Every time a new Spielberg drops folks come crawling out of the woodwork to make outrageous claims that he’s “overrated.” 😂 The truth is, for the vast majority of his filmography, he’s so great that we take for granted how great he truly is.
The Fabelmans is really such a gift of a movie. You watch that and not only do you get one of the best of this decade but you watch any Spielberg movie after and you love it a little more knowing where it all comes from.
Disclosure Day: not quite the best Spielberg movie in 20 years or whatever people were saying, but this fun, goofy, and brilliantly directed chase thriller has a really great time unpacking why Spielberg has always been obsessed with aliens.
my review: https://t.co/YFR7IpHWwL
What's important here is that he spent the entire production trying to bait Muslims into assaulting him for acting flamboyantly gay. Only for that to never happen, except with a group of Israelis. It's the only time he broke character during production, to tell them he was acting
“Look I uh I found something. Something in the store. A place. bu but It uh it shouldn’t be there. But it is. Dontcha see? look I…I know how this this sounds, but It’s uh it’s MAssive in there.”
DISCLOSURE DAY is not at all what I expected. Less action thriller and more existential discourse on the unifying power of truth, with the storytelling prowess of Spielberg.
Both opaque and intimate, there are layers I need to unpack in future viewings, but a thrill nonetheless.
DISCLOSURE DAY: Spielberg’s SCANNERS. It fucking rocks. An entire movie where empathy is a super-weapon and information is power. Maybe the most sci-fi of concepts anymore.
Minority Report, The Fabelmans, Indiana Jones (1 & 3), and The Paper are essential Steven Spielberg revisits before DISCLOSURE DAY.
Sure, revisit E.T. and Close Encounters, too... Never a bad day for those two masterpieces. But the first 4 are more immediately relevant/related.
#DisclosureDay RIPS. The King, Steven Spielberg, went OFF. An absolutely riveting and dazzling thrill ride. Emily Blunt turns in one of her best performances, John William’s score is exceptional, and Janusz Kamiński’s camerawork is breathtaking.
Has an incredible third act.