Disclosure Day - New Spielberg

[Chas]

 

[Big s]

48 minutes ago, Chas said:

 

That lady had bad gas through the entire trailer, I guess that’s what she was disclosing. I do feel sorry for the studio crew that had to work through that while trying to keep a straight face.

[Thom]

Spielberg rarely disappoints. Definitely interested. Look forward to the next trailer for more of the plot.

[Dynaman]

That trailer did zip, zilch, zero, nada for getting me to be even slightly interested.

[Duke Togo]

Interesting. I'm eager to see what a full trailer brings.

[TangledThorns]

Hopefully its better than Spielberg's last movie about aliens visiting Earth... 😜

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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull  

 

Edited December 16, 2025 by TangledThorns

[Chas]

Yeah, the trailer is a really dud. It's just a black box, doesn't  make me want to know more, it just annoys me, and makes me not care.

[jvmacross]

If there was no indication of who was directing/writing....I would have thought this was some M. Night Shyamalan flick....

 

[Big s]

2 hours ago, TangledThorns said:

Hopefully its better than Spielberg's last movie about aliens visiting Earth... 😜

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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull  

 

I guess he was also attached to Cowboys versus Aliens. Didn’t care much for that one either.

 

2 hours ago, Dynaman said:

That trailer did zip, zilch, zero, nada for getting me to be even slightly interested.

It seems like a movie about one really long fart joke, so I’m more interested in the reaction of those that do go to see it

[renegadeleader1]

Reminds me of Shamalamadingdong's Signs and Jordan Peele's Nope. 

 

That's not a good thing. This is going to be one of those things where it gets hyped up and once you find out the big twist you are left like "Oh... That's it? That's (censored) stupid."

[Thom]

It's so far been one, and the first, trailer. Let's give it another one before crapping on it.

[Dynaman]

7 hours ago, Thom said:

It's so far been one, and the first, trailer. Let's give it another one before crapping on it.

I'm not crapping on it, I'm crapping on the crappy trailer.  The job of which is to get people interested in seeing more.

[Big s]

8 hours ago, Thom said:

Let's give it another one before crapping on it.

 

1 hour ago, Dynaman said:

I'm not crapping on it, I'm crapping on the crappy trailer.  The job of which is to get people interested in seeing more.

Looks like that lady was already crapping her pants

[pengbuzz]

On 12/16/2025 at 5:44 PM, Duke Togo said:

Interesting. I'm eager to see what a full trailer brings.

At this rate...pepto bismo

[sh9000]

 

[TangledThorns]

Steven can keep trying to outdo himself but he'll never make an alien encounter film as good as his own Close Encounters of the Third Kind. 

[lechuck]

[TangledThorns]

 

Edited March 12 by TangledThorns

[Seto Kaiba]

Huh... so... yeah... that was certainly a trailer.  Kind of an underwhelming one when all's said and done.

I'm sure that was probably meant to be weathergirl getting possessed by aliens, but between the face she was making and the sound effects all it was missing to be a rejected Pepto-Bismol ad spot was the tagline "Where will you be when diarrhea strikes?".  Kind of a tension-destroying audio choice... unless you're the one mopping the floors, I guess.  Having the aliens come to Humanity speaking the dreaded language of the Ta-ko B'el (or is that Wytte Kast-El?) feels like a "fire your sound engineer" sort of decision.

Doing another movie around the fairly generic premise of the government covering up the existence of aliens until first contact because Mankind Is Not Ready is certainly a choice too.  That premise aged like milk, and in the present day it seems especially silly and unbelievable.

Unless they've got a better trailer waiting in the wings, I'm definitely waiting for this to hit streaming.

[Thom]

Very interesting! Color me intrigued.

[Hikuro]

You know what I thought was better than this trailer? Steven Speilberg's TAKEN mini series. 

[M'Kyuun]

17 minutes ago, Hikuro said:

You know what I thought was better than this trailer? Steven Speilberg's TAKEN mini series. 

Yes. A very young Dakota Fanning turned in an impressive performance for her age. I haven't seen it since the original airing in 2002, but I remember enjoying it at the time. My memory is sieve, not bucket, so I remember little of it, but Dakota left an impression. Funny that Elle's making more of a splash these days than her older sister, as I always thought Dakota had the stuff to be an A-lister.

Disclosure day is filling me with a remarkable sense of "Meh" despite the caliber of actors and director involved. @Seto Kaiba's comments ring oh so true, especially his observations regarding the alien language and its relative similarity to the gurgles. I imagine it's challenging for sound people to come up with something that truly sounds alien, but perhaps this should have gotten the thumbs down (unless this was the best of numerous previous attempts and they finally just got tired of listening to clicks and pops). Funny how aliens' abilities always have to comport to human sensibilities. What if the aliens communicate in a frequency outside of human hearing, making them essentially silent to us? That, to me, is far scarier than snap, crackle, pop. Anyway, I agree that Spielberg hit his high note with Close Encounters of the Third Kind regarding alien stories.

Unless they introduce something else more intriguing in subsequent trailers, without giving the whole movie away, I'm thinking this is one for streaming.

[electric indigo]

Can I have the Goverment Alien Conspiracy Thriller without the Polar Express Dressing, please?

[Seto Kaiba]

3 hours ago, electric indigo said:

Can I have the Goverment Alien Conspiracy Thriller without the Polar Express Dressing, please?

Yeah, this trailer does have a lack of emotion to it doesn't it?  Everything is a sort of neutral "I'm coming off dental anesthesia" or dull surprise at best.

[Big s]

On 3/12/2026 at 1:57 PM, Seto Kaiba said:

I'm sure that was probably meant to be weathergirl getting possessed by aliens, but between the face she was making and the sound effects all it was missing to be a rejected Pepto-Bismol ad spot was the tagline "Where will you be when diarrhea strikes?".

That’s basically what I was thinking ever since this thread started. Who thought this would really make for a good trailer for a movie that’s about alien communications? I guarantee that no one in reality would’ve seen that live broadcast and taken it seriously 

[Thom]

But there are people who do understand what she is saying in that scene, and if that is a large number of people then it's not just some weird 'blip' in TV history. It becomes something very notable, esp if it is turning up in other places as well.

[Big s]

4 hours ago, Thom said:

But there are people who do understand what she is saying in that scene

Was it that she’s regretting the epic burrito?

[Seto Kaiba]

8 hours ago, Thom said:

But there are people who do understand what she is saying in that scene, and if that is a large number of people then it's not just some weird 'blip' in TV history. It becomes something very notable, esp if it is turning up in other places as well.

Government insider guy understands... but presumably only because he's government insider guy who knew about the aliens to begin with.

I'd assume Joe Average on the street is just hearing the newscaster lose the fight with her breakfast burrito.

[Big s]

3 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

I'd assume Joe Average on the street is just hearing the newscaster lose the fight with her breakfast burrito.

That spicy chorizo will get you by the afternoon for sure