The Reel Rejects - DISCLOSURE DAY MOVIE REVIEW – BETTER THAN EVERYONE SAYS?! – FIRST TIME WATCHING

Episode Date: August 1, 2026

THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE—AND STEVEN SPIELBERG IS READY TO DISCLOSE IT! John Humphrey & Jackie Bonsignore watch Disclosure Day for the first time in this Disclosure Day full movie reaction and review of Steven Spielberg’s 2026 UFO thriller! Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor lead this epic alien disclosure story about two strangers drawn into a dangerous conspiracy surrounding the existence of extraterrestrial life. John & Jackie react to the mysterious weather broadcast, crop-circle spectacle, high-speed pursuit sequences, and Spielberg’s return to the legendary science-fiction territory of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T., and War of the Worlds! Disclosure Day Full Movie Reaction Watch Along:   / thereelrejects   In this Disclosure Day movie reaction, full reaction, and review, directed by Steven Spielberg and written by David Koepp (Jurassic Park, War of the Worlds), Disclosure Day stars Emily Blunt as meteorologist Margaret Fairchild (Oppenheimer, A Quiet Place), Josh O’Connor as cybersecurity specialist Daniel Kellner (Challengers, The Crown), Colin Firth as Noah Scanlon (The King’s Speech), Colman Domingo as Hugo Wakefield (Rustin, Euphoria), Eve Hewson as Jane Blankenship (Bad Sisters), and Wyatt Russell as Jackson (Thunderbolts*, Overlord). John & Jackie discuss the film’s tense UFO mystery, conspiracy-thriller pacing, large-scale spectacle set pieces, John Williams’ iconic score, and Spielberg’s masterclass approach to alien encounters and humanity’s search for the ultimate truth! Follow Jackie Bonsignore: https://www.instagram.com/jackiebonsignore/ Intense Suspense by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Follow Us On Socials:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/  Tik-Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@reelrejects?lang=en Twitter: https://x.com/reelrejects Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ Music Used In Ad:  Hat the Jazz by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Happy Alley by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! Head Editor: https://www.instagram.com/praperhq/?hl=en Co-Editor: Greg Alba Co-Editor: John Humphrey Music In Video: Airport Lounge - Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ask Us A QUESTION On CAMEO: https://www.cameo.com/thereelrejects Follow TheReelRejects On FACEBOOK, TWITTER, & INSTAGRAM:  FB:  https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thereelrejects Follow GREG ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER: INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/thegregalba/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thegregalba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It's a momentous occasion. We're checking out the new Spielberg, all right? I'm so excited. It's Dia de la divulgation today at the studio. It's Disclosure Day. I am looking also to learn from this movie. I'm taking notes. We're in class now.

I'm taking notes. This is the truth. That's right. Release the files. You know what? Yeah, it's time for some disclosure. Let's do the thing. Guys, listen. The day.

The day has been disclosed. It's been disclosed. John Williams. Yeah, he came out of retirement for Disclosure Day. That lies beyond our stars. The last line being, listen. Sorry, continue. Well, yeah, I'm like, are they going to broadcast some kind of, like, all-encompassing

hum that just brings everyone together onto a singular plane of truth. Either way, one thing I want you to listen to is the request that you hit the like button on this video. And if you would like more disclosure as to when different videos come out on this channel, you could subscribe and hit the notification bell, thus enabling you to listen even closer for our video drops. Also, also, if you want to... have disclosed to you every minute of this reaction that didn't make the reaction highlight real that you're watching right now ostensibly.

You can bring your own copy of Disclosure Day over to Patreon.com slash the Real Rejects. We just stream this video on demand from Amazon Prime, but, you know, however you got it, bring it over, sync it up with the time code. It's like you're sitting across the screen from Jackie and E.T. and me. Look at him. He's conducting. He's got four fingers. He was doing what you were doing. Yeah, no, I love it.

And also, if you join up over there, we got a great community of people. You get a little glimpse at our shooting and posting schedule day and day out. We also, you know, answer some questions, you know, from a lot of these movies. At least the stuff that's not like, you know, oh, this is just dropped right now. We've got to get out. And I heard that you and Greg do some exclusive content over there. We're not going to tell you what. It could be, come find out.

I don't know. Exclusive. It's a joke. Exclusive. Exclusive. Could be. I don't know. You'll have to go check it out to find out.

It could be anything. It could be anything. It's feet picks. Anyway, guys, I think that's most of the housekeeping. Jackie. Disclosure Day. You've seen E.T. You've seen War of the Worlds, at least.

I've watched a bunch of alien movies. Have you seen Kingdom of the Crystal Skull? We missed that one. I have not seen that. Indiana Jones 4, the most beloved Indiana Joneses. I'm Jones in Forum. Jones in for some Indiana. Get ready for that.

That's got to happen sometime. I'd like it to. When Indiana Jones 6 comes out, when they force Harrison Ford at age 90 to make one more. No, I think he's done. He's not done. Ever. He could come at the end, maybe.

He'll show up a day. It's his son. Indiana Jr. Yeah, Indiana Jr. worked out well. We'll get Shia back. Let's do it. Oh, really? Okay.

So, yeah, I'm not very familiar. My favorite ride at Disneyland, though. This is a great ride. It's a fantastic ride. It's a fantastic ride. I like when I get to drive. drive the wheel. Yeah, right?

And then you get to choose whether to let him in and are out of the car, but he never gets in. He never gets in. We all looked into the eyes of Mara. Anyway, I think that's all the housekeeping. How are you feeling New Spielberg, Alien is part of his alien pantheon. What did this strike you like? I think we touched base on this a little bit before the video, but you were saying that you've heard a couple. You've heard that everyone has had very mixed reactions to this film.

For these movies generally, anything that we know we're going to see especially, generally speaking, I don't love to take in too much. But yeah, like I took in some vague just responses in, you know, the time this was released. And yeah, I heard every kind of opinion. Some people were like, oh, it's way too broad. Oh, it's way too grounded. Oh, it's too much alien shit. Not enough alien shit.

It's funny. It's too dark. It's like it. not that they were all even mad just like every opinion i heard brought me further away from having a good sense of what would happen yes yeah yeah yeah but i i remember i feel like i've heard that some people were not super amazingly impressed like especially like you know you go into spillberg with very high expectations yeah divisive flick for sure yeah i know some people did not care for this yes i know i know but um i absolutely loved it i think it i think it i think it i think

I think it might be, again, I'm very new to the Spielberg universe in the world, just saw ET, watch our reaction. But I loved it. I thought, especially someone that has had alien movies shoved down my throat by Greg since I started working here, I loved the positivity from this film. I loved, it had one of my favorite, like, one of the main tenants that I loved about ET so much was that it all was about empathy. this is completely all about empathy that feels like the central message and just, I don't know, it was filled with so much hope,

it felt very uplifting. And yeah, it is something that I think when you are discussing the existence of extraterrestrials or not, that argument of can humanity handle it or can they not is what people really like hang on and hang their hats on.

And I loved that this, address that, directly. And I think more so I was thinking about how some people are like, oh, well, there weren't that many aliens in the movie. Well, it's not about the extra, it's not called DT. It's called Disclosure Day. It's about if that information were to come out.

So I felt, I loved it. What did you think? Yeah, no, like I came into this without any real good. I came in almost cold. It's like I knew some people's vibes on the movie. I remember, I think even Greg and Coy doing a reaction to the trade. on a live stream once and and I was busy kind of doing stuff so I didn't really fully even get to take that in so this was like a pretty cold experience going in which I appreciate because yeah this allowed the mysteries and the twists and turns just to wash over me and yeah I really like this too like I had a great time in like we recently watched War of the Worlds which is an enjoyable very immediate very sort of action oriented movie oh oh oh oh they're ending off the credits with her little song.

It's not a post-credit scene. It's just a piece of post-credits ambience. But yeah, I actually really got into this. I liked the way that it kept kind of introducing little mysteries and then slowly developing them over time, letting you just kind of get pulled into what the characters are up to. And early on, you know, it does sort of throw you into stuff. So at first you're sort of just kind of collecting data

and observing these strange happenings. and early on I was like oh I don't know am I going to get into these characters or whatever but you know the further we went it's it's definitely an ensemble movie and I think Emily Blunt is the character I mean and Josh O'Connor as well but I feel like the movie does more to put you in the real shoes and emotional state of Emily Blunt specifically which makes sense given what they reveal here and so yeah like the further it went the more I was getting compelled by the performances I was always engrossed by the filmmaking on display. Oh yeah. Some really fun both lens choices and some really great use of flares and things like that. And some really cool lighting and some really cool camera moves. This movie managed to have attention and stunts action sequences without feeling like this is a sci-fi action movie. Like there is action.

There is a, you know, sort of nebulous destination we got to get to. And so, yeah, this had a lot of fun. sci-fi elements, but I did like the sort of philosophical milieu of the movie, you know, and I could imagine this being a movie where certain viewers are going to see this and want more of that. I can see, this is a fascinating movie to me because I can see viewers of different stripes wanting more of different things this movie is doing. It's doing a lot of different things, and I think the true test is sort of like, I feel

like for you. And I'm pretty, I feel like I'm pretty close to, you know, aligned with you. you know, this is a good mix of these things. Like they found the right blend. It's not too much or too little of any particular thing. And for me, yeah, I didn't find myself thinking, oh, too much alien shit. And I didn't also find myself thinking,

ah, too much philosophical shit. For my money, you could do more, you know, philosophical ramblings, but, you know, I'm not sitting here going that, you know, hindered the movie experience for me. Like, I like his debate with, what's your name, Jane? Yeah.

And the sort of faith versus science can people, you know, who can a society, can a world that, you know, has had, you know, the belief in greater power or at least the conversation about greater power, you know, can a world predicated on that handled the proof of and the sort of like repositioning of yourself in the hierarchy of things? It's a lot. And every person individually as well as every group of people would respond differently. So yeah, this made a very, this felt like, and I haven't seen close encounters, but this felt like it brought a bunch of elements spiritually of the Spielberg alien movie Pantheon such that it is and kind of incorporated them all here. I definitely feel like everyone got fed. If you're like more of an actiony sci-fi, if you're more of like us, like we want to talk about them. Yeah, the philosophical or the emotional. Like I love that this had such an emotional quality And yeah, like it's It might, I did too

I did too. I got Misty like a number of times. You had the one. E.T. got it for you. Yeah. Always. He got me my one tear. But like, yeah, the little vignettes with people. The fact that this is, yeah, like we don't quite understand the nature of the visitation. They seem to have blessed them with some,

yeah, like they give him the, you know, all encompassing understanding of the language of the, universe math and they give her all the sort of empathetic you know emotional sides and then you know you see how that's a yin a yang and i like yeah that the movie goes with especially for our time it's appropriate like the empathetic message that yeah you know it's this is not taking the idea that these are hostile aliens it would be a totally different story if they were um but i like the idea that yeah these beings are of a more communally minded species of some kind and they're trying to like give that to us and the whole thing about how they like appear as animals or certain things that they've given you access to and

your brain change your perception there's a lot of cool stuff in the sort of emotional theoretical sci-fi yeah i also i mean i might change my mind as we just finished the movie but but my immediate reaction is i like that we don't see what emily blunt says to the audience at the end because as I'm playing back through the film in my mind, I'm remembering that, you know, they spoke of empathy as one of the most important like facets of humanity and it's because there is a lack of empathy currently, which is why they needed to disclose everything. Like it's an evolutionary thing.

Yes, it's an evolutionary need. And unless we incorporate more of it back into society, then we are going to like, they didn't say it. We're going to eat ourselves. Yeah, we're going to kill the planet. And I was like, yes. Well, yes. Well, yes.

I agree. I don't know. I've always based my entire life about my entire, I'm a creative. I do music. I act. I've always based all of my creativity and what I want to do and what I want to do with like any plant farm that I have around just inspiring empathy. So I loved this film. Yeah.

I really did. Yeah. And I thought the way it, some of the call and first stuff is interesting. because you're like, you know, you get the little bit of history with him and Coleman Domingo, but like he's clearly going through so many things, especially toward the end, just as a performer, that are fascinating that the movie doesn't really explicitly, that character doesn't explicitly pay off. Not that I'm saying that he has to, but it's just kind of a fascinating thing. I'm like, you seem to be going through so much despite the first half of the movie, at least, you know,

playing the requisite part of like, you're the guy who's, you know, leading the hunt and, you know, creating the main obstacles to getting this message out there. So, you know, I think this is the first film that I've maybe ever seen where I'm like, maybe it should be three and a half hours. Let's make it longer.

You know, I mean, yeah. I could do more. I wouldn't be mad. We got a Wicked part one and part two. I want Disclosure Day part one and part two. Yeah, go even further into the, the ruminations on... Let's go even further. I'd like it. What does truth, you know, as a commodity mean for the world, you know?

Yeah. And I mean, that's a very of the now argument debate, you know. That which, they say that which can be destroyed by truth arguably should be. And that, you know, truth is... It is a fair debate. Do we freak everybody in the world out by giving this information out? Ignorance is bliss. Yeah. Or, you know, and it's, yeah, it's... funny that they have like oh world war three North Korea we're cutting to this you know Disclosure Day

but yeah great ensemble really well made and and yeah I mean I'm sure there's deeper sci-fi on this subject but I liked what this movie was going for I liked where it was heart and its mind was at and it's yeah it's very much an ensemble

piece it's not like... Important time and year for a film like this to come out as we get closer and closer to yeah to doomsday The graze will return I think that it's absurd to think that that aliens aren't real

So I'm like I think we're getting closer guys Did you like the way they portrayed the actual alien? Sure, let's go classic Okay I think what I think is so interesting is that like again I did just watch E.T and ET was a puppet So I'm I You do wish they built puppets

I wish they built puppets. The CGI always takes me out of it. It always takes me out of it. Yeah, it took me out of it more with the animals. No, it took me out of equal. Yeah, that's fair. I mean, like, sometimes I can abide the, it's weird. It's that thing.

You sit there and you're like, even when it's a good looking one in this movie, you're like, but I wonder if they're using this like lens flare to like hide the effect. Well, they were. I didn't even wonder. I just went, oh, smart choice is to try to use the lead slayer to hide it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I wish for puppet aliens. I'm not mad about it, but it would have been...

I'm a little mad. I'm a little mad about it. I guess because the movie is trying to take this thought experiment of like, yeah, what if this footage and info was all real and we were giving it to people, I guess, you know, it would flatter the subject matter more to have more realistic things in camera. I agree. So, yeah, it's like, especially on the stock footage stuff where you're in the 50s and the 60s and looked pretty good, but that's because

they can put all the filters and the grain. I got all that shit on top of it, which, which you know, again, filmmaking, movie magic, love to see it. But yeah, I'm like, I like I liked what you pointed out where you were like, wow, what a fun thing for the second unit to get to do. Yeah. I was like, oh my God, yeah. All those film styles,

you know, and it would be on that day. Different little sets. I want to just be an extra on that day. And I'm like, how much extra footage do you have? Like, how many of these didn't make the cutting room floor? Or the, like, incidental. I loved that choice. to just keep on that one anchor. And I wonder what that shooting day was like.

Because it's like you have to be doing a normal anchory type thing. But then you also have to act like somebody who does this all the time is now having to kind of live, have a human experience of your own, but also do your job and like, you know, help calm people at the same time. It's so fascinating. And a great. I bet she had like one day. Yeah. But like such an impact. Probably like a half day.

For an incidental character. And yeah, like there's so much just fun filmmaking. making stuff here. And I would say that, yeah, like as a sci-fi experiment, one thing that when we watched War of the Worlds, I was kind of frustrated by is, you know, that comes from like a classic sci-fi tale. And like the themes of that story as portrayed by Sir Stevie and Thomas the Cruz aren't that deep, you know, there's not a lot of time for the theories in that movie or the, once you get

to the reveal, it kind of comes out of nowhere. This was much more sort of, yeah, unified in its purpose. pursuit of like, yeah, we're creating this tension around the delivery of the info. That's the McGuffin really is, are we going to get the info to the people? But, you know, this, you know, I thought it proportioned out its action-y stuff. It's fun, sci-fi, whimsical stuff. And it's theoretical, philosophical, empathetical stuff. Yeah, like for me, this was pretty solid.

I liked it quite a bit. I enjoyed the feeling of watching it and the feeling of, like, certain alien movies like this give you that sensation, that just cosmic feeling, I don't quite know how to describe. You just feel kind of small in the universe or like there's a big eyeball out there somewhere, but not in a bad way, just in a kind of curious, uncanny, eerie type of way. I also loved Emily's, Emily Blunt's range of emotion in this, but also specifically I noticed it in her acting with her, the quality of her voice. Yeah.

Because it was just so, yeah, I don't know. Getting to watch it move throughout the film to be in a much more grounded, almost Devilswear, devil wears Prada place and having it when she started out as the, you know, K-Sexe anchor. It was so soft and pitched up and breathy. And then having that immediate switch

when she was speaking Russian or Korean. I loved it. I thought it was, I really loved her choices. In a movie full of great performers and performances, like she's terrific. Like, yeah, the way she feels like a normal lady who might be a news anchor and then, you know, goes into, like the way she embodies this weird scatterbrained, she keeps describing it. It's like, I'm in the zone.

I'm in the flow. She did take on like a whole kind of ethereal, like subtly ethereal, sort of out of side of reality, but also like relatively quirky, fascinating like it's hard to describe and it's a fascinating note and I love what she was doing so but let's hop into some questions I'm sure the people got things to to talk about Ellie kicking us off Ellie Hey John and Jackie that's a problem we can't combine our names because then it just becomes Jackie Jockey Jockey or Jann Jan that's it I really love this movie but still not sure about the ending I'm wondering if

either of you can still love a movie, even if you didn't like or even hated the ending. Oh, that's a good question. Yeah. I mean, I guess my qualifier would be, if you're considering the ending being literally like the alien arrives in the studio and, you know, has the moment with them and we're on air.

Or if you mean like the literal moment where she's like, listen, and then it cuts to black. Because I think the listen thing. Sopranos-esque ending. Sure. I think the listen thing is. is literally like a call to, a thematic call to the audience. That's going to hear the message about empathy.

Yeah, exactly, exactly. Which maybe we should guys. Empathy and truth and all that stuff. Yes. I mean, it's interesting because the ending jumps into a point where, again, they wheel the alien into the studio. And that in this moment now, I'm sort of like, okay. Where's the alien come? I'm like, yeah, I usually been hiding this alien.

And I granted, of course, like they have this gear or they've been keeping it. secret. They've got a means to do it, but at the same time, I'm like, oh, shit, you just have them on hand, this old grandpa alien or, you know, whatever. And it was a nice moment, but, you know, and I like the full circle kind of of like, oh, kids, you've come so far. You've utilized your gifts. It's interesting. I think for some people, it'll be a bit much. It's weird. Like, there's something about seeing the past footage of aliens without, like, literally bringing them into the midst of the ensemble that maybe plays better than choosing to bring them into the midst of the ensemble and really put them foreground.

I don't dislike it in the context of what we got here. I could have, I could envision a version where we don't quite do it this way. But the point is to get the information and the message out. Yeah, because I mean, even up into the end when they were releasing the archival footage, you know, there were other news anchors in New York or wherever saying like, wait, is this real? Is this AI? and then I felt like wheeling out Mr. Alien at the end was sort of like a... This is, yeah.

Hey, we got one live in the studio. Yeah, that's very, yeah. And I... No, I loved the ending. I loved it. Ellie, if the question is, like, whether we can still love a movie in general if we don't like the ending, it really depends.

Yeah, it really, I think it really, like, it is a case-by-case thing. Like, perhaps, like, it's kind of like, can you see? still love a, like, oh, example, I'm a huge that 70s show fan. Can I still love a series even if, like, I think that's insane that Jackie and Fez, like, ended up together, you know? Do they? No, spoiler. That's crazy.

Or do they? I don't know. I don't know. But then there is that 90s show where they come back and it's a little bit. So, I don't know. Oh, that 90s show. That went for, like how that, the last season of that 70 show has Randy come in? I mean, or.

So for Grace. Apparently, I just found out. Thank you to the comments. to do Spider-Man 3. Oh. I didn't know that. Okay. I didn't know that.

Big break plan. Eddie Brock. But like I loved the series even though. And I actually didn't hear it. Anyways. Yeah, it really depends. I mean, sometimes like a bad ending on something. It depends on how good.

It depends maybe, I guess, on how unironically good the thing was up till the ending. Because like if you're watching something bonkers and you don't like. the ending, but it's bonkers as as much as the rest of the thing, then that can almost, that can almost like make it better. Or if I firmly disagree with like the message of an entire movie,

then I might be like, if it feels like it's betraying what was good about the movie before it, or if it feels like a letdown or something, I'm trying to think of a good example, and maybe it'll come to me later of a movie where I was like, this was great, but like it ends poorly, and now I don't want to watch it again.

You know? I don't want to watch it. I'm mad. A lot of people feel that way about promising young woman. I don't. I'm very curious to see that movie. I am very curious to see that movie. And yes, I know that that's a very divisive movie.

I mean, people hate the mist. I haven't seen it, no spoilers. I won't tell you what the ending of that movie is I get a kick out of it, but I know people don't. Canon to the book or no? I don't know. I don't know. I imagine it's different. If people are really mad?

Yeah, it's a harsh ending. So it's, you know, it's one of those too. Especially if you're not into it, it's going to leave a very sour, icky taste in your mouth. So, yeah, in a movie like this, I feel like if I wasn't in love with the ending, I would still probably by and large appreciate what this was attempting to do because this isn't a movie to me that sort of is done or undone by an ending in terms of what it's trying to accomplish.

Like, yeah, you want the ending to hit. You want it to be good for the story. But, you know, like, eh, they did enough other stuff that I was appreciating that the ending is of less consequence. Yeah, I think my last thing that I'm going to say is I really did like the use of like the, again, Sopranos black screen ending here because Spielberg's not like, what she was about to say was like how we would,

what I'm assuming it is, is she's about to say this is how we're going to fix the track that we're on because it's like obviously the track that we're on right now. we're on the worst timeline. It's like, I fucking help us. Or let everybody into the mind wave.

Yeah, Spielberg's like, I don't know how to fix it yet, but guys, like look at this world where we can imagine where we all work together and we could. And we're all yelling.

And it's so optimistic and beautiful. I loved it. Yeah. End of answer. End of answer. And if you didn't like the ending of the answer,

did you still like the answer? Captain for, Hernandez says, some people, particularly young viewers, really hated this movie with many calling it the worst movie of the year. Why do you think that is? My theory is modern audiences are more cynical and pessimistic and they find Spielberg's optimism and sense of wonder hopelessly naive. What say you? That's a take. Fuck them kids. Yeah. You hear that kids. Six, seven your ass on out of here. Get yeated. No cap on God. No cap on God. Yeah. This movie was bussing. No. This movie was busing down, thought Tyana. Sorry I said that. I regretted that.

Skibbitty movie. All right. I mean, it's interesting because we live in a moment in time where I feel like part of the conversation, and this is not as new as it once was, but is that like we are in the post edgy, we're in a post-edge lord world where like empathy is kind of a, the punk thing at the moment. Empathy gives you the egg. no I mean like it's this is a thing where I feel like I could see somebody having this opinion because they wanted something more like War of the Worlds or whatever I mean there is a pessimism at large in the world right now there's a cynicism I guess if you're going to throw those complaints towards this movie I guess it would be because of the fact that it raises a lot of interesting debates but one once it's raised those debates, there's not really enough time to, like, really zero in on them. You know, it's like we have a brief exchange between, you know, Josh O'Connor and Mary about

faith versus everyone's need to know the truth. That's a theme. Good theme. We could have done more a whole movie with them kind of, or more with them breaking that down, or with Coleman Domingo, well, with Colin Firth and Mary or Coleman Domingo or anybody, like, you know, he gives his compelling sort of reason as to why not to let this out. And, like, at first it seems like, oh, he's just, you know, part of some paragon government, military, shadowy men and black organizations. So he's got, you know, purely cold-hearted ends in mind.

But, like, the further the movie goes, he seems like he's going through some really emotional stuff and he really believes in what he's doing. And, like, they don't really unpack that a heck of a lot. They bring up the counter argument as to why we shouldn't really. least the info. But, you know, like, I could see why you would want a richer, headier movie than something with, that is splitting the difference with a certain amount of thriller action and a certain amount of, uh, whimsical alien curiosity. Um, I don't know, man. Like, this is an odd duck of a movie. I definitely can, I would say, like, this is a movie I see and I'm like, I really enjoyed watching this. I'm curious how it's going to unfold and how I'm going to feel about it

in the coming days because that's part of a movie experience too. But I could absolutely see why this wouldn't be enough of a lot of different things for a lot of different viewers. Oddly. It's like this is a distinct blend of things. And I can see a number of viewers, including young viewers, not wanting this blend of things. Wanting a more distinct blend of some of the elements,

but in a way different set of proportions. Yeah. But I don't know, man. I mean, like, I like the message about empathy. I guess if you were to throw a real criticism out of this is that it could go deeper, you know? I guess it could go deeper, yeah. But, I mean, yeah, I don't think this is the worst movie of the year by any stretch of the imagination. Yeah, absolutely not.

There's too much good filmmaking, too many good performances. There's too much good intent behind what the message wants to be. And, yeah, you know, I don't know. It just might not be for certain viewers, and that's fine, too. Shia Silberstein, thank you for chiming in. What do you think the theme of government secrets and how much the public should know about its experiments compared to the real world?

Do you think we should know? Should we know secrets? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, we should. Release the files. They didn't.

Nobody cared. I know, but. Nobody did anything. Well, they didn't know. A lot of things are still. Yeah. Well, a lot of things are still redacted, but, you know, a couple quick word searches and a couple quick, they did not redact those files very well. No, they didn't.

Yeah, I mean, I think this has, this raises a fun thought experiment, you know, we have all this really sort of undeniable proof. And obviously, at the end, it's smart that they're at least throwing in a wild line or two about AI. I think a lot, I think a lot of the time that the government hides stuff from us. Look at the Epstein files as proof. It's not really to protect society. That's a beautiful catch-all blanket that they throw their, they want to protect their own asses. Yeah, it's not about throwing society into chaos. Yeah, it's about that.

It's about creating the chaos that will lead to consequences for me. Yeah, that's my biggest criticism of this movie is that it feeds into that fantasy of that's why the government is hiding things. Ooh. Yeah. And I guess, yeah, I like the, the, the, the, exploration of the idea of the theme, you know, and I mean, they go out of their way to say that this isn't even like exactly the government. But, yeah, always err on the side of truth and disclosure. You know, I feel like a lot of government secrets tend to be unflattering.

You know, I mean, there's certain things that are a matter of like we can't have these locations or these codes available to people. But, but yeah, if there was like actual extraterrestrial shit happening. You know, that's something that I feel like you should disclose. I completely buy into the, it's a lot of the time it's not the government. There's bigger. There's more things. There's, yeah, the government's one thing. The presidents have a certain amount of power, but who really has all the power.

Oh, that thing they say. I want to shout out, yeah, YouTuber Stephanie Harlow. Yeah. We don't tell them shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. YouTube or Stephanie Harlow goes into a lot of amazing deep dives on her channel into the Epstein file. She's an amazing researcher. highly recommend checking her videos out.

There have been a lot of scientists that have gone missing or have been found dead recently. Scientists that were like kind of at the level of the scientists in this film. Highly recommend. I have to shut around. So there's alien shit in the Epstein files as well?

Well, no. Just the pet. I'm getting off my high alien. Just the horrors of planet Earth. No, we got to call Alan Richardson and you guys can go like release the Epstein files to get. I mean, yeah, the public should know about weird government experiments.

I mean, this is a more optimistic version of the world. That's stuff. I mean, like, this doesn't really get into the government side heavily. They're just kind of the people driving the race chase of the plot. But, you know, interesting, no less. We have a fun one now. I guess I could have used maybe more flesh on the government bone if you want to do that. but you know whatever.

Alan Smithy says, Hey John and Jackie. Hey. Hi, Alan. Hope you enjoyed Disclosure Day. My question, why are aliens more often than not naked wearing absolutely no clothes, no shoes, space suits, etc.? Just as naked as the day they were born.

Hatch from an egg or whatever? Do these aliens have no shame? Same for E.T. Close encounters and War of the World. Totally naked with their alien parts hanging out. Go off. Why is this such a common thing? Thanks, Reject.

Go off. Well, if I'm going to answer your question, Alan, Alan, if I'm going to genuinely answer your question, I would say, you know, for a while, humans walked around this planet, you know, Pangea. And we were also naked, and it's just that our societal constructs dictate what should be covered and why it's okay for John to be at the beach in trunks, but I got to cover up my top half just because I'm a lady. So it's just in their culture, they don't view nudity as this day. the same way that we do.

Just like in America, we're less open with nudity, but in France, you can go to a topless beach. It's not a big deal. So I think really, like, we just need to expand our minds and not be afraid of other cultures.

Yeah. And I mean, you know, certain things arise over human history as like, you know, we create, like, at least, like, lower half undergarments because, like, you know, exposing your various orifices

to the elements can cause disease and things like that. Then again, we live in a time far advanced beyond that in terms of hygiene so we don't need to do that. We could all be nudists if we wanted to much more safely than in the earlier parts of human history.

And I guess I'm just going to guess that yeah, we should ask Neil Dent asked Tyson for what his thoughts are on why the aliens are all naked because this alien was wearing a little outfit. They did at the end. It was the first alien I've ever

seen wearing a little outfit. Yeah. I mean, the humans, we were forcing that upon the alien. We were like, this is uncomfortable and weird. Could you please put on like a tunic? And it's like, why make him ashamed of his body? Yeah, it's alien, not shamey.

All of our bodies are something to be proud of. Aliens, not shamlienes. I love this question. Thank you, Alan. Thank you, Alan. I honestly, because they have these high-tech ships, they clearly have mastered technology, complex space travel. I'm like, are they just

coated in some kind of thing that makes it unnecessary. Why are all the aliens... Actoplasm. I mean, Predator kind of wears armor, at least. I haven't seen those. Okay, well, Predator has some amount of clothing and stuff. But yeah, no clothes, no shoes, no spacesuits. That is weird.

No shoes, no spacesuits, no service. Yeah, like only in cartoons, I guess, and not even always then. That's so weird. I didn't Paul wear trunks in Paul the movie Paul, starring Seth Rogen? as Paul, the alien. Aliens are bohemian. That's the rest. We live in the uptightest part of the galaxy.

We just shouldn't be xenophobic, you guys. Yeah. Let's just let the naked aliens be. And I do. This is cooking my brain because now I'm just like, the odds would dictate that there would have to be clothed aliens if there could be aliens at all. Like there would have to be some.

Some of them, I don't know. Or at least like they express themselves in different ways. Kind of like peacocks, they peacocks. So maybe aliens like they wear big, I don't know what they do. Well, they did put on clothes here when they cloaked themselves. Or well, when she, no, but she was cloaking. I don't know. Either way, I guess I would say this.

I would say that, you know, for the aliens and the nudity, really, really fun just instance of a shared, like, subconscious thing. I never noticed this. I never bothered to think about it. But look at this phenomenon across so much fiction. Look at all the naked alien fiction that we have. I love it. Thank you, Alan Smithy.

This is the disclosure that we needed. I wish we could have an answer for you. I had an answer. Bo-po aliens, man. Bo-po aliens. What is the answer? Because it's a different culture. That's just an American thing.

But every alien culture. Yeah, exactly. But that's one weird thing that we do is we wear. weird cloths. But if you were going to a... It's like if we landed on another planet and there was all these aliens on that planet... Our bodies are sensitive to temperature.

Maybe in... We are looking at everything through a very human lens. These aliens did not watch War of the Worlds, all right? Because... We are looking through very human land. I just think we need to open our minds. We're being really selfish.

Clothing is not only a modesty commodity. Clothing is also created for hygiene. And I'm saying like if you land on a planet But it's also created for like temperature and stuff And they might have temperature control built in They don't even need that It's possible E.T wore a Halloween costume actually

What I'm saying is that if you landed on a planet Full of aliens and all the aliens were naked I would be like of course they're just chilling They don't have our hangups about this And they're in their home world It's fine. They know what they're doing If they're visiting and they don't I mean I guess they've done enough research now

to know that they can come over naked, I guess is probably what my head canon for this movie would be. But I'm like, if you're on a foreign world, whenever we get mad, when people simply take off the helmet on a foreign planet like five minutes in, you're like, why would you trust that? That's my thing about the naked aliens.

I'm like, guys, you just showed up here as some random planet, War of the Worlds has taught us nothing. Like, you want to mask up and suit up just before. That was such a lucky break they got at the end of that film. Yeah. Tom didn't do it. shit.

Like they want you to think you did. He's lucked out. Yeah. No, he didn't do anything. So I'm like, the aliens show up and I'm like, you're not going to do any protective measures. I guess they got all the readings from above and you're just fine. Okay, okay.

So I'm just saying, I want the aliens to be liberated. I want the aliens to not have to be repressed like we are. Rocky. Be your naked, beautiful selves. Just be a little smart about when you're visiting a foreign planet, you know. Rocky. You know, I wouldn't just show up naked on Mars. John.

I'm a space explorer and I'm here now to give you all the truth that we have gathered on my planet. Don't mind me. I don't know anything about your atmosphere. I know these aliens have been here for a while. They know now. That's why they're naked because they know. They know they can get naked and it's fine. And they know that'll buy us some time because we're really uncomfortable about that.

So public nudity. There you go. Jaden Rhodes. I am really curious if y'all liked the movie. Because since this movie came out, I feel like I have been defending it against a lot of people. It's not amazing. I know that.

I loved it. But I really did enjoy it. But my question will be, what is y'all's favorite Spielberg movie and how does this compare to them? E.T. Oh, boy. Oh, boy.

E.T. Favorite Spielsburg? E.T. is great. Grew up with E.T. I haven't seen E.T. I haven't seen E.T. I've seen E. I was a great one.

Jaws is a great one. I pick E.T. God. I'm done. Oh, it might be Jurassic Park. I haven't seen it. Wow. Wow!

When they make another one, you will probably see it then, I would imagine. Golly, Stevie's done a lot of things. I mean, he directed a part of... Oh! Yeah, see, look at that. It's the Marcus Mumford Cannibal music video. Yeah, that's your favorite Stephen Spielberg movie. And there are a lot of his I have

He did the adventures of Tintin? He did. Fuck! Yeah. No, it has to be E.T. It's sticking with A. It's got to be Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. It's got to be Catch Me If You Can is actually a great movie.

I haven't seen it. I like The Terminal. Not everybody likes the Terminal. I did. I got to watch AI. I haven't seen AI since it came out. We should watch that. It's topical.

I would love to see Minority Report. He directed Hook. Again. Sorry, he did. He did, which I've never fully seen. I've seen it in school. in chunks when we were kids just because people would put it on whenever we had a rainy day and couldn't go outside or something like that.

Yeah. I mean, you know, Schindler's List is like a classic of cinema, but like not a fave I would just put on. He direct. You're like my favorite movie to watch just to relax with the girls. Roxy does that. Schindler's, yeah. Okay. Because he saved all those people.

So, you know, in some way it does. Twilight's on the movie. I want to watch that. Yeah, yeah. He did a segment of that. I mean, for me, a favorite Spilsberg for me would probably be some toss-up between one of the Indiana Jones movies or Jurassic Park. E.T. I would have to say.

It's hard, man. I pick E.T. Maybe Last Crusade. I'm staying with E.T. Or Jaws. But Andrew's favorite is Jaws, so I'll let him have Jaws. Leave us your favorite Spielsburgs down below, and we're with you, all right? If you find yourself defending this movie,

we'll defend it with you because we both liked it. I really liked it. Jay Rushden. Question. Do you believe in UPA or UFOs? And what is your take on alien probes? I mean, alien probes in the context of them, just sending out probes to various planets

to see what they're like. Fine. Probein in your butt. Not about that. Not a fan. You know, unless you enthusiastically consent. Yeah.

And that's your thing because we don't king shame in this house. We don't king shame in this house. UPA or UFO? There's got to be out there. Yeah. I've said yes. They got to be.

I believe that I have. We believe. I've made it clear, I think. Yeah. We want to believe. All right. You've ever been to Fry's Electronics before they tore it down?

Yeah, I don't like it there. Yeah. That's a real ship. Yeah. And they covered it up with capitalism. They were like, no. This is just fucking. serious shit.

Fries Electronics. That's the back rooms. It is a little bit. Me whenever I was at fries. This is the bad place. I would love to explore an abandoned fries electronics. Oh my God,

I'm so scared. With the decor, because everyone had different decor. I always feel like somebody's watching me. There's a great deep dive on that song by Todd in the Shadows. One hit Wonderland.

Great series. Go check it out on YouTube.com. YouTube.com. But yeah, Disclosure Day. I would like to disclose that I like this movie. Yeah. I like what Sir Stevie brought to it. I like his wonder, empathetic vibe.

I like the action. I like the cinematography. Not the most memorable. I mean, it was beautiful to watch. Yeah. Yeah. Not the most memorable score from John Williams, but I will say I liked some of the classic sci-fi sounds,

or at least the sort of older sci-fi movie sounds, the winds and the brass and the strings. I want to know why he picked that one's Gwen Stefani song. No. Or also, I want to know, did he have Emily Blunt pick her song that she wanted to jam out to in a car? Maybe that's what she chose for her character. I wonder. I wonder.

I just like, yeah, when you see at the end, like, and they only mention two songs, that one in the lullaby, it just really makes me want to know why. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Gwen Stefani, exact producer of the movie. Shouts out to Wyatt Russell playing average potentially shitty boyfriend. Kind of shitty boyfriend. Yeah. It seemed like he was doing some stuff that wasn't probably, you know, good for their relationship.

Yeah, it was a lot of fun dialogue, a lot of fun, thoughtful stuff. Like, for what this is for like a blockbuster level theoretical sci-fi of sorts, like, this is kind of having to satisfy a lot of different audiences at once. And usually the bigger blockbuster movies, the writing is like, oh. Yeah, I mean, like. It treats the audience like they're stupid. the jokes or dad jokes that are just like uncomfortable to watch. Like this was funny.

It, I don't know. It was presented in a way that didn't, that, you know, wasn't super obvious. And it used a lot of different devices in order to tell the story. It has some quirky charm, some good mystery and some like weirdly, uniquely touching moments. So it did bring this sort of, it did achieve the feeling of like, who we've been visited or touched by some kind of greater being. And that's kind of a neat feeling to feel after Disclosure Day.

So nicely done, Stevie. Nicely done. This felt like something that you could actually live through and tell your kids about someday. Like, oh, I was there on Disclosure Day. We were like, what is this broadcast? Is it say, I know these are, I've never heard some of those terms. Ground pixels. Ground pixels.

I'm excited to see the Corridor crew break down all the UAP footage. Yeah, I'd love that. Anyway, more practical aliens, more practical animals. but otherwise, thumbs up on the disclosure day. Let us know your thoughts, and we'll see you back here next time with E.T. for something cool and science-y. All right.

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