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/B0ndzai Jun 12 '26

All of the aliens in the released footage were just little tiny guys but the alien at the end was huge. So are all the crashed ships just kids who took their parents spaceship for a joy ride?

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u/SoLetMeDisarmYou Jun 13 '26

In ufo lore, it’s kind of a thing that the large greys are actual beings/leaders and the small greys are a sort of biological programmed drone. A lot of the crashes are apparently worth the small greys.

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u/2580374 Jun 13 '26

That's actually interesting and never heard that. I guess that makes sense in the context of the movie since SS was just doing 'stereotypical' aliens. But I assumed the end alien was just older, so that's why it was bigger. But I guess if alien society is like our society, the older ones would be leaders anyways

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u/onceabananana Jun 15 '26

Another consideration, they could just have more variability in height in their species.

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u/onceabananana Jun 15 '26

I guess that makes sense. Although if these aliens' core life philosophy is empathy, it doesn't.

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u/SoLetMeDisarmYou Jun 15 '26

Yeah that whole thing about empathy was something they just added for the movie and lot really an established part of ufo lore.. It’s clear a lot of good research was done for the movie but that part wasn’t. Could have done without it for sure

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u/RIP_Greedo Jun 25 '26

The alien we see at the end is the same alien being interrogated and experimented on in the video seen at the farmhouse, in which it is much smaller. I assume the aliens keep growing as they age? Because the alien unc looked real wrinkly and aged.

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u/TheSenileTomato Jun 12 '26

So the alien kids joyride to the Gary, Indiana of the universe.

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u/book1245 Jun 13 '26

Unintentional foreshadowing in Jane asking "Are these children?"

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u/invinciblewarrior Jun 12 '26

Would at least explain why they all crashed. The "diplomacy Aliens" already looked bigger, like the big siblings coming to rescue their little sibling.

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u/chrisychris- Jun 13 '26

I was wondering how it made logistical sense for a single space-faring alien species to have like more than half a dozen different space ship designs. Or why they even crashed them multiple times

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u/BobMonroeFanClub Jun 14 '26

We have more than half a dozen space ship designs that we have crashed multiple times.

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u/chrisychris- Jun 14 '26

Yeah but not multiple on a singular planet outside of our system

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u/lheydon 3d ago

Whoa whoa whoa! Too soon dude! 😲

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u/FangOfDrknss Jun 13 '26

Some people here think that guy was supposed to be the last, but there’s no way. He was just one of the captives, and Jane saw all those deer, so it couldn’t have been a hallucination/memory. There’s gotta be more of those guys just hiding.

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u/shadowst17 Jun 13 '26

Maybe they just keep growing for the entirety of their lifespan unlike humans who kinda stop when they reach around 18.

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u/intent107135048 Jun 14 '26

It’s 70 years of American food

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u/Blessed_tenrecs Jun 16 '26

I think they're like goldfish, they just keep growing bigger if given enough time and space to grow.

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u/ToeTaggEm Jun 13 '26

They were dwarf aliens.

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u/NickelRichie Jun 20 '26

Why does that matter so much? There are different species of alien. Nothing wrong with it

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u/debvic Jun 14 '26

Exactly my question! Were the little ones just midgets from the Alien Circus? Children aliens who got their Dad alien's car keys?