The Singing Forest

Jorge Ameer has made a shockingly terrible movie. My boyfriend and I watched this surprisingly bad movie last night. The cover art on the DVD case made this seem like it was going to be a really good movie. But we really hated it. As an openly gay couple, we both were very insulted by this movie. It really lacked morals and suggested some very seedy situations.

And the directing was just about the worst you could ever imagine. No, scratch that. I really could never imagine a film being directed with such sloppy directing. Ever. Jorge Ameer has no business making movies. I don't know what his talents are but film making is not one of them.

While I don't agree with most here who say this is the worst movie I've ever seen, I certainly would classify it in my bottom five....

The premise *could* have been interesting. And if you're unfortunate enough to have rented this mess before reading these comments, it may help to watch the 'special features' (bunch of odd shorts) before, or instead of, the film. They're no better, but they have some shock value and, being shorts, do not drag on & on about nothing.

The shorts and other features on the DVD clarify, for me, what's really wrong: the filmmaker thinks he can succeed by doing little more than recording actions, sets, and dialog and calling it a movie. Everything else on the disc is as emptyheaded as the movie. The filmmaker seems proud of the film in the way you might be proud of spreading garbage over an acre of fresh lawn, that is, he thinks it's most important to be

The only noteworthy performer is Craig Pinkston, but only because he looks halfway hot in the brief scene with his shirt off.

How do films like this even get made? The story, about a father who's daughter is marrying a man he believes to be his gay lover is a past life, is so lame. The acting is even worse. But the writing and directing is the worst I have ever witnessed. It really makes me puzzled how something so terribly made could be released to an unsuspecting public. I feel sorry for anybody that chooses to watch this thing. It will leave you screaming and running to the remote control to turn it off and demand your money back. If I was on an airplane and this was the in-flight movie, I would jump out of the plane without a parachute.

There is nothing good to say about this. It is simply the worst movie I have ever seen. It simply feels like a project that was dreamed up, written, and shot in 10 days with the director's friends cast uncomfortably as actors.

This isn't a "love to hate it" film like Ed Wood's wild weirdness. This is more on the level of a high school driver training safety film. It is a car wreck.

Poor sound makes the dialogue almost unintelligible, poor lighting makes characters almost invisible. The 15 minutes worth of story in this hour-long film is a ghastly mess, and the ending is absolutely the most tasteless, stupid, and absurd I've seen in any movie, period.

Schlock like this gives gay cinema a bad name.

An experience of utter torture. I'm glad that I got it as part of a two-for-one special at the video store. Horrible story, bad acting, bad lighting, bad soundtrack: bad, bad, bad. It has to be one of the 10 worst films ever made. After 10 minutes, I played most of it at 2x speed on the DVD player, and it was still awful. If it were submitted as a project in a film class, it would not even receive an F. The student would be tossed out of the class. Low-budget video films have better production values. Why was the microphone in another room during the filming? Didn't anyone bother to check the focus? Did anyone actually READ the script? This film should come with a warning label: it can be dangerous to your cinematic consciousness.