7 Movies That Were Way Weirder Than Advertised

7. Drive

On paper, Nicolas Winding Refn's 2011 movie Drive seems like the simplest action thriller you could imagine. Ryan Gosling stars as a professional stuntman who moonlights as a getaway driver, but when the job gets personal, the young hotshot is out for revenge.

As is pretty much the standard, the trailer cuts together snippets from the most action-packed moments in the film: car chases, explosive collisions, fist fights, gun shots. Along with this, it boasts many lines of dialogue from Gosling, which seems fair enough given he's the lead.

The problem is, this gives the impression that Drive is nothing but high-speed action with a tough-talking romantic hero. In fact things, roll out at a much more languid pace with far greater emphasis on character than thrills and spills. Not only that, but the trailer seems to have utilised about 75% of Gosling's dialogue in the film, as his unnamed character hardly ever speaks at all.

This marketing misdirection came back to haunt Drive, as - in one of the more hilarious lawsuits in recent memory - a disgruntled American cinemagoer tried to sue, arguing the marketing had suggested it would be more Fast & Furious than slow and sombre.