"The Apple" Disco/New Wave movie

[middlesexnj]

I read about this movie in "The Onion" this week and added it to my Netflix queue. I'm looking forward to being horrified. It is a 1980 musical movie which takes place in 1994. It sounds like a souped up rocky horror. Anyone seen it yet?

Onion link: http://www.theonionavclub.com/fttf/index.php?issue=4108

Netflix reviews:

41 out of 44 people found this review helpful.
"THE APPLE" has got to be one of the weirdest musicals to come out of the 80's, and that is saying a lot! Since Ed Wood never made it to the musical scene, we have to settle for the contributions of two of Ed's equals in tacky tastelessness: Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus (aka CANNON films). If bad movies were a religion, Golan and Globus would be its contemporary gods. These two producers aren’t quite household names, but for a brief moment in the mid-eighties, it seemed like their entertainment empire would be a major market player for many years to come. If there was a cheap buck to be made on an exploitation movie, Golan and Globus made it. Very few movies can be so bad that they become good, The Apple is one of them. Pointless plot, terrible music, bad acting, costumes that even Elton John wouldn't wear & an excessive amount of glitter all converge creating a colossal piece of wonderful crap. This cinematic canker sore MUST be seen to be believed, especially the parts where Mr. Boogalow (Vladek Sheybal) sings. Mr. Boogalow's headquarters & offices appear to be in the Kansas City airport. When this film played at the Paramount Theater in Hollywood for one week in 1980, the film's distributor, Cannon Films, offered souvenir soundtrack records to moviegoers on their way in (albums to the first 100 & 45 RPM singles to the next 1,000). After the 1st showing ushers had to stop giving the records out because the few customers that paid to see this disaster started throwing their 12" vinyl LPs at the movie screen & around the theater like Frisbees during the film. For the next showings, ushers tried to hand the records out as people left, but most people refused to take them. Look for Finola Hughes as one of the dancers, Ray Shell as "Shake," Mr. Boogalow's assistant, & a very brief appearance by Yma Sumac!

4 out of 4 people found this review helpful.
The Apple wholly transcends the “so-bad-it’s-good” category. It’s a marvelous piece of film-making that offers a wry look at late modernity, packaged in an avalanche of glitz (for which it offers an implicit critique). This film deftly weaves references to Milton, Goethe, Orwell, Christianity, National Socialism, commodity fetishism, and the growing hegemony of IBM into a breathtaking tapestry of song and dance. It’s a subversive film that looks ahead to a capitalist-created dystopia where pleasure is pre-packaged and forced down the throats of the conforming masses. The Apple, set in 1994 and released in 1980, gives contemporary viewers a lens through which to evaluate the excesses of popular culture and corporate power. In the age of “American Idol,” media consolidation, and political delusion offered as reality, The Apple is relevant now more than ever. The surfeit of glitter, flashing lights, and outrageous costumes bolsters the film’s underlying criticism of consumer capitalism. It presents a scathing and prescient assessment of the 1980s and all of its schlock and drivel. The Apple is a film to behold, treasure, and learn from.

5 out of 8 people found this review helpful.
Don't watch this movie unless you're with a bunch of your friends and you're partaking. The only thing missing is the little robots in the front row mocking the film.

5 out of 11 people found this review helpful.
This musical has to be seen to be believed! Taking place in the distant future of 1994, watch as "God", also known as Mr. Topps, arrives in a white cadillac out of the sky, and "Satan", or Mr. Boogalow as he's also known, drives around in a decked out futuristic station wagon (although still obviously a very 1970's car). The outfits are mind-blowing, the songs blatantly hint towards sex ("I'm Coming!") and drugs ("SPEED!"), the futuristic settings so ridiculous and poorly done, and the acting is pathetic. The songs featuring Mr. Boogalow are especially amazing, as he sort of half sings/raps like a satanic Falco. Who cares if it's loosely based on a Bible story? Very, very funny and very, very terrible. So terrible it is truly, truly amazing.

7 out of 15 people found this review helpful.
Wow, I still can't believe what I just saw. This is a bizarre musical from the early 80s. It has numbers called "Speed" and "I'm Coming" that are about just what you think. I'm really not sure what the point or plot for this film was, but it sure is fun to watch. There is verry little dialogue to distract from the wearing of incredible outfits, dancing and singing. Watch this along with the Village People's "Can Stop the Music" for a mind melting post-disco experience.

4 out of 23 people found this review helpful.
How can you loose when you see this disco/new wave musical interpretation of Adam and Eve in the bible? This movie has something for everyone!

[hexicon]

Yes, I've seen parts of it on cable. My BF (who's a bit younger) saw the whole thing (presumably in a theatre?) when he was ten or so, and said that when he saw it again on cable it triggered some surrealistic "repressed memories." It's terrible yet int

[Frayo]

I wonder what the soundtrack sounds like. I bet its strange and obscure...either way, I must have it.