JWFan Composer Roast

[Nick Parker 3,040]

Reading this forum, I've come to realize: a good amount of us can be very dry, sarcastic, acerbic, cynical old dogs. And can be very funny. So, I thought it might be fun to try an experiment, one that would allow us to use those skills in a good-natured, lighthearted venue that's fun for the whole family.

 

Seeing all of these unpopular opinion threads, and being a fan of Dean Martin celebrity roasts, I want to see how successful we could make a JWFan Composer Roast. Here's how I'm thinking it will work: I'll put up a poll featuring a selection of top-dog composers. I'll set it to close within a given time frame, and whoever gets the most votes will be our roast subject for the following week or so. I'll try to select composers that I think a good amount of us are familiar with, but I don't have the biggest pulse on the film score scene, so I'm very open to dark horse candidates if there's enough support for it, or if I think the suggestion has potential.

 

When we choose a composer, our roast can either be the traditional "monologue" delivered in regards to the recipient, or we can add on to each other's posts, throwing in some fun banter.

 

I'd like to emphasize the good-natured and lighthearted aspect. Yes, we'd potentially be barbecuing sacred cows (or at least accomplished successes), in a more overtly comedic way than all of these unpopular opinion threads, but behind it all should be a current of cheer and playful ribbing, a backhanded testament to their success, good fortune, and, hopefully, good skill in their craft achieved through years of diligent work.

 

If this is something you think could be fun, feel free to vote! I set this first poll to close this coming Saturday, the 7th of July.

[Kasey Kockroach 2,343]

You can't EXPECT us to be funny! It just happens!

[Nick Parker 3,040]

Just now, kaseykockroach said:

You can't EXPECT us to be funny! It just happens!

 

We'll find out.

[Disco Stu 15,495]

Just now, kaseykockroach said:

You can't EXPECT us to be funny! It just happens!

 

Don't worry.  I'm sure it will happen to you one day.

[Nick Parker 3,040]

Just now, Disco Stu said:

 

Don't worry.  I'm sure it will happen to you one day.

 

Awww snap, the poll's barely started and we already got a roaster at the ready! Is this an idea that interests you, dear Disco?

[Kasey Kockroach 2,343]

1 minute ago, Disco Stu said:

 

Don't worry.  I'm sure it will happen to you one day.

[Disco Stu 15,495]

5 minutes ago, Nick Parker said:

 

Awww snap, the poll's barely started and we already got a roaster at the ready! Is this an idea that interests you, dear Disco?

 

You know, I've never enjoyed watching roasts as their own event, not even the old Dean Martin/Don Rickles style.  But I do enjoy roast-type jokes as part of conversation, yeah.

[Holko 9,499]

Who the hell is Miklos Rosza?

[Nick Parker 3,040]

2 minutes ago, Disco Stu said:

 

You know, I've never enjoyed watching roasts as their own event, not even the old Dean Martin/Don Rickles style.  But I do enjoy roast-type jokes as part of conversation, yeah.

 

Could you see a way to incorporate that conversational roasting, a true staple of JWFan, into the general format of this thread?

1 minute ago, Holko said:

Who the hell is Miklos Rosza?

 

Save the jokes for after the poll.

[Holko 9,499]

3 minutes ago, Nick Parker said:

 

7 minutes ago, Holko said:

Who the hell is Miklos Rosza?

 

Save the jokes for after the poll.

 

No, I'm serious. I only know Miklós Rózsa, Mr. Pakrer!

[Disco Stu 15,495]

Very fitting that the Hungarian caught that

[Nick Parker 3,040]

Well maybe he would've been able to score more than bloated religious epics and ridiculously over-the-top "slice of life" dramas if he chose a name that Americans could actually spell!

2 minutes ago, Holko said:

 

No, I'm serious. I only know Miklós Rózsa, Mr. Nick Pakrer!

 

[Holko 9,499]

Not his fault you guys are dyslexic. The name Rózsa is not exactly a Khachaturian, Tschaikowsky or Krzyzanowski. It means Rose. He could have changed his name to Nick Rose, but as most of us, he was proud of being Hungarian.

[Disco Stu 15,495]

1 minute ago, Holko said:

Not his fault you guys are dyslexic. The name Rózsa is not exactly a Khachaturian, Tschaikowsky or Krzyzanowski. It means Rose. He could have changed his name to Nick Rose, but as most of us, he was proud of being Hungarian.

 

Unlike that asshole Manó Kaminer / Mihály Kertész / Michael Curtiz

[Nick Parker 3,040]

EDIT: Under construction 

[Holko 9,499]

He first hid his Jewishness by changing to Mihály Kertész, Michael is obvious, and Curtiz is literally just an attempt to beat Kertész' pronounciation into an English spelling.

 

 

2 minutes ago, Nick Parker said:

 

Well I guess someone from Hungary had to be successful outside of the village.

 

Half the world was invented by Hungarians, and we really like to bring that fact up like it has any relevance to today.

Wait, did I just kinda roast myself?

[Disco Stu 15,495]

2 minutes ago, Holko said:

He first hid his Jewishness by changing to Mihály Kertész, Michael is obvious, and Curtiz is literally just an attempt to beat Kertész' pronounciation into an English spelling.

 

 

 

I certainly didn't expect to be reading the Wiki page for Magyarization when I got up this morning.  Very interesting.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magyarization

[Nick Parker 3,040]

Hey, if he knew his legacy in American cinema would be chiefly remembered by snooty snobs and hipsters who like to think they're cool because they can namedrop Billy Wilder, I bet you he would've changed his name!

3 minutes ago, Holko said:

 

 

 

 

Half the world was invented by Hungarians, and we really like to bring that fact up like it has any relevance to today.

Wait, did I just kinda roast myself?

 

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

Does anyone else think Williams' modern action music sounds like Stopping the Train from Spider-Man 2?

[Bilbo 3,709]

You know, I don’t think Giacchino gets enough hate on this forum so I nominate him for first up. 

 

And then second...

 

Why can’t we have a Gia bashing thread? 😢

[Quintus 5,399]

11 hours ago, Batman's Diet Coke said:

Does anyone else think Williams' modern action music sounds like Stopping the Train from Spider-Man 2?

 

No mate I just think you're probably going through another one of your phases. 

[Jurassic Shark 12,031]

Or he might just be completely out of phase.

[Nick Parker 3,040]

4 hours ago, Bilbo said:

You know, I don’t think Giacchino gets enough hate on this forum so I nominate him for first up. 

 

And then second...

 

Why can’t we have a Gia bashing thread? 😢

 

As someone who has many uncouth things to say about Mr. Giacchino's aesthetic and compositional sensibilities...no thanks.

[SteveMc 2,674]

21 hours ago, Holko said:

 He could have changed his name to Nick Rose, but as most of us, he was proud of being Hungarian.

Little known fact: Rozsa moonlighted as Hollywood nightclub owner and noir scene underworld lord Nick Rose.  He wasn't as reclusive as he would have you believe.

A young composition student of his found out about his activities and was quite disillusioned.  He went to the police, but the detective on duty just srugged him off.

"Forget it, Jerry, its Tinseltown."

[Holko 9,499]

A true Hungarian!

[Nick Parker 3,040]

Yes, a true credit to your people.

 

 

So far the overwhelming majority really wants to roast Danny Elfman! Interestingly, though, the majority vote at the moment is for the old fogies, which slowly crept up in the last several hours. What's your idea of the old farts? For the record, I consider the generation of Elfman, Horner, Zimmer, Thomas and David Newman, Shore, etc. to be the first of the "young blood generation".

18 hours ago, Batman's Diet Coke said:

Does anyone else think Williams' modern action music sounds like Stopping the Train from Spider-Man 2?

 

Why haven't you changed your name to "Spider-Man's Coke" yet?

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

He drinks Dr. Pepper!

[Naïve Old Fart 9,504]

21 hours ago, Batman's Diet Coke said:

Does anyone else think Williams' modern action music sounds like Stopping the Train from Spider-Man 2?

 

No, it doesn't. It's much fucking better.

[Kasey Kockroach 2,343]

2 minutes ago, Richard said:

 

No, it doesn't. It's much fucking better.

Is it really?

[Nick Parker 3,040]

3 hours ago, Batman's Diet Coke said:

He drinks Dr. Pepper!

 

You're an amazing creature, Batman's Diet Coke. Dr. Pepper and Coca-Cola are not so different.

51 minutes ago, kaseykockroach said:

Is it really?

 

Good cue, wish it stayed in the film!

[SteveMc 2,674]

1 hour ago, Nick Parker said:

 

You're an amazing creature, Batman's Diet Coke. Dr. Pepper and Coca-Cola are not so different.

 

 

There is a world of difference between them.  Dr. Pepper tastes like medicine.

[Disco Stu 15,495]

Hey @Nick Parker have you watched the Steve Martin-Martin Short comedy special on Netflix? They roast the shit out of each other!  I think you’d enjoy.

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

4 hours ago, Nick Parker said:

 

You're an amazing creature, Batman's Diet Coke. Dr. Pepper and Coca-Cola are not so different.

 

[Kasey Kockroach 2,343]

Dr Pepper is carbonated sewage.

[Not Mr. Big 4,639]

Dr. Pepper is good when warm, otherwise it's trash

[Kasey Kockroach 2,343]

 

2 minutes ago, Not Mr. Big said:

Natalie Portman is good when warm.

Fixed.

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

[Kasey Kockroach 2,343]

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

And you? What would you do for love?

[Kasey Kockroach 2,343]

Just now, Batman's Diet Coke said:

And you? What would you do for love?

Pay a girl to pretend to enjoy my company, and let them walk away with payment if they decide I'm such an grotesque piece of garbage that they can't even pretend to like me?

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

Kill younglings?

[Kasey Kockroach 2,343]

Depends on what she wants for our anniversary. 

[Nick Parker 3,040]

1 hour ago, Disco Stu said:

Hey @Nick Parker have you watched the Steve Martin-Martin Short comedy special on Netflix? They roast the shit out of each other!  I think you’d enjoy.

 

Naw, I don't have Netflix. Otherwise all I'd do is watch Dave Chapelle over and over.

1 hour ago, Batman's Diet Coke said:

 

 

Had you not been so selfish, your little soda's dumping would have been quick and painless...but now that you've really pissed me off, I'm going to pour it down the drain, nice...and slow.

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

Yes, Enrique! Okay?! I get you!

[Nick Parker 3,040]

One more day, y'all! Elfman is winning by a landslide! Right now the vote on age preference is tied!

 

 

[Nick Parker 3,040]

A few hours remaining, will there be someone to break the tie? 

[Kasey Kockroach 2,343]

Can't we make fun of Randy Newman's songwriting instead?

[Koray Savas 2,251]

On 7/4/2018 at 10:00 PM, Disco Stu said:

Hey @Nick Parker have you watched the Steve Martin-Martin Short comedy special on Netflix? They roast the shit out of each other!  I think you’d enjoy.

Just watched this the other day. It was okay.

[Disco Stu 15,495]

1 hour ago, Koray Savas said:

Just watched this the other day. It was okay.

 

Maybe I was just in the right mood but I about died laughing.  I can’t stand most younger standups though.  I also have just always enjoyed Martin Short especially.

 

I lose patience with “edgy” comedians as I get older.  It’s really more about egomaniacs making themselves feel important and than anything.

[Koray Savas 2,251]

Martin Short is great and I find his humor endearing. Steve Martin I never particularly cared for.