The Singing Forest

Why are so many gay films being released with such bad quality? I am amazed. This was just about the stupidest excuse for a movie I have ever seen. Not a waste of talent either. A complete lack of talent. From the lighting. To the horrific sound quality. The bad score. The bad acting. The bad directing.Bad script. Bad bad bad. There are so many of these cheapie gay themed films coming out I am getting to the point where I am afraid to go see them. Seven out of every 10 gay films I have seen lately are just terrible. But this movie is the worst of them all. Don't waste your time or money on this film. trust me. This is a truly bad film.

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.

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.

I'm sorry, but I think intercutting some of the most gruesome Holocaust photos with your own amateurish footage in order to order to highjack some emotional impact for your plot is inexcusable. Everyone should see those images, because the create a visceral understanding of the enormity of the atrocities committed during the Holocaust. But the way they are used here so gratuitously cheapens them, and cheapens the memory of the victims.

I watched the whole movie, trying to make allowances for the low budget, the learning process, and overall naiveté, but I just became more and more annoyed. Every scene in this movie seems to be trying to wrench significance out of every word and image, and it just isn't earned.

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.