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Title: THE APPLE (1980) on TCM tonight 1:30 or so ...
Post by: Allhallowsday on June 16, 2023, 09:10:35 PM
THE APPLE (1980) This sounds bad enough to check out. 

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Title: Re: THE APPLE (1980) on TCM tonight 1:30 or so ...
Post by: RCMerchant on June 17, 2023, 01:49:57 AM
I seen it. A horrifying movie!  :buggedout:
Title: Re: THE APPLE (1980) on TCM tonight 1:30 or so ...
Post by: zombie no.one on June 17, 2023, 02:01:36 AM
it took me a long time to track this down, I had to get a czec import dvd in the end.... it's definitely bad enough to be good, but also has some vaguely interesting parallels to today's 'surveillance state' society in the storyline (...maybe)
Title: Re: THE APPLE (1980) on TCM tonight 1:30 or so ...
Post by: Rev. Powell on June 17, 2023, 10:14:10 AM
Bad movie fans need to see it.
Title: Re: THE APPLE (1980) on TCM tonight 1:30 or so ...
Post by: Trevor on June 17, 2023, 10:52:38 AM
Quote from: Rev. Powell on June 17, 2023, 10:14:10 AM
Bad movie fans need to see it.

I have seen it and 😳😳😳😳💩
Title: Re: THE APPLE (1980) on TCM tonight 1:30 or so ...
Post by: Trevor on June 17, 2023, 11:26:52 AM
Quote from: RCMerchant on June 17, 2023, 01:49:57 AM
I seen it. A horrifying movie!  :buggedout:

That's putting it mildly 😳
Title: Re: THE APPLE (1980) on TCM tonight 1:30 or so ...
Post by: Allhallowsday on June 17, 2023, 12:03:56 PM
Leftover Glam Rock costumes with moth holes and bad bad bad songs.  It ranks... well, just rank.  Made me laugh unintentionally several times, but it's a cardinal sin for a movie : BORING! 
Title: Re: THE APPLE (1980) on TCM tonight 1:30 or so ...
Post by: RCMerchant on June 17, 2023, 12:12:36 PM
I didn't like it either for the same reason.
Title: Re: THE APPLE (1980) on TCM tonight 1:30 or so ...
Post by: Allhallowsday on June 17, 2023, 02:03:51 PM
No singing, no acting, no songs!  Marginally musical, worth a few laughs at it's cheapo crappiness, but just dreadful.   MANOS is more entertaining. 
Title: Re: THE APPLE (1980) on TCM tonight 1:30 or so ...
Post by: lester1/2jr on June 17, 2023, 03:56:41 PM
It had like a socialist message I think?
Title: Re: THE APPLE (1980) on TCM tonight 1:30 or so ...
Post by: Trevor on June 17, 2023, 04:16:44 PM
Quote from: lester1/2jr on June 17, 2023, 03:56:41 PM
It had like a socialist message I think?

Possibly.
Title: Re: THE APPLE (1980) on TCM tonight 1:30 or so ...
Post by: Rev. Powell on June 17, 2023, 04:49:37 PM
Pro-hippie, anti-disco. That's as deep as it goes.
Title: Re: THE APPLE (1980) on TCM tonight 1:30 or so ...
Post by: Allhallowsday on June 17, 2023, 05:39:53 PM
Quote from: Rev. Powell on June 17, 2023, 04:49:37 PM
Pro-hippie, anti-disco. That's as deep as it goes.

Well, I 'spose, you mean like Inspector cheezus Freaks...?  Professor god Higgins walks outta the sky, invites the right people to walk into the sky, leaving the worst singers on Urth....?  The apple is a reference to Alphie and Bibi, er, Adam and Eve TEMPTATION, but NO Christianity.  Definitely WTF?
Title: Re: THE APPLE (1980) on TCM tonight 1:30 or so ...
Post by: Allhallowsday on June 17, 2023, 09:47:28 PM
Quote from: zombie no.one on June 17, 2023, 02:01:36 AM
... it's definitely bad enough to be good...

No.  It's definitely bad, but not in any good way.  Definitely no fun allowed.  Few movies have ever achieved such inadequate mediocrity married to a bad idea to begin with. 
Title: Re: THE APPLE (1980) on TCM tonight 1:30 or so ...
Post by: zombie no.one on June 18, 2023, 08:47:29 AM
well, I mean, I am not alone in thinking this... let me cherrypick some quotes from imdb reviews:

THE APPLE is so audacious, so over the top, so
totally awful that it is simply wonderful...a positively guilty pleasure to top all guilty pleasures

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Look high and low, far and wide, but it is unlikely that a more splendiferously hideous film will be found

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an appalling piece of crap that nevertheless makes you want to enjoy the guilty pleasure again and again.

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A marvelously absurd and messed-up one-of-a-kind camp masterpiece.

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the most enjoyable bad/good movie I've seen in a long time... I was never bored for one second



and so on... don't get me wrong you're entitled to your opinion but it js just that.
Title: Re: THE APPLE (1980) on TCM tonight 1:30 or so ...
Post by: Rev. Powell on June 18, 2023, 09:33:21 AM
Yeah, I agree with those who say it's tremendous campy fun. I love it. But to each his own.
Title: Re: THE APPLE (1980) on TCM tonight 1:30 or so ...
Post by: claws on June 18, 2023, 10:54:17 AM
I've seen it a few times and love the camp/badness of it, but I never bought it on physical media. Not intentionally, it just never happened.
Title: Re: THE APPLE (1980) on TCM tonight 1:30 or so ...
Post by: Allhallowsday on June 18, 2023, 10:58:47 PM
I definitely understand why any bad movie lover would enjoy THE APPLE.  I hated it so much, I can't wait to see it again... :wink: :thumbdown:
Title: Re: THE APPLE (1980) on TCM tonight 1:30 or so ...
Post by: Allhallowsday on June 18, 2023, 11:02:26 PM
Quote from: claws on June 18, 2023, 10:54:17 AM
I've seen it a few times and love the camp/badness of it, but I never bought it on physical media. Not intentionally, it just never happened.


I applaud your bad movie taste, worse than mine.
Title: Re: THE APPLE (1980) on TCM tonight 1:30 or so ...
Post by: zombie no.one on June 19, 2023, 02:21:37 AM
Quote from: Allhallowsday on June 18, 2023, 10:58:47 PM
I hated it so much, I can't wait to see it again... :wink: :thumbdown:

ah, I thought you said it committed the cardinal sin of being boring...

much as I like bad movies, if they're boring then I'm not interested.
Title: Re: THE APPLE (1980) on TCM tonight 1:30 or so ...
Post by: Allhallowsday on June 19, 2023, 01:05:24 PM
Quote from: zombie no.one on June 19, 2023, 02:21:37 AM
Quote from: Allhallowsday on June 18, 2023, 10:58:47 PM
I hated it so much, I can't wait to see it again... :wink: :thumbdown:

ah, I thought you said it committed the cardinal sin of being boring...

much as I like bad movies, if they're boring then I'm not interested.

Generally, I'm bored with GOOD musicals, so I'm not surprised I'd be bored with a BAD musical.  I guess the BAD outweighs the music and I am curious to sit through it and take notes...!   :teddyr:
Title: Re: THE APPLE (1980) on TCM tonight 1:30 or so ...
Post by: zombie no.one on June 19, 2023, 01:51:18 PM
tbh I also find 'good' musicals pretty boring... not a genre I've ever got my head around. A MIGHTY WIND miht be the closest I get (and even that's a parody)
Title: Re: THE APPLE (1980) on TCM tonight 1:30 or so ...
Post by: RCMerchant on June 19, 2023, 01:55:45 PM
The only musical I liked was ROCK AND ROLL HIGH SCHOOL.
Title: Re: THE APPLE (1980) on TCM tonight 1:30 or so ...
Post by: Allhallowsday on June 20, 2023, 08:32:15 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on June 19, 2023, 01:55:45 PM
The only musical I liked was ROCK AND ROLL HIGH SCHOOL.

What about WIZARD OF OZ
Title: Re: THE APPLE (1980) on TCM tonight 1:30 or so ...
Post by: RCMerchant on June 20, 2023, 08:48:46 PM
^ OH! I fergot!
I like Busby Berkley s**t too!  :teddyr: