@JamesPPoole Spielberg has one of the most inconsistent filmographies of all time. This is a man who somehow made both A.I. and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
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@halyconelement
Film&Theory&Graps. Free Palestine.
Katılım Şubat 2018
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I would love to discuss DISCLOSURE DAY as someone who was lukewarm on but it seems like the only takes allowed are:
Spielberg is the undisputed God of cinema and no negativity is allowed.
OR
Spielberg is a hack fraud who made an evil movie.
Neither of these are interesting!
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@StephenKentX I wish it was. Colin Firth as a DoD Collins Elite lifer that believes the aliens are demons would have been infinitely more interesting.
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DISCLOSURE DAY. Y'all, it's not demonic. Please relax. Its only real problem is that it's a boring movie that kind of goes nowhere.
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@gohanflopped @SecretSunBlog It's a stupid MacGuffin whose powers shift on the fly in order to drive the plot forward. Is it a device that lets you astral project? Is it a device that lets you turn anything you want invisible? Is it a device that somehow lets you power a destroyed generator? Sure!
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@SecretSunBlog The glow sticks never needed to be explained as it was unnecessary to the plot. He explained it without having to.
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Spoiler Alert: Disclosure Day isn't really about aliens or anything like that. It's about magical glow sticks that are never explained or exposited, but comprise the overwhelming bulk of the plot. They also do whatever Spielberg and Koepp need them to do whenever the plot runs aground.
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@karlmarxisright Emily Blunt as the alien messiah being repulsed by someone doing the sign of the cross was, uh, subtextually interesting to say the least.
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Disclosure Day was good not great. Bit of an 80s/90s feel. There are problems with the story, especially in the 3rd act, but it’s well acted. The biggest positive is that it wasn’t boring at any point. Spielberg still has it.
The film is full of Jewish, Christian, and Greek mythological symbolism that I think is worth investigating.
7/10
GIF
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thought they played the wrong movie for a sec
aster@asterofpuppets
opening sequence of Disclosure Day is one of Spielberg's most astute and purely visual depictions of American politics
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@EzraCubero An out of touch billionaire positing that a little more empathy for each other, a return to respectability politics and placing trust in the 4th estate again is enough to fix a world being ravaged by genocide, ecological collapse, etc. is what cynicism actually looks like, btw.
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I'm not surprised that the reactions to Disclosure Day are getting more polarizing as more people see it. However, it really disappoints me that the rampant cynicism polluting the online space is robbing people of feeling just an ounce of this film's abundant sincerity.
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@Ramsey6281 Especially when the "heart and sincerity" purposefully obfuscate the actual state of things. Insidious garbage.
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Maybe a movie having “heart and sincerity” doesn’t exclude it from criticism.
Ethan Simmie@EthanSimmie
i’m genuinely perplexed about what is going on with people absolutely despising Disclosure Day?? its baffling to me that a movie with so much heart, sincerity, and profound ideas is the thing people have chosen to latch onto as “scourge of the earth” type shit
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@stick52427 @nathanrobii PHM beats you over the head with its calls for empathy too, but it's slightly less ideologically insidious and features some nice practical effects instead of the worst CGI you'll see all year. Also has a competent 3rd act.🤷♂️
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@nathanrobii disclosure day opening sub 3.5 but PHM is STILL at 4.3 makes zero sense to me
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@nathanrobii "Misunderstood masterpiece" and it's just barely reheated Arrival nachos from an Octogenarian liberal zionist that wishes we could all go back to respectability politics and trusting mainstream media again. 🙄🙄
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@comradejosh7 He finances Zionist Oct. 7 Hasbara through his USC Shoah Foundation
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@halyconelement I actually don’t think he’s been all that “vocal” on either side, and that is of course a problem….
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The problem with how Spielberg engages with the concept of empathy is that he does so in a way that is not remotely scientific. It’s honestly fairly uninformed. And it indulges in a “Theory of Mind” approach that I find to be pretty irresponsible and solipsistic.
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@insufficentfund Disclosure Day, Project Hail Mary, He-Man, Star Wars - it's the year of the wrong era blockbuster. I'm sure you'll be able to add Avengers, Toy Story 5 and the new Hunger Games to the list as well.
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Disclosure Day: vestiges of Obama-era cinema. Often incoherent and gaudy (there is a scene that looks like an AI Coca-Cola Christmas commercial) completely fastidious camera movements, mind-numbing screenplay. That said it is a key piece of his filmography in many ways
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@regularaugust Young people want their nightmarish world reflected back at them so as to not feel so fucking crazy. Validation, in other words. Spielberg and his "everything is fine, we just need to be a little more empathetic" sloptimism may as well just be him spitting in their faces.
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Do younger people crave “edgier” stuff for lack of a better word? Like the type of movie that gets people in seats recently have been bleak horror outings and not some old-style blockbuster (regardless of quality). I know horror tends to do well but are they “more drawn” to it?
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@GambitL7 @JedKingly You forgot to strike out Disclosure Day, The Post, War Horse and The Terminal
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@halyconelement @JedKingly This is his output since 2000, I have put a red cross on the bad ones - inconsistent my ass
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@filosfaded @buddhistwisdom7 The issue is the script, not the actor.
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@buddhistwisdom7 I mean, if this isn’t good acting to you then what is?
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Insane positive comments. I was cringing badly, it's as if she walked out of THE HAPPENING or something, people crying at this is wild
I thought these scenes were horrible.
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Matt Neglia @Tribeca@NextBestPicture
Her name is Courtney Grace and she absolutely sold everything this scene required #DisclosureDay
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I’m sorry, but 16 year olds were just way more attractive in the 90s than they are today
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@Strittposter Nah. Speed Racer embraced its camp with sincerity. MOTU is completely embarrassed to be a silly movie about a half naked man fighting a half naked skeleton man. Every other scene is a character turning to the audience to ask them rhetorically "isn't this shit fucking stupid?"
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This is going to end up being like the Speed Racer movie but for Zoomers. Bombed hard at the box office, 10-15 years later becomes a weird and fondly remembered cult classic
Masters of the Universe@mastersmovie
Fabulous Magic Powers. Masters of the Universe - now playing only in theaters. Get tickets now.
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@adeleadoll @comradejosh7 Tell me you never watched Munich without saying you never watched Munich.
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