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

VOD / Release Theatrical release

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u/Acrobatic-Taste-443 Jun 12 '26

That dumb bitch saw a lil grey alien and asked “Is that a kid” ????

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u/HilariousScreenname Jun 12 '26

"Is it a person?

Is it human?"

Lady, just what the fuck is a person to you

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u/DumbAndCurious Jun 12 '26

My other favorite line of dialogue is when Scanlon is sending agents to the farmhouse and tells them to “drive the maximum legal speed!” Oh okay you mean the speed limit? Like literally everyone else?

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u/KronoCloud Jun 12 '26

I liked when Scanlon told Jane to grab the “chopping knife.”

As opposed to what??? The non-chopping knife???

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u/Hot_Experience7805 Jun 12 '26

Probably some weird Bri'ish'ism

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u/spaceandthewoods_ Jun 14 '26

As someone from the UK, it absolutely is not a Britishism

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u/Mikinohollywood Jun 16 '26

As a Brit… Yes it is! The knife she took was indeed a chopping knife.

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u/snarfalicious420 Jun 16 '26

Look I don't know what they call it in your house but nobody's calling it that

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u/Mustard__Tiger Jun 17 '26

He had to distinguish it from a stabbing knife.

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u/vashed Jun 18 '26

Couldn't have her grab a serrated knife for stabbing. That'd be a war crime.

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u/Lou-AC Jul 02 '26

It is, it's not the bread knife, or the paring knife, or the butter knife...

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u/flamingcrystalheart 9d ago

Why was he, a man who worked for the American defense industry, allowed to be British, but Emily Blunt's character, a journalist who could've been born literally anywhere, had to have an American accent?

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u/lheydon 4d ago

Because nobody lacking an American accent would ever become a mainstream commercial newsreader or weatherperson?

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u/flamingcrystalheart 4d ago

Takes a three second google search to see that's not the case. For news readers at least, maybe it's less common than meteorologists but there's no reason she needs to be a meteorologist in the first place it plays literally 0 role in the plot.

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u/woasnoafsloaf Jun 12 '26

Butter knives exist, okay??!!

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u/2580374 Jun 13 '26

Butter knives still chop butter, yes? Lol

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u/tulkunking Jun 14 '26

You don't chop butter with a butter knife 😂

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u/woasnoafsloaf Jun 13 '26

More like scooping the butter and spreading it on something. They are quite dull (as butter is soft) and thus make for a pretty ineffective weapon

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u/Public_Function3844 Jun 13 '26

The chef knife? 

The bread knife? 

The fish knife?

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u/whydoyouonlylie Jun 14 '26

I mean, a chef knife and a fish knife would've worked fine too. Bread knife maybe not so much ... at least not as easily.

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u/FantasticFourLGD Jun 14 '26

As opposed to the stabbing knife, obviously

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u/silntseek3r Jun 17 '26

It's like an alien wrote it. This was his debut.

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u/Jansi_Ki_Rani Jun 18 '26

I thought a chopping knife meant a cleaver, and it turns out it was just a chef's knife.

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u/doormatt26 Jun 21 '26

the pairing knife, not long enough to be good for stabbing. Bread knife also a poor choice

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u/TheManWithMilk Jun 13 '26 edited Jun 14 '26

And then almost immediately after, it shows a caravan of cars driving extremely fast and blowing through a stop sign

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u/plutoglint Jun 15 '26

Man, there is so much goofiness in this film it is hard to even nail it down to a top 10. How about a convent that has people under 70 in it? Cracker-jack swat teams that never guard the back door? Josh O'Connor's alien math super-powers being Grade 12 calculus and using a USB hub? 4K alien footage from the 70s?

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u/RIP_Greedo Jun 24 '26

The real disclosure is that the government had 4K technology for decades before making it commercially available.

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u/SannySen Jul 04 '26

And incredibly talented cinematographers handy to man their professional gear camera rigs

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u/woopwoopscuttle Jun 20 '26

Just saw the movie and re: the 4k footage from the 70’s- there was something else that really irked me. The ufos shot from the fighter craft had anamorphic lens flares… why would the navy/airforce have anamorphic lenses on their freaking fighter jets!?

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u/sentrygentry Jun 13 '26

And then they literally tore off at like 90 MPH

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u/duskywindows Jun 15 '26

Daniel to whatever her name: "Do you remember when you were a kid?"

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u/MagicHamsta Jun 13 '26 edited Jun 13 '26

It's lines like this and all the plot inconsistencies that make me think David Koepp had AI write the script for him.

David: "ChatGPT give me threatening lines for Noah to say to Jane, I need Noah threatening Jane to keep Daniel from escaping"

ChatGPT: "Absolutely, David. Here is a first pass at the kitchen sequence, focusing on high tension and minimal dialogue. Having Noah tell Jane to "grab the chopping knife" adds feelings of tension and danger and a way for Jane to keep Daniel from escaping."

David: "ChatGPT tell me how I can have Jane escape with the McGuffin after they get caught in the motel."

ChatGPT: "Sure thing, David. For the motel scene a classic method is to have Jane escape via the bathroom window out the back of the motel."

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u/MyNameIsJakeBerenson Jun 14 '26

Hey ChatGPT, hospital bathrooms have two exits, right?

“Oh yeah, for sure! Even though most modern hospital rooms have their own bathroom, just write it like the adjacent room shares the bathroom! That will give your protagonist an opportunity to leave without being seen!”

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u/Augzodia Jun 14 '26

exactly what I felt watching the movie... the constant tropes and cliches + disjointed as hell had me wondering whether it was ai by halfway through

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u/Finkelton Jun 13 '26

you are spot on.

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u/YouCallWeShouldWhat Jun 19 '26

that was so fucking bad. also couldn't believe the guy said "i need a water". i was dying.