Post by j***@hehxduhmp.orgPost by dj_evol_enoI think it all comes down to how well it's done and if the sample or the movie the sample comes from hasn't already been over played.
This NG used to have a list in the 90s of the most sampled sources and the
most sampling bands. The two were pretty neat to look at, particularly the
former. As one might expect, Blade Runner was always right at the top.
I loved a lot of the samples 242 used back in the day. So many of them were just there because they found them interesting and built songs with them. Which meant most of their samples were not from recognizable nerd-genre-classic movies.
Negativland was interesting in that they built pieces around the samples themselves as the sort of foundation artifact. They also didn't tend to sample from well-known movies. One of their best-known pieces, "Christianity Is Stupid," comes from a bizarre christian exploitation ("christsploitation") movie in the 70s that not too many people have heard of.
The problem with overuse of movie samples, I think, has to do with a band trying to stamp their music with some kind of genre cred and thereby make it legit somehow. That's different than just using it purely creatively.