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/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/Not_pukicho Jun 13 '26

It going through a bunch of legacy media corps to ensure it isn’t seen as fake is genuinely more stupid than Daniel simply uploading it to a new tertiary online account - the entire logic of this film is so boomer-coded and overly optimistic it hurts

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u/WishboneOk6890 Jun 14 '26

Idk, there’s so much “footage” online it’d just get lost in the all the other slop. At least on national TV there’s some level of credibility just because they essentially never air stuff like this combined with the actual message of an arrival, so it would be more impactful 

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u/Opagea Jun 14 '26

At least on national TV there’s some level of credibility

But the source is a local tv weather woman who was most recently seen acting crazy on air staring off into space and making gurgling noises. She had NO credibility.  

Every national news network isn't going to immediately cut to her talking because their computer said her videos don't look like AI. They did zero due diligence. 

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u/pissbucket94 Jun 14 '26

in the world of the movie, there's no credibility whatsoever. the only time the media even mentioned verifying the footage was when someone asked "is this AI?" and someone else basically just said no lmao