The Apple

[Nathan Duthoy]

Praise The Apple!!!
You need to review this film. A classic 80s musical!!
The temptation, the forbidden fruit. All that is the Apple.
Take it! Take it!

[Ash]

I thought of "The Apple" original Star Trek episode.

Remember that one?

With those orange skinned people that feed the machine deep beneath the planet that has the rock-formed monster face exterior.

It's name was Val.  (pronounced like "vault" only without the "T")

[Brian Ringler]

I've wanted to see this for a while but haven't had the chance.

[Fearless Freep]

Trust me, no you don't.  Nathan's suffered through it so you don't have to

[nshumate]

**NNNGG!!**

Sorry. Flashback.  I'm okay now.

[kriegerg69]

I happen to like the movie. Never understood what the negative fuss was all about. Had it on vhs for years now, as well as the soundtrack album. Fun music.

....and don't forget it WAS a big hit at the Cannes Festival that year.

[movie masochist]

BUMP!

This is seriously one of the most amazing bad films of all time.  I think this may be the worst film ever made.  I mean that with only the greatest affection.  This movie is a psychedelic musical ostensibly about the perils of becoming famous.  It's set in the future:1994.  That is the plot, that is, if you can convince yourself that there is a tangible plot.  The 2 main characters (Bibi and Alphie) are naive country bumpkins from Canada who are corrupted by an evil music executive.  Although there are many references to them being Canadian, Alphie (played by George Gilmour) is entirely unable to shake his thick German accent.  There are many elaborate song and dance numbers featuring extravagant makeup and costumes and bizarre shot-from-below camera work.  Apparently pop stars also attend a lot of debaucherous parties.  Everyone who attends these parties is either a gay man or a drag queen, except for Alphie and Bibi's other love interest Dandi (!!), who are inexplicably the only straight men in the future.  Which makes you wonder how they propagated the human race.

I can't really explain the rest of the "plot", except to say that Alphie ends up living in a random woman's kitchen for a while and in the end the lovebirds reunite to live in a hippie commune and I think they had a child.  The music executives come to abduct Bibi from the hippies, but an old hippie comes out of the sky in a gold station wagon to save her.  How this happens I can't explain even though I watched the film diligently.


It's difficult to convey how bizarre this movie really is.  My mouth was hanging open for most of the 90 minute running time.  I actually caught myself drooling at one point because my mouth had been open so long.  Seriously. Every time you think it can't get any weirder, it does.


The phrase "___...on acid" has really become overused in our cultural vernacular.  So when you REALLY need it to describe something like "The Apple" it seems cliche.  So I'll just say that this movie makes me want to resume taking acid, only because I want to know if the movie will make sense then.

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[The Burgomaster]

I will only watch it if Fiona Apple is in it.