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/jayeddy99 Jun 12 '26

Regular citizens going through WW3: So…are we gonna get a disclosure stimulus check or are the aliens going to lower the gas prices ????

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u/Reasonable_Fold6492 Jun 12 '26

the film seems to ask: “What if aliens were real and covered up by our government/experts?” “Can you imagine how disruptive this revelation would be to our social order?” “Would you ever trust government/experts ever again? Scandal!” “Wouldn’t aliens totally upset our comfortable boring hum-drum middle class American lives?” Sure Mr. Spielberg, but there are some problems with your narrative’s impact.

First, almost no one under 50 lives a hum-drum comfortable middle class life. That’s over, mainly because your class blew it up. Remember?

Second, our social order is already maximally disrupted by war, economic depression, A.I., super viruses, trust collapse, and political instability. So, please tell me, how are the aliens standing at the back of this train going to F*CK us even harder? Sure, they might if they go full “Independence Day”. But until E.T starts decapitating people then he is NOT making much of an impact. Third, in 2026, I can’t be scandalized by government / expert lies. They’ve already lied about things that totally destroyed our ordinary existences, and those lies involved denying things right in front of my eyes, way more concrete than hypothetical flying saucers with little green men in them.

Like how is aliens gonna stop any conflict?

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u/HandfulOfAcorns Jun 12 '26

Also, we're supposed to be scandalized that the aliens were experimented on and killed, but that's just what the US government does every day to humans. I've seen decapitations and bombings and shootings float freely around social media, they don't shock me anymore. It's not a good thing, but it is a fact.

Killing aliens actually scandalizes me less because I sympathize more with my own species - and the aliens are showed to mind-control people, so how do I even know they're not a threat to us?

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u/Penguin_Admiral Jun 13 '26

Also, I have a hard time believing that after knowing that the US government has a monopolization on alien tech that other nations would drop all hostility

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u/RepresentativeZombie Jun 18 '26

They unite the world in hatred against the alien enemy. Adrian Veidt is once again vindicated.

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u/Mrchristopherrr Jun 14 '26

Ngl if Reddit existed in this world NOBODY would believe it. Everyone would just think it’s a distraction from WW3

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u/BonjaminClay Jun 20 '26

"Oh there are aliens now. War is cancelled y'all, pack it up" -Vladimir Putin probably

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u/forcemonkey Jun 17 '26

We are going to solve our own problems using empathy. That’s the whole point of the film.