New Deal democrat’s New Role . . . a Movie Reviewer
It appears (as stated) New Deal is either on the road, taking a train, or flying somewhere to relax, have some fun, or gathering information for a new report. I hope for the earlier two latter as NDd is typically busy reporting on the economy in his fashion. So as a surprise or treat,
NDd offers up a movie review!
Movie review:
– by New Deal democrat
Today is a travel day for me, and there’s no big economic news today, so enjoy this movie review instead. Regular economic nerd-dom will resume tomorrow.
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“Disclosure Day” is Steven Spielberg at his stupidest.
A big budget, bloated, logically incoherent, sprawling mess of a movie that is what happens when there is nobody left in the Big Name’s orbit who has the authority to say “no.” It’s as if he was possessed by M. Night Shyamalan and forced to make yet another attempt at B-grade sci fi.
For example: the good guy escapes one of many attempts by the bad guys to kidnap him by – I kid you not – crawling around in plain sight and driving a car into the thick of them amid a hail of bullets. Later, as if to cover all his sci-fi bases, (and there are lots of callbacks to both “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and “E.T.”, both better movies by far, among other sci-fi films) the good guy is standing in a field of grain that spontaneously develops crop circles, for no apparent reason and no significance to the plotline,
Or how about the bad guys? They start out the movie having already kidnaped one character and threatening to kill her, kidnap another character later, plot the murder of a hero, later seriously attempt a double murder, and then at the end, when shooting one of the heroes would entirely defeat them, simply shrug as if to say “Oh well. We lost. Let’s go home.”
And then there’s the final scene, which can only be described as the return of a geriatric E.T., which entirely logically undercuts the entire drama up until that point. If you have a live alien, why bother with a worldwide “Disclosure” of video which nowadays everyone would dismiss as AI slop?
And the very very end, which makes you think, I sat through 2 1/2 hours for this?
The high point of the movie was when I had to leave the theater for 5 minutes during the climactic scene in order to take a pee.
If you’re upset that this review contains spoilers (and really, it doesn’t), be grateful. I gave you back 2 1/2 hours of your life to do something better.
Thanks for this, I would almost certainly have gone to see it otherwise.
Heard it’s a dud, too. I think he got on this too late. Maybe disclosing aliens has trouble selling a film because too many in the audience are already out in front on this. So it boils down to an over 2 hour “evil corporation” movie. Did he forget that ET and Close Encounters (and Star Wars and Star Trek and more) were kind of long-term soft disclosure works? Better approach maybe just start the movie that irrefutable proof of Roswell or Cape Girardeau makes it out and now you have Air Force Majors, Navy Commanders, civil servants all told to get 75 years of the whole story out….’okay, we know about the aliens, you tell us what the people who knew were doing during these decades.’ What he did, didn’t work.
Spielberg has always been over-rated. I sometimes wonder if his disaster movies aren’t some kind of well-hidden denial and he’s trolling us all