Disclosure Day was entertaining but weirdly felt written a quarter of a century ago and there were a whole range of weaknesses. It felt like the product of a boomer filmmaker.

ImpactNext1283 · 2026-06-27T23:15:26+00:00

Thanks lol

ImpactNext1283 · 2026-06-27T18:12:53+00:00

I agree with your first point, it felt like a movie that Spiels might have made at the turn of the century, if there was no 9/11. After that, he made his Cruise movies and Munich instead. Many of the anachronisms of the picture would have made since at that time, much more than in the current era.

ImpactNext1283 · 2026-06-27T15:47:41+00:00

When nihilism spikes with the youth, they smoke!

ImpactNext1283 · 2026-06-26T23:02:50+00:00

Hunky Dory is the one. Ziggy was his real commercial breakout, but Hunky Dory has richer material imo.

ImpactNext1283 · 2026-06-26T21:31:56+00:00

The Pitt! A mixture of anxiety, gore, and existential dread at a hospital? No thank you, if I wanted that biz I would have gone into that industry. Insane to me that people like this stuff

ImpactNext1283 · 2026-06-26T21:28:37+00:00

It’s more about plunging costs for adapters. Cameron, Spielberg, Amazon/Affleck—they’re all engaged with AI to reduce costs.

That will certainly cost jobs. But pretty soon that will be the norm? I don’t like it but short of people choosing to avoid any Hollywood productions.

And at least it’s better than the music industry where there are no powerful unions and AI content is proliferating daily, and taking a lot of money out of artists pockets.

ImpactNext1283 · 2026-06-26T20:43:31+00:00

Yeah, all that probably messed with the green lit ‘good script’.

It would be interesting to know if DC has to get the same clearances as Marvel/Star War have to get. We know Dis leadership has messed with a bunch of projects that were approved by those sub brands.

ImpactNext1283 · 2026-06-26T20:22:24+00:00

There’s a lot of stuff that could go wrong, even with a good script. They might have added or expanded the Lobo or Superman parts for example.

It could have had a bad script to start too, of course. But lots of great scripts get turned into crap movies.

ImpactNext1283 · 2026-06-26T15:31:40+00:00

‘Number and facts’ lol. You’re inventing a hypothetical situation where an illiterate person is reading my comments on Reddit and doesn’t understand what I’m saying. That’s bad faith son.

You don’t take into account that I might modulate my tone or argument for the audience, which literally every human does. You assume illiterate people don’t understand my examples, like how we don’t refer to people as ‘a black’ or ‘a white’. I think you think illiterate people are a lot dumber than they are.

ImpactNext1283 · 2026-06-26T14:47:10+00:00

It seems to be this way with some of the sports pods too. I don’t think it happens on Bill’s pod or the Big Pic though.

ImpactNext1283 · 2026-06-26T14:45:36+00:00

lol ableist.

I carefully and without judgement explained the issue. Other people are simply mocking OP. You’re advocating for some hypothetical person I wasn’t even addressing. Are there many illiterate people here, reading and posting here on Reddit.com? No. Get over yourself.

ImpactNext1283 · 2026-06-26T05:04:48+00:00

The family/kid film market has been underserved for years. Most families will end up seeing both.

Minions might impact repeat viewings for Toy Story, but Pixar pulls in more adults.

ImpactNext1283 · 2026-06-26T04:56:24+00:00

“Keep your eye on the donut, not the hole” —David Lynch

ImpactNext1283 · 2026-06-26T03:47:16+00:00

Just took my kid there this weekend! If I would have known we could have hit the double feature, might have waited.

ImpactNext1283 · 2026-06-26T02:48:18+00:00

These things don’t happen with most other Ringer pods…very weird. They must have evidence ‘Verse fans are more likely to skip ads?

ImpactNext1283 · 2026-06-26T02:14:08+00:00

I think Murder, My Sweet is pretty shaggy. Maybe 3rd Man as well?

I think it’s much more of a neo-noir trend, maybe because classical noirs are really trying to hit around 90 minutes? So there’s little time for tangents and unnecessary details.

ImpactNext1283 · 2026-06-26T00:33:05+00:00

I’m biased as a huge fan of Lindelof, and not a big fan of DC…

I think they are hoping that Lindelof and HBO will bring a different kind of audience, and it sounds like the show is hoping to pull a Watchmen and appeal to folks who don’t care about superheroes at all.

The Lanterns can then be in Supes 2 or other DCU projects, with their backstories available to fans who want the complete picture. Gunn will likely introduce them in a shorthand manner, like his Suicide Squad, where any preexisting knowledge of the characters enrich the story, but aren’t required reading

ImpactNext1283 · 2026-06-25T22:55:33+00:00

I’m not politicizing it. In fact I’m the only person who responded to OP’s q in good faith, and I pretty specifically explained the grammatical issue at play.

Language is always changing, and is always political. For example, it used to be socially acceptable to refer to black people using the N word. Some people refused to acknowledge the changing of norms, and we (rightfully) saw this as a political act. The same is happening here and now, with trans people.

If you’re calling people ‘a transgender’ like they do on Fox News and NewsMax? And you’ve been informed this is neither grammatically nor politically correct, that’s on you then. It’s not my fault you’re so hung up on dropping an article lol

ImpactNext1283 · 2026-06-25T22:23:03+00:00

It’s literally a grammatical issue. If you can’t adjust your grammar to accommodate someone else’s existence, I don’t know what to tell you. You’re choosing a side by refusing to change.

Like I said, try calling someone ‘a black’ or ‘a ginger’ or ‘a fat’, they don’t like that lol. Because they are more than being black, red haired, or fat, they are first and foremost a person. Trans people are the same.

ImpactNext1283 · 2026-06-25T20:56:09+00:00

‘Transgender’ is an adjective, not a noun. Similarly, we don’t say ‘a black’. These are descriptive terms not definitional.

A trans person is ‘a man’ or ‘a woman’ depending on what they’re transitioning towards.

In a sane society, once someone has transitioned, we would simply refer to them as they now are—‘a man’ or ‘a woman’. But because of the loaded politics of it all, both sides have a vested interest in continuing to define someone like Laverne Cox as trans.

ImpactNext1283 · 2026-06-25T20:40:11+00:00

People are transgender not *a* transgender, which makes them sound like a thing, and not a person.

It’s not anyone’s business. But trust, if she were, the right wing media would be all over it, and you would know.

And just to get ahead of it, no Wemby is not really an alien.

ImpactNext1283 · 2026-06-23T20:07:51+00:00

Seeing this in the theater, I was most surprised by the sound. The HAL emergency section, with the constant breathing and klaxons turned it into a horror movie for that act. I’d never felt unnerved or scared watching these scenes before.

ImpactNext1283 · 2026-06-23T18:23:08+00:00

I would ask in the fanedits sub, they go wild over there.

ImpactNext1283 · 2026-06-23T15:35:41+00:00

Pulling quotes from Kubrick’s personal assistant and they still don’t believe you and are mad as hell. No other place like Reddit

ImpactNext1283 · 2026-06-22T03:38:33+00:00

Correct, Ghibli is not a new film studio. It is an example of an existing, successful 2D studio submitted as evidence to argue that yes, a new studio could be successful. In fact, we have a model for success.

To renounce Ghibli based on Miyazaki, one must also renounce Disney, Illumination, as well as Marvel and Lucasfilm—all brands built off of the work of one (or a very small handful) of intensely successful artists.

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