be pissed off. if a car sales tell car is good but car is bad after money is this right. i think it is just other way of commerilism caring soley for money theres no human curtise. i dont understand why the people involved with the movie would go for this as it is quite touching, but there some graffic volience so maybe the duelality of man.
What?
the hell did you just say?
Something about the duality of man; the Jungian thing.
Exactly what Gibson film featured "extreme, gratuitous, dehumanizing racism directed at members of the Jewish faith'? The Man Without a Face? The Road Warrior? Lethal Weapon 2?
passion of the christ? (ba-dump-tiss!)
Y'all aren't going to like this, but... she may have a point. Bait and switch is illegal.
She might have been happier at a film whose entire plot and climax are revealed in the trailer. Yeah, looking at you, "A Dolphin's Tale".