Gold Hugo |
| Best Feature |
Stinker Award |
| "Least ""Special"" Special Effects" |
| Most Intrusive Musical Score |
| Worst Picture |
| Worst Screenplay |
| Worst Sense of Direction (Stop them before they direct again!) |
| Worst Song or Song Performance in a Film or End Credits |
F you Eve. It's not bad enough you ate the apple, but now you "inspired" something even worse.
Definitely one of the best films of the 1990's in my opinion, The Apple is an engaging Persian film about two young girls discovering the outside world for the first time after being imprisoned inside their homes by their strict parents. The production of the film itself is highly interesting, with director Samira Makhmalbaf at age seventeen while shooting some of the real-life people involved that are playing themselves, which surprisingly includes the strict father fighting for his daughter's custody.
Okay, so it's 1994, not 1984, but it's all of those futuristic doomsday movies rolled up into one. Imagine a musical version of "Zardoz", and you've got the right idea of what "The Apple" will be.
Based on a true story and starring the very same people involved in it, this movie (by first time director Samira Makhmalbaf) tells the story of Zahra and Massoumef, twelve year old twins living on a very humble neighborhood in Tehran. Virtually imprisoned in their own home by their impoverished, ignorant, fundamentalist father and blind mother, they were freed by Iran social services after neighbors complained that the children had not bathed and could not speak.
Proudly taking its place next to "Can't Stop the Music", "Xanadu", "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" and other breathtakingly bad musicals is this rapturously awful piece of celluloid punishment.
Supposedly Manuel Noriega was smoked out with the help of bad rock & roll. This movie would have anyone giving up his secrets in a matter of hours.
I came across The Apple about two years ago when I was flipping channels. I think it was Encore that was showing it about 1AM or so.
This film needs defending. It is nowhere near as bad as most reviewers make it out to be...
Wow. Well that was a hot mess complete with Gandalf living in a cave under the bridge leading a hippie commune and oh my god there's a flying interstellar ghost car that the almighty rocks around in.
