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love those duct-tape slippers!
Oh happy day! I have been trying to track down "Driver 23" for -- literally -- years, and to finally find it released on DVD, in a double-feature with its sequel, for an affordable price ... it just made my week. <
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>"Driver 23" is absolutely hysterical; parts of it left me gasping for breath. Some parts of it seem so over-the-top you keep having to remind yourself that this is real life, and that the director was taking the project seriously. He wasn't trying to portray Dan Cleveland as a nutcase, which makes you wonder how extreme the film would've gotten had he been so inclined. <
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>As a documentary, "The Atlas Moth" is technically a better piece of work, but it's not nearly as amusing as its predecessor. It's still worth seeing, to find out how things progress with Dan's career and aspirations, but it doesn't provide much closure. <
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>The DVD is pretty no-frills, but special features are overrated anyway.

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Hello, will someone please help me find any Dark Horse albums. Laugh if you must, but did you actually listen to one whole song? They are ROCKING

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American C.D. ?
When I first saw 'Driver 23' on Sundance my impression was, Oh, someone's trying to do 'American Movie' with an inept metal head and his band! I'm not sure if there was any direct inspiration or influence, but comparisons are unavoidable. 'Driver 23' deals, as does 'American Movie' with a marginally talented guy trying to get his dream project off the ground while plagued by lack of funding, bad luck, and inability to keep people interested in participating in his peculiar artistic visions. However, we've already seen this whole hard luck-hard rock band bit done better in fictional movies like 'This is Spinal Tap,' 'Almost Famous,' 'Rock Star,' and even on the real-life Osbournes T.V. show. There are a few really funny moments, like when the band leader attempts to rationalize his band's demise: "We're not broken up -- we're just a studio band now that's lacking a few members..." The main problem is, just as in fictional movies, the keys to great documentaries (even concert movies) are colorful characters, engaging dialogue, interesting individual scenes, suspense, plot twists, and an emotional climax. 'Driver 23' tends to be lacking in all of these elements. Aside from some funny dialogue, you get lots of fairly boring scenes of studio construction, recording, and make-up application by the main character's wife, and then the whole thing just kind of winds down with the wife leaving for a job in another town. I haven't seen the second part, but my recommendation would be don't run out and buy this based on the reviews here. Try to catch it on t.v., or see if you can rent it first.