And I did. And I regret it.

Steven Spielberg can make some great movies, but he also has this solid wad of gullibility in his brain that emerges whenever he makes a movie about aliens. It happened when he directed Close Encounters of the Third Kind, ET the Extraterrestrial, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and it also leaked out a bit with A.I. Artificial Intelligence. They all made lots of money, though, so I fear there’s no way we can ever stop him.

Hey friends, I saw the new Spielberg movie Disclosure Day last night. The short summary, it’s mushbrain mystical bullshit through and through.
0:1313 It’s not as if I dismiss the idea of aliens altogether. As a biologist, I see it as almost certain that there’s
0:2121 life around other star systems. Life is chemistry and chemistry is universal.
0:2626 But I’m also aware of the existence of biological diversity. I’m confident that any aliens from outer space would not be
0:3333 spindly long-limmed pseudo monkeys with giant black eyes and gray bodies.
0:4040 That’s the only kind of alien Spielberg can imagine.
0:4444 I’m not a physicist, but I do believe that the cost and time of traveling from star to star would be so great that we’re not going to get fleets of clim
0:5353 flimsy tinfoil spaceships flying here to crash on Earth. What would be the point?
1:001 What would the aliens get at such uncountable expense?
1:051 Now, I’m going to sort of spoil the movie at this point. Sort of.
1:121 If you’ve seen Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the movie that Spielberg made in 1977, you’ve already seen Disclosure Day.
1:241 I don’t know how I can possibly spoil this movie because it’s already been done with not a speck of originality.
1:311 To remind you about Close Encounters, a few people see UFOs which somehow telepathically infect them with visions and obsessions.
1:421 The movie focuses on two of them, Roy and Jillian, who struggle to understand their visions and make their way to the
1:491 mysterious Devil’s Tower in Wyoming, where they find an international team of government people sitting up setting up
1:561 musical communications gear to talk to the aliens. The UFOs show up. Little alien people emerge. Roy and Jillian
2:042 join them. And they all fly off to their destiny in the stars.
2:102 That’s it.
2:132 Jesus. But I dislike that movie. Yes, I saw it when it came out in 1977. I’m that old and I did not like it at all.
2:232 Nothing is explained. How the aliens implant ideas in people’s heads. They just can. How the military got involved.
2:332 Why the government is trying to keep everything secret. what humans and aliens were trying to say to each other. It’s all in patterns and tones.
2:412 How anyone involved basically got tangled up in this unexplained mcguffin and what they learned.
2:492 The message was simple. Aliens are awesome, but your government is hiding them from you.
2:582 If you missed it 49 years ago, now it’s back.
3:023 Two people, Margaret and Daniel, have been implanted with strange images and the ability to speak Korean, Russian, mathematics, and other alien languages.
3:163 And they are compelled to rush off to exotic Kansas City, where their fate will be revealed.
3:233 Daniel is carrying a stash of secret recordings of aliens that prove aliens are real. They are pursued by Noah, the bad guy.
3:333 He’s an angry intelligence agent who is best desperate to stop them before they expose the truth to the world. There are
3:413 car chases and fights and faints before they finally join forces with Hugo and
3:483 his team. Those are the good guys who want to expose the truth to the world, which they do by building a replica of Margaret’s childhood home.
4:004 Don’t ask me why.
4:034 And then taking over a TV station and broadcasting stolen government videos of Roswell, aliens, crop circles, and sadistic examinations of aliens.
4:154 That’s it. That’s the end.
4:194 Most of the movie is about conflicts and conspiracies that seem to be living in Steven Spielberg’s head. And I suppose they make sense to him.
4:294 But he can’t convince an audience that they’re true. His aliens all have psychic powers. Why?
4:374 What evidence do we have for any of that? Why should we think that aliens can read minds?
4:434 They’re visiting Earth and ships with bright flashing lights. But the general public can’t seem to get a decent infocus image of them. But the
4:514 government has excellent video recordings of dead aliens and spaceship wreckage.
4:584 Why are the aliens here?
5:015 Why does the government, all governments want them kept secret?
5:075 Why is Hugo, no, not Hugo, what’s his name? Um, the bad guy, why is the bad guy such a villainous walking temper tantrum?
5:175 None of this makes any sense except this is the world of Spielberg conspiracy theory soaked brain. He presupposes that UFOs have to be real alien vessels.
5:295 Therefore, the only reason we don’t have good evidence for them is that the aliens have magic mind control powers
5:365 and the government is suppressing the truth.
5:405 They can’t let the public know about the aliens because they’ll panic and because the mind of God is a mystery.
5:495 Yeah, there is some bogus theological weebling in there. There’s Catholic nuns in a couple of scen.
5:585 Okay. Why? I I I don’t know about anything in this movie.
6:046 The ending is only going to be satisfactory to a UFO conspiracist.
6:096 A bunch of videos get released on television and the internet, and we get shots of people and on buses and in trains and living rooms staring fixedly
6:186 at their phones and TVs with expressions of awe. Oh, nope.
6:266 Only the true believers would be that obsessed. We’ve seen FX renderings of aliens before, and this movie is an
6:346 example of that. And people are no longer dazzled. and are going to see it as just yet another hoham show.
6:436 It wouldn’t have that dramatic an effect.
6:476 The movie also presupposes that there is a deeper truth to the facts that we have now. The Roswell wreckage wasn’t sheets
6:566 of myar and a bunch of sticks like a broken balloon. If we had the actual film camera recording, it would show an
7:037 amazing metal spaceship with the broken bodies of aliens all around.
7:117 But what if it is just my sticks?
7:147 Disclosing a better recording or a higher resolution image of that pathetic wreckage won’t impress anyone.
7:277 So watching this mis movie was a misery.
7:317 I kept checking my watch hoping it would end soon. The only reason that I didn’t walk out was I hated it so much. I
7:387 wanted to be able to say that I saw the whole thing.
7:437 Nobody is going to be able to tell me I missed the good part because I hung in there until the last line before rushing to the exit and there was no good part.
7:567 It’s a shame, too, because Spielberg really is an excellent, talented, professional director. Just don’t let him make these bad movies about aliens anymore.
8:078 There he becomes a crackpot with millions of dollars and a schmaltzy sentimentality.
8:148 Okay, that’s that’s all I have to say about it was terrible.
8:218 really. I also think Close Encounters of the Third Count was terrible. I don’t think ET was particular…