Let’s Address The Quentin Tarantino Comment About Chevy Chase Verses Bill Murray Movies


by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

Quentin, I love you bro, but this time you’re full of shit. The reason why his statement that Chevy Chase movies are better than Bill Murray is personal to me is I remember when the movies in question came out. For someone who is so attune to the nuances of storytelling, Tarantino is strangely totally wrong on this issue.

What’s worse, his very bad hot take on this subject is gist for Chads who want to get all worked up about how Cancel Culture is depriving us of a good Star Wars franchise or some such. The idea that Chase movies are better than Murray movies because Chase’s characters are “allowed” not to redeem themselves by the end of the movie is nothing more than horseshit. The whole point of a good movie, generally, is there is some redemption or change on the part of the protagonist. Something has to change.

There’s just no excuse for such a bad hot take on Tarantino’s part. Also, in general, Murray movies are just better, period. I mean, Chase’s career was very scattershot in quality, while Murray has, over the years, been in classic movie after classic movie.

Why Tarantino would make such a weird, erroneous observation about the two men’s careers is very curious. The weakest Murray movie between 1980 and 2000 is far, far better than Chase’s strongest movie between when he left SNL to when his movie career fizzled out in the late 80s. I mean, when it comes to cultural relevance the first Fletch movie is probably all Chase has. I think there may have been a Chase movie or two in the 70s that was pretty good, but they’ve faded into the historical shadows.

Edit: I totally forgot the Vacation movies that Chase did. Which, I think, tells us how bad, in real terms, they were.

Anyway, lulz.

Axis Of Red Pill Derp — Joe Rogan Interviews Quentin Tarantino


by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

I’m a huge Tarantino fan. I think he’s one of the last great auteurs out there, but he can also sometimes be tone deft when it comes to cultural issues. I haven’t watched all of his interview with Alt Right Lite hero Joe Rogan, but what I have seen is very interesting.

As expected, there was a lot of Red Pill derp going on between these two guys. I don’t think the average person appreciates how a huge swath of the young adult male population has grown alienated from the existing media narrative. In fact, on YouTube, there’s an entire on-boarding system designed to hook such individuals into getting “Red Pilled.”

So, while in Tarantino’s mind, he was just dropping truth bombs in the context of how he’s one of the last great Hollywood directors, a lot of young men see his interview as validation for their “women and minorities control everything” narrative.

Thing about all of this that is so aggravating is how difficult it is to pin down in concrete terms what things like “cancel culture” even mean. One person’s “cancel culture” is another person’s “well, we live in a new age where audiences really aren’t as accepting of the gratuitous sex and violence that Tarantino is know for.”

Red Pilled young men are a lot like most MAGA people — they are spooked by abstract changes in modern American society. Both groups can’t really articulate what bothers them, they just know they hate liberals. Red Pilled young men hate things like Kathleen Kennedy and love the earnest masculinity of Joe Rogan.

A lot of the problems in American culture are so nebulous and abstract and yet so powerful that they’re even more intractable than they would be otherwise. As such, I suspect they’re only going to be solved when the United States finally becomes a MAGA autocracy — or we have a civil war.

Either way, a lot of difficult-to-pin-down fears that people on both the center-Right and center-Left may have will become very, very moot.