Speaker 1: Steven Spielberg is back, and this time he's talking about aliens,
Speaker 1: which he's talked about before, if we're being honest. But
Speaker 1: he's back and he's talking about aliens again. It's Disclosure Day.
Speaker 1: I'm Ronald Young Junior, and I'm leaving the theater. All right.
Speaker 1: This is Ronald and I am leaving the theater after
Speaker 1: seeing Disclosure Day. Disclosure Day written by David Kepp, directed
Speaker 1: by Steven Spielberg, starring Emily Blunt, Josh O'Connor, Colin Firth,
Speaker 1: Eve Hughson, Wyatt Russell, and Coleman Domingo. And as usual,
Speaker 1: for complete listing of the cast and crew, you can
Speaker 1: go to the link in our show notes. It is
Speaker 1: just me today, okay. Disclosure Day is a film. I
Speaker 1: was trying to think of the genre of film this
Speaker 1: would be. We'll say thriller. I would say light thriller.
Speaker 1: This is a thriller film that is a mystery. You know,
Speaker 1: let's call it a mystery. Let's not call it a thriller.
Speaker 1: It is a mystery film some action elements in which
Speaker 1: essentially Josh O'Connor and Emily Blunt as whatever their names
Speaker 1: are in this film, I've already forgotten. Emily Blunt's name
Speaker 1: is Margaret. I forgot Josh O'Connor's name, Daniel, Daniel something. Wow,
Speaker 1: I've pulled those. I'm pretty good at this. So they
Speaker 1: are trying to escape a non governmental organization that is
Speaker 1: stop trying to stop them from revealing a secret to
Speaker 1: the entire world that they think that the world needs
Speaker 1: to know. Okay, I'm gonna stop right here and say
Speaker 1: I just gotta say spoilers in this one. So if
Speaker 1: you haven't seen the film yet, go ahead and stop this.
Speaker 1: If you want to go see it, go see it.
Speaker 1: Come back here. But I'm going to talk freely about
Speaker 1: this film because I think that's the only way that
Speaker 1: I could really get out my full feelings here. So
Speaker 1: starting right now, I'm going to start start. I mean,
Speaker 1: here we go. Spoilers are coming. Get ready. In three
Speaker 1: two one. It's aliens. It's aliens. It's aliens. You've seen
Speaker 1: the trailer. It's aliens. And it's not just aliens. It's
Speaker 1: that they milk the mystery of what it is for
Speaker 1: the duration of the film in a way that is
Speaker 1: irritating and annoying for me. They're doling out the secrets
Speaker 1: essentially because Josh O'Connor worked for this INNGO forgot the
Speaker 1: name of it, worked for this INNGO, stole all their
Speaker 1: secrets Edwards Noden style, and his plan is to just
Speaker 1: give them to everyone at the same time. Margaret, who
Speaker 1: is a weather lady at a news organization, has an
Speaker 1: experience that unlocks something in her brain and then she
Speaker 1: could essentially have very deep empathy with people and read
Speaker 1: their minds and also speak multiple languages. Emily Blunt in
Speaker 1: this film is the best part of this film. He
Speaker 1: performance is outstanding. I really enjoyed seeing her. I really
Speaker 1: enjoyed watching her flex her abilities. It was just good
Speaker 1: to see her on screen. I really enjoyed her. Josh
Speaker 1: O'Connor could have been anybody. He could have been anybody.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, had he been someone else,
Speaker 1: this movie probably would have opened bigger and more people
Speaker 1: would be realizing how terrible this movie actually is. Okay,
Speaker 1: terrible is I'm being ridiculous when I say terrible. But
Speaker 1: I didn't enjoy this movie. I didn't enjoy it. They
Speaker 1: milked the secret too long. It's a two hour and
Speaker 1: twenty five minute movie. By hour two I'm still not
Speaker 1: clear on exactly what's going on in this film, and
Speaker 1: by the time I do learn what's going on, it's
Speaker 1: pretty stupid. I think it's pretty dumb. I don't enjoy it,
Speaker 1: and it's they're running from this non governmental organization the
Speaker 1: whole time that's headed up by Colin Firth. He's trying
Speaker 1: to get them by any means necessary, and he's trying
Speaker 1: to kill them. There's several instances in which them trying
Speaker 1: to capture them is mildly entertaining at best. I can
Speaker 1: compare this to another Steven Spielberg movie, which would be
Speaker 1: Ready Player one. Ready Player one was a much better
Speaker 1: movie than this one. Same thing, non governmental organization, chase
Speaker 1: it after some people who are trying to free the world,
Speaker 1: or get a secret, or take the mcguffin. There's multiple
Speaker 1: mcguffins in this film. None of them mean much until
Speaker 1: they're in the right hands, and even then it got
Speaker 1: better when Emily Blunt was handling the mcguffins, but other
Speaker 1: than that didn't really do much to move me. I
Speaker 1: just think they took too long to reveal their mystery.
Speaker 1: It took a long time for them to get there,
Speaker 1: and I just I didn't care. This is the first
Speaker 1: film I've seen from Steven Spielberg that makes me feel
Speaker 1: like he's out of touch. There's several choices that he
Speaker 1: made that I just don't think work. I think the
Speaker 1: score is mismatched to the film. I think he's used
Speaker 1: to working. I'm fairly certain. I'm not sure who scored
Speaker 1: this one. My guess is John Williams. It sounds like
Speaker 1: John Williams. There's an orchestral score typically that means John Williams.
Speaker 1: If Steven Spielberg is directing it, it does not fit
Speaker 1: with what's going on on the screen. There's several just
Speaker 1: I'm listening to strings and here's the thing. I love
Speaker 1: orchestral scores, but they have to be deployed correctly when
Speaker 1: you're looking at a film like this, And I think
Speaker 1: more modern ears and more modern takes on music would
Speaker 1: have done this more justice, or given Steven Spielberg something
Speaker 1: that worked. Several times in which something's happening on screen
Speaker 1: and I just remember thinking this could be bad to
Speaker 1: be a day. But I be dad in the background,
Speaker 1: like it doesn't like, what are we doing here? This
Speaker 1: isn't Indiana Jones? And then it also felt like they
Speaker 1: were sometimes doing stunts that felt more Indiana Jones esque
Speaker 1: to do justice to Steven Spielberg's style, to match up
Speaker 1: with the score. I'm not sure it was distracting. Emily
Speaker 1: Blunt gives a very good performance and what I think
Speaker 1: is a very mediocre film. It's strangely paced. There's parts
Speaker 1: of it that it feels like they filmed the most
Speaker 1: actioning parts because they got a note from the studio
Speaker 1: that was like, you got to beef up the action
Speaker 1: a little bit because we're gonna put this out in summer,
Speaker 1: and my god, mistakes were made. Just I go in
Speaker 1: and I remember thinking, well, that's in the trailer. That's
Speaker 1: in a trailer, that's in a trailer. None of the
Speaker 1: rest is in the trailer. But I am bored. I
Speaker 1: was bored probably the first thirty minutes of this film.
Speaker 1: Emily Blunt comes and I'm I'm intrigued, but I'm not
Speaker 1: necessarily I'm still bored. You know, whole film is them,
Speaker 1: you know, running around trying to get away from this ngail.
Speaker 1: Then they finally get to the point of the whole movie,
Speaker 1: which is Disclosure Day. They're gonna disclose all of the documents,
Speaker 1: all of the file to everyone that's out there. And
Speaker 1: the reason why this now becomes important is because the
Speaker 1: whole world is inexplicably headed towards World War three, which
Speaker 1: I'm not sure why that's something that they keep talking about.
Speaker 1: They're saying everyone's getting prepared for the end of the world.
Speaker 1: They don't explain why this is happening unless this is
Speaker 1: just supposed to be a mirror of the world that
Speaker 1: we're living in right now, just a lot of tension.
Speaker 1: And the idea is that once we tell them about aliens,
Speaker 1: this other tension is not going to be a thing.
Speaker 1: Granted that's not an idea that's necessarily stated in the film,
Speaker 1: but the idea is that we have bigger fish to fry,
Speaker 1: and the world is now going to have to face
Speaker 1: the fact that there are extra terrestrials out there. And then,
Speaker 1: of course, as soon as they announce this and it
Speaker 1: comes on the news, everybody's looking at that and not
Speaker 1: thinking about North Korea and Russia or whatever else was
Speaker 1: going on there. So they didn't really explain why we're
Speaker 1: headed towards World War II three, that just were headed
Speaker 1: towards the world of three, and it comes up randomly
Speaker 1: in the film. I thought it was related to the
Speaker 1: fact that Emily Blunt's character had this kind of breakdown
Speaker 1: on screen where she starts speaking in alien tongues and sorry,
Speaker 1: I just I know that's gonna be I know that's
Speaker 1: gonna be the tag at the end of this episode.
Speaker 1: And I just made myself laugh every now that it
Speaker 1: happens during the review, and because typically I have to
Speaker 1: find the tag in the middle of the review as
Speaker 1: I'm editing, and this is the first time that I
Speaker 1: said it out loud, I was like, Oh, there it is.
Speaker 1: Make sure you listen to the whole episode. Anyway, after
Speaker 1: that happens, I thought maybe that sparked some sort of
Speaker 1: war between them after she starts doing that. It's not
Speaker 1: really clear in the movie, which I think is as
Speaker 1: a miss by the movie. And then when the aliens
Speaker 1: are actually revealed, they show them in these series of
Speaker 1: clips that are from the NGO's Massive drop. They're the
Speaker 1: dumbest looking aliens I've ever seen. I remember watching it
Speaker 1: and thinking, Oh, no, Steven Spielberg, why would you make
Speaker 1: this choice. You only have one vision of what aliens
Speaker 1: look like, and they look like every alien you've ever
Speaker 1: seen from a certain era of alien making. So Little
Speaker 1: Green Men is what we're talking about. Big eyes, green
Speaker 1: slash grayish men, big eyes, big black eyes, really small,
Speaker 1: huge heads, that type of thing, right, Oh man. I
Speaker 1: just as soon as I saw them, I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is stupid, and it made it the rest of
Speaker 1: the movie seem very dumb. There's all this wonder music
Speaker 1: playing in the background. It's not giving me much. I
Speaker 1: just I did not enjoy this movie. I really didn't.
Speaker 1: I really didn't. I really didn't. But I really enjoyed
Speaker 1: Emily Blunt in the movie. I really did. I enjoyed
Speaker 1: her in the movie. Did not enjoy the movie as much.
Speaker 1: Josh O'Connor could have been anybody. Colin Firth was fine.
Speaker 1: Coleman Domingo is in this movie. Don't know how much
Speaker 1: he adds could have been anybody. It just feels like
Speaker 1: they should have spent more money getting someone that was
Speaker 1: better than Josh O'Connor in this role, because again, Josh
Speaker 1: O'Connor could have been anybody. With all that being said,
Speaker 1: this is a two point five star movie. I didn't
Speaker 1: hate it. I didn't like it, and I didn't enjoy it.
Speaker 1: But Emily Blunt was good enough that I think it
Speaker 1: brings up the score overall. Would not watch this again,
Speaker 1: but I do want to watch Ready Player one again.
Speaker 1: So Steven Spielberg, you still got it sometimes, But if
Speaker 1: this is it's starting to look like, hey, maybe you just,
Speaker 1: you know, leave filmmaking to the young people. I know
Speaker 1: that's insulting to hear. He is a titan of a
Speaker 1: director and he's made a lot of classics. It doesn't
Speaker 1: mean that he still got it. Like at some point
Speaker 1: you got to say, oh, I don't think I got
Speaker 1: it anymore, or I gotta try something new, or I
Speaker 1: gotta go hang out with these young people more and
Speaker 1: see what they're making, because I got wisdom, but they
Speaker 1: have vision that I don't have anymore, because now I'm
Speaker 1: still making movies with Little Green Men from nineteen seventy,
Speaker 1: all right, And with that, Leave in the Theater is
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Speaker 1: at best, speaking in alien tongues.