s Culture 4A Bad Movies to Colin Slark Team Member good movie can be a transformative experience. To see something that challenges your expectations and shows you new sights, new stories, and new sounds is one of the best things a human being can do. In the same way, watching a bad movie can be eye opening. It can be uproariously funny to see cheap special effects, bad acting, or visible boom microphones. It can also be tragic, seeing the culmination of a group of people’s hard work ending up a disaster. Here are four bad movies that are sure to entertain you: Troll 2 (1990): The director of this shockingly horrible horror film obviously had an agenda. An anti-vegetarian, pro-corn agenda. This film hates vegetarians, depicting them as literally being bloodthirsty goblins. The director of this film obviously thought that corn is nature’s sexiest vegetable, because this film features the most bizarre seduction scene in film history involving an ear of corn, an RV, and a witch. By the way, this film contains no actual trolls and is completely unrelated to the first Troll film. Troll 2 is hard to sum up in a paragraph, so watch it and see why it’s a B-movie favourite. Reefer Madness (1936): Originally produced to be a cautionary tale warning people not to smoke marijuana, this film is enjoyed these days for how bad it is. If you’ve ever wanted to be warned about the dangers of pot by people who don’t know anything about it, this is your film. According to this film, marijuana super excites people, driving them mad and prone to fits of murderous rage. That doesn’t sound like any pot heads I’ve ever known, but the poster for this film advertises that it’s “What actually happens!” Women in Iranian Film Nahid Taheri Team Member he presence of women in Iranian cinema after the 1979 revolution has been driven by the ups and downs of politics, and the way that the government looks at feminism. A respectable Iranian woman is defined based on Islamic criteria and the religious concepts that describe the frame of her activities in a society. With a change of governments, and because they know themselves as executors of cultural affairs, we have seen an adjustment, especially in cinema, for women. Everything changed when the Khatami became president in 1997. Women began playing a more important role in cinema. During this period, women were invited to come out from their homes. This means that women had the opportunity to participate in society without threatening their responsibilities at home as a wife or mother. Now, directors and producers are aiming to show Iranian women who is looking out for themselves and their rights, and are trying to change people’s perspective of a traditional Iranian woman. Female characters in movies are now seen reading newspapers, listening to music, or playing musical instruments. Instead of cooking or sewing in every single scene, now they are improving their skills in sports, art, engineering, and management. These characters are clearly educated women with social and political agency and reactions. The Iranian women’s Hijab is also changing. Chador is not the official Hijab for women in Iranian cinema anymore. All of these changes are reflective of a greater social revolution. The government of Ahmadinejad tried to The best thing about this movie is that it is in the public domain, meaning that there are many legal ways of finding a copy online. Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959): This is perhaps the most famous bad movie of all time, and it deserves all the credit it gets. Director Ed Wood loved movies, but unfortunately had no idea how to actually make one. The special effects are all done with tinfoil and sparklers, the sets wobble as actors walk through them, and the cast includes a man who legally changed his name to “Dudley Manlove.” The film’s big name star, Dracula’s Bela Lugosi, died during filming, giving Wood the great idea to replace him with his wife’s chiropractor. This film was originally made as a serious sci-fi/horror film, but you'll be unable to keep yourself from laughing. The Room (2003): If Plan 9 from Outer Space is the best classic bad movie, The Room reverse these advancements, but filmmakers were still looking for ways to keep cinema a medium showing the reality of Iranian feminism. As a result, many movies did not get permission to be created, and fewer stories included a female protagonist. Most filmmakers were thinking of the commercial aspect of cinema, and the presence of women was limited to relationships in families. New government pressure and people who are tired of common stereotypes in movies have been forcing independent filmmakers to attempt change. Among other filmmakers, Jafar Panahi is another a director and writer who is challenging the traditional women’s roles in his movies. In Offside (2006), Panahi shows young Iranian women who are dressing as boys to enter a stadium and watch a soccer match. Although this is a comedy, what is the best bad modern movie. After you witness the stilted acting, the confusing editing, the insane dialogue, and the bizarre directorial choices, you'll wonder if it was all an elaborate joke. However, it was made completely sincerely, making it both funny and sad at the same time. Who is to blame for this disaster? That would be director, producer, writer, and star Tommy Wiseau, who is by far the funniest part of the movie. It might seem mean-spirited to go out and specifically look for bad movies to laugh at. After all, someone worked hard on them. However, if you enjoy them then their purpose as entertainment is fulfilled. It would be worse to have these films disappear into obscurity, with no one to enjoy them in any form. These movies will probably make you laugh, but who knows--maybe you'll find them genuinely endearing. makes Offside effective is that young women are not portrayed as activists attacking the system. They are simply soccer fans and do not want to accept the fact that they are excluded from enjoying the sport. We can also consider Rakhshan Bani E’temad, who is not only one of the best filmmakers in Iran, but also one of the bravest. Gilane (2005) is a movie about a mother who has to take care of her son, who is suffering from PTSD, after the Iraq-Iran war. She never gets disappointed, sad, or tired. She is just a simple victim of the war. Bani E’temad has recently won the award of Best Screenplay in Venice Film Festival for Tales (2014), a movie censored by the Iranian government. The role of Iranian women in film is positively changing, but has a long way to go.