the politics of the tree of life were lousy, the abstacted, vigentte style story tellijng a little wearying, the last third a goopy hippy disaster, his spirtualism and his pangeic theology as a corrective to the european (this time xianity) interesting, and the 30 minute section about the creation of the earth, from the big bang, to the 50s in texas was one the most beautiful things ive seen in the cinema (esp a tiny, few second cut of a sea dinasour, and a slightly longer scene of two raptors)

also, the only film that had sections set in the present day, and oh brad pitt was great.