Don't Like a Movie? "Sue the Distributor!" Says One Moron

Everyone has their own taste in important, life-altering topics like religion or politics and more meaningless bullshit like film, television, music, fashion and so on. Having your own train-of-thought that doesn't gel with others is perfectly fine and doesn’t make you stupid.

On the other hand, filing a frivolous lawsuit against a film distributor because you didn't like the motion-picture in question definitely makes you a jackass.

Detroit station WDIV-TV (via Gawker) reports local Sarah Deming filed a claim against FilmDistrict for the art-house actioner Drive starring Ryan Gosling and Albert Brooks and directed by Nicolas Winding Refn. Her argument is the movie FilmDistrict sold to her and the general movie-going public wasn't the movie they saw. While there's legitimacy to her claim (I can vouch my audience walked out hating Drive), such practice has been going on for as long as film has been a viable medium. We see this happen all the time.

Where she loses what admittedly-little credibility she had is the claim Drive is also anti-Semitic stating it "contained extreme gratuitous defamatory dehumanizing racism directed against members of the Jewish faith, and thereby promoted criminal violence against members of the Jewish faith." Yeah, Driver (Gosling) totally went after Bernie (Brooks) and Nino (Ron Perlman) for being Jewish and not because they were violent gangsters who were after him.

When the judge inevitably dismisses this case, I sincerely hope they also make Deming cover the costs of the proceedings for wasting everyone's time with this crap.