Drivers Wanted (watched 1/27/10)
Yup. After a series of movies begging for it to happen Drivers Wanted pushed me over the edge. There is now a “Should’ve Been 45 Minutes” category so I can stop beating the rotting b-grade horse corpse on my dashboard. Next question: What the hell happened to the horror flicks? Never fear this was a temporary hiatus to satiate the birthday desires of the significant other of a regular schlocker.
So why this movie? Well the theme of the evening was pizza, and Drivers Wanted is an independent flick filmed in Rochester, and since that’s where we are we thought we’d give a local movie some love. Did it love back? Weeeeeeelllllllllllllllllll….
As mockumentaries go it certainly had a subject rife with interactions to make a movie out of, however halfway through it deviated from what was working to some sort of Clerks subplot. The subplot really made no sense and dragged out what was quickly becoming a chore to finish. The first half definitely had it’s highlights, and some really memorable lines that I won’t ruin for you here. In addition the drivers have a genuine attitude that you can’t help wonder is part of the actors day to day personality.
What it has: Pizza, annoying customers, great one-liners, Irondequoit?, awkward dancing, a really scary extra feature about a guy and a girl on a playground, and chooches
What it’s missing: zombies, outrageous haircuts, tips (of the monetary variety), drugs (mmmmhmmmm, you know they were on set somewhere… why aren’t they in the movie)
Speaking of those drugs, I’m sure this is one of those movies that is conducive to having elevated THC levels in the blood stream. Not advocating it, didn’t view it that way, but I’m sure it would increase it’s viewing pleasure.
2.5/5 tiny steering wheels
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