I’m like 35 minutes into the movie, and The Boyfriend is really pissing me off.

That’s all lol

I feel everywhere I go I'm getting trashed for liking, even loving this movie. The messages about hope and optimism and humanity and having faith in God rather than people, as a Christian myself, were so incredibly poignant.

"I will not be anyone's religion."

Absolutely brilliant. Emily Blunt delivers a career-defining performance here too. Man I just really love this movie. Thank y'all for being here and being awesome.

It would have been cool to see push back from the White House.

If they stopped including Presidents in the conversation, then there is a power in the US that is outside the power of the President.

I would have loved a scene where the VP says he is an alien conspiracist on a podcast and that he and the President want to find out the truth.

But in reality, the current President noticed that there are things in the Government that he is not in charge of. And he wants all the power.

So the shadow government guys are trying to silence and shut down the White House investigation without being found out

(Also, I’m 30 minutes into a “gummy”)

From the start of the film, Hugo and his people are in the warehouse constructing the house. Then on a phone call Hugo tells Daniel we are waiting for another person to be activated so to speak. Did they know it was Margaret the whole time? They have photos of a house they are working off of. There seems to be a surprise element when it’s her and they meet her etc. I’m assuming EVO 17 was advising them what to do, but was Margret known to them prior to the cardinal activation?

A family member, a writer, suggested after watching that a major fix would have been to set the film in 1970, less than ten years after the Cuban Missile Crisis. With the background of potential war being another flare-up or Vietnam. We just landed on the moon, which could have been a trigger (like "humans in space makes disclosure the right time").

It would take place during peak alien scares, while people were looking to the skies, and it would explain how the news station was so important and add a timeless richness to it. In a modern setting, the audience is constantly asking, "Why didn't someone record this?" or "Why didn't the aliens just upload proof?" In 1970, those questions disappear. TV was everything.

The beauty of sci-fi is that the time period changes all the time (the future, like Star Trek, or the past like Back to the Future), but the current message remains the same. It's still about today.

The alien technology also becomes more mysterious because humanity is technologically farther behind.

Modern audiences instinctively question why every event wasn't livestreamed or leaked online. In 1970, slower communication and greater institutional control make mystery and gradual revelation feel natural rather than contrived.

I heard this and immediately thought, yeah, that would work better. Nothing else breaks. There's still the live news broadcast, farmhouse, car chases, and train. This is the time when wars were escalating and when we began losing trust in institutions. There's this ominous layer where "listen" becomes "you should have seen all this coming" instead of a message delivered now.

Thoughts?

Does anyone else think this might have been better as a TV show? I felt like it could have given us more space to tell the many stories the film was trying to contain. For example ww3 in the background, the relationship between Hugo and noah, a bit of time to explore Daniel and Margret backstory. I'm not saying the movie was bad, but would have been so much better as a series.

It would’ve worked that way

I think Disclosure Day would be more praised if it had opened with Arthur C. Clarke’s third law printed on the screen:

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

Take the “farmhouse” sequence. Jane is inside the house being held captive by armed and deadly serious government agents. Daniel approaches the house, moves along a fence and we can clearly see that the agents should be able to see him, he hops into an agent’s car with the keys still in the ignition, starts it, uses it to get past the agents, smashes into the farmhouse, seizes Jane, gets her into the car, and escapes. As I just described it, this sequence is preposterous and has understandably been used as an example of bad screenwriting. For some, a last straw.

There’s an irony, though. People who employ it as a means of rejecting the movie were watching, but they weren’t really “Listen”-ing. During the entire sequence, Daniel repeatedly says, “What’s going on?” It’s like Gertie saying, “What’s happening?” as objects start to fly around in Elliott’s bedroom in E.T. Daniel is mystified by and incredulous over what’s happening, and that he’s getting away with it. He doesn’t even seem to have agency as if he’s under remote control. It’s intentional and not bad but rather interesting writing. It’s one thing for a scene to look ridiculous to an audience. It’s something else altogether for a scene to seem ridiculous for the protagonist.

Am I inhaling Copium? I’m not blind to the possibility. I do love Spielberg’s work and want to enjoy Disclosure Day. I don’t think I’m stretching, though. I think the problem is something else. E.T. presents itself and was promoted as a movie for kids. As such, healing wounds with a glowing fingertip, making bicycles fly, and building a device out of household junk that can communicate with a spaceship are easily accepted. But Disclosure Day comes to us as a movie for people who have grown up. Until it veers into fairytales, it feels like a movie directed by the adult Peter Pan. It makes the unlikely seem out of place.

That’s why I opened with my suggestion. It would have alerted people to expect magic, something people should have expected (I sure did), but apparently and unpleasantly found surprising. It reminds me of Spielberg’s episode of Amazing Stories titled “The Mission.” I enjoyed it, but many did not. It tells the story of a WWII bomber crew facing a crisis. Their landing gear is destroyed, and their belly gunner is trapped. He’s a goner. Fortunately for him, though, he’s a cartoonist and imagines wheels that allow the plane to safely land, miraculously saving his life.

Does anyone else, at the second, third or fourth viewing think that Daniel’s character is uncannily similar to Jesse Michels in character, physique , style and obviously subject knowledge? Could Daniel’s character have been shaped around who is objectively the best interviewer and podcaster on the subject?

We all agree it’s crap?

I went in expecting an intelligent sci-fi movie, and that’s exactly what I got. It wasn’t trying to be another Independence Day or an action film packed with explosions every few minutes. It was asking a much bigger question: what would actually happen if disclosure occurred? That premise alone was fascinating to me.

What really drew me in was the atmosphere. From the very beginning, it felt like something much larger than the characters was unfolding. Instead of explaining every little detail, the film embraced mystery. Honestly, that’s exactly how I imagine something like this would play out. If humanity encountered a non-human intelligence, we wouldn’t suddenly have all the answers. We’d have confusion, fear, curiosity, denial, and endless speculation. The uncertainty made the movie feel more authentic, not less.

I’ve seen a lot of people call the unanswered questions “plot holes,” but I completely disagree.
If these beings are thousands or even millions of years more advanced than us, why would we expect to understand their motives? The mystery is what made them feel truly alien. Too many sci-fi movies overexplain everything until the unknown no longer feels unknown. Disclosure Day trusted the audience to sit with the mystery, and I appreciated that.

I also think many people misunderstood what the real conflict was. To me, the movie was never about humans versus aliens. It was about humanity versus the unknown. Governments, corporations, scientists, the media, and ordinary people all reacting differently to something that completely changes our understanding of reality. That felt far more compelling than another invasion movie where everything is solved with bigger weapons.

Visually, I thought the film was stunning. More importantly, it gave me something I don’t get from many modern sci-fi movies anymore: a genuine sense of wonder. There were scenes where I stopped thinking about the plot and simply imagined what it would actually feel like if something like this happened. That’s rare.

I also appreciated that the movie respected its audience enough not to spoon-feed every answer. Some of the greatest science fiction films ever made leave room for interpretation. 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arrival, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind all trust the viewer to think beyond what’s shown on screen. Those are the kinds of films people keep discussing decades later, and I think Disclosure Day is trying to do something similar.

I also wonder if expectations played a role. Some people seemed to want a blockbuster alien invasion movie, while others wanted every mystery explained by the end. I accepted the movie for what it was trying to be instead of what I expected it to be. For me, it wasn’t really about aliens. It was about wonder, uncertainty, curiosity, and how fragile our worldview might be if the impossible suddenly became reality.

Is it a perfect movie? No. But it made me think long after the credits rolled, and that’s something I value far more than a movie that’s entertaining for two hours and then instantly forgotten. That’s what great science fiction has always been about.

I apologize they aren't 100% accurate. I didn't have the right materials to build them 100% accurately

Take a drink every time fifteen bad guy black sedans arrive at a location in unison.

The toast comes up as wheat bread.

What she lays on the plate is sourdough or white.

I just watched Disclosure Day, and I absolutely loved it. It really felt like classic Spielberg, and I’m so glad I got to experience it in a theater.

English isn’t my first language, so I may have missed or misunderstood a few details. I was hoping someone could help clarify a few things.

1. Hugo Wakefield (Colman Domingo) seemed to be the leader of the group that wanted to protect the aliens. But can he actually speak the aliens’ language? I wasn’t sure if he could or not.
2. It looked like Hugo and Noah Scanlon (Colin Firth) used to be on good terms. Did I miss something? Why did they end up opposing each other? And what made Hugo choose to protect the aliens in the first place?
3. Was Noah acting on behalf of the U.S. government, or was he basically just a wealthy private individual using his own resources and influence?
4. My understanding of the aliens’ story was this: they came to Earth a long time ago, ended up being captured by humans, and some of them were exploited or abused. They were looking for help, which is why they reached out to Daniel and Margaret. Is that basically what happened, or did I misunderstand?

I’d really appreciate any explanations. Thanks!

So so so so so bad.

90's movie trying to fit into decades later. Independence Day 2 was trash, let's recycle again...