Disclosure Day Review (No Spoilers) & Scorsese AI Rant

This week on FoF we are reviewing Disclosure Day, the new blockbuster movie from Steven Spielberg about government extra-terrestrial cover ups. We discuss comparisons to his own movies Close Encounters and War of the Worlds (and…Crystal Skull), as well as Arrival from Denis Villeneuve. I go through what works, what doesn’t work, and whether Spielberg did enough Spielberging to make this worth a trip to the cinema.

This review is SPOILER FREE, meaning anything that is shown in the trailer is fair game.

We also find time to have a good impassioned rant about Scorsese joining forces with an AI company.

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TIMESTAMPS

(00:00) Intro, No Spoilers etc

(01:13) My Stance on Spielberg (Recent Work, Sci-Fi)

(03:03) My Stance on Aliens

(04:25) My Review Anxieties

(07:16) The Review starts, Approach to Aliens vs Arrival & Close Encounters

(12:44) Failure to Explore Themes

(14:08) Road Movie, comparison to War of the Worlds

(15:26) Performances

(17:49) Spielberg knows what he’s doing

(20:36) General Story Logic

(22:07) General thoughts, anxieties and confusion

(23:55) Summary, Letterboxd Rating & FoF Disclaimer https://boxd.it/eIQZ4P

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(25:42) Scorsese Joins AI Storyboarding Company

(37:05) NEXT WEEK!