Ya, ELEPHANT is quite a minimalistic picture that I believe really gave Van Sant some career respect after that whole mishap with his PSYCHO remake. ****/5

BADLANDS - Masterpiece - *****

Terrence Malick's reputation was made pretty much with his directorial debut, which still amazes the optical senses over 30 years later. Featuring early career work from Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek and many narrative and musical cues that would resurface 20 years later in TRUE ROMANCE, quite a picture that actually details a story about two murderous-headline-grabbing kids in love about the now cliche and boring angle about the "media sensationalism", which now I am convinced is a lazy plot trick in many weak pictures(like say 15 MINUTES) that which is a claim to say something "smart", when its not.

Truely a movie that cinema lovers have to see sometime...