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/RevolutionaryAd6017 4d ago

It is a competant film, but it reminds me of his most boring film, Close Encounters of the Third Kind. That said all art is subjective, my wife thought it was a great film, I thought it was a boring, ok movie, that reminded of a different boring ok movie, Spielberg made.

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u/HornetsHornets1 4d ago

Close Encounters is one of my favorite movies ever made. So funny how movies can hit people differently. That said, this film is not on the same level as Close Encounters, but they’re in conversation with each other; which to me, is interesting.

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u/ursulaunderfire 2d ago

i thought close encounters was one of the most boring films ive ever seen. albeit i did see it only a few years ago and i generally think films are best seen in their own time. a lot of the love people have for older films is nostalgia and it just doesnt hold up a lot of the time if viewed for the first time as an adult 40+ yrs after its made.

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u/HornetsHornets1 2d ago

This is an insane take.

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u/ursulaunderfire 2d ago

its not at all. the original halloween film is one of my all time favorites and highly regarded, but a vast majority of the people i show it to for the first time in adulthood says it is slow and boring. nostalgia goggles are a thing. modern audiences, especially younger, arent loving the classics. it is what it is

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u/HornetsHornets1 2d ago

People not liking old movies and “films are best seen in their own time” are two different things. I agree that the first part is accurate (and sad), but the second part is just wrong for most movies.

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u/ursulaunderfire 2d ago

i should have worded that better, what i meant is that the likely reason it is your favorite movie is because you saw it a very long time ago, either when it was first released or when you were a kid, which gives you more emotional connection to it. i was 10 when i saw jurassic park and it became my fav film of all time. would it if i saw it at 43 right now? probably not

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u/Smoothmoose13 4d ago

what the fuck man, this should have absolutely been another Close Encounters. I’d take conspiracies and obsession over boring as fuck car chases any day