2. Drive (2011)
Well, I never: the marketing campaign for this particular movie was so misleading that it caused one woman to sue the studio for making her pay to see something that she wanted to be more like a
Fast and Furious flick: "[
Drive] bore very little similarity to a chase, or race act film€ having very little driving in the motion picture," went her lawsuit. I can understand where she's coming from, because the trailer for
Drive is overly misleading, but c'mon - she
sued the freakin' studio?
Drive, which is the second Ryan Gosling movie to make this list (way to go, Gosling), tells the story of an unnamed stunt driver who accidentally gets involved in a criminal syndicate and morphs into a sociopathic killer as a result (at least, that's the way I saw it), though a lot people felt dismayed at how little driving there actually was in the movie. Maybe they should have checked the name of the director first, Nicolas Winding Refn, who takes certain pleasure in blending blockbuster with arthouse movie sensibilities here. Still, even as a fan of the movie, I still can't escape the feeling that I, too, wanted a bit more driving. Sue me.