THE APPLE (1980) on TCM tonight 1:30 or so ...

Allhallowsday · June 16, 2023, 09:10:35 PM

THE APPLE (1980) This sounds bad enough to check out.

RCMerchant · June 17, 2023, 01:49:57 AM

I seen it. A horrifying movie!

zombie no.one · 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)

Rev. Powell · June 17, 2023, 10:14:10 AM

Bad movie fans need to see it.

Trevor · 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 😳😳😳😳💩

Trevor · June 17, 2023, 11:26:52 AM

Quote from: RCMerchant on June 17, 2023, 01:49:57 AM
I seen it. A horrifying movie!

That's putting it mildly 😳

Allhallowsday · 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!

RCMerchant · June 17, 2023, 12:12:36 PM

I didn't like it either for the same reason.

Allhallowsday · 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.

lester1/2jr · June 17, 2023, 03:56:41 PM

It had like a socialist message I think?

Trevor · 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.

Rev. Powell · June 17, 2023, 04:49:37 PM

Pro-hippie, anti-disco. That's as deep as it goes.

Allhallowsday · 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?

Allhallowsday · 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.

zombie no.one · 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.