# “Disclosure Day” (No spoilers in OP) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [June 12, 2026, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disclosure-day-no-spoilers-in-op/1030836 "2026-06-12T02:06:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2026, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disclosure-day-no-spoilers-in-op/1030836/1 "2026-06-12T02:06:34Z")
VERY curious to hear reactions to this movie. I had a blast but - hoo boy - I can imagine a lot of people hating it. It’s definitely not for the cynical or scientific-minded or anyone who doesn’t like syrupy, sappy Spielberg. From a production standpoint - acting, music, camera shots, editing - it felt just like watching Spielberg’s summer blockbusters of the past; he directs the hell out of it. But the script definitely makes some interesting choices, and not everybody will go along with it. I’m not sure it’s a “love it or hate it” thing, but it’s certainly going to divide audiences. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2026, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disclosure-day-no-spoilers-in-op/1030836/2 "2026-06-12T12:54:42Z")
> [@Stephe96](#): > > syrupy, sappy Spielberg You’re repeating yourself. 😁 ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2026, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disclosure-day-no-spoilers-in-op/1030836/3 "2026-06-12T13:00:38Z")
My wife really wants to see this movie, and reserved us for Sunday a special two-person luxury seating box in some fancy theater that has, I don’t think quite IMAX-level quality, but some sort of extra wide screen super 4K laser projection LED crystal display or some such combo of keywords, one or two of which I think I remembered correctly. Will report back with my thoughts on it. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2026, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disclosure-day-no-spoilers-in-op/1030836/4 "2026-06-12T16:50:30Z")
Watched the trailer and to me it looked like yet another “bright lights/childlike wonder” Spielberg cartoon. Apology to the OP for my nasty tone but for me _Duel_ was Spielberg’s best film. I just don’t get him. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2026, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disclosure-day-no-spoilers-in-op/1030836/5 "2026-06-12T16:53:54Z")
There’s a LOT of Spielberg’s trademark “awed faces” in this movie, so you’re not wrong! People with a low tolerance for that stuff will not like this movie. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2026, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disclosure-day-no-spoilers-in-op/1030836/6 "2026-06-12T19:58:43Z")
As a bit of a goddamn grouch I don’t care for his films. But I got to thinking about it and besides **Duel** (which I still think was brilliant) I will grudgingly concede having liked and/or admired: **Raiders of the Lost Ark; Amistad;** and **Schindler’s List**. Peevish footnote: One thing I don’t like is Spielberg’s nearly always having to effectively break the fourth wall by winking at the audience, and even in Schindler he couldn’t stop himself: making the little girl’s coat red, in an otherwise entirely black and white film, was entirely unnecessary and yanked me out of the story. Briefly. But still. To the OP and others who enjoy Spielberg: To each their own. Ignore the grouches and keep on enjoying. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2026, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disclosure-day-no-spoilers-in-op/1030836/7 "2026-06-12T22:58:47Z")
Wow, didn’t even like Jurassic Park? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2026, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disclosure-day-no-spoilers-in-op/1030836/8 "2026-06-12T23:30:39Z")
I saw it today and I liked it. I have a few comments but will wait for some others to have seen it. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2026, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disclosure-day-no-spoilers-in-op/1030836/9 "2026-06-12T23:48:19Z")
And BTW, can we skip the whole Spielberg sucks thing? I _think_ the thread is about this new movie, not whether the only good thing he ever directed was a TV movie from 1971. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2026, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disclosure-day-no-spoilers-in-op/1030836/10 "2026-06-13T16:17:36Z")
I thought it was pretty underwhelming and frankly a bit boring. Some good scenes but as a whole not great. Too many scenes of characters making stupid decisions. I did get to go to a Q&A with Spielberg and Emily Blunt last night so that was cool. ---
**Author:** ![ricepad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@ricepad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricepad)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2026, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disclosure-day-no-spoilers-in-op/1030836/11 "2026-06-13T16:33:01Z")
Saw it yesterday. I’m lukewarm on Spielberg. I’ve liked some of his movies, thought others were stupid and/or insipid, so I had neither high nor low expectations. I enjoyed it, though. I liked it a lot more than _Close Encounters_. I liked _Project Hail Mary_ more, but _Disclosure Day_ was fun enough. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disclosure-day-no-spoilers-in-op/1030836/12 "2026-06-15T14:21:04Z")
Saw the movie yesterday. I definitely agree with this part of the OP: > [@Stephe96](#): > > From a production standpoint - acting, music, camera shots, editing - it felt just like watching Spielberg’s summer blockbusters of the past; he directs the hell out of it. Yeah, it was a very watchable, well-directed, well-acted movie. Fast moving. Lots of edge-of-your-seat action. Fun sci-fi premise. As for this part of the OP: > [@Stephe96](#): > > It’s definitely not for the cynical or scientific-minded or anyone who doesn’t like syrupy, sappy Spielberg. > […] > But the script definitely makes some interesting choices, and not everybody will go along with it. i didn’t have any problem with any of that, but I watched it as an entertaining movie. I didn’t take the science of it any more seriously than I take ‘Jaws’ as a ‘National Geographic’ style documentary on shark feeding and behavior patterns. That said, I suppose the movie does raise an interesting question. Spoilers ahead, but the title is ‘Disclosure Day’ and I think everybody knows the movie is about aliens, so I don’t think it’s too much of a spoiler to say the movie’s central conflict is that the government has been hiding the existence of alien visitation on Earth for many years, and a rogue offshoot of the agency tasked to do the coverup decides that the world needs to know. So there is a question of which side is right and which is wrong-- does the world have a right to know, or will it panic and destabilize the world unnecessarily? This being Spielberg, and again with the title-- the answer, of course, is: yes the world needs to know, and will know, and of course the aliens are unambiguously good and benevolent, and will possibly be the saviors of humanity, prizing empathy as the greatest virtue in the universe. So that’s about as sappy and syrupy as it gets, but hey, it’s Spielberg-- you wouldn’t expect _ **evil** _ aliens, would you? Oh, and the thing about the aliens appearing as animals to the two main characters when they were kids, just to present as something less scary? If I’m a 10 year old kid and a giant antlered deer, a fox and a raccoon suddenly appear in my bedroom at night, I’m going to be every bit as freaked out as seeing aliens, if not more so. Plothole-wise, I also wondered, if the aliens _wanted_ to be discovered, it seems like they could have easily done so on their own long before, rather than having to work it though the two humans they gave alien powers to. And, when the actual disclosure took place live, I feel highly skeptical that, with the advent of AI, that the whole world would be able to confirm the alien videos as real and confirm the existence of aliens in real time like that. But all in all, a fun way to spend almost 3 hours in the dark. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2026, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disclosure-day-no-spoilers-in-op/1030836/13 "2026-06-16T20:29:04Z")
So that was definitely a movie I saw. Well directed (as to be expected) but kind of boring. There was a core of a good movie there but this was not it. In the end this movie felt like it should have been the montage at the beginning of a different, better movie because the more interesting story is what comes next. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2026, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disclosure-day-no-spoilers-in-op/1030836/14 "2026-06-16T20:57:46Z")
I have not seen it, but I read the wikipedia plot summary. Therefore I am qualified to comment. 🙂 I think this is the core issue: " In April 2024, it was reported that Spielberg’s next project would be a UFO film,". In no way is the plot description I read “a UFO film”. I wouldn’t even call CE3K a “UFO film”, and it had actual UFOs. What does this film have? Intrigue, powerful government forces, secrets, lies, advanced tech, psychic powers, and normal individual citizens chosen to be the ambassadors to the future. Oh, my, sounds just like CE3K! A rerun! ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2026, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disclosure-day-no-spoilers-in-op/1030836/15 "2026-06-16T20:58:12Z")
[Existing thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disclosure-day-no-spoilers-in-op/1030836). ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2026, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disclosure-day-no-spoilers-in-op/1030836/16 "2026-06-16T22:10:07Z")
[Moderating] I’ve merged the threads. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2026, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disclosure-day-no-spoilers-in-op/1030836/17 "2026-06-17T02:48:33Z")
Sorry, I had looked and missed this one. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2026, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disclosure-day-no-spoilers-in-op/1030836/18 "2026-06-20T01:47:52Z")
Saw it this afternoon. I enjoyed it well enough, I’d give it a 7.75. Never a dull moment, but I felt a little let down by the ending.“Listen”…I guess that’s the 2026 version of “Watch the skies”? Colin Firth was a pretty scary dude when he got hooked up with that device. Seeing the scene where the Daniel shows the “interview” file to his girlfriend, the movie “Paul” immediately came to mind. There’s a scene in that movie where Paul the alien says he has escaped from government captivity because they were going to cut out part of his brain in order to study his powers. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2026, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disclosure-day-no-spoilers-in-op/1030836/19 "2026-06-20T08:09:02Z")
> [@solost](#): > > the aliens are unambiguously good and benevolent, and will possibly be the saviors of humanity But everybody knows, in the grim darkness of the future, there is only war! ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2026, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disclosure-day-no-spoilers-in-op/1030836/20 "2026-06-20T13:23:31Z")
They had to end it that way because nothing they could come up with would be better than what you imagine it saying. So I get why they cut off there. But the story go what happens the next day or day after that is much more interesting than the story we got here. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disclosure-day-no-spoilers-in-op/1030836.md?page=2)