Disclosure Day | Steven Spielberg (June 12, 2026)

[theenglish]

I'm just taking the piss, and being a little self-deprecating too. I've never heard the term greasy used in conversation, although TPBs was filmed near where I grew up and I've seen a lot of the episodes.

EDIT: and I do feel like I'm living in Minority Report more and more.

 

[Turtletrekker]

First review is extremely positive. Stand out passage without spoilers -- "[Spielberg] is on fire, making a movie that feels like the kinds he used to churn out regularly early in his career."

Movie Review: ‘Disclosure Day’ is classic Spielberg

Steven Spielberg's “Disclosure Day” takes the filmmaker back to familiar territory. The film follows Daniel Kellner, played by Josh O’Connor, who’s caught in a conspiracy involving extraterrestrial life.

apnews.com

And forgive me if this has been brought up in this thread before and I have forgotten, but the movie will have a score by John Williams! Once I would have taken that as a given, but given his age it comes as a very pleasant surprise.

 

[fireproof78]

The family want me to go see this with them and I'm tempted, but I saw both CE3K and E.T. at the cinema and hated them.

Any opinions on my chances of enjoying it ?

Extremely low ....


...as are my odds of being correct on what you might like. I didn't enjoy ET either, but other alien type properties I do, like Taken, or another TV series that is escaping my mind (aliens and humans living together). I enjoy episodes in TV shows with the reveal, like Stargate's 2010, and FARSCAPE were John has the crew on Earth.

I have no clue if I'm going to like this movie.

 

[Owain Taggart]

First review is extremely positive. Stand out passage without spoilers -- "[Spielberg] is on fire, making a movie that feels like the kinds he used to churn out regularly early in his career."

Movie Review: ‘Disclosure Day’ is classic Spielberg

Steven Spielberg's “Disclosure Day” takes the filmmaker back to familiar territory. The film follows Daniel Kellner, played by Josh O’Connor, who’s caught in a conspiracy involving extraterrestrial life.

apnews.com

And forgive me if this has been brought up in this thread before and I have forgotten, but the movie will have a score by John Williams! Once I would have taken that as a given, but given his age it comes as a very pleasant surprise.

I thought he'd retired. Could possibly be he did it as a favor to him before he retired.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

He is retired but Spielberg lured him out of it just for this film.

 

[Starbreaker]

Initial reviews are good. I was worried it was going to go either way with the weird trailers.

 

[Set Harth]

He is retired but Spielberg lured him out of it just for this film.

 

[JD]

EW has a new Disclosure Day "cover story", with interviews with Spielberg, and the cast.
https://ew.com/disclosure-day-steven-spielberg-emily-blunt-josh-oconnor-cover-story-11992832
It does reveal a bit more of the plot than what we've gotten in the trailers, like the fact that the people trying to hide the truth are a tech company, and not the government, because Spielberg doesn't the think governments are good enough at keeping secrets to hide something like what the movie is dealing with.

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

EW has a new Disclosure Day "cover story", with interviews with Spielberg, and the cast.
https://ew.com/disclosure-day-steven-spielberg-emily-blunt-josh-oconnor-cover-story-11992832
It does reveal a bit more of the plot than what we've gotten in the trailers, like the fact that the people trying to hide the truth are a tech company, and not the government, because Spielberg doesn't the think governments are good enough at keeping secrets to hide something like what the movie is dealing with.

That's an interesting angle aliens vs big tech.. I'm a little bit more interested now

 

[Dar70]

I thought he'd retired. Could possibly be he did it as a favor to him before he retired.

He is retired but Spielberg lured him out of it just for this film.

I hope what he scored for this film is better than the last Indy Score. Indy 5 score was very lackluster for me.

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

Well this guy thinks he knows more then Spielberg. Haters coming out of the woodwork

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[Takeru]

Well this guy thinks he knows more then Spielberg. Haters coming out of the woodwork

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That guy is pretty harsh but Spielberg is hardly a genius, a lot of his movies have been duds.

 

[Anwar]

So apparently this is good, which is nice because I was worried Spielberg might be losing his touch with age the same way James L Brooks did once you see "Ella McKay".

 

[Owain Taggart]

That guy is pretty harsh but Spielberg is hardly a genius, a lot of his movies have been duds.

Yeah, and it doesn't help that the trailers have been very vague. I've heard reports that say it's his best since his version of War of the Worlds, but I didn't like that movie, so that doesn't give me much confidence.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Yeah, and it doesn't help that the trailers have been very vague. I've heard reports that say it's his best since his version of War of the Worlds, but I didn't like that movie, so that doesn't give me much confidence.

Yeah, I'm not a fan of that film either but I remain optimistically hopeful.

 

[Anwar]

Yeah, and it doesn't help that the trailers have been very vague. I've heard reports that say it's his best since his version of War of the Worlds, but I didn't like that movie, so that doesn't give me much confidence.

Yeah, I'm not a fan of that film either but I remain optimistically hopeful.

I finally sat down and watched that movie a few weeks ago. It wasn't bad, but I still couldn't buy Tom Cruise as the "Blue Collar Joe" guy he was supposed to be.

 

[Fresh Linon Snuh]

Oddly enough I completely bought him as a distant, shitty dad to his kids

 

[Owain Taggart]

I finally sat down and watched that movie a few weeks ago. It wasn't bad, but I still couldn't buy Tom Cruise as the "Blue Collar Joe" guy he was supposed to be.

That's certainly part of it. There is just so much that doesn't work for me with that movie. The most annoying thing about it is the way Dakota Fanning's character is yelling all throughout the movie. I get it, she's scared. But... I feel Spielberg's directing on that was kind of off the mark. On top of that, I feel that the movie went more for a spectacle approach and the original core of the story is hardly recognizable other than a few setpieces.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

No one read the AV Club review as it gives away the entire plot of the movie.

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

No one read the AV Club review as it gives away the entire plot of the movie.

Say what?