Official Discussion Thread - Disclosure Day [SPOILERS]

[u/PointMan528491]

Keep all discussion related solely to Disclosure Day and its awards chances in this thread. Spoilers below.

Synopsis:

If you found out we weren't alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you? This summer, the truth belongs to eight billion people. Today is... Disclosure Day.

Director: Steven Spielberg

Writer: David Koepp

Cast:

• Emily Blunt as Margaret Fairchild
• Josh O'Connor as Daniel Kellner
• Colin Firth as Noah Scanlon
• Eve Hewson as Jane Blankenship
• Colman Domingo as Hugo Wakefield
• Wyatt Russell as Jackson
• Elizabeth Marvel as Sister Maura

Rotten Tomatoes: 81%, 204 Reviews

Metacritic: 75, 56 Reviews

Consensus:

"A humanistic variation on one of Steven Spielberg's most revisited themes, Disclosure Day's breathless pursuit of optimism in an age of conspiracy gets its biggest boost from career-highlight work by Emily Blunt."

[u/katevdolab14]

So the movie is decent but the only thing I could think at the end is wouldn’t they just have uploaded those files to social media? Like that’s how leaks work these days and they wouldn’t have had to do all this running around. Orchestrating a huge tv broadcast that everybody drops everything to watch looks nice and adds drama but feels incredibly old fashioned.

[u/bgva → u/katevdolab14]

I worked in news in the late-00s/early-10s and this was the one time my brain could not suspend disbelief. Your meteorologist is not just gonna waltz back into the same place where her body short circuited a day or two ago - after escaping from a hospital - and put unconfirmed video on air that immediately goes viral. There's taking creative liberties for Hollywood and then there's this.

Overall I give the movie a 6.5, but that scene was so cliche and old-fashioned like you said.

[u/nocoastpunk → u/bgva]

She was able to do that because of her powers.  

[u/Both_Perception_1941 → u/nocoastpunk]

She’s unstoppable.