Drive, the critically praised Ryan Gosling thriller about a Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a getaway car driver, is many things: A love story, a heist film, an operatic gore-fest. Another installment of the oft-derided Fast and the Furious car racing series, however, it is not. And that's making one moviegoer quite angry. Michigan resident Sarah Deming is suing the studio that distributed Drive and the theater where she saw it, claiming that trailers sold the film as a Fast and the Furious-like blockbuster. Instead, she complains, the movie "bore very little similarity to a chase, or race action film… having very little driving." (She also rather oddly complains that the film is anti-Semitic.) Critics, particularly those who loved the film, have been quick to label the lawsuit "frivolous" and "stupid." Here, some of the best quips:
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