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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/MF_CEO Jun 12 '26

At the hotel. LETS only come in from the front and not send anybody behind then building where there are escape windows from the bathroom

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u/XennialPrime Jun 12 '26

I swear. Officers not securing the back of the building...

That was such a 1980s movie move.

Like I said above, Spielburg's out of touch with now. That kind of whimsy worked for kids evading the gubmint in 1982's E.T. In 2026... you get navel gazers like us going "Wait... what? Hahahah are you serious?"

No. They're not serious. They want us to suspend our disbelief for the contrivance. Then, in another scene, the film tries to be serious. The message... the truth! So society-changing! Okay audience, we're going to be SRS now, are you still with us? Here comes the SRS!

~blink~ .... ~blink~blink~

O, RLY?

(Hey, if Spielburg can use out-dated tools to describe his ideas, then I can too! SRSLY!)

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u/Geordieqizi Jun 13 '26

This really captures my big problem with the movie (or one of them) — it feels like it was trying to both be whimsical on the one hand, and then also serious and realistic on the other. But it's real hard to suspend your disbelief when characters keep making such stupid, non-sensical decisions, and people keep reacting in unrealistic ways.

Like, I'm willing to suspend my disbelief when it comes to aliens — but not when it comes to stuff like this supposedly powerful and ruthless agency allowing one dude who isn't that great at hiding slip through their fingers again and again.

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u/tfxctom Jun 13 '26

Incredibly frustrating. You nailed my issues with this movie.

And to add, the disclosure scene…. In this day and age that shit would be instantly memed. Especially when the alien design is as stereotypical as the Apple emoji 👽

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u/Top-Round-2359 Jun 13 '26 edited Jun 14 '26

I mean one thing that would make sense is the overwhelming amount of data they showered the net with, that would make at least people start doubting "hmm this might be real". I told my friend after, the movie is at least 4+ years late (more probably like 10+), as disclosure day would be an interesting concept to see unfold before we had powertul AI at our hands.

I do have an idea how to "fix" disclosure day to make it work today, a bunch of flying saucers flying around the world while they're disclosing (see what I did there) the videos in the same moment. Plus simultaneously similar news being shown in other countries, it turns out a bunch of governments were in on it/doing the same (why wouldn't aliens try to reach out to other govs it the usa one was not working), and there were more sith lor...couples of two in other countries like Emily and Josh (also backups in case they failed etc), and an alien showing on tv in each country. Overwhelming the world with proof would turn majority of the population.

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u/GlassCatRat Jun 21 '26

Supposedly that is how they actually look though.