{"id":2289,"date":"2012-03-11T18:46:15","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T18:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=2289"},"modified":"2012-03-11T18:46:15","modified_gmt":"2012-03-11T18:46:15","slug":"the_best_john_carter_quote_i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2012\/03\/11\/the_best_john_carter_quote_i\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best John Carter Quote I Saw This Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><i>I had fun at <\/i>John Carter<i>. Just not $250 million worth of fun, which leads us to the central and vexing problem: Moviegoing pleasure can no longer be casual. We&#8217;re now acutely aware of how much every movie cost, how much every studio &#8211; in this case, Disney &#8211; has riding on every given project. &#8220;What does Disney need to make its money back?&#8221; becomes the overriding question, when what we really should be asking is, &#8220;Did you see how John Carter slashed his way out of that big, blubbery whatsis and came out all blue and shit?&#8221;<\/i>&nbsp; &#8212;&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.movieline.com\/2012\/03\/08\/review-john-carters-soulful-pulpy-majesty-breaks-through-big-budget-gloss\/\">Stephanie Zacharek<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed. The media&#8217;s obsession over opening-weekend box-office take is sooooo tedious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had fun at John Carter. Just not $250 million worth of fun, which leads us to the central and vexing problem: Moviegoing pleasure can no longer be casual. We&#8217;re now acutely aware of how much every movie cost, how much every studio &#8211; in this case, Disney &#8211; has riding on every given project. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}