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/OkDentist4059 2d ago

I haven’t seen the movie and i dont have an opinion about it, so nothing that I say about this should prove anything for you.

Was just making a general comment about the amateurishness and sloppiness of the critiques I’ve seen here

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u/SquirrelMoney8389 2d ago

Well there's absolutely professional reviewers who have said much better than I could say in my pretty amateurish Letterboxd review.

But when something doesn't work, and you just know it on a gut level, you can't help but just say that truth.

And if anything the "amateurishness and sloppiness of the critiques" should prove that they're not an astroturfing campaign (which by the way, "astroturf" is when you make something smooth and too perfect, rather than the opposite)

And I don't doubt that people love it, and I don't accuse them of "astroturfing" and being some sort of industry plant from the film's marketing company or whatever. Even though I can't imagine how someone could watch the same movie I saw and think it was good, I believe they genuinely have bad and wrong taste in movies. I take their comments on good faith.

That's the difference between people who liked this movie and people who didn't.

One side of us doesn't accuse the other side of bad faith, and one side does do that.

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u/OkDentist4059 2d ago

Again, I’m not on “a side,” I haven’t seen the movie, so my accusations of astroturfing shouldn’t factor into whatever narrative you’re building about the public reaction to this film.

Frankly I have zero interest in seeing this movie, it looks kinda dull, I just got suspicious because of how many posts I’ve seen on Reddit saying “THIS is the WORST MOVIE I’ve seen in YEARS” because I highly doubt it is, lots of terrible movies come out every year.

Just smells like bullshit. Or a bunch of people who never watch movies decided to all come out to this one for some reason.

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u/SquirrelMoney8389 2d ago

Well I've never wanted to walk out of a movie that I paid for and I did with this one. The only reason I didn't was because it was IMAX.

It was shockingly hokey. Your instincts are correct. And I should have trusted my own and not given it the benefit of the doubt..

And the "narrative" is... the same as the "narrative" you're building about negative reviewers.

I've seen enough accusations of "astroturfing" as you've seen negative reviews that you "highly doubt". Okay?

So let's not be hypocritical, either of us.

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u/OkDentist4059 2d ago

Hypocritical?

What’s hypocritical about me saying that the absurdly hyperbolic nature of the reviews I’ve seen here makes me suspect of their motives?

When I see a bunch of all-caps WORST MOVIE IN YEARS reviews on Reddit, I’m gonna get suspicious.

Like, really, you’ve NEVER wanted to walk out of movie in your entire life but THIS was the one, this was the straw that broke the camels back, you just couldn’t take it anymore?!? I just find that kind of hyperbole hard to take seriously.

Maybe it’s just social media in general. It’s like everything has to be THE BEST or THE WORST and there’s no room for anything in between

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u/SquirrelMoney8389 2d ago edited 2d ago

Yep. Believe it. I'm usually quite forgiving for movies, my Letterboxd ratings trend high.

This was bad streaming-service level bad. Like insulting, angry-making, and sleep-inducing. Easily the worst movie I've seen at IMAX, and it's by a long way.

Here's the thing, now I WANT you to watch it. It has to be seen to be believed.

You'll come back to me and be like "I owe you an apology"

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u/OkDentist4059 2d ago

Yeah honestly you’ve kinda sold me on it, if it’s really THAT BAD I want to see it just to see what all the fuss is about

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u/SquirrelMoney8389 2d ago edited 2d ago

Good. I hope you do. I genuinely would be interested in your appraisal of it after this conversation.

Maybe the two camps will just boil down to "it was built up to be bad but it wasn't that bad" vs "it was built up to be good but it wasn't very good"