Burning Blue (2013)

An LGBT themed movie not full of cliche's and stereotypes. Trent Ford , Rob Mayes and Morgan Specter did an amazing job. These 3 guys put a serious face to a sad subject. Our LGBT service people and veterans have lived in the shadows for so long. They have served bravely and with distinction.Mr. Ford was and Mr Mayes were inspiration-ally moving in the sensitivity they showed.I need to also mention William Scott. There was an exchange between Mr. Ford and Mr Scott, where Mr Scott reaches out to Mr. Ford's character saying something like He had been waiting his whole life for someone. I cannot begin to understand how you feel. Mr Ford delivered that line in such a way as to relate the depth of feeling his character had.This is on my Re-watch list. Thank You for the movie and Thank You for amazing performances.

In this age of on-screen unrestrained sexuality, it's easy to dismiss one gay-themed movie as 'bad' since there isn't much baring man-on- man action, but Burning Blue is much more than that. It's a movie that requires the audience to think, to imagine what it was like back in the days of disastrous 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' policy.For me it plays out like a triangle love story, one between BFFs Will and Daniel, and one between Daniel and Matt. Will's character is ambiguous of whether he's straight or gay, some people might even call him a homophobic prick. My take is that he's a repressed homosexual who's actually forever in love with Daniel but just couldn't figure out what's what, and his world came crashing when Matt entered the frame and took Daniel's heart away.Many complaints that there are too many 'longing stares' between Matt and Daniel, the sexual things were only represented by one kissing scene while it's not clear whether they actually have done the 'dirty deed' back in NYC that night. For me Trent Ford and Rob Mayes have enough on-screen chemistry for us audience to feel that they're really in love, however repressive it must be at that day and age.This is one gem of a movie. We as the audience should do more justice to it, and not just take it for granted just because this isn't actually your run-of-the-mill, sex-romp, butt-baring, gay movie.

This movie reminds me somewhat of top gun. Wanting to the best at flight, relying on your mates and trying to hide faults / deficiencies. This movie was beautifully shot considering locations / sets. With the blessing of the USN it tackled a subject which is til this day still a source of anguish for many current and former service persons in all branches of our military and life in general. The development of the character relationships was just OK in that you get the connection but it was lacking a certain dynamic. The struggles of the main characters against the discriminatory system in the US Armed Forces, their families, friends and themselves is evident and well acted but again, something in the writing / development was lacking. Thankfully there wasn't many of the typical gay clichés in this movie.On a completely selfish note, while many the gay themed movie has gratuitous nudity and one sex scene after another. I'm kind of disappointed at the one "nude" scene there was. Not what I would've wanted or expected considering the main characters and theme. Again, completely selfish observation on my part though...I'm allowed :)

You are lead to believe this is a story about the romance between 2 air force officers. Instead its written as a story about the friendship between the lead and his selfish, homophobic friend. The supposed love story consists of longing looks, the 2 officers dancing next to each other, a weird night with sex with woman from a bar where they stay in the same room on leave, and 1 kiss about 2/3 through this train wreck. When you finally think you are getting to the love story its ended, and now a witch hunt starts about their non-love affair. The movie is so afraid to show anything between them beyond longing glances, that even when the leads are shown shirtless in a locker scene, its for a split second. Apparently shirtless guys are just too "out there" for this film. I could swear this was directed by a homophobe or a religious conservative.This could have been a great movie, instead its a great topic with a terrible treatment. I do think the actors showed some chemistry (in the endless longing looks), but the butchered story line left them nothing for them to do with it.