The Apple: future-disco-biblical-glitter musical C/D?

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Just noticed that The Apple is playing at midnight at the Nuart this Friday.

In 1994 (as envisioned in 1980), the world has become enslaved to the hedonistic disco music of the BIM corporation, supervised by the demonic Mr. Boogaloo (Vladek Sheybal of Red Dawn). When an Adam & Eve-ish folksinger duo arrive on the scene, he attempts to seduce them with sex, success and excess. Will he succeed? Will you be able to keep your wits as you watch this jaw-dropping future-disco-biblical-glitter musical? Infamous Cannon Films mogul Menahem Golan's glitzy directorial outing returns to shock a new generation. Just how rotten-to-the-core is The Apple? Check out these reviews from The Unknown Movies and Cold Fusion!

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 20:58 (twenty-one years ago)

#$!$!%$%!#$%

I'll be out of town! Grr!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 21:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. If you have not seen it, and think from the description above that there's ANY possibility you'd enjoy it, you must.

― Douglas (Douglas), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 23:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Maura and her roommate showed me this. OH MY GOD IT IS SO AWESOME!!!

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 23:42 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, this is playing tonight at midnight over at the Nuart on Santa Monica Blvd & Sawtelle. Calling all LA area ILXers...

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 28 May 2004 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

This has nothing to do with it but apparently there is also a film called "The Pirate Movie" which I will be seeing this weekend which is a PIRATE THEMED sex disco musical from 1982, and I was wondering if anyone has seen this.

― Allyzay, Friday, 28 May 2004 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

That's that weird adaptation of The Pirates of Penzance with Kristy MacNichol and Christopher Atkins, isn't it? It is indeed flamingly ridiculous and stupid (and therefore wonderful). It lacks the true measure of such things, though (ie, either Adam Ant then or Johnny Depp now).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 28 May 2004 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

SuperDouglas is modest enough not to mention that he had a pretty terrific essay in the Believer that spent some time on this film.

― nabiscothingy, Friday, 28 May 2004 20:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I have seen a great deal of badfilm over the years, but nothing nothing has come close to this. I can't remember the last time I laughed so hard at a horrible movie that didn't have Mike and the bots peeking up from the bottom. I'm totally stunned.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 29 May 2004 09:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah, and according to Movie Geek (of Beat The Geeks), who hosts these midnight showings at the Nuart, there's going to be a DVD release in August.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 29 May 2004 09:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Lastly, the American Cinemateque is going to be showing The Apple along with Can't Stop The Music on July 31 at the Egyptian. FAP anyone?

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 29 May 2004 09:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes! Oh wait...

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Saturday, 29 May 2004 12:19 (twenty-one years ago)

definitely.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 29 May 2004 12:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, yes, yes! Except it might conflict with Al Green at the Greek. I hope there's an afternoon show.

― Arthur (Arthur), Saturday, 29 May 2004 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm really going to try to be in town for this.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 29 May 2004 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I am so up for this, and happily will be back from my trip by that time.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 29 May 2004 21:21 (twenty-one years ago)

im down

― chaki_burger (chaki), Sunday, 30 May 2004 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

oh. my. god. yes.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 3 June 2004 05:38 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

REVIVE! To point out again:

Lastly, the American Cinemateque is going to be showing The Apple along with Can't Stop The Music on July 31 at the Egyptian. FAP anyone?

This sounds urgent and key.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 19:00 (twenty years ago)

So I started a thread:

LA FAP July 31 -- _Can't Stop the Music_ and _The Apple_ screening

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 19:04 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah, and according to Movie Geek (of Beat The Geeks), who hosts these midnight showings at the Nuart, there's going to be a DVD release in August.

Good because based on seeing this last night I NEED THIS NOW.

What Elvis said above. Truly astonishing. The two things lingering with me the most:

* An Israeli writes and directs a film that is not only a Judeo-Christian allegory but specifically concludes with Christian eschatology -- with fascist/glitter uniforms and songs and all -- and films it in Berlin.

* That Noel Coward reggae song Mr. Boogalow sings halfway through. "It's hard to be a master...MASTER!"

It also contains the most specifically literal lyrics=image thing I've noticed since the cover of Boy in the Corner -- hero: "My back's against the wall!" he sings, back to the wall -- as well as the most ultimate deus ex machina ever.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 1 August 2004 15:48 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

DVD release in two days time. Chaki and I were talking about this yesterday. CANNOT WAIT.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 22 August 2004 23:33 (twenty years ago)

AWESOME!!

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Sunday, 22 August 2004 23:45 (twenty years ago)

Just ordered it!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 22 August 2004 23:46 (twenty years ago)

And it has arrived! IT IS MINE!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 22:44 (twenty years ago)

BIM FOREVER

― Softly Weeping at the Oki Dog (Ben Boyer), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 23:45 (twenty years ago)

Magic apple
Mystery apple
Take a little ride
Let me be your guide
Through the apple paradise.
Juju apple
Voodoo apple
Take a little bite.
Spend a splendid night
In our garden of delights.

It's a natural, natural, natural desire.
Meet an actual, actual, actual vampire.
Let the apple set your soul on fire, fire, fire, fire.

You'll be hypnotized,
And you'll be demonized,
But you'll be paralyzed,
So you can victimize.
You're facinating, captivating, losing your mind
When we cast the apple light on you.

Holy apple
Sacred apple
Take a little chance,
Get into a trance,
And join me in the apple dance.

http://www.jabootu.com/acolytes/bnotes/images/applek.jpg

― big chaki (chaki), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 20:37 (twenty years ago)

We need to get a new generation of screen caps now. I've gone so far as to create a quote file.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 20:40 (twenty years ago)

DVD release in two days time.

MAN

!!!!

"B!"

"I-M!!!"

"I said 'B'!"

"I-M!!!"

Classic.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 20:42 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

I am SO GLAD I couldn't sleep tonight because this is on the FOX Movie Channel right now and it's the most wonderful horrible thing I've ever seen. I wouldn't call it "disco"; the poppier moments are MOR '80s soft-rock, with lyrics by someone who evidently has no experience (or business) writing lyrics. There's absolutely no flow-through between the dialogue and the musical numbers; the songs start randomly and with no build-up, and the dialogue and acting are too deadpan to justify the melodramatic music (there's that one comedic song about "huffing and puffing," but it's so cringe-inducingly awkward I don't even wanna think about it).

There's a pirate anthem called "We Are the Pirates." It goes "we are the pirates/we are the pirates."

There's a pirate pizza fight with a tender love scene in the middle of the fray. In what looks to be a school auditorium.

Astonishing.

― A. Atom Gorgon (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 10:30 (twenty years ago)

"Give me a happy ending/every time/we'll kiss and make up/that's a very peaceful sign."

― A. Atom Gorgon (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 10:33 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

Story's a few months old but this is amusing.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 26 April 2008 23:14 (seventeen years ago)

two years pass...

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― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 01:10 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP-cMlpq-zM

― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 01:10 (fourteen years ago)

Bim is everywhere.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 01:46 (fourteen years ago)

I saw S*P*Y*S because it had Elliott Gould and Donald Sutherland but suprise! It had two stars of The Apple in it.

― tokyo rosemary, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 02:18 (fourteen years ago)

two years pass...

Just saw this for the first time last night. In-fucking-credible. "It's a natural, natural, natural desire. To meet an actual, actual, actual vampire!"

"These are the children of the sixties, commonly known as 'hippies'."

Holy shit the "I'm Coming" song.

― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 26 January 2013 15:45 (twelve years ago)

do the biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim

― ramblin' evil mushroom (clouds), Saturday, 26 January 2013 15:50 (twelve years ago)

This movie is truly insane. I love the "America wants speed" song so much.

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 26 January 2013 18:59 (twelve years ago)

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