DISCLOSURE DAY (2026) – Did Steven Spielberg forget what he accomplished with the ending of Close Encounters of the Third Kind? How does he think that an elderly alien getting brought out in a wheelchair even compares, let alone equals, the wonder of his earlier film? Maybe if Disclosure Day ended with Richard Dreyfus’s character having returned to Earth and standing there beside the alien, he might have had something noteworthy.
Did Steven Spielberg forget that long before he condescendingly acted like his aliens/ Jesus angle would shock people that Ridley Scott already pursued such concepts in Prometheus? Or that even by then it had already become a trope after movies like Aliens from Spaceship Earth, God Told Me To and others.
Long time Balladeer’s Blog readers may recall that I’ve already reviewed science fiction stories from the 1800s that dealt with the Jesus/ aliens concept. Why did Spielberg think he was serving up anything that would – as he boasted – make Christians question their faith?
Television shows from The Invaders and U.F.O. to The X-Files and dozens since have worn out all of the material that Spielberg deluded himself into thinking he was pioneering in this movie. His own 2002 television miniseries Taken reworked all those cliches long before this year’s Disclosure Day.
And regarding Steven’s much-hyped theme of “empathy”, that goes out the window when you consider that these aliens lacked the empathy to NOT experiment – non-consensually – on small children.
The CGI in this So Bad It’s Good flick is pitiful. Especially when the fake animals look like tech from 20 years ago or more. And the main character’s deer in the headlights stare gets old early on. But I admit her panic attack on the train is the comedy highlight of this money-making but creatively-failing embarrassment.
We’ve all seen everything in Disclosure Day before. Over and over and over and over and over and over again.
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Logged, thank you!
Thanks for that review. My husband and I have been debating whether or not to watch it. A priest at our church said that even if aliens are real, they would still have to bow down to God since He is the creator of the universe. And for Christians, that means they would have to embrace Jesus, too.
Glad to do it! Yes, I don’t get why smug jerks like Spielberg think the way they do.
A fantastic movie review. Thanks so much for sharing this.
Thank you for the kind words and open mind.
Sounds like Spielberg really missed the mark. I don’t watch experimentation movies so I wouldn’t bother with this one. Your idea, of having Richard Dreyfus coming out of the space ship, is excellent. How did Steven miss that? I always like the Close Encounters scene with Dreyfus looking up at the interior of the ship. I thought that was so cool, but it only appears in one release of the movie because Steven didn’t like it! Duh!
Thanks! I was hoping that Dreyfus was indeed going to appear and be like a diplomatic link between the aliens and us, but no such luck. I did not know that Spielberg edited out that scene with Dreyfus looking at the ship’s interior! He’s as bad as his buddy George Lucas.
You are so right about Steven being like Lucas, always changing things. About a year after Close Encounters release, Steven wanted to change several things, so he went back to the studio for more money. The execs agreed, but only if he would add the Dreyfus interior scene. Begrudgingly, he added it so he could make his desired changes. The next release included that new scene. Later, when Steven was preparing a special edition, he secretly cut the interior scene! Very sneaky. ,
Wow! I had no idea that Spielberg went to that much trouble to get rid of that scene.
Lol, you don’t sound impressed by Spielberg’s latest contribution!
LOL! No, I’m not!
Well, maybe it will go into streaming really soon and I will see it without paying (that is, excepting the payment of losing my time in viewing it).
Ha! Yeah, there’s no getting your time back.