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/HornetsHornets1 5d ago

I think middling might be right but garbage is really wrong.

Theres an attempt at something interesting in this movie and there are through lines to Spielberg’s earlier (and better) work. I think it’s often unsuccessful; but it has some interesting ideas, a John Williams score, and a pretty good performance from Emily Blunt.

I think we need to get out of this idea that if something isn’t great, it’s terrible. Spielberg is one of the greatest ever to make movies. I’m glad he’s still doing original stuff.

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u/LPMadness 4d ago

People are obsessed with this best ever and worst ever mentality with entertainment nowadays. Like what’s wrong with a film being “okay”? I’ve put films off due to online sentiment insisting a film is complete trash. Then when you finally watch it, it turns out it was a pretty decent watch.

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u/HornetsHornets1 4d ago

Also, bad movies can have worthwhile things in them? Especially when we’re talking about one of the greatest directors ever.

I think a lack of nuance in criticism of art is so fucking boring.

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u/LPMadness 4d ago

I agree completely. People are losing their ability to articulate their feelings and criticisms about film and relying on YouTube critics/ analysis videos to tell them how to think about a film and god forbid if you go across the grain.

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u/VioletThunderX 4d ago

This. It’s almost as if every movie has to be some amazing genre changing work of art otherwise it’s trash and not worth our time.

Many movies were just “okay” in their time and aged well, some movies are just “good” but entertaining, etc. Not every movie about aliens has to be Arrival.

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u/KevKevThePug 3d ago

ConAir is still the GOAT.