Hmm. Malick does seem to have trouble with special effects. Even in "Badlands," the gun wounds looked painted-on, as they did in "Thin Red Line," which didn't really hang together for me, btw.

Nonetheless, this flick is still probably worth shelling out ten bux for. [Insert Heidegger joke here.]

@jamdox: Thing is, there are a good number of effects in the movie—the aforementioned Big Bang, for one—and all of 'em, with the exception of the dinosaurs, are beautiful. Malick got Douglas Trumbull to help out, for chrissakes: http://vnty.fr/lCMN2D. Sounds like a lot of those Trumbull-assisted shots were practical, though; it's the CG dinosaurs where things get iffy.

Still, yes: Definitely worth 10 bucks.

Technically, it was fine. I didn't mind the dinosaurs. The philosophy is shit, however. Recommendation: save your ten bux, and just rent Bergman's "Winter Light".

I think people have difficulty parsing the film, and so don't understand its actual thesis, which is a good thing, because it's yet more reactionary bullshit inspired by Heidegger.

Let's ask a question the Malick's ilk have been scrambling to answer for decades: how could Heidegger be a Nazi? After all his concern about Being in the world, about Authenticity, and so on, how could this great man of deep concern be a vociferous Nazi?

Simple. Beneath all the jargon, Heidegger's philosophy is an extension of the whiny and constipated side of Germanic culture, wherein maladjusted fools seek to scapegoat the human condition, and whine and mope about how the nasty modern world interrupted their "meaningful" "organic" lives as dirty, superstitious peasants. (Sound like anyone you know living 5 to a house in SE?)

Heideggerian existentialism seems to argue for authenticity, but actually seeks escape. That's why Heidegger was a Nazi, and why Malick is basically advocating joining the Christian Coalition in this repulsive film.