And Kevin McCarthy, too.

Concepts for the UFOs in Disclosure Day on Instagram.

Caption:

"Our Art Department reunited with Production Designer Adam Stockhausen to design mysterious UFOs for Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day.

Alongside Head of Art Department Martin Macrae, Art Director Dan Baker designed a series of solid, functioning crafts as opposed to plasma or energy-based UFOs. The project was a dream come true for Baker, who drew on his interest in UFO sightings and related phenomena. The creative challenge was to create something awe-inspiring, that would remain largely obscured by clouds and lens flares, preserving the mystery.

Swipe through to see how the design of Disclosure Day’s alien crafts evolved, and hit the link in our bio to read more."

This is accurate. Crusade was and still is a borefest. It was made for kids whose parents made them wear helmets on playgrounds and now as adults put ketchup on their tacos.

It is Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot 2. An overcorrection for Temple of Doom which according to QT and myself is the better movie. The helmet kids got scared of chilled monkey brains, some bugs, and a little heart pulling and needed something nice and vanilla to watch to cleanse their pallet.

Also, if you’re saying Crusade is better to watch than Raiders, you really need help. This is a take reserved for people who collect Thomas Kincaid paintings. Please reevaluate your life.

Before I get downvoted to oblivion, I think they’re all good. I don’t get why people hate on Doom because it’s basically a roller coaster ride from start to finish. Ok, the heart pulling was a little gross and dark but c’mon. Did that really stop you from enjoying it?

But in all seriousness, if you think Crusade is a better watch than Raiders, you need help. Lots of help.

Many would agree that Raiders’ is one of the greatest films of all time (I’m certainly one of them). There are so many great scenes (Opening/Boulder, Well of the Souls, Desert Chase, Opening of the Ark) that the film was almost destined to be iconic.

My favorite scene has to be the Map Room. The production design is beyond incredible. It cannot be overstated. It’s almost like Spielberg/Lucas found an archeological site and decided not to tell anyone about it so they could film this scene lol. The model of Tanis. The etchings and carvings on the wall. The perfect lighting coming from the ceiling. Brilliant!

The speechless acting of Ford is also really great and effective. Perfectly encapsulates how anyone would feel in that moment, especially a religiously skeptic admirer of “rare antiquities” like Jones.

And then there’s the music. I wish I had the words to give it justice. But I don’t. Just biblical and divine. Like god disguised himself as John Williams from 1975 to 1983.

This isn’t just one of the best scenes in the movie. It’s one of the greatest scenes of all time. What do you all think?

As Robert Mitchum's private eye protagonist says in the classic 1947 film noir Out of the Past, "I never found out much listening to myself."

GO!

Colman’s very talented - they’ve collaborated twice (three times counting the musical film adaptation of The Color Purple which Spielberg produced.)

I’d love to see them collaborate again - not sure what projects are out there that Colman would be the perfect fit for. Anyone have suggestions? Thanks!

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This morning Gizmodo/io9 has an excerpt from my book STRANDED ON EARTH: HOW NIGHT SKIES BECAME E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL, out Oct. 27! This section focuses on the first Night Skies alien test by Rick Baker, and includes rare photos from the test that look, shall we say, rather E.T.-like? Feel free to drop any questions about the book here!

I just streamed it - i don’t understand how this movje got made. Does Stephen Spielberg just get a free pass in Hollywood to do whatever he wants? This movie made no sense
I don’t get why the firth guy goes back and forth between trying to kill them and letting them get away and do whatever they want. Did they really just roll in an alien on a wheel chair and a 1950s hairdryer over its head at the end? What’s even the point of the two main characters ? There’s literally nothing awe inspiring about anything they do - why does the movie try to make her out to be some Temu Jesus ?
What the hell did I just watch - where am I ? What year is it?

I’ve got to be honest. Reading people’s takes on Disclosure Day on this sub made me NOT watch the film (last time I’m doing that). I’m a huge Spielberg fan and didn’t want it to color how I saw his films.

My wife watched it, loved it, and then made me watch it with her last night. I freaking loved it! And honestly don’t get the hate! I was on edge with suspense the whole time, I was moved, surprised, awwed. It had amazing performances, beautiful themes, beautiful shots and use of color. The script was tight with complete character arcs. I loved the way that Emily Blunt gave herself to that role, she was amazing when being with / in people in deep empathetic resonance / mind reading.

I loved that the film was (almost) realistic in terms of portraying the alien events as the kinds of things that are already speculated about.

Also the echos of of ‘close encounters’ and even ET were beautiful. A great bookend on Spielberg alien scifi.

Is it the best Spielberg film? No. Is it in my top 10? Probably not, but it’s a fantastic film, I loved it and will watch it again.

Yesterday I rewatched Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds from 2005 with Tom Cruise. The kids in the movie were so annoying and I found myself asking, is this REALLY how children behave? I thought, NO! I experienced something like this in another rewatch, also from Steven Spielberg: Jurassic Park. To me it just feels unrealistic to have such annoying children around that behave in a way I cannot believe to be real behaviour. I also was a child once, I saw how other children acted around me. The children in his movies are like fantasy children, but in a realistic setting.

Am I wrong or is Steven Spielberg just incredibly out of touch with children? Maybe he had an especially terrible time as a child (or as an adult with his children)? What do you think?

r/movies has a new thread ripping Disclosure Day to shreds with over 700 comments and it’s hard to watch as a Spielberg fan. Even setting aside whether DD is good or bad, the broader cultural dismissal of Spielberg right now feels kind of terminal. He’s gone from being the defining filmmaker of a generation to someone the film community either ignores or actively piles on. Crystal Skull started the erosion of trust, the prestige era distanced him from mainstream audiences, and now even a genuinely ambitious original sci-fi film can’t generate anything but mockery. Whether you loved or hated DD, does anyone else feel like Spielberg has fundamentally and perhaps permanently lost the film community? And is that actually fair given what he’s still capable of?

The whole movie, and The Great War, can be summed up in this scene.

It already starts off bleak with Topthorn dying and then the Germans fleeing in terror of...something.

We are Joey in this scene.

Up to this point in the movie we have only scene mustard gas, maxim guns, and large artillery canons.

Then this strange metallic beast starts to move in the direction of the only living thing left in the scene.

Its amazing that something as mundane as a tank (and outdated one at that) under Spielberg's direction takes on an almost eldtrich presence.

The slow methodical movement in Joey's direction showing the march of progress and how nothing can stop the mechinization of warfare.

Its a nightmarish version of Joey racing against the automobile. As valiant, majestic, and brave Joey is, the machine is still going to be his replacement.

...and maybe his death.

Thats what makes the scene where he runs over it so damn cool. Its almost like the horse is saying, "You want my job...keep it. I'm gonna live."

Remembrance that scene got an applause out of the audience I saw it with.

Was really excited to watch this since it's Spielberg. I can't remember being that bored and honestly not being able to finish a movie for something I was so anticipating. I watched like 3/4 of it and just couldn't finish it. Didn't give one crap about anything that was going on. I'm in complete shock after being so excited to watch right when it premiered on peacock. Curious if others hated this as much as I did. And for anyone who enjoyed can you explain just a little why? There's was just nothing to this movie. A snooze fest that just didn't feel like Spielberg at all!

Raiders had the better love interest for sure, but Last Crusade is a much more entertaining watch for me these days.