War of the Worlds

Just saw Spielberg's War of the Worlds... I have to admit I thought this movie was going to be a lot like bathing in a tub filled with vomit. Based on what I saw in the trailer I foresaw uncontrollable seizures. However I decided it was Spielberg and I felt I had an obligation to see it.

War of the Worlds was beyond what I had imagined. Spielberg has managed to pull himself out of the bad movie sludge he was in and climb over every movie in the recent past and drive the bottom of the Spielberg flag through their unworthy corpses.

Spielberg made "Revenge of the Sith" look like a home video. To put it in better terms, War of the Worlds was the best thing my eyes and my ears have both seen and heard in a long time. You must see this in the theatre, a theatre with really good sound, because the sound in this movie is over half of the experience. War of the Worlds proved that sound design can take a movie over the edge. And it proved that Spielberg still has what it takes to be on top.