Just saw Cannon film's now legendary 1980 musical opus "The Apple" on Turner Classics Underground Friday nights.

Wow!

If you've never seen it, it's a far out musical that makes "Graffiti Bridge" look downright professional and plausible.

It's a combination of the Book of Revelation, the Unarius cult, Grease, Rocky Horror Picture Show, 1984, Battlefield Earth with Catherine Mary Stewart and a plot about the devil, in this case leader of the BIM music cult, trying to control the universe.

AND ,it's the only movie I've ever seen with a true deux ex machina, as God comes from the heavens in a gold cadillac to whisk our heroes to paradise.

I understand it currently plays, on occasion, at midnight movies.

Highly, highly recommended for fans of outerspace Apocalyptic musicals.

it's a cracktacular.

is that Roger Daltrey

Anxiety said:

Excellent!

ZombieKitten said:

It's a faux Daltrey. But very close to the real thing, in a Cannon kind of way.

sro100 said:

thank goodness!

Anxiety said:

I hate you so much for posting this.

Stymie said:

you know if it's wrong, i've gotta post it.

Stymie said:

This brief taste truly doesn't truly do justice to "The Apple."

Damn, the preview doesn't even have Mr. Topps!

sorry but it still looks better than graffiti bridge

garganta said:

It's definitely better than G.B. And it shares a lot of the same themes (and future themes of Prince) the dreaded music CON-tract, the ultimate battle for Armageddon is choice of music style, in both films it is ballads, or love songs, versus uptempo songs for their very souls, etc.

you are so wrong for that....you know that belongs in the Xanadu category of musicals. Graffiti Bridge still betta than all that 70s crap!!! [i]

God in a Cadillac? That alone makes it way better than Graffiti Bridge.

ToraToraDreams said:

A heaven sent GOLD Cadillac. That's STYLE.

I have never heard of this.....but then, I might also be the only one on this site that has not seen both 'Graffitti Bridge' and 'Under The Cherry Moon'.....

Please, don't ban me over this!

abierman said:

You're definitely NOT the only who hasn't seen "The Apple;" it's audience is rather "selective."

"Graffiti Bridge" I believe you're better off not seeing. Definitely own the soundtrack though. "Under the Cherry Moon" is something to see, for sure.

abierman said:

I'm a P:M&M regular and I ain't never seen Graffiti either.