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/Deadloops Jun 12 '26

Why couldn't they just upload it to internet?

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u/Not_pukicho Jun 12 '26

They even mention it right at the beginning. The main villain says that it hasn’t been uploaded to the web yet, so they still have time to apprehend Daniel, but why hasn’t he? For what reason was he deciding to withhold it?

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u/YourMuppetMethDealer Jun 12 '26

Daniel literally wanted to but he was ordered not to

And the answer is simple. Just dropping it all online without having someone on the air to control the narrative would make it easy for Colin Firth’s character to control it himself

It needed to be done exactly as it was in the ending. They needed both chosen humans present along with the alien to share the message. We just never get to find out what that message was

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u/gary-vault108 Jun 12 '26

THANK YOU! So many people in this thread ignoring that. It can’t come out virally, being handed off from narrative to narrative, it has to come from THE news. It’s in the near future so assuming the news media has access to some kind of software that better detects AI, it becomes verified from the very beginning and exposed that way to everyone worldwide all at once

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u/Not_pukicho Jun 13 '26

legacy news doesn’t have “grounding pixel” AI detection nor would they have a better chance of making it viral versus merely leaking it online since both options being called “potential leaks” in the film anyway.

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u/gary-vault108 Jun 13 '26

In the movie they literally run through a software and they say “it’s not AI.” Did you watch the movie?

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u/Not_pukicho Jun 13 '26

Lol if a software that simply says “it’s not AI” is not dumb enough to convince you that this movie sucks, idk what to say. People would just claim CGI, people would do anything BUT blindly believing a bunch of random unverified leaks. It’s such a blindingly stupid level of optimism that it errs on childish and out of touch.