Stop lying about Rob Reiner!

By RM
monday, december 15, 2025 at 10:57:00 p.m. est

Stop lying about Rob Reiner!

Regardless of politics, I don't get all the accolades about him being "one of the all time greats," and a genius director who made so many wonderful movies. [N.S.: But politics is all there is to those people! Communists are like black supremacists. If you're one of us, you're "beautiful" and "a genius."]

Spinal Tap was funny and clever but hardly earth-shaking. Princess Bride didn't make the impression on me it seems to have made on everybody else; people say it's very quotable, but that's the writer's doing, not Reiner's (I think William Goldman wrote it); Misery must be his best effort. I thought it was a good story, very well-done. When Harry Met Sally is something I wouldn't watch even if I had a thousand more years to live; Stand by Me, if it's the movie I think it is, was a vile piece of garbage that I turned off after about 10 minutes: a Stephen King snipe at the 1950s, in which he dishonestly depicts children of that era as foul-mouthed little punks who blast horrid rock music from their transistor radios. NO WAY.

As far as I can gauge, a competent director who could make a good movie out of good material, which is no great feat. And as an actor, he'll always be known for one thing: playing a role which was basically himself.

And he was a horrible human being.

-RM