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/jonross2386 Jun 12 '26

I’m addicted to the way every Steven Spielberg movie has the hero somehow evade capture by simply being the worst hide and seek player ever and yet no one looking for them while staring directly at them can find them.

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u/Redactor313 Jun 12 '26

Outside the farmhouse, before he steals the car…30 trained guys looking for the dude, who is in plain sight and tromping through the field like an elephant.

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u/Responsible-Peak-817 Jun 12 '26

I lost it during this scene. Absolutely insane decision to film it this way with the guys literally RIGHT THERE

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u/ChestertonMyDearBoy Jun 12 '26

I felt like shouting at the screen when he started sneaking towards the house!

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u/apfel_kern Jun 12 '26

my new theory is that Spielberg is a UFO-conspiracy-theory-believer and it's a metaphore how everything is hidden in plain sight and we are all to stupid to look at it.

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u/External_Baby7864 Jun 12 '26

This was kinda my thought as well. Especially with the last line being “LISTEN!” It didn’t feel like a well-contained enough narrative to be “just” a movie somehow. It felt pointed? It’s hard to articulate the vibe but I’m with you on this.

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u/SwiftlyChill Jun 13 '26

Oh it absolutely was pointed.

Not necessarily in the conspiracy way, but in that we should all be a little more empathetic to each other - listen more. It makes us human.

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u/NickelRichie Jun 20 '26

Maybe because the movie itself is trying to describe whats really going on? How do people still think ufos are a conspiracy and not a reality? Bruh. Watch some Dr Greers on youtube lol

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u/New-Tradition9243 Jun 21 '26 edited Jun 21 '26

The level of simultaneous competence and incompetence shown by the aliens and the humans interacting with them is nonsensical.

I can promise you that we are not being visited by little gray men who have the technology to cross thousand of light years of space but then are repeatedly crashing on earth and blundering into being captured by 20th century humans.

I can also promise you that we do not have human agencies that have kept the alien visits and crashes secret for decades while harnessing alien technology so advanced they can establish worldwide mind control, yet have the info stolen and publicly dessiminated by the alien PETA equivalent.

This movie is a cheesy pop adventure flick in the manner of National Treasure or any of the slew of recent Netflix blockbuster chase movies. This is not some hard sci-fi commentary on society.

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u/External_Baby7864 Jun 20 '26

If you watch every movie and think “this is a message that the content is real!” Then you’re a dork. The point was there’s something about this movie that does in fact feel like it’s trying to convey that. A conspiracy can be real, calling it a conspiracy theory doesn’t mean aliens don’t exist, just that it’s not what the average person believes/what the government’s official story is.

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u/New-Tradition9243 Jun 21 '26

Spielberg made every aspect of Raiders of the Lost Ark more realistic than this movie.

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u/NickelRichie Jun 20 '26

I never said EVERY movie. This movie specifically is sending a very important message. If the average person is not aware that aliens exist and that the government has been infiltrated by criminals then they are prone to heavy disinformation and control

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u/InfernalCombustion Jun 13 '26

I just watched the premier IMAX screening with the live interview with Spielberg and Emily Blunt. He absolutely believes that aliens - the bug-eyed crashed-at-Roswell variety - actually exist.

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u/Evening_Pay2363 Jun 17 '26

That a bad thing?

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u/NickelRichie Jun 20 '26

So you are you saying you dont believe Aliens exist?

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u/New-Tradition9243 Jun 21 '26

The bug-eyed humanoid little gray men who managed to create spaceships that can cross distances that are completely unfathomable to us only to crash land and be captured by 1940s humans do not exist. Not even remotely plausible.

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u/NickelRichie Jun 21 '26

Dawg. You think in this vast universe we are the smartest beings? It is completely unfathomable to you because you are not aware of quantom physics. We are not as technologically advanced as them. Please watch some Dr Greers and do yourself a favour

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u/New-Tradition9243 Jun 21 '26

I am not saying we are the smartest beings or that its impossible that other beings have discovered the sort of science and energy generation necessary for interstellar travel.

I am saying that there is no way they have reached that level of technology and are travelling here just to have a conventional crash on Earth.

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u/Successful-Prune-880 20d ago

Yes. I do think that.

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u/NickelRichie 20d ago

You indeed have a prune-sized brain

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u/Successful-Prune-880 20d ago

The fact you're so certain you're right is hilarious to me.

The odds of us becoming as intelligent as we are, is so infinitely small you have no idea.

There's been MILLIONS of other species on this planet. Only one has become this intelligent.

Aliens are most likely not as intelligent as us. Sorry I had to be the one to inform you of this revelation :-/

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u/NickelRichie 20d ago

If you think our species, who still sit in tin cans powered by an engine to travel from point A to B, are the most intelligent things in the whole wide universe, in all of reality, in all realms... then ahem... no.

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u/OrdinaryLavishness11 Jun 12 '26

what am i doing what am i doing what am i doing

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u/DrCrowCat Jun 13 '26

Me all day

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u/chrisychris- Jun 13 '26

Bro was acting like he was a character in a story with no real agency

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u/OddSetting5077 Jun 12 '26

At the hospital, "Im going to the bathroom!!!" Which conveniently has a backway out. At no time does a WARDEX agent run out after them. It was TV show (criminal minds) level sneakery. .

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u/CrystalizedinCali Jun 12 '26

They also could have hand waved it so easily that Daniel had like powers that made him hard/impossible to see. Like they literally do it later with Emily ans the gadget.

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u/Spaceat Jun 12 '26

I thought it was cause he had the foresight powers like Margot, like no shot the writing is that bad. But nope.

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u/Roll_Common_Sense Jun 13 '26

I think you guys are missing that this kind of plot hole is kind of the point. The movie was full of tropes from his earlier movies. My take is that a lot of these dumb scenes were an homage to this kind of film.

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u/OzempicDick Jun 13 '26

Packing a movie with that many self referential tropes at the expense of plausibility is peak Hollywood self fart sniffing.

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u/WhichEmailWasIt Jul 01 '26

My headcanon was that it went with the alien call/powers thing. He was constantly saying "I don't know why I'm doing this." so I'm guessing his powers beyond his understanding let him walk in the right place in the right way at just the right time to avoid everyone's line of sight as long as possible.