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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1      General Discussion: how about "eric serra"   Last Post   Posted:   Jul 11, 2014 - 6:45 AM     By:   DOGBELLE   (Member) I think he is lost composer.(lack chatter on the board) I enjoy his music. like the 5th element. I find his music on compilation cds here and their. just like some input.    Posted:   Jul 11, 2014 - 7:04 AM     By:   mstrox   (Member) "Eric Serra" just finished composing Lucy, so he's still around and working. Furthermore, there's a discussion on the first page of the forum talking about just this! His output has been fairly limited, especially in recent years - this is his first score in like 3 years - so that's probably why people aren't talking much. I only have two scores of his - GoldenEye and Rollerball. GoldenEye is, in my opinion, underrated as far as Bond scores go. There are a couple of weird tonal outlier tracks that don't feel like they belong, but the rest is gold. I haven't seen the movie in maybe 15 years, so I couldn't even say that those tracks don't work in the film - but for me they don't flow very well on the album. Rollerball is, if I can remember, a lot of electric guitar energetic sports music, which isn't really up my alley.    Posted:   Jul 11, 2014 - 8:09 AM     By:   First Breath   (Member) I like several of his earlier scores, like Subway, The Big Blue, Atlantis, La Femme Nikita and Leon. GoldenEye and The Fifth Element were OK, while Joan Of Arc was totally forgettable. Haven't really heard much of his post-2000 work.    Posted:   Jul 11, 2014 - 8:11 AM     By:   First Breath   (Member) dp    Posted:   Jul 11, 2014 - 9:33 AM     By:   Tall Guy   (Member) I only have two scores of his - GoldenEye and Rollerball. Quality-wise, these two scores bookend his entire output in my opinion, GoldenEye at the top, Rollerball at the other extreme. Nikita, the Fifth Element and Big Blue are very enjoyable, I recall Leon working very well in the film but I haven't listened away from it. Joan of Arc is middling to good. A bit more traditional than his usual output. My opinion of Rollerball may be coloured by having hated the film - but I doubt it. I like that he did a Bond film. Most people I know are scathing of it, but I think it fits the tone of the film very well as a one off.    Posted:   Jul 11, 2014 - 11:38 AM     By:   JSDouglas   (Member) Serra is Luc Besson's go-to composer for his directorial efforts, but after THE MESSENGER Besson didn't direct for a while and Serra seemed to not be as effective working on other action projects. LA FEMME NIKITA (aka NIKITA) and THE PROFESSIONAL (aka LEON) are two of my favorites of his works. I have high hopes for LUCY.    Posted:   Jul 12, 2014 - 6:00 AM     By:   First Breath   (Member) Serra is Luc Besson's go-to composer for his directorial efforts, but after THE MESSENGER Besson didn't direct for a while and Serra seemed to not be as effective working on other action projects. LA FEMME NIKITA (aka NIKITA) and THE PROFESSIONAL (aka LEON) are two of my favorites of his works. I have high hopes for LUCY. Besson's first film after The Messenger was Angel-A from 2005, where he hired Norwegian Anja Garbarek (Jan Garbarek's daughter) to do the score. Still haven't heard that one. Very interesting composer choice.    Posted:   Jul 12, 2014 - 11:04 AM     By:   MusicMad   (Member) I recall that M. Serra's score for GoldenEye (1995) was derided so much at the time that one of the soundtrack magazines (perhaps Soundtrack! ... ?) used it as a new rating ... ... how times have changed. I found the score one of the (many) negatives I have about the film and today, whilst I enjoy the score - ignoring the end title song - as a stand-alone listen, it still doesn't work too well against the visuals. I have seen a few of his scored films though nothing stands out as I want to get that score ... but as his is a name I know I'm more likely to watch out for any other works. Mitch    Posted:   May 31, 2020 - 8:58 PM     By:   henry   (Member) To be honest there's not many composers I don't like, but Serra is one of the ones I don't like, not a fan. His music does nothing for me.    Posted:   May 31, 2020 - 9:04 PM     By:   henry   (Member) Ludwig Goransson was another composer I didn't like, but he's starting to grow on me.    Posted:   Jun 1, 2020 - 1:13 AM     By:   Thor   (Member) You should check out ATLANTIS, henry. It's usually the one I recommend to people that aren't into him in the hope that it may sway them. Fantastic score, my favourite of him. I'm a big fan, especially of the Besson stuff, but he'a a bit hit and miss.    Posted:   Jun 1, 2020 - 3:27 AM     By:   johnbijl   (Member) For me, Nikita is one of the best in his output. Most of the times Serra seems like a composer who really, really want to be a rock star (RXRA!) and forces 'cool tunes' in his scores. For his dramatic underscoring he just can't get past a lot of mickey mousing. Fifth Element (for comic intent) and Atlantis (for dramatic intent) both suffer from this in listenability, IMO. Nikita is the score where his music gels together the most. Although the Sade-like soul pop probably didn't age well for most, I like it.    Posted:   Jun 1, 2020 - 4:29 AM     By:   Thor   (Member) Most of the times Serra seems like a composer who really, really want to be a rock star (RXRA!) and forces 'cool tunes' in his scores. For his dramatic underscoring he just can't get past a lot of mickey mousing. Fifth Element (for comic intent) and Atlantis (for dramatic intent) both suffer from this in listenability, IMO. Mickey-mousing in ATLANTIS? Really? We must be listening to different scores. It's mostly broad, gorgeous soundscapes capturing life in the ocean. "In the Kingdom of Spirits" is a particularly haunting track    Posted:   Jun 1, 2020 - 8:16 AM     By:   BTTFFan   (Member) I honestly don't notice any mickey mousing in his scores. The Fifth Element, Atlantis, The Big Blue, Leon, Nikita, Subway, Goldeneye are all great with The Fifth Element being among my favorites. I actually listened to it last night on LP. I admit that anything from The Messenger to present I am not much of a fan of.    Posted:   Jun 1, 2020 - 8:38 AM     By:   GOLDSMITHDAKING   (Member) Almost ruined Goldeneye with his terrible score. Thank god the producers got David Arnold in to score the next few Bond films.    Posted:   Jun 1, 2020 - 8:46 AM     By:   BTTFFan   (Member) Almost ruined Goldeneye with his terrible score. Thank god the producers got David Arnold in to score the next few Bond films. I respectfully disagree that he ruined Goldeneye with his score. I do agree that David Arnold did a better job at scoring Bond, especially with the his Casino Royale masterpiece.    Posted:   Jun 1, 2020 - 9:04 AM     By:   Mark   (Member) I only have LA FEMME NIKITA and ATLANTIS. Both enjoyable scores. Thought his earlier work was decent but much of his later stuff was either forgettable or (as in the case of Goldeneye) just dreadful    Posted:   Jun 1, 2020 - 11:19 AM     By:   JGouse0498   (Member) Almost ruined Goldeneye with his terrible score. Thank god the producers got David Arnold in to score the next few Bond films. I respectfully disagree that he ruined Goldeneye with his score. I do agree that David Arnold did a better job at scoring Bond, especially with the his Casino Royale masterpiece. I'm with you on this. I really enjoyed Serra's music for GoldenEye. I even enjoyed his vocal track "The Experience of Love". All of it really worked for the tone of the movie, and I'm hoping to see this get an expansion from LLL. I enjoy Arnold's music--for the most part. IMO, he went overboard with the electronics for Die Another Day, but he absolutely rebounded and nailed it for his final two scores: Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace    Posted:   Jun 1, 2020 - 11:23 AM     By:   Thor   (Member) Yup, another GOLDENEYE fan here. I think it's one of the best Bond scores, after the Arnold ones. But US audiences only seem to know him from that. I recommend broadening the horizons and delving into the Besson stuff and other lesser known titles.    Posted:   Oct 27, 2021 - 12:39 AM     By:   Jurassic T. Park   (Member) I can’t find a thread specifically for THE FIFTH ELEMENT but I just watched it again and the movie is a lot of fun - way better than VALERIAN. But the music is also really perfect for the film. It has a lot of those typically-Serra sounds, but it all comes together in the film. I don’t even know how to describe the score because it literally spans multiple styles of music. This has the added benefit of really fleshing out the world in the movie and making it seem very well-developed and realistic. And while it does kind of lack continuity, it does have a consistent theme/motif for the badguys, for LeeLoo, and for the mystery/magic/fifth element. Probably my favorite cue is the one for when LeeLoo escapes from the bio-growing bed and climbs out onto the building ledges to escape the police. Anyone else appreciate this score? Does anyone else know of another score like this that is such a potpourri of musical styles, all in one?     General Discussion: how about "eric serra"    < 1  >   Go to page:  1   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1

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