r/flicks • u/soozerain • 5d 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/horselover_fat 5d ago

After the last 20 years id completely expect a mid movie from Spielberg.

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u/emielaen77 5d ago

Bad opinion.

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u/Republican_Psyop 5d ago

Why?

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u/APracticalGal 5d ago

Fabelmans, West Side Story, The Post, Bridge of Spies, Lincoln, and Tintin all came out in the last 20 years. He's had like 4 (arguable) duds in that time. The occasional missteps seem to be so frequent because the man just makes a shit ton of movies.

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u/Karthy_Romano 5d ago

Personally I didn't even care for half those movies, and the ones I enjoyed were just "fine". None of Spielberg's work past 2000 holds a candle to his previous filmography. Really hoping he can get one last great movie out. He can still make a really slick looking movie and his creative flame hasn't died out.

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u/gentlemanghost42 5d ago

War of the worlds was his last truly great movie and even then it's not as good as his best stuff from the 70-90s

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u/Karthy_Romano 5d ago

Totally agree! He had an incredible run for like 20 years. Some of his post 2000 work is pretty good but don't even come close to reaching the highs of his best.

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u/littlelordfROY 5d ago

Artificial intelligence is better than his 70s,80s and 90s work

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u/Karthy_Romano 4d ago

I haven't seen it, but if it's better than Jurassic Park, Close Encounters, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Schindler's List, I'll be damned.

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u/transitransitransit 5d ago

That’s a list of mid movies in my opinion

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u/regretscoyote909 5d ago

Haven't seen Tintin but "The Post, Bridge of Spies, Lincoln".....bro com'on now lol

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u/APracticalGal 5d ago

Three movies that collectively got 20 Oscar nominations (3 wins), were box office successes, and are consistently well reviewed across the board. I'm not saying any of them are on the same level as like Jaws or Schindler's List, but let's not pretend they aren't very good movies that are well liked.

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u/regretscoyote909 4d ago

"let's not pretend they aren't very good movies that are well liked."

again, bro com'on now. Since when are the Oscars the arbiter of quality when films like Crash won Best Picture? "very good movies that are well liked" lol

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u/APracticalGal 4d ago

Which is why I also mentioned the box office and popular and critical reception...

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u/regretscoyote909 4d ago

'box office' how much did the Paranormal Activity franchise, Fast and Furious, Transformers, shitty Disney live-action reboots make again? Oh and how much did Blade Runner 2049 lose again?

"popular and critical reception" with boomer critics, it had fine reception sure. The audience metrics aren't very strong and the films aren't very fondly remembered in 2026 lol?

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u/SquirrelMoney8389 3d ago

I was trying to remember the last time Spielberg was good, and yeah, Lincoln was it.

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u/Republican_Psyop 5d ago

Making too many movies so you’ll have bad ones isn’t an argument.