What would you think if definitive proof of alien life emerged? Would it consign all religious thought to, as Mark Twain once predicted, the fate of a stuffed ornament in museums? How would suggestive confirmation of the principles of uniformity and plenitude - that if life can form on Earth it can form anywhere and thus will for everywhere - mix with confirmation of the principle of mediocrity (nothing special about humans)? Would mediocrity impact humans relation with technology and would plenitude turn science skyward?
Disclosure Day (2026), Spielberg: https://youtu.be/icDuEHSxE-w?si=jKBowVzx1K6IggNh
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Heard mixed things about the film itself. More so in the final act it gets a bit ahead of itself.
Still to me, Spielberg's masterpiece is Jaws.
Sorry Shindlers List LB.....make sure your children watch it.....it explains so many things about the human race, most notably a lack of empathy!
Movies are extremely subjective Poppa, that's why there are so many of them. Schindler's List is amazing. Though a movie I intend to never watch again.
Jaws I can always watch and get a kick out of. Pretty much the first ever blockbuster. So much of action, horror and thriller films today take elements of Jaws.
But doesn't mean your opinion is wrong either as Spielberg is the goat for having so many great movies. ET, Raiders of the lost arc, Close Encounters to name a few.
Undeniably correct LB, Interesting that you would never watch it again.....everyone to his own.....I reckon I would have seen it about a dozen times, everyone of my grandchildren once old enough I have encouraged to watch it, when I ask them did you watch it, they said yes Poppa, but I am not sure?....no coincidence they call me Poppa by the way. I think I have been known to be Poppa since I was in my forties, probably because I have been telling people what to watch out (yes non relatives) for ever since.
My two youngest grandchildren are 3 and 5 (have some in their 20's) and I am trying to get them to watch Swiss Family Robinson, the movie made in the early sixties...... I'm sure they think I am a bit loopy, but then again they get scared at the pirate scenes and I am there to assure them.
It's odd as there are a lot of movies that are dark with subject matter that I'll watch again, but this one for me it's too harrowing. Very rare for me.
LB, the film still stands out for how the aliens are imagined. Not their look, their behavioir toward humans. Neat message there I thought
Yeah just heard people say they think the movie is meh. Though think a lot expected for it to be either an action type like Independence Day with aliens or for it to deliver information about Aliens that nobody has heard. Since it was neither people hated it due to disappointment. My biggest pet peeve with film fandom is people going in expecting it to be their way and can't be anything else.
I have walked in expecting one thing but also knowing the idea of not knowing is even better at times.
LB, the film and TV industry itself created this kind of closed cycle story telling. A reluctance to end without tying everything off neatly. A reluctance to end with a question. So I don't mind Disclosure Day bucking that trend.
If anyone wants to read an account of humans that tells a really big story about what kind of species we are and yet refuses to tie it off neatly, read Kierkegaard Either/Or. Will blow your mind!
Oh a lot of films are open to interpretation today. It's quite common of a film trope these days. It's very common. It's a case of "it's what the film goer believes".
Some are effective, some aren't. Best one is Inception, the spinning top, did it fall or not? If you look closely it starts to wobble, but some believe it not to be the case. It keeps the film alive past its time with discussion.
I have not seen it, glad you enjoyed it a lot but.
There's already a lot of scientific evidence to suggest that we do not have any imaginary friends, so more evidence won't make any difference to the people of faith.
It is an interesting thing to think about however, life elsewhere in the universe. I believe it's out there for sure, but how much complex life is out there is the real question. I don't think humans are mediocre, I think we are uniquie and similarly complex lifeforms very rare. If a superior and vastly more technologically advanced race of being were out there as some imagine, it would be logical that they would be aware of us. I don't think therefore that such superiority exists, to that level at least.
But good luck Elon.
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