I just finished watching War of the Worlds; PG-13 my ass.  I haven’t felt this strong a need to curl up inna a fetal position and pull the covers over my head since I accidentally watched a bit of Poltergeist at four years old.

Apocalyptic movies are supposed to be fun, and that wasn’t fun – it was upsetting.  I can’t explain why certain parts bothered me so or why I experienced chest pains while watching the aliens suck the blood out of humans then spray it back out on the ground like fertilizer, but it did.

To ask if this was a good movie makes for one very complicated answer, but I can tell ya this much:  Don’t let your children or sensitive Mothers watch it.  This is not a shiny happy film; lots of undertones of war, 9/11 and genocide.   Also it was incredibly illogical for all the main characters to have miraculously survived.  I guess that’s what made it PG-13.