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[AJUMP23]

I saw it and it definitely drags. But I enjoyed the film. Just not something I would watch again.

You could shave 45 minutes out of the film.

 

[Darkmakaimura]

I would have preferred to have seen an actual Disclosure Day One movie. But I think the religious angle would be a bit tiresome. There wouldn't really be any religious panic, people don't go to war because of schools teaching the theory of evolution and abiogenesis. Many religions also wouldn't really care about some little green man appearing.

It'd be a different story if they were violent and going to invade, but then we'd just have a normal alien invasion film. Now that I think about it I think it's very hard to make an exciting movie without adding lots of car chase scenes. You'd need to crank up the drama to unimaginable and unrealistic levels to make panic seem realistic.

I'm very skeptical and I used to be a big fan and believer but she has made me less than optimistic.

I do believe intelligent life exists out there. I would actually find it weirder if it didn't than if it did. There's just way too many galaxies and way too many stars in those galaxies. Even if we are a one in a trillion chance, there's most likely at least some advanced civilizations out there.

I also don't like when people say the distances are too far to have aliens coming here. Their technology is probably so advanced it's like magic to us. Folding space-time and wormholes for instant or near instant travel is definitely a possibility. They could also be transdimensional but the average person just doesn't know.

But I'm also the idea they could be something entirely different. Or it could be advanced human technology.

Sadly I don't think we'll ever get disclosure.

 

[Insane Metal]

Well, the general public says it's a boring movie, giving it a score of 5 or 6.

It's one of Spielberg's worst, like War of the Worlds.

I loved WotW.

 

[The Goddamn Mike]

I loved WotW.

I enjoy it, as well. It's an entertaining spectacle, in the same sci-fi/fantasy fashion as Minority Report. I do also unabashedly love all movies in which an attempt is made to present Tom Cruise as a real human being. It's work.

Maybe a bit off-topic and, I get it: A lot these "lists" are made to get clicks for controversy, but...
Hollywood Reporter needs a reality-check.

Disclosure Day comes in at 28 of 35. As I haven't seen it, yet, I cannot attest to its ranking. However, here are some highlights in regard to other films:

Apparently, Spielberg's worst is The Lost World:

"Because this dinosaur sequel is such a pointless romp where boring people get mauled so a billionaire can rally public opinion for a boardroom showdown, it's worth noting how remote Spielberg's output could feel at his '90s peak. Far from the suburbia of his early Amblin days, his films now took place on distant islands and in long-ago times. David Koepp's script tries to fix Michael Crichton's lame book a few dumb ways, adding poachers and a stowaway daughter who slays a raptor using gymnastics. For no apparent reason, San Diego gets kaiju'd. The first time you see Jeff Goldblum, he's yawning. The climax puts the T. Rex to sleep."

Lost World isn't great, but last-in-the-list seems a bit harsh. Lincoln gets spot 16 - you know: the one with Daniel Day Lewis pulling a soft, effeminate voice because it's supposedly historically accurate. Do you remember anything else from that film? I don't. I remember the King Kong-esque Tyrannosaur bit from Lost World, though.

Saving Private Ryan comes in at number...21?

"I count four Spielberg films that take place during World War II. This does not include Indy punching Nazis in the 1930s, or the U.S.S. Indianapolis speech from Jaws, or the ageless 1945 pilots in Close Encounters, or the Band of Brothers trilogy, or the Medal of Honor game franchise, or the 40-minute war film he made as a teenager and memorialized in The Fabelmans. But unless you count a Twilight Zone segment he didn't touch or the emotionally distant veteran dad in the forgotten '60s TV drama The Psychiatrist, his directorial career did not acknowledge the Vietnam War until he was 70 making The Post. It's a visible absence, a critical boomer macronarrative ignored by this critical macro-boomer.

So it's possible to admire his fidelity to the Greatest Generation's heroism — and wonder how much his Last Good War nostalgia was an escape from harsher reckonings. With Saving Private Ryan, Spielberg and cinematographer Janusz Kaminski created a new kind of screen violence: up-close, handheld, mud-spattered, shutter speeds so juked and lenses so flared any throwaway shot sparkles with jagged discontinuity. There's no plot reason for the rescue squad's mission to begin after a 23-minute D-Day scene and two minutes of George C. Marshall quoting Abraham Lincoln, except Spielberg realized before anyone else that you could blend gutgash mayhem with lonely-trumpet flagwaving corn. The action still looks — no other way to say it — totally rad. But even Spielberg wanted to leave this battlefield behind. His later American histories devisceralize the Civil War, the Cold War and Vietnam into hallways-of-power conversations and paper trails. Meanwhile, a generation of Ryan-influenced Call of Duty games let you go all Ready Player One on the beaches of Normandy whenever you want."

What the fuck is he even on about? Saving Private Ryan deserves better than this. It set the visual standard for what WWII should look like in film, embellished or not. It's also a really good show in its own right and I put it in my top 5 films, all-time, regardless of filmmaker. 21?

At least Jaws gets a number 2 spot. It should be number 1. It changed the film industry.

Bridge of Spies, War Horse, and Westside Story occupy spots 7, 6, and 5. Who is the fucking goof who put this together?

Darren is a terrible human being. He should not be in a position to communicate insulting nonsense and the "more stories by Darren" link should be permanently removed from all content he contributes to HR. Boo this man.

 

[IDKFA]

I enjoy it, as well. It's an entertaining spectacle, in the same sci-fi/fantasy fashion as Minority Report. I do also unabashedly love all movies in which an attempt is made to present Tom Cruise as a real human being. It's work.

Maybe a bit off-topic and, I get it: A lot these "lists" are made to get clicks for controversy, but...
Hollywood Reporter needs a reality-check.

Disclosure Day comes in at 28 of 35. As I haven't seen it, yet, I cannot attest to its ranking. However, here are some highlights in regard to other films:

Apparently, Spielberg's worst is The Lost World:



Lost World isn't great, but last-in-the-list seems a bit harsh. Lincoln gets spot 16 - you know: the one with Daniel Day Lewis pulling a soft, effeminate voice because it's supposedly historically accurate. Do you remember anything else from that film? I don't. I remember the King Kong-esque Tyrannosaur bit from Lost World, though.

Saving Private Ryan comes in at number...21?



What the fuck is he even on about? Saving Private Ryan deserves better than this. It set the visual standard for what WWII should look like in film, embellished or not. It's also a really good show in its own right and I put it in my top 5 films, all-time, regardless of filmmaker. 21?

At least Jaws gets a number 2 spot. It should be number 1. It changed the film industry.

Bridge of Spies, War Horse, and Westside Story occupy spots 7, 6, and 5. Who is the fucking goof who put this together?

Darren is a terrible human being. He should not be in a position to communicate insulting nonsense and the "more stories by Darren" link should be permanently removed from all content he contributes to HR. Boo this man.

Warhorse and West Side Story in the top ten, but Saving Private Ryan in at 21 is criminal.

 

[Power Pro]

I feel like I gotta go see it still just to get my own opinion on it.

Edit update: in the theater now, hope to be surprised.

 

[SirKicksalot]

Darren is a terrible human being. He should not be in a position to communicate insulting nonsense and the "more stories by Darren" link should be permanently removed from all content he contributes to HR. Boo this man.

David Koepp's script tries to fix Michael Crichton's lame book a few dumb ways, adding poachers and a stowaway daughter who slays a raptor using gymnastics. For no apparent reason, San Diego gets kaiju'd. The first time you see Jeff Goldblum, he's yawning.

Koepp's script replaced the book, which was indeed lame.
The yawn is one of Spielberg's best jokes ever.
I don't even read reviews anymore. Who cares about some random guy's take. I trust my gut instinct and I write about movies on Neogaf while my tendies are in the oven, that's all I need.

 

[The Goddamn Mike]

I don't even read reviews anymore. Who cares about some random guy's take.

I do...because there are amazing films younger people have not experienced and might be hesitant to see because some asshole who writes for a "legitimate" entertainment industry publication decided to publish a truly bad opinion. That shit ain't right and needs to be taken into account.

EDIT: To be clear, Lost World is not one of those films. But, this list is goofy and it begs for criticism.

 

[AJUMP23]

Fair

 

[Power Pro]

Just got home from it. It was okay? I feel like this could have been a better movie with some more work done on the script. Feels like they went with a first draft. The film says "story by Steven Spielberg" and that's probably where it's strengths come from, but then the scriptwriting process was just thrown together. Not refined enough. It also could've been tightened up, and made shorter by not dragging things out. It tries to go for the feelings of Close Encounters and E.T., but those movies had more interesting characters, and a tighter pace.

The villain of the movie also seems like a pretty big asshole, and usually that type of character, you wanna see him get his comeuppance, but that doesn't really happen.

I hate to say it, but some people are also right about it feeling like something that should've been made 20-30 years ago. It's a sad fact that the world has changed, and I don't know if people have the same sense of wonder they used to. Even if something like this did happen, people would still be super skeptical. It's just the shitty nature of the world we're in, and that makes this Spielberg movie seem old fashioned and out of touch. I know that sounds super harsh. I'm with him! I want those feelings back, and I want to believe that this type of story could happen, like Close Encounters, but that's not today

One thought that crossed my mind...I don't know how the last 2 seasons of X-files handled things, but I immediately felt like with some tweaks, this could've been a great way to end the X-files as a series/narrative. The show was all about cover ups, and this type of story would've been perfect for that series that always seemed like it didn't know how to handle it's conclusion.

 

[cormack12]

The problem is the trailer makes it look like something is actually disclosed. And just as we reach that climax after a very long movie, we don't even get the payoff.

I felt it was just like a 2hr run and chase movie. I didn't even find the 'diving' well explained or reason they could detect each other by divination.

 

[NahaNago]

The movie was disappointing for me. My biggest issue is that the bad guys are incompetent. I'm like aren't you guys like trained to take people down but the good guys somehow keep escaping or just letting them go. I kept thinking shoot these people or handcuff them so that they can't escape. I kept rooting for the bad guy to win throughout the movie even though he was evil. The movie was simply okay.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

Well, the general public says it's a boring movie, giving it a score of 5 or 6.

It's one of Spielberg's worst, like War of the Worlds.

War of the Worlds is a fantastic movie. Both versions that is

 

[Hideous Snake]

The problem is the trailer makes it look like something is actually disclosed. And just as we reach that climax after a very long movie, we don't even get the payoff.

I felt it was just like a 2hr run and chase movie. I didn't even find the 'diving' well explained or reason they could detect each other by divination.

Saw the movie last night and I agree with this 100%. What the fuck were they trying to achieve? The script was weak too. The movie as a package was a fun watch

 

[jason10mm]

man, if you told 1980's me that we would have a new Star Wars movie, a huge budget He-man movie, Supergirl, AND a Steven Spielberg aliens movie in the same summer, I'd be ESTATIC.

To see how these films are playing out, either in critical reception or box office performance, I never would have guessed correctly.

 

[WoodyStare]

Absolutely loved this, Spielbergs best film in over twenty years. He's almost 80 and shoots the hell out of this. I was completely engaged throughout and the final thirty minutes are incredible. I feel like this is going to age wonderfully. Nobody is making films like this man and I'm hoping he still has a few more left in him. It's sad that this might be the final score we hear from John Williams, and while not his most memorable it was beautiful at times. Can't wait to see this again, my audience was full and they all clapped when it was over.

 

[K' Dash]

there's 20 min of a good short film in there somewhere.

Disappointed.

 

[wipeout364]

I was trying to decide what to go see tonight Obsession, The Furious or this. After reading this thread it is down to The Furious or Obsession.