@Somun03682911 @trygraptor But her power is also something that can’t and shouldn’t be trusted.
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HalmanZ
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@AlphOmegaDom @trygraptor Not true. They enter the studio, she uses her psychic powers to basically hypnotise everyone. It is established in the beginning that the newsroom is a cynical surrounding. She affects them with the power of empathy. She even produces electricity, for crying out loud.
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saw a tweet alleging that Disclosure Day encourages the public to trust politicians
which i think is a pretty strange takeaway from a movie that includes a scene of a former US president secretly showing off ultra-classified extraterrestrial corpses to his movie star pal
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Spielberg is actually criticizing people like you.
The movie is a treatise on media manipulation, with Spielberg drawing a direct line from Trump (symbolized by the professional wrestler at the beginning of the movie) to himself (the geriatric ET who comes out at the end of the movie to yell at the audience for being so easily manipulated.)
Spielberg is saying that trust in media and media-filtered reality is destructive.
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@TheeChooosenone @anotherfilmfan There is no visible horizon line with the soundstages in the way.
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@anotherfilmfan That intentional horizon correction camera tilt at the very end of the shot is pure cinematic perfection. It serves as such a beautiful, meta nod to John Ford's advice about where to place the horizon line.
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I'm so happy that Spielberg did not retire but man this would've been the greateast last shot of his carrear
Spade@DetectiveSpade_
All roads lead back to The Fabelmans
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@Tepi76 @Corps_De_Blah If the movie is about anything, it’s about manipulation, and whether manipulation is justifiable for a greater purpose (such as trying to force empathy). Spielberg seems to be arguing that it is. To me, that’s not actually hopeful.
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@AlphOmegaDom @Corps_De_Blah It clearly does. It's a major theme of the movie.
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#DisclosureDay takes are honestly so bad.
The cynicism in most of the critiques are exactly what the movie is touching upon.
It’s amazing to see people claim Spielberg is out of touch for daring to show the world in a light more hopefully than it currently is.
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@blakethinks You just stated one of the major reasons why it’s popular.
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Obsession is a film with so much wrong with it that I haven't even got around to asking what on earth you guys are seeing in the female lead's CollegeHumor-esque performance
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@diegoscott83 @mattattack86 @Driftwould2 I considered walking out as soon as she hypnotized the cop who pulled her over.
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@mattattack86 @Driftwould2 I would bet any one of those people are actually lying because the 20 minute mark is right in the middle of Emily Blunts brilliant introduction scene and there’s no way they walked out of that tour-de-force.
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Interesting in that it’s not Spielberg’s best anything and yet it’s better than most movies that exist
McRib@McR1B69
Seated for:
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The POV flip when she gets pulled over for speeding is pretty much an entire 4 year education at film school.
Matthew Mueller@aManAboutFilm
DISCLOSURE DAY: The thing about a Steven Spielberg movie is that, even if some of it doesn't work, it's still a Steven Spielberg movie, which means there'll be at least a dozen shots where the camera glides into the perfect place in a scene and you understand why cinema exists.
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@ScottDMenzel They shouldn’t campaign her for either. She has a long career ahead, no need to go all in on this one.
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If you were Focus Features, would you campaign Inde Navarrette in lead or supporting?
I would personally put her in supporting because I think that’s where she not only has the best chances of winning but tends to be the ideal category for the underdogs!
What do you think?
#Obsession #IndeNavarrette
GIF
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@MovieDweller Hollywood wants directors who think like studio execs. The goal is to create continuous engagement, not self-contained art or entertainment.
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He doesn’t even begin from the impulse of wanting to create a movie. He begins with a salesman’s idea for a good pitch that will win an audience. In other words, his desires are not focused on the images at all. Not a moviemaker.
Walter@MovieDweller
He thinks the radically heightened Tobe hooper classic is “raw and grounded”
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He thinks the radically heightened Tobe hooper classic is “raw and grounded”
Popped🍿@PoppedNews
Curry Barker on his approach to A24’s upcoming reboot of ‘TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE.’ “I wouldn’t be interested if I didn’t think I could find a way in that feels fresh and new, while still respecting the original. The canon itself is all over the place, so there’s not much to stay loyal to other than the original. I want to make a new generation of people scared and give them this feeling of: “What if you went on a road trip with your friends and this happened to you?” I want to capture the rawness and the grounded-ness of the original.” (via: @THR)
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DISCLOSURE DAY was just a lesser version of Alex Proya's KNOWING.
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Hard to wrap my head the fact that buying tickets for a new Christopher Nolan movie is treated like a film festival.
There is not a single living filmmaker with this kind of pull and power. How did he get so massive? He makes Spielberg look like Ed Wood. My queue number is 6121. It’s Monday morning and it’s not even 9AM. What the actual fuck is happening?
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“One of the best-reviewed horror films of 2026.” Why not just say “one of the films released in 2026”
Film Updates@FilmUpdates
Adrian Chiarella’s ‘LEVITICUS’ is officially certified fresh at 95% on Rotten Tomatoes. It ranks among the best-reviewed horror films of 2026. In theaters June 19.
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@MJSmith891 Movies are treated like political candidates now. Flaws are expected to be ignored beyond a certain threshold of popularity.
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Also the end of Project Hail Mary (a movie I loved) makes far less narrative sense than the end of Disclosure Day, and I didn't hear a peep out of you dweebs back then.
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this medium and the culture surrounding it is worthless until we have a large scale cultural reckoning with masculinism
Films to Films@filmstofilms_
25 Greatest Directors of All Time according to Collider.
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@ecyrbhunter His natural gifts and talents are still mind-boggling, and always will be. But his career also serves as fascinating proof that genius alone doesn’t make a movie great or even good.
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Guy who has seen 3,000 movies:
Steven Spielberg is maybe the most preternaturally gifted filmmaker ever and one of America’s most complicated and interesting artists because of (not in spite of) his many contradictions
DiggerCrave 🧡@CruiseCrave
Guy who’s seen 10 movies: Steven Spielberg is the best director of all time Guy who’s seen 100 movies: Steven Spielberg is overrated. Guy who’s seen 1000 movies: Steven Spielberg is the best director of all time
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@AlphOmegaDom this is the equivalent of telling people they should never eat another burger in their life because they put ketchup on it
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At this point, oners and “impressive” long takes should never be done by any director again for any reason, no matter the director’s level of experience. They’re grotesque and severely played out. As the kids say, totally washed.
Alexander Berenbeim@berenbeim
@JosephKahn The difference between an artist and a film school student is understanding that a oner is in service of the material.
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