Burning Blue
Trent and Rob are trained navy officers and have been in service for many years, they begin to notice that they had feelings for each other as men they have an affair.
26 February 1960, Wakefield, Yorkshire, England, UK
10 February 1981, Elblag, Warminsko-Mazurskie, Poland
2 November 1984, Sun Valley, Idaho, USA
6 July 1973, Hudson, New York, USA
June 28, 2014
Describing Burning Blue as a gay variation on Top Gun with heart and soul ( and one with more than a dash of Brokeback Mountain thrown in for good measure ) just about sums up its appeal perfectly.
June 06, 2014
Emotionally gripping and features some stunning shots of Navy jets in action.
June 05, 2014
The script, by Mr. Greer and Helene Kvale, rolls along with lifeless, profoundly unimaginative dialogue ...
June 05, 2014
This stiff saga of gays in the military, with its manly men being manly together, evokes that tale of repression Brokeback Mountain, while somehow being much less homoerotic than Top Gun.
June 04, 2014
What can any actor do with dialogue like, "We are warriors paid to defend this country, not spill our guts and frolic in the daisies."
June 06, 2014
This shockingly amateurish film evokes memories of "Making Love," the Arthur Hiller film about a married man coming to terms with his homosexuality.
June 03, 2014
Honorable in intent but risible in execution ...
June 05, 2014
Earnest but terribly ham-fisted ...
June 10, 2014
Viewing now in the clear light of a post-DADT world and the grand-standing dialogue of [Director] Greer and co-writer Helene Kvale come off as weightless, drooping under the clichés and perceived inherent power of its story...
June 09, 2014
Top guns in love struggle against institutional homophobia in a tone deaf melodrama well past its sell-by date.
June 05, 2014
Burning Blue has lots of scenes where its male leads gaze longingly at each other, which is meant to be melancholy and erotic, but unfortunately skirts close to parody.
