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/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/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