{"id":3095,"date":"2009-08-16T22:33:41","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T03:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=3095"},"modified":"2009-08-16T22:33:41","modified_gmt":"2009-08-17T03:33:41","slug":"did-you-want-to-be-accepted-or-accepted-on-your-own-terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=3095","title":{"rendered":"Did you want to be accepted, or accepted on your own terms?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So this has been bugging me for days, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1118007244.html?categoryid=13&amp;cs=1\" target=\"_blank\">what&#8217;s with Jason Patric<\/a>? I mean&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8221;Let&#8217;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,&#8221; Patric acknowledged. &#8220;But I wouldn&#8217;t do &#8216;The Losers&#8217; if it wasn&#8217;t interesting to me as an actor.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay first, Jason Patric, the quote is &#8220;inherit the EARTH&#8221;, and second, The Losers is a geek movie? It&#8217;s a classic caper\/espionage movie, with no geek trappings whatsoever. I realize being a geek is &#8220;hip&#8221; and all that nonsense, and you can be a geek for sports or comics or clothes or movies or toys or whatever, <em>hoo-rah we have arrive-ed. <\/em>But seriously Jason Patric? And seriously awful Variety article in which Jason Patric is quoted? Patric didn&#8217;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&#8230; you know. Jason Patric you didn&#8217;t sign up as Heath Ledger in <em>Dark Knight, <\/em>you signed up to play John Travolta in <em>Swordfish<\/em>. Which is fine, <em>Swordfish <\/em>was entertaining as all hell and three cheers for <em>The Losers<\/em>, but denial ain&#8217;t just a river in Egypt, chief. <em>Chiefs<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Chris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So this has been bugging me for days, but what&#8217;s with Jason Patric? I mean&#8230; &#8220;&#8221;Let&#8217;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,&#8221; Patric acknowledged. &#8220;But I wouldn&#8217;t do &#8216;The Losers&#8217; if it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=3095\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Did you want to be accepted, or accepted on your own terms?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3096,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3095\/revisions\/3096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}