Even though BB came out two weeks before WOTW it has been passed in grosses which restores my faith in people's good taste.
BB was much better than WOTW, both in overall execution and in faithfulness to the original material. But if there's one thing Spielberg knows how to do it's make money on a movie. He's the guy that accidentally invented the summer blockbuster (prior to Jaws summer was considered a movie release deadzone) I would hope he knows how to make a solid summer blockbuster. I didn't bother to see it though, I've grown sick of Spielberg's crap (not political crap, I'm good at ignoring that when watching movies, his story telling crap, he's far to willing to sell out a good story for a "popular" story) and the changes I saw to the story in the previews drove me away. I might have swallowed my disgust had they not named it War of the Worlds, it looked like a pretty solid generic alien invasion movie, but I just couldn't accept it as War of the Worlds, that story is too important in the history of sci-fi for me to tolerate it's butchery by Spielberg.