Last night:
The Apple (1980) Written and directed by Menahem Golan. I really have to hand it to the guy, and his partner in Cannon Film Group, Yoram Globus - they didn't seem to know their limits. I don't know what Golan was thinking when he made this crazy futuristic pop musical. I only saw part of it on TV once long ago and have been wanting to see it in its entirety ever since. Definitely not so bad it's good, but not just bad either, it falls into an in-between category of semi-bulldada, a mistake but not a huge one. Ridiculous, irritating, colorful, with bad songs and dance numbers and a genuine Deus ex Machina. On the other hand, it confirms that in the future of 1994, people drive cars with plastic domes stuck on top, wear silver fabric and spray-on hair color, and never drink out of normally shaped glasses. 4/10
The night before:
Logan's Run (1976) I didn't like this much when it came out, but ended up seeing four or five times because they kept doubling it up with other movies I wanted to see. An "escape from the domed city" story. In the 23rd century there is nothing to do but wander around a mall, dressed in a toga, and drink from abnormally shaped glasses. Then it turns out that the utopia is a DYStopia! Donna had never seen this, or The Apple, and she seemed to enjoy this. Peter Ustinov is good, nice model city. 6/10
