re: Disclosure Day | Final trailer and first reactions from THR

Just saw it. It was entertaining.
Politically it annoys me the govt doesnt think we can handle knowing there are aliens out there and have visited us. If u have half a brain you know we aren't alone in the universe. Don't know why anyone could t handle that reality.

If the YouTube nerds hate it, it’s probably worth seeing.

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Apparently the disclosure is that Steven Spielberg has lost it.

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His best in years.

But yeah, everyone should source their opinions from youtube reaction artists.

Forgive me if I decide for myself instead of the opinion of a guy that looks like an actual retard with clickbait posts that knows he gets 5x more clicks for a bad review than he does a positive one. Can't imagine ever watching a clickbait video by these youtube dorks. The guy might be right for all I know, but I'll think I'll think for myself instead of going off neckbeards opinion.

I just saw it. It's okay but outclassed by some of Spielberg's earlier stuff like Close Encounters and ET. The movie was a little too long at close to 2.5 hours. I don't want to give spoilers (if that's possible after the trailers) but I felt like there were characters and pursuit events that were respectively unnecessary or poorly executed.

There's also a bit in there about empathy being the highest value that no nerd, theologian, or ethicists will find satisfying.


Hell with it. Some Spoilers below.

Should have eliminated the boyfriend character for Emily Blunt and the girlfriend character for the male lead. There are plenty of other characters to serve for EB's skeptical foils and instead of involving religion with the peripheral character (Woodley) they could easily have the nun or other religious characters interact directly with the male lead.

Colin Firth gets a lot of screen time but isn't really a great character or villain and this definitely holds the movie back from being a great movie.

Anyway, it was entertaining enough but not great. There are plenty of plot holes you would probably take for granted it this intended to be a mindless Independence Day or action movie instead of something deeper about human meaning.

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So is gaslighting.

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Jesus, dude. You can't be a dick about everything and then also say excessive online negativity is imaginary.


And yeah, this mid-budget, original alien thriller with no bankable stars is about to open to $40 million, beating the tracking that has been steadily ticking up. It's also clearly a popular topic of discussion around the internet. It's okay for someone else to call it popular.

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The online contrarian bit is getting old.

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social media has brainwashed everyone into having a random internet person tell them how to feel before they go watch movies now. It's truly fried people's brains. It has to be miserable to live like this now.

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How is that any different from print media employing random film critics to tell us how to feel for the first 80 years or so of the Hollywood studio system? The more things change, the more they stay the same.

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2 things. Growing up there was a handful of people reviewing movies and didn't have an agenda. Now every slapdick doesn't have a job and thinks watching movies for a living is a job by videoing themselves and trying to one up the other person so they can get views. People live on these bums every word and already have a preconceived notion going into these movies. They are so addicted to these guys and social media that even if they like the movie they will still side with them majority of the times. It's exhausting and miserable

2nd I never paid attention or cared what any of the critics thought of Home alone or mighty ducks when I was a kid or even lord of the rings when I got to high school. So I didn't see anything these people said nor did I care.

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Growing up a movie probably didn't cost $16 a ticket, not including snacks, for you either. A family of four can easily pay over $100 to go see a movie on a Saturday night in 2026. I'm grateful for these online critics because they help me decide if a movie is worth going to the theater to spend my hard-earned money on or if it's better to wait for streaming.

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take your kids do something else that is free. My parents never took me to see a PG-13 movie about aliens. I had to wait till it came out on TV for free or rented it at the local store for $1 on VCR. You should be taking your kids to Toy Story and movies like that not Disclosure day


Snacks my parents weren't buying us snacks at the movie theatre. We ate before we went or ate when we got home. We weren't spoiled like kids today.