
r/disclosureday

Spielberg flopped this one.
I’m watching disclosure day as it just came out on fandango. I’m so glad I didn’t waste my money in the theater just wasted it at home. What a let down, am I watching a Michael Bay movie? Does anyone else think this sucks? My top sci fi movies are… the Martian, interstellar, the matrix, project Hail Mary was way better, and that one movie where they went to mars and the aliens showed them the beginning of human kind. That’s the stuff I thought I was getting in to.
Disclosure Day is an actual intentional Cinematic Global Briefing for Mankind by Extraterrestrials (Serious)
Disclosure Day is an actual intentional Cinematic Global Briefing for Mankind by Extraterrestrials. presented in truth-as-fiction format, partnering with Steven Spielberg's genius, and with several live aliens 'coming out' as themselves in the film's 3rd act. The exciting climax of Disclosure Day comes when Emily Blunt's Margaret Fairchild and Josh O'Connor's Dr. Daniel Kellner break into her TV news station, interrupt a live news broadcast to link the studio up with nationwide and global networks and simulcast worldwide a trove of classified U.S. Government photos and videos of captured extraterrestrials, dead and alive, smuggled by Daniel from his Pentagon-contractor boss Wardex. In the film's finale, actual human-looking Tall-White ETs escort into Margaret's TV studio a real live 7'7" [2.3m] female Estican arthropod-mantid humanoid Star Visitor 'Xeleria', [S-4 lab-tag UVO-17], to deliver Star Nations' message to the world. Xeleria speaks in mantid clickings to Daniel, he translates for Margaret, who speaks (in English) into the microphone Xeleria's global message: 'Listen!!'
_The film ends there, having familiarized the audience with the UFO Cover-Up organization's dishonesty, cowardly sneakiness, and murderous viciousness, in stark contrast to the aliens' brave straightforwardness in presenting themselves. What Spielberg did not do was to lay out the extraterrestrials' near-future plans for interacting with humanity after all Defense Department UFO videos and files have dropped, blockbuster film Disclosure Day is seen and absorbed worldwide ($236 million sales globally by July 21), and the US President announces UFO/ET-Reality, the UFO Cover-Up disintegrates. All this opens the door to a world with ETs eventually on television and on the street. As Disclosure Day film becomes reality, our world will shift to a society in a multi-cultural cosmos. Who knows? Maybe Disclosure Day's success may prompt makers Steven Spielberg and David Koepp to think about a sequel, one exploring the transformation open ET-presence will be bringing in uplifting people's lives.
Richard Boylan, Ph.D.
Disclosure Day is one of the most mediocre movies of the past 10 years
This has got to be one of the most mediocre and letdown movies of the past decade. The acting was mediocre, it felt like everyone overacted their role. Make no mistake, the majority of this movie was not about disclosure but more like a CIA spy movie with car chases and ridiculous writing. It doesn’t take the disclosure subject seriously and felt like a cheap tv show geared for 15 year olds.
With all the available data and subject matter, this movie should have turned out ten times better than it did.
Like Magic?
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.
Disclosure day - Daniel / Jesse
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?
Hemi-Sync in Direct Sunlight
I’ve heard through multiple sources of the importance of our Sun in relation to us (humans.) One experiencer reported that an alien said our sun is the key to everything (I interpret this as understanding everything.) I’m also experiencing first hand real benefits of treating sunlight like I would water or food (something vital for my body.) like everything thing too much of anything can be bad (yes water poisoning is real.)
I also know that the Monroe Institute uses CHEC units for their sessions. These CHEC units are sound proof and most importantly light proof. Every time I’ve done a hemi-sync meditation I try to recreate these conditions because it’s what they do at the Monroe Institute, who invented this technology.
I used hemisync (only focus 10) lying on the ground in direct midday sunlight and this meditation was 100x more intense (vivid might be a better word) than anything I’ve ever experienced before. I had full on visuals. I found myself in a dessert with large boulders everywhere and someone in a hooded robe who didn’t want to be seen by me was there. My consciousness POV became my energy vortex spiraling around my “body.” It was actually extremely disorienting and felt like “the spins” (when you drink too much and shut your eyes.) I was able to gain control over this disorientation with much concentrated effort. I also had intense color visuals (with my eyes closed.) At one point this was so intense I had to force myself out and to sit up. I did get back into it but was near the end of the tape anyway.
One odd occurrence was that my phone over heated (direct sunlight tends to do that) so the tape stoped playing. I knew the rest of the steps for focus 10 when it stopped playing so just continued the meditation without the tape. The strange thing was that after the tape stopped, I put my phone in the shade to cool down. When my phone did cool down, the tape resumed playing, not from where it stopped due to my phone over heating, but where I was continuing the mediation from memory. It picked up exactly where I was currently along in the focus 10 meditation but without the guidance of the tape. And I did not turn it back on my phone did when I cooled down, so when the tape did turn back on it was very startling to me and as soon as the tape turned back on all the intense and vividness and visions and color visuals started up like a light switch was turned on.
It turns out when
The NHI, aliens, spirits, or simply others as I like to call them are correct. I plan to do the higher focus level in direct sunlight. I can’t be the first person to try this. And I can’t believe that the true power of this sound technology is actually unlocked by direct sunlight and that those at the Monroe institute are unaware of this.
I can't stand this guy, no matter what movie he's in, he's a real pain.
After watching Disclosure Day, I don’t understand the hate.
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.
Disclosure Day (2026) was a very bold move from Spielberg
It feels like Spielberg did not hold back on releasing this type of film. No holding back now, because a lot of people are being perceptive about the possibilities and the truth.
I really liked the message that Empathy is indeed our superpower!
I have a full review recorded here in this link: https://youtu.be/qRL7n70gyl0?si=vt_0UeXrTQVjAmDK for those of you who's interested to listen. Then please let me know what you think about it :)
Can someone explain a few things about Disclosure Day?
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.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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?
- 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!
Disclosure Day
So so so so so bad.
90's movie trying to fit into decades later. Independence Day 2 was trash, let's recycle again...
Toast.
The toast comes up as wheat bread.
What she lays on the plate is sourdough or white.
Hollywood, The CIA & UFOs: The History Beyond Spielberg
This podcast credibly talks about the long history of collusion between Hollywood and Intelligence agencies,(CIA and/or The Office of Naval Intelligence). It’s a must watch if you want to understand the history of Speilberg and this topic. There is much more to Disclosure Day then just another summer movie. This is great context if you are curious.
Disclosure day concept art really helped appreciate the film more
Some videos breaking down the graphic concept art really helped with appreciating the film more and it gives a bit more background on the origin of the "alien" species that appear in the film. Also, the religious themes start to come together more since these are a form of created being. "Angelic".
Passing along for those who haven't checked it out.
What are your thoughts on Emily Blunt's performance in Disclosure Day?
Bizarre Background Shot
When Margaret and Jackson are at the gas station in their final discussion, they move at one point that you could see the side wall of the convenience store part of the gas station. As they are talking in the background are 5-6 men lined up facing the wall…presumably urinating on the wall? I guess that was supposed to represent the out of control behavior by the people there. Frantic. As Jackson said it’s the end of the world. Let me not use a restroom.