Halls of Shrewd'm / US Policy
No. of Recommendations: 2
Obviously, the heinous mode of death..... is most tragic.
But beyond that, I really enjoyed him as an actor and director.
"Meathead" was a great character - as was that show.
Smaller rolls - Primary Colors.
Or when he played Jordan Belfort's Dad in Wolf of Wall Street and a myriad of other things he did.
Really saddened by this one.
No. of Recommendations: 3
Yup. The run of amazing films he had as a director is just staggering. Regardless of his politics, Reiner contributed massively to American culture and will be missed.
No. of Recommendations: 2
Dope1 [who I normally agree with about most things posted here]
states that Rob Reiner made amazing films and contributed massively to American culture and will be missed.
Yeah, sure.
None of that really matters.
The movies were fine--light entertainment--I liked them too.
But the measure of the man, evaluating his life, HAS to include the circumstances of how it ended.
When some poor minority person with no financial resources has an out of wedlock child who ends up being a drug dealer and an addict and a murderer, both the Left and the Right look at how the child was raised. Yes the individual is responsible for his own actions.
But "the culture" which created the dysfunctional adult also matters.
People are saying they didn't even know Reiner had a son. Much less a very disturbed son.
Yeah that was deliberate. The Left and MSM and social media will probably try to bury whatever sad family history contributed to this tragedy.
Because then Rob Reiner's utter hypocrisy as well as that of the Left (especially "Hollywood") would be put on display for all to see.
Rob Reiner was a shitty father, a phony, and no hero. He was himself a narcissistic psycho who wished nothing but the worst for his perceived political adversaries.
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
No. of Recommendations: 7
Yeah, sure.
None of that really matters.
The movies were fine--light entertainment--I liked them too.
But the measure of the man, evaluating his life, HAS to include the circumstances of how it ended.
Regardless of what we think about his politics, the man didn't deserve to die like that.
No. of Recommendations: 1
Dope1,
I didn't say he "deserved to die like that."
But if we are going to use the occasion of his tragic death to evaluate his worth as a filmmaker, a pop cultural icon, a political activist, and as a man--if we as a whole are essentially going to exploit the tragedy of his death (and that of his wife) to say "geez what a great man Reiner was" (thus validating his political opinions--which is the only reason those on the Left care at all about this--to exploit the tragedy)--then we have to look at the WHOLE picture.
That includes what kind of a father he was, or wasn't.
That includes whether or not his parenting, or lack thereof, of his son, contributed to the tragedy.
That includes acknowledging the possibility that Reiner's basically insane psycho raving against his political adversaries was compensating for his personal deficiencies as a parent--AND whether his own psycho ravings may have contributed to his child's psychotic and murderous behavior.
He raised a murderer. Not just a murderer, but a patricidal and matricidal one.
Where did all that hatred towards his own father (and father's wife, not sure if she was his bio mom or not) come from?
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
