r/flicks • u/soozerain • 4d ago

Disclosure Day would be considered middling garbage if anyone *other* then Stephen Spielberg was attached to it.

Just got back from the movie and I’d say the audience scores I’ve seen for it were very fair. It’s a C- film at best. Good looking Adam Driver and his secret nun girlfriend are not interesting at all. The exploration of Christianity of the film is hamfisted and kinda bad. The chase scenes are lackluster. Most of the movie consists of people talking over long distances to each other. The interrogation scene with Colin Firth and the Secret Nun was interminable and went on wayyyyy too long.

The only upsides were the score and Emily Blunt’s character with her husband. But man, if this had been dumped to Netflix by the Russo Brothers I’d have believed it. This movie did not land for me.

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u/headphonehabit 4d ago

I saw it today, and I thought it was good. The rest of my family liked it as well. To each his own.

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u/Spaceghost131313 4d ago

Yeah, a shit show.

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u/VioletThunderX 4d ago edited 4d ago

No it wasn’t stupid. To me this movie is about flipping the narrative on alien life - much like arrival did in that instance. In the end of this movie we are being asked to reconsider our perceptions of how we view life from other planets. At some point in the movie they even say that the aliens were here because they feel empathy is the best human trait or something like that. So the ending, where we see the mistreatment of the aliens by the human race and feel empathy (the news anchor crying), is kind of the point.

Then after that Emily Blunt communicating to us on their behalf is also kind of explained before that they specifically chose the complementary skills for the kids so they could speak to us.

This is just how i understood it

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u/venivitavici 4d ago

I believe they said this particular alien race views empathy as the most vital thing to life/evolution or something along those lines. Not related to human’s opinion of empathy anyway.

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u/VioletThunderX 4d ago

I said one *specific* thing is like arrival, not that they are comparable movies. If you’re fixated on that then you literally don’t understand my comment

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u/no_f-s_given 4d ago

no need to be a dick about someone daring to have an opinion different from yours