I love this surreal mosaic of snippets from the plot of the movie. To someone who hasn't and doesn't plan to see the movie, the comments in themselves are completely meaningless and yet oddly fun to read. An image in a shattered mirror.
I saw it with my son yesterday. Agree it was a fun movie. I thought Emily Blunt was great as was Firth. As soon as the aliens showed up on screen I lost interest. Kind of a let down.
Spielberg always does a good job capturing the nostalgia and sweetness of youth so it was nice to see that make an appearance in the movie. I got a little misty eyed in that part. I’m sucker for that stuff.
Also, where had they been keeping that Unc alien in the wheel chair the entire time so they could trot him out on TV?
Finally, how do aliens that can travel light years and can appear as animals and read minds keep crashing on earth and getting held prisoner by humans?
It was a bad movie in so many different ways and directions! Local news doesn't have the reach and trust that Spielberg wants it to have especially in the age of YouTube. Emily Blunt uses weaponized empathy to get what she/the aliens want. There's no sense of understanding or seeing another person in exchange, just bizarre mind reading that startles them more than anything. It's the empathy of an abuser not a friend, despite how the pro-disclosure side sees it. What's more, her own face is so frozen by botox and fillers, that it really limited the emotional range she could express in the movie to the point of distraction. And a nitpicking one that still supremely bugged me: nuns don't wear makeup! (the older nun had a full face done when she was called out of the chapel.)
'Disclosure Day' was one of the best films I have ever seen. What I really appreciated about it on a technical level is how much economy it made in the plot. It starts with the action well underway. We don't need tons of explanation about everything.
Jane's ability to get through all the armed men is easy to explain: There were literally cameras everywhere. Were they just going to shoot her in the head on camera? Who loved the dumb company that much besides that one crazy guy?
On her powers: Of course they didn't explore the nefarious side. She'd had them for a day. And that wasn't the movie's point.
As someone who cares a lot about the Disclosure topic itself (which I'm willing to bet you don't — but I could be wrong), I really appreciated how sophisticated Spielberg's conception of the phenomenon is. Most directors would make it all tech and gizmos and science, but that's not where people deep in this stuff are at. It's about a deeper kind of advancement.
I could not have loved it more.
I suspect this one will hold up very well, but I have a feeling that Spielberg is too far ahead of most of the public for it to be a slam dunk right away. Time is going to win out on this one, though.
It felt very 90s action to me. The second act had a few scenes that dragged too. It could have been cut by at least 15 minutes. It lacked any emotional resonance. Poor script and 2D characters !
You must have seen a different "Disclosure Day" from the pompous, overblown, overlong "Disclosure Day" that I saw. Spielberg's two early alien movies, Close Encounters and E.T., were simple and wonderful. Now that he's in his dotage, Spielberg is aiming for profundity, alerting the human race to open our hearts and minds, be more empathetic, and . . . "listen." As the kids used to say, gag me with a spoon.
Re: Aliens forever crashing; maybe whoever is behind the phenomenon is throwing balls for us to catch and chase like we do for a pet dog? If we are so smart why do we keep throwing the ball once Fido brings it back to us? Will Fido will ever know?
I have seen the film twice: enjoyed all the Buster Keaton train chase stuff, disappointed at the place-holder alien/daimon; by the end of my second viewing, I had forgiven Spielberg that. ET grows up, gets old and infirm, just like me and thee, and just like Steven.
This movie of his affects me like that cringy Beatles' pastiche which George Harrison released on the world, in 1987, did: When We Was Fab. All the aural effects which made the Beatles records fab are there; but nevertheless it ain't fab in the way they were back when.
Disclosure Day is closure for Steven as night closes in; it reifies his influence on the culture, as well as what in the culture influenced him e.g those Roswell scenes---with the ET corpses being processed; is that not straight out of Holocaust 1978? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077025/
Anyroad, best sci-fi movie I have seen this year is Hail Mary.
"Disclosure Day" is great fun but much of it feels like recycled "X-Files": alien abductions, a sinister conspiracy, cover ups, Roswell, mind control, reverse-engineered alien technology, etc. There's even a suggestion -- in one of the videos that Emily Blunt reveals to the world -- that aliens have met with government officials. ("X-Files" fans will recall that Mulder's dad was a State Department official who had negotiated a secret deal with aliens not long after they arrived on earth.)
The only thing missing was a connection to the JFK assassination.
Spielberg's best science fiction movie (IMHO) remains "AI."
I love this surreal mosaic of snippets from the plot of the movie. To someone who hasn't and doesn't plan to see the movie, the comments in themselves are completely meaningless and yet oddly fun to read. An image in a shattered mirror.
I saw it with my son yesterday. Agree it was a fun movie. I thought Emily Blunt was great as was Firth. As soon as the aliens showed up on screen I lost interest. Kind of a let down.
Spielberg always does a good job capturing the nostalgia and sweetness of youth so it was nice to see that make an appearance in the movie. I got a little misty eyed in that part. I’m sucker for that stuff.
Also, where had they been keeping that Unc alien in the wheel chair the entire time so they could trot him out on TV?
Finally, how do aliens that can travel light years and can appear as animals and read minds keep crashing on earth and getting held prisoner by humans?
It was a bad movie in so many different ways and directions! Local news doesn't have the reach and trust that Spielberg wants it to have especially in the age of YouTube. Emily Blunt uses weaponized empathy to get what she/the aliens want. There's no sense of understanding or seeing another person in exchange, just bizarre mind reading that startles them more than anything. It's the empathy of an abuser not a friend, despite how the pro-disclosure side sees it. What's more, her own face is so frozen by botox and fillers, that it really limited the emotional range she could express in the movie to the point of distraction. And a nitpicking one that still supremely bugged me: nuns don't wear makeup! (the older nun had a full face done when she was called out of the chapel.)
Wow do I disagree.
'Disclosure Day' was one of the best films I have ever seen. What I really appreciated about it on a technical level is how much economy it made in the plot. It starts with the action well underway. We don't need tons of explanation about everything.
Jane's ability to get through all the armed men is easy to explain: There were literally cameras everywhere. Were they just going to shoot her in the head on camera? Who loved the dumb company that much besides that one crazy guy?
On her powers: Of course they didn't explore the nefarious side. She'd had them for a day. And that wasn't the movie's point.
As someone who cares a lot about the Disclosure topic itself (which I'm willing to bet you don't — but I could be wrong), I really appreciated how sophisticated Spielberg's conception of the phenomenon is. Most directors would make it all tech and gizmos and science, but that's not where people deep in this stuff are at. It's about a deeper kind of advancement.
I could not have loved it more.
I suspect this one will hold up very well, but I have a feeling that Spielberg is too far ahead of most of the public for it to be a slam dunk right away. Time is going to win out on this one, though.
It felt very 90s action to me. The second act had a few scenes that dragged too. It could have been cut by at least 15 minutes. It lacked any emotional resonance. Poor script and 2D characters !
The alien was a problem. So was the ponderous reveal of all of the footage that had been collected over the years.
https://substack.com/@calvinjonescinematheory/note/p-201756288?r=8dbojf&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
You must have seen a different "Disclosure Day" from the pompous, overblown, overlong "Disclosure Day" that I saw. Spielberg's two early alien movies, Close Encounters and E.T., were simple and wonderful. Now that he's in his dotage, Spielberg is aiming for profundity, alerting the human race to open our hearts and minds, be more empathetic, and . . . "listen." As the kids used to say, gag me with a spoon.
Re: Aliens forever crashing; maybe whoever is behind the phenomenon is throwing balls for us to catch and chase like we do for a pet dog? If we are so smart why do we keep throwing the ball once Fido brings it back to us? Will Fido will ever know?
I have seen the film twice: enjoyed all the Buster Keaton train chase stuff, disappointed at the place-holder alien/daimon; by the end of my second viewing, I had forgiven Spielberg that. ET grows up, gets old and infirm, just like me and thee, and just like Steven.
This movie of his affects me like that cringy Beatles' pastiche which George Harrison released on the world, in 1987, did: When We Was Fab. All the aural effects which made the Beatles records fab are there; but nevertheless it ain't fab in the way they were back when.
Disclosure Day is closure for Steven as night closes in; it reifies his influence on the culture, as well as what in the culture influenced him e.g those Roswell scenes---with the ET corpses being processed; is that not straight out of Holocaust 1978? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077025/
Anyroad, best sci-fi movie I have seen this year is Hail Mary.
Thanks for saving me the cinema ticket. I like Spielberg"s work, but I will pass on this one.
"Disclosure Day" is great fun but much of it feels like recycled "X-Files": alien abductions, a sinister conspiracy, cover ups, Roswell, mind control, reverse-engineered alien technology, etc. There's even a suggestion -- in one of the videos that Emily Blunt reveals to the world -- that aliens have met with government officials. ("X-Files" fans will recall that Mulder's dad was a State Department official who had negotiated a secret deal with aliens not long after they arrived on earth.)
The only thing missing was a connection to the JFK assassination.
Spielberg's best science fiction movie (IMHO) remains "AI."