Disclosure Day Trailer #1 (2026)

[Reynard]

The fact that people can't deal with the way it ends drives me into a rage.

That. Is. Not. What. The. Movie. Was. About.

 

[Reynard]

"It seems like Spielberg has instead become the new JJ Abrams."

What an absolute nonsense take. There's not black box in this movie at all.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

The fact that people can't deal with the way it ends drives me into a rage.

That. Is. Not. What. The. Movie. Was. About.

Well, then they didn't do a good job of revealing to the audience what the movie was about, did they? If an audience doesn't like your art because they don't understand it, then you either have the wrong audience or failed to connect to them.

 

[Reynard]

Well, then they didn't do a good job of revealing to the audience what the movie was about, did they? If an audience doesn't like your art because they don't understand it, then you either have the wrong audience or failed to connect to them.

That is not true all the time, and certainly isn't here. This movie told you what it was about repeatedly and a little ham-handedly. Sometimes, people expect a thing and then are a little put out that that isn't what they got.

 

[Desdichado]

What an absolute nonsense take. There's not black box in this movie at all.

That's not the only thing Jar Jar Abrams is known for. Clunky plot contrivances and deus ex machina handwaving all kinds of things away are also his hallmark, but this movie had those in spades.

That is not true all the time, and certainly isn't here. This movie told you what it was about repeatedly and a little ham-handedly. Sometimes, people expect a thing and then are a little put out that that isn't what they got.

That's a failure of another kind, then. Sure, sure... sometimes you expect a movie to be one thing and it's something else. Usually, that's a case of bad advertising creating a de facto bait and switch.

 

[ShinHakkaider]

I saw it Thursday afternoon. While not top tier Spielberg it's at least top 10 for me.
I've seen a lot of cynicism leveled at this movie and shrugs I dont see what there is to be cynical about. It's a movie about hope and faith in humanity. It still posits that when man when faced with difficult choices will try do the right thing, which of course places this film FIRMLY in the fantasy genre.

I also think that the film is less focused on declaring what it's about than it's focused on making us ask ourselves certain questions about faith, religion, the value of information, the moral implications of witholding information that is deemed proprietary but ultimately effects everyone of the planet, etc.

Anyway I enjoyed it.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I've seen a lot of cynicism leveled at this movie and shrugs I dont see what there is to be cynical about.

It's pretty obvious that people believe whatever they want to believe, irrespective of evidence. So simply "disclosing" something is meaningless. The effect would be exactly zero.

 

[Retros_x]

It's pretty obvious that people believe whatever they want to believe, irrespective of evidence. So simply "disclosing" something is meaningless. The effect would be exactly zero.

This was the main thing of the "message" that bothered me too much.

Spoiler: themes

The idea that all humanity needs to come together is to learn the truth is just so simple and naive. The information age CLEARLY prooves that information and truth doesn't mean anything and people choose to believe whatever they want no matter what the facts state. This naive message was presented also in such an undercomplex and oversimplified way, it made me nuts. And I am not a cynic. I think humans and people are able to come closer together again and divided societes can heal and currently a lot of societies need exactly that. But this movie doesn't help at all.

Also regarding how the plot supports the themes:

Spoiler

It doesnt at all. The whole theme is only relevant in the last 15 minutes, before that its the most boring goverment conspiracy chase plot I've seen in a long time with the most looney tunes goverment agency of all time. A non-threatening bunch of amateurs. I was just so bored for most of the movie. I think the first scene where it dawned on me that this movie might not meet my expectations was the scene where the non-threatening villain overcomes the religious girl in an atrocious long "interrogation" scene with a lot of back and forth. If she would be the main character and this would've been a scene much later in the movie, it might've worked - but she is a side character and the scene was in the first 30 minutes. My GF and me got tired during that scene and we begged the movie to finally move on.

The rest of the movie had similar problems. An aimless long-drawn chase plot with tons of plot holes, clichés, stupid character work. Only in the last 15 minutes it got interesting and during the actual disclosure I finally got drawn into the movie - only to get pulled out again when the alien gets carried in the wheelchair. WTF. They pull it out like a magician pulls a white rabbit out of a hat. If they already had an alien, they already had the best evidence the whole time! And it was so unintentionally funny, it really felt like scene from scary movie. But what made me really mad is that they cut to credits right where it got interesting.

I think there is a much more exciting movie hidden in here. If you cut out a lot of the filler from the movie and have a final act after the reveal to show how the world actually would react when confronted with such a new truth to how we see us and the universe - this would've been exciting. Does the war stop? Does chaos emerge? How do people react? To they shrug it off - its fake anyway?

Instead they cut it off right there in an attempt to have a thought-provoking open ending which turned out just to be a big flat disappointment. Felt like a deflated balloon. That ending was the cherry on top of the nonsense plot. I am normally not one to point ot plot holes all the time and I am able to suspend my disbelief A LOT. But this was just nonsense after nonsense. In the 90s this might've been alright, but modern big-budget sci fi can deliver much more.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

The idea that all humanity needs to come together is to learn the truth is just so simple and naive

Same problem as Watchmen really, although fair to say that wasn't so obvious when it was written.

But there really isn't any difference between Watchmen and Disclosure Day from the perspective of an onlooker. There is no way for them to tell the difference between the truth and an elaborate hoax.

Also consider the reaction to Orson Welles' 1938 radio War of the Worlds.

 

[Retros_x]

Same problem as Watchmen really, although fair to say that wasn't so obvious when it was written.

Yes Watchmen was written in the 80s - I think this core idea was much more viable back then, it wasnt the information age back then. Disclosure Day just shows that Spielberg is an old man who isnt really in touch with modern discourse.

(also Watchmen is much better written than Disclosure Day and has actual characters)