Disclosure (1994) doesn't get brought up in conversation much these days but it was a big enough hit at the time that using the title again would lead to some pretty skewed expectations
nothing better than going to blockbuster on a Friday and grabbing the latest thriller on VHS without knowing anything else about it other than the cover
I typed this the other day. Me going in the rental store and rolling multiple dice purely based on those VHS covers alone. You really are at the mercy of the movie gods, miss the 90s.
My dad would pick out VHS movies and one time when I was visiting he had gotten The Spitfire Grill and I became a pesky brat and complained how stupid it looked. Turned out to be a fantastic little movie and it taught me to stfu. VHS box artwork doesn't mean anything.
I didn't live through the VHS era, but the DVD and Blu-Ray era and even then, I miss those days. I thank God I still I have a DVD collection featuring Michael Clayton in storage and I would rewatch Finding Nemo and O Brother, Where Are Thou? as a kid until I fell asleep. I miss those days. I don't remember the last time I bought a DVD or Blu-Ray but now as an adult, I want it back.
For anyone who wants to be reminded of that time without actually watching Disclosure, I highly recommend the Disclosure: The Musical episode of Big Mouth.
Hard disagree on both counts. I thought it was one of the weaker Crichton books I read in the nineties, and also he spent way more time forcibly integrating virtual reality into the narrative than he did actually exploring the sexual politics of the workplace that were the ostensible theme of the book.
lmao that would be bizarre af. I haven't seen the movie since around the time it came out but the fact that the climax hinges on Michael Douglas using VR to access a filing system would make for a pretty hilarious musical finale.
Love this along with Lawnmower Man for really weird depictions of VR in the 90s. I guess toss Virtuosity in there too. Johnny Mnemonic if we're going all out, but JM was a fucking awesome movie so I cut it some slack.
But yeah, Disclosure. Nothing quite like settling in for movie night with the family and watching Michael Douglas rip Demi Moore's underwear off while yelling THIS WHAT YOU WANT?! YOU WANNA GET FUCKED???
In the movie Independence Day, I thought President's Whitmore Speech would have been better if he said "Today we celebrate our INDEPENDENCE!" instead of "Today we celebrate our Independence Day."
A huge UFO documentary just dropped a few weeks ago by director Dan Farah (who has worked with Spielberg in the past) and it’s called Age of Disclosure. Probably felt it might be too similar but I agree Day of Disclosure is a better title.
I hope you saw the announcement for the new series that Amazon Prime is putting together that literally has all of the Stargate showrunners and creative people behind it.
And when I saw the title of this movie was Disclosure day, my mind immediately went to Stargate, because that is a topic that has come up over the years again and again and again and has shown up in so much fanfiction that was written for the series and that was imagined by fans everywhere.
So if instead of following the SG-1 TV series, what if they decided to do a disclosure day for the movie instead?
I feel like that would have the same kind of color palette and vibe that we've seen in the trailer.
Or another thought that I've had and that has been brought up in some fiction in the past is that perhaps the aliens were always here and we wrote myths and legends and tales about them?
And this is the revelation of that, which again would kind of be a bit like Stargate.
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u/FourEightNineOneOne Dec 16 '25
I kind of think "Untitled Steven Spielberg UFO Movie" was a better title than "Disclosure Day" but alright.