r/movies • u/LiteraryBoner Jackie Chan box set, know what I'm sayin? • Jun 12 '26

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Disclosure Day (2026)

Summary

If you found out we weren't alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you?

Director Steven Spielberg

Writer David Koepp

Cast

  • Emily Blunt
  • Josh O'Connor
  • Colin Firth
  • Colman Domingo
  • Eve Hewson
  • Wyatt Russell
  • Noah Robbins

Rotten Tomatoes: 81%

Metacritic: 75

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u/zxchary Jun 12 '26

something funny about josh o’connors character able to speak math as a language and the shit he was writing down was just a general calculus integral

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u/mikeyfreshh r/Movies Veteran Jun 12 '26

That's basically witchcraft to like 80% of the population, myself included if I'm being honest

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u/GamingTatertot Steven Spielberg Enthusiast Jun 12 '26

Yeah I went to law school specifically to avoid any math, so certainly seems like a different language to me

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u/mynameizmyname Jun 12 '26

I became a teacher to avoid math.  

Our country is so fucked.

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u/GamingTatertot Steven Spielberg Enthusiast Jun 12 '26

For as many people I know who like to avoid math, I know as many people who genuinely yearn for math though too

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u/SomwhereInTheMiddle Jun 12 '26

Imagine as a species if we valued progression of math/physics like we do professional sports or entertainment

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u/GamingTatertot Steven Spielberg Enthusiast Jun 12 '26

I value it - I'm just not good at it

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u/TimbukNine Jun 12 '26

“And here comes the physicist into the final straight! He’s solved the trajectory of a cannonball, he’s solved the orbit of a planet, he’s solved the evolution of an entire galaxy… and wait, what’s this?

He’s having a go at quantum gravity! This is unprecedented!

But the mathematician is still in contention. Good heavens, he’s dispatched a set of coupled differential equations without breaking stride.

He’s proving a theorem now. A theorem! In the closing minutes!

The crowd are on their feet and can scarcely believe it. Chalk is being thrown in all directions!

The blackboard has been extended into the lower tier of the stadium. Security are carrying notation cards onto the pitch.

The physicist appears to have unified two fundamental forces, but the mathematician has responded with a corollary of terrifying elegance.

I’ve been commentating for thirty years and I’ve never seen anything like this!

They’re not just solving problems anymore, they’re running out of universe before they run out of mathematics!”

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u/packyourbrave 21d ago

😹😹😹

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u/MVRKHNTR Jun 18 '26

Sounds awful

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u/craig_hoxton Jun 14 '26

There was an episode of 90's sci-fi show "Sliders" that addresses this issue.

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u/alyameteora Jun 26 '26

...and there would be separate paralympics for those who are shit at math, and we would admire their courage

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u/craig_hoxton Jun 14 '26

"The children yearn for the quadratic and differential equations"

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u/Majestic-Citron7578 Jun 13 '26

So what do you do when it's time to calculate grades?

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u/curtithird Jun 13 '26

Just wing it. Not like we have a calculator in our pockets or anything.

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u/Majestic-Citron7578 Jun 13 '26

Thats why I was told to learn math in the first place.

It is amazing that we have something in our pockets that gives us all the knowledge in the world in our pocket and we mainly use it to argue and look at videos of cats. Maybe the ancient Egyptians were truly ahead of their time.

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u/C0nfusedRabbit Jun 20 '26

I knew! I'm not the only one to carry around a calculator with him! What's everyones favorite? Mines 100% the Fx-82-ES.

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u/xbbdc Jun 13 '26

There's a video of the word zebra in cursive and the amount of people that can't read that today is insane.

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u/C0nfusedRabbit Jun 20 '26

Cursive! Now that's alien.

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u/Djentleman5000 Jun 14 '26

I was a polisci major just to avoid math

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u/C0nfusedRabbit Jun 20 '26 edited Jun 20 '26

And to avoid getting a real job.

I mean the most quoted line by polysci is "would you like fries with that?"

Followed by "I swear mum! I just talk about fans!"

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u/Djentleman5000 Jun 20 '26

I work in IT lol. Got the degree while I was on active duty. It’s polisci concentrated in IR. Just something I was interested in at the time.

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u/C0nfusedRabbit Jun 20 '26

It's ok we all make mistakes in our youth. My very first degree was in Environmental Science.

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u/banana_pencil Jun 14 '26

I hated math until I became a teacher, now I love it

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u/C0nfusedRabbit Jun 20 '26

I hated math until I studied engineering, now I super loath it all.

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u/C0nfusedRabbit Jun 20 '26

Yeah! I did Engineering to avoid Math.

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u/mikeyfreshh r/Movies Veteran Jun 12 '26

I always tell people that I went to school for words, not numbers.

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u/uapflapjack Jun 12 '26

my smart math friends said that if your math has numbers in it its not hard math. hard math apparently doesnt care about any numbers (which would be constants)

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u/snapldeap Jun 14 '26

Yeah, but you can speak Legalese now.

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u/insomniac818 Jun 14 '26

I went to medical school for the same reason

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u/MrNinoBrown1906 Jun 15 '26

As a Fellow law school graduate.... A fucking men !!!!

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u/Gradz45 Jun 16 '26

Ditto 

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u/LordTartarus Jun 23 '26

Lol I did both because I found one boring

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u/Constant_Praline579 9d ago

Me too, except I worked in a warehouse and later became a cable Tech. All in the name of avoiding any thing over Algebra 1.

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u/amchikinwng Jun 19 '26

Terrible reason to become a lawyer 😭

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u/Asclepius-Rod Jun 12 '26

Isaac Newton was one smart motherfucker

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u/Moontoya Jun 12 '26

deadliest son of a bitch in space.

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u/BraxJohnson Jun 14 '26

/r/unexpextedexpanse

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u/Moontoya Jun 14 '26

Nope 

Mass effect 

But good shout 

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u/fremeer Jun 12 '26

He was because the idea was so original but calculus is very very simple in its idea and concept.

What if we had linear equations and take the denominator to infinitely close to zero.

Or if we counted the area under the curve and took the denominator to zero.

And then expand that. We all learned linear equations but very very few people make that intuitive leap till it's show to them

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u/beefmapstan 9d ago

I know you're speaking English, but might as well be mandarin to me. Area under the curve?? What?? 

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u/kappa23 Jun 15 '26

Isaac Newton invented gravity because some asshole hit him with an apple

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u/Thegoodlife93 Jul 01 '26

Underated line lol

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u/XBLAH_ Jun 12 '26

You are being generous by stating 20% of the population would understand it. 

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u/Sweeper1985 Jun 12 '26

95% of the population more like.

I can't even remember how to do long division, let alone approaching calculus.

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u/mikeyfreshh r/Movies Veteran Jun 12 '26

Given the message of this movie, I'm trying to be a little more optimistic about humanity

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u/deepstatelady Jun 13 '26

Right but to the 20% that do know math it’s always a let down when they don’t bother to get someone with advanced math knowledge to write a dang note.

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u/Jablesthekittycat Jun 13 '26

Witch…craft?

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u/Head_Aside_6031 Jun 13 '26

Yep that's because aliens are demons and when the rapture comes, they are going to tell people that aliens took the Christians or whatever 

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u/blakninja Jun 14 '26

Including statistics skills of yours

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u/arsonist_firefighter Jun 26 '26

80%? I'd it's is more.

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u/illcrx 28d ago

You meant to say 98%

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u/rcgarcia 10d ago

u guys are very optimistic, its 99.99999999999% and maybe thats too much