Did you want to be accepted, or accepted on your own terms?

So this has been bugging me for days, but what’s with Jason Patric? I mean…

“”Let’s face it, the geeks have inherited the world, and if you want to be a player in this system, you have to be willing to do some of this,” Patric acknowledged. “But I wouldn’t do ‘The Losers’ if it wasn’t interesting to me as an actor.””

Okay first, Jason Patric, the quote is “inherit the EARTH”, and second, The Losers is a geek movie? It’s a classic caper/espionage movie, with no geek trappings whatsoever. I realize being a geek is “hip” and all that nonsense, and you can be a geek for sports or comics or clothes or movies or toys or whatever, hoo-rah we have arrive-ed. But seriously Jason Patric? And seriously awful Variety article in which Jason Patric is quoted? Patric didn’t sign up in the proud tradition of Hollywood actors slumming it in capes or whatever, he signed up to continue in the proud tradition of Michael Bay-esque summer blockbusters, with dudes and sexy chicks and guns and splosions and triple crosses and… you know. Jason Patric you didn’t sign up as Heath Ledger in Dark Knight, you signed up to play John Travolta in Swordfish. Which is fine, Swordfish was entertaining as all hell and three cheers for The Losers, but denial ain’t just a river in Egypt, chief. Chiefs.

– Chris

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