*** DISCLOSURE DAY *** (dir. Steven Spielberg)

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Yes, it was a little goofy at times, overly saccharine throughout, the dialogue was often on-the-nose, and Wardex indeed sucked as both a company and a plot device.

But I still really, really like the movie overall.

I *loved* the first 45 minutes or so (to the point where I started to wonder where the negative reviews were even coming from), and I even teared up toward the end. I don't know, the simplicity of it - basically a '70s paranoid political thriller / chase movie at heart - just really worked for me. While the weirder aspects were my kind of weird for sure. That, and has been mentioned a ton already, Emily Blunt absolutely knocks it out of the park. I thought she was incredible.

For what it's worth, the two friends I saw it with liked it as well, and our audience even applauded at the end. I totally get why it didn't work for some people, though. Well, except for AlaskanAg99. Good lord dude, we get it. Also? In no world is this a 1/10 movie. Like, not even close. But whatever.

Hell, personally, I'd even watch it again, in theaters.
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As someone who's followed this subject closely for decades, this was the part that affected me the most. Spielberg absolutely did his homework, and finally seeing it all on a movie screen, from probably the greatest director of all time, just really got me...

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Overall, I really enjoyed it.

It's not a great movie or all time classic, but very enjoyable. I think that's because it tried to be 3 different movies and there wasn't enough time allotted to give the proper treatment.

I've been reading on X about this is an attack on Christianity. I just didn't see it. Seems that's from the oriole that wanted to believe that going in and found ways to support that theory.
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In reply to BMX Bandit • 7:42a, 6/14/26
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It's easily not an attack on Christianity.

I guess they are just ignoring the head nuns parts in the movie to justify their agenda.

And the girlfriend listening to her who had faith and then helping out the disclosure because she LISTENED.
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I didn't feel like it was an attack on Christianity, but I thought it was weird how Jane instantly jumped to them being supreme beings. Like from the 2 videos you watched, what seems supreme about them? Yeah their tech is advanced, but beyond that they're pretty frail
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Even Crystal Skull was better than this. Im mad because I wanted it to be amazing and I left extremely disappointed.

Here's an idea to have made it better since it was disclosure of all government video of aliens. Why wasn't "archived" footage from Cloose Encounters, ET, and maybe get some rights to other firms such as Fire in the Sky/Flight of the Navagator/The 4th Kind/Contact/Super 8.

Bring as much of everything together and into one world where all of these things have happened and were oart of a cover up. Part of the big montage with all the reels playing.

No one clapped in my theater and reading the non-sponsored fan boy reviews on IMDB all resonate.

I just expected a LOT more.
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In reply to AlaskanAg99 • 9:35a, 6/14/26
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Here's an idea to have made it better since it was disclosure of all government video of aliens. Why wasn't "archived" footage from Cloose Encounters, ET, and maybe get some rights to other firms such as Fire in the Sky/Flight of the Navagator/The 4th Kind/Contact/Super 8.

This. Such a missed opportunity. I really wanted a moment akin to the closing of 1991's Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, with a big name not included in the cast list - for Richard Dreyfuss to show up in some form, either in person somewhere or on one of the videos being disclosed. Alas, that was not to be.

Still, I did really like the movie a lot. 9/10
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Even Crystal Skull was better than this. Im mad because I wanted it to be amazing and I left extremely disappointed.

Here's an idea to have made it better since it was disclosure of all government video of aliens. Why wasn't "archived" footage from Cloose Encounters, ET, and maybe get some rights to other firms such as Fire in the Sky/Flight of the Navagator/The 4th Kind/Contact/Super 8.

Bring as much of everything together and into one world where all of these things have happened and were oart of a cover up. Part of the big montage with all the reels playing.

No one clapped in my theater and reading the non-sponsored fan boy reviews on IMDB all resonate.

I just expected a LOT more.


This is a horrible idea.
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Honestly? I would have dug that.
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Thought it was very mediocre with a few incredible eye roll moments involving the chase.

First when the guy in the middle of a wide open pasture was able to sneak up on the Wardex agents and steal a car by…ducking to hide behind a fence that was 200 yards away?

And then when they sent the car into the ravine, hid behind a rock 5 feet away from the agents, and then immediately stood up and walked away with the agents right there.
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The Wardex agents are about on par with Dr. Evil's henchmen.
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In reply to TCTTS • 1:27p, 6/14/26
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AlaskanAg99 said:
Even Crystal Skull was better than this. Im mad because I wanted it to be amazing and I left extremely disappointed.

Here's an idea to have made it better since it was disclosure of all government video of aliens. Why wasn't "archived" footage from Cloose Encounters, ET, and maybe get some rights to other firms such as Fire in the Sky/Flight of the Navagator/The 4th Kind/Contact/Super 8.

Bring as much of everything together and into one world where all of these things have happened and were oart of a cover up. Part of the big montage with all the reels playing.

No one clapped in my theater and reading the non-sponsored fan boy reviews on IMDB all resonate.

I just expected a LOT more.


This is a horrible idea.
Expand on this.

I see it as a missed opportunity to tie his earlier works to this one. As Spielberg's closing word on ETs. Wardex would absolutely have had files and video of Devil's Tower or some random field in Southern California, and in both of those movies, government agencies were involved.
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In reply to TCTTS • 1:57p, 6/14/26
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I didn't go to a summer Spielberg movie about aliens to be lectured. If this was the point of the movie then **** this movie.
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TCTTS said:


I didn't go to a summer Spielberg movie about aliens to be lectured. If this was the point of the movie then **** this movie.


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Teslag said:
TCTTS said:


I didn't go to a summer Spielberg movie about aliens to be lectured. If this was the point of the movie then **** this movie.


Waaaaaa


Defend this pile of ***** Defend it like your life depends on it.
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I didn't feel like it was an attack on Christianity, but I thought it was weird how Jane instantly jumped to them being supreme beings. Like from the 2 videos you watched, what seems supreme about them? Yeah their tech is advanced, but beyond that they're pretty frail

I struggled with this too, but for pretty much all the characters. The "why" behind wanting to make the findings public I get, but the "why" behind needing to listen to the aliens themselves I just didn't find that compelling. They make more advanced spacecraft than us, I don't think that makes them more qualified to know how to deal with humans. And maybe I'm an *******, but the video Josh O'conners character said motivated him to do what kicked off the movie (one of the videos he shows Jane) didn't seem that bad to me? I think it's insinuated more happens in it after he shuts it off, but from what we saw it wasn't worse than what the aliens did to young Emily blunt and O'Conner
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In reply to Teslag • 3:10p, 6/14/26
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I didn't go to a summer Spielberg movie about aliens to be lectured. If this was the point of the movie then **** this movie.


Having an underlying message isn't the same thing as being lectured. Hollywood certainly has a lot of THOSE movies, but I don't see this as being one of them.

If the world was close to war and everyone found out aliens existed I think it's very plausible that people would pause and think about their actual differences. Do they really matter (and to what extent) in the grand scheme of things given that new knowledge?
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I didn't go to a summer Spielberg movie about aliens to be lectured. If this was the point of the movie then **** this movie.


There's not liking this movie - which is totally fine - and then there's whatever the hell a couple of these reactions are, which are just... so aggressively angry and bizarre and say way more about the individual critiquing the movie than the movie itself.

Never in a million years did I think someone would someone angrily shout down the concept of a movie being pro-empathy.

Holy hell.
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TCTTS said:
AlaskanAg99 said:
Even Crystal Skull was better than this. Im mad because I wanted it to be amazing and I left extremely disappointed.

Here's an idea to have made it better since it was disclosure of all government video of aliens. Why wasn't "archived" footage from Cloose Encounters, ET, and maybe get some rights to other firms such as Fire in the Sky/Flight of the Navagator/The 4th Kind/Contact/Super 8.

Bring as much of everything together and into one world where all of these things have happened and were oart of a cover up. Part of the big montage with all the reels playing.

No one clapped in my theater and reading the non-sponsored fan boy reviews on IMDB all resonate.

I just expected a LOT more.


This is a horrible idea.

Expand on this.

I see it as a missed opportunity to tie his earlier works to this one. As Spielberg's closing word on ETs. Wardex would absolutely have had files and video of Devil's Tower or some random field in Southern California, and in both of those movies, government agencies were involved.


Literally the entire point of the movie was to include / chronicle as much of the "real" UFO history/lore as possible…

- The Grays
- Abductions
- Consciousness / Telepathy
- Roswell
- Kecksburg
- President Nixon / Jackie Gleeson / dead alien bodies
- Live alien bodies kept prisoner whom we've learned from
- Large triangular craft
- Transmedium craft (craft easily able to transition from air to water)
- Etc

This was Spielberg's dissertation in that regard; his attempt to tie it altogether. As he's stated numerous times now, that's the reason he even made the movie in the first place.

To instead do some kind of masterbatory retrospective of the alien aspects of his career would have been nothing but self-serving/aggrandizing nonsense.

And just straight up bad storytelling.

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Teslag said:
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I didn't go to a summer Spielberg movie about aliens to be lectured. If this was the point of the movie then **** this movie.


There's not liking this movie - which is totally fine - and then there's whatever the hell a couple of these reactions are, which are just... so aggressively angry and bizarre and say way more about the individual critiquing the movie than the movie itself.

Never in a million years did I think someone would someone angrily shout down the concept of a movie being pro-empathy.

Holy hell.

Why would one of film's most accomplished directors make a film with themes?
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I usually can't stand CGI animals, and a couple times it was definitely distracting in this movie (the dumb fox in the road being one of them). But for this entire sequence it totally worked for me, if only because the animals weren't really animals - they were supposed to be fake - and the entire thing was basically a heightened, hallucinatory, storybook-like sequence meant to mask the aliens/craft...

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Right?

It always cracks me up when people mistake themes for "preaching" or whatever.

When literally every good movie that's ever existed has explored a theme.

That's... like, a major tenet - if not the major tenet - of storytelling.
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Quote:
In the shadowed heart of Disclosure Day, Hugo Wakefield - Colman Domingo's quiet revolutionary - delivers a line that feels less like scripted dialogue and more like a transmission from Spielberg's mind:

"I'm listening to you, Noah. Something I've learned quite a bit about. From your friends. Yes, they regard empathy as an evolutionary advantage, as the foremost evolutionary advantage. In fact, the core of animate existence. If you give them the opportunity, they may do something extraordinary."

And then the quieter warning: "The rejection of this understanding is leading to our extinction."

This is Steven Spielberg speaking, not through spectacle, but through stillness. After decades of inviting us to look up at the stars, he now asks us to *listen* - truly listen - to one another and to the unknown.

Hugo isn't a prophet or a general. He's a man who chose empathy over protocol, who helped an #extraterrestrial escape the machinery of fear. In his words, the #aliens don't arrive as conquerors or gods. They arrive as mirrors. They see in humanity the same spark they cherish in themselves: the willingness to reach across difference, to suspend judgment, to make space for the extraordinary.

#Spielberg's message lands with aching timeliness. In an age of walls - digital, political, ideological - we are starving for the very quality Hugo names as life's core operating system. Empathy isn't softness; it is the ultimate survival strategy. It is how civilizations graduate from tribalism to cosmic citizenship. To listen is to evolve. To refuse is to wither.

The film doesn't demand blind belief. It asks for something harder: openness. The courage to quiet the noise of skepticism long enough for the cosmos to speak. Hugo's calm voice, often carried across uncertain distances, becomes a model for all of usparents and policymakers, skeptics and seekers.
Listen first. The stars, and our fellow cosmic neighbours, may yet surprise us with grace.

In the end, Disclosure Day isn't really about aliens. It's about whether humanity is ready to become the kind of species worth contacting. Hugo's words are Spielberg's gentle, insistent plea:

Open your ears.
Open your mind.
Open your heart.
Listen.

The Universe is speaking to us.

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After reading that, I like this movie even less.
Big swing and a miss. Tried to cram way too much in.

The part about Christianity didnt bother me.

The part of broadcasting to stop WWIII was also a huge miss. The little they showed about on going wars wasn't much different than listening to the liberal babble currently IRL. Really didnt sell the point humanity was on the verge of self destruction.

Spolier:
I really expected aliens to be involved during the bulk of the movie. Not just to see one 8' tall geriatric goober in the last 5 minutes.

The magic wand also dissolving for some reason also wasn't really explained or needed. Which also, this McGuffin is so dumb. Why did they only take 2 and keave the 3rd behind knowing it would be used agains them? Huge plot hole they tried to cover up but they left the last one for the last 5 minutes.

The ENTIRE plot is absolute nonsense of "disclosing" all the "evidence" when you have an alive ****ing alien. All they had to do was have E.T.'s grandpappy (hell could have been E.T. himself) as a special guest as a news story. The entire plot is rendered useless and should have been getting the alien interpreter together with Waldo from the Andromeda Galaxy together and played up the sub story of pending world War. Instead they spend 2.25hrs of running around for all the other nonsense.

I just expected more. And because expectations are so high, the resulting score is reflected on that.
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It sounds as though even if you like the movie you have to overlook a lot of weaknesses and justify a lot of other things in order to do so. If this wasn't made by by Spielberg would it be getting this much forgiveness for its weaknesses?
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TCTTS said:

Quote:
In the shadowed heart of Disclosure Day, Hugo Wakefield - Colman Domingo's quiet revolutionary - delivers a line that feels less like scripted dialogue and more like a transmission from Spielberg's mind:

"I'm listening to you, Noah. Something I've learned quite a bit about. From your friends. Yes, they regard empathy as an evolutionary advantage, as the foremost evolutionary advantage. In fact, the core of animate existence. If you give them the opportunity, they may do something extraordinary."

And then the quieter warning: "The rejection of this understanding is leading to our extinction."

This is Steven Spielberg speaking, not through spectacle, but through stillness. After decades of inviting us to look up at the stars, he now asks us to *listen* - truly listen - to one another and to the unknown.

Hugo isn't a prophet or a general. He's a man who chose empathy over protocol, who helped an #extraterrestrial escape the machinery of fear. In his words, the #aliens don't arrive as conquerors or gods. They arrive as mirrors. They see in humanity the same spark they cherish in themselves: the willingness to reach across difference, to suspend judgment, to make space for the extraordinary.

#Spielberg's message lands with aching timeliness. In an age of walls - digital, political, ideological - we are starving for the very quality Hugo names as life's core operating system. Empathy isn't softness; it is the ultimate survival strategy. It is how civilizations graduate from tribalism to cosmic citizenship. To listen is to evolve. To refuse is to wither.

The film doesn't demand blind belief. It asks for something harder: openness. The courage to quiet the noise of skepticism long enough for the cosmos to speak. Hugo's calm voice, often carried across uncertain distances, becomes a model for all of usparents and policymakers, skeptics and seekers.
Listen first. The stars, and our fellow cosmic neighbours, may yet surprise us with grace.

In the end, Disclosure Day isn't really about aliens. It's about whether humanity is ready to become the kind of species worth contacting. Hugo's words are Spielberg's gentle, insistent plea:

Open your ears.
Open your mind.
Open your heart.
Listen.

The Universe is speaking to us.



There it is.

I was waiting for the "hey guys this totally wasn't even about aliens" goal post move.
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In reply to Teslag • 5:43p, 6/14/26
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Goalpost move?

What on earth are you talking about?

The PLOT is clearly about aliens.

The THEME is about humanity/empathy/etc.

Again, that's how storytelling works. The plot is what moves the story forward, while the theme is what the story is actually about.

This is, like, Storytelling 101, and the dynamic of damn near every good movie known to man.

No one's playing gotcha games.

Good lord.
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Why is that bad storytelling? Didn't have to be one or the other, could've done both.

I would've found it pretty cool if CE, ET were both canon in this movie's universe.

It's no more masturbatory than all of Tarantino's movies occuring in the same universe.
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FL_Ag1998 said:
It sounds as though even if you like the movie you have to overlook a lot of weaknesses and justify a lot of other things in order to do so. If this wasn't made by by Spielberg would it be getting this much forgiveness for its weaknesses?


Eh, I don't know.

The saccharine, on-the-nose dialogue I referred to earlier mainly comes down to, say, five or six lines/small speeches throughout, while the CGI animal stuff takes up maybe three total minutes of screen time, if that. So I would say those don't have to be "overlooked" as they're much as they're minor infractions here and there.

What I will say *does* have to be overlooked is Wardex of it all, aka the "evil" company throughout. They're just not very well-executed, they're pretty ineffective, they don't really make sense as a covert operation, Colin Firth is kind of a bland villain, etc. Any major flaws of the movie have to do with them, in my opinion. And yeah, I agree with the poster earlier who noted how ridiculous it is that Daniel was able to hide behind an open fence/steal one of their cars from right under their noses. There was some pretty dumb stuff like that in like half of the Wardex scenes.

Otherwise? I thought Emily Blunt's story/arc more than up for that stuff, I loved the propulsive nature of the plot, I loved all the alien stuff, I loved the first and third acts, I loved the message, etc.

Also, you can't really extract Spielberg from any of it, as this movie - and everything that made it good, despite its flaws - is him through and through.
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Why is that bad storytelling? Didn't have to be one or the other, could've done both.

I would've found it pretty cool if CE, ET were both canon in this movie's universe.

It's no more masturbatory than all of Tarantino's movies occuring in the same universe.


Because the "79-year terror campaign of lies" (going back to Roswell in '47) this movie references throughout is tied DIRECTLY to the lore/possible alien history of OUR world/reality - a very specific chain of events that have been rumored for decades, as part of OUR history.

Not the alternate-universe history that includes the aliens of E.T. or War of the Worlds or whatever.

Again, that's the whole point, and why you can't do both.

Now, granted, Close of Encounters of the Third Kind probably *could* exist in our same universe/the same universe as the movie, seeing as Spielberg based a lot of that movie on "real-life" alien lore, protocols, and individuals in that field as well, the aliens look close enough to the same as the aliens in this movie, the climactic event wasn't public, etc.

But personally, seeing Devil's Tower or whatever in that third-act montage would have taken me right out of that incredibly moving/emotional montage, and showing, say, the aliens from E.T. would have been even worse and so incredibly eye-rolling, IMO.

Because, again, those inclusions would have directly contradicted Spielberg's thesis. Because this is a movie about what Spielberg believes to be OUR world/reality/history - quite literally - and that's what that final montage is very specifically trying to convey.
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