8. Spielberg Returned to His First Love, Science Fiction
The early 2000s saw the release of AI: Artificial Intelligence and Minority Report, both futuristic dramas about the limits, or lack thereof, of intelligence and how society should grapple with the new morality that this phenomenon posed. Shortly after that, War of the Worlds featured alien visitors who, unlike those in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, were not friendly but were ultimately destroyed by the microorganisms that have killed so many on earth: bacteria.
