^ I'm glad to see yet another person chime in about Thin Red Line- I used to have a line in my sig:

"Look at this jungle. Look at those vines, the way they twine around, swallowing everything. Nature's cruel, Staros."

You guys do realize Terrence Malick writes his own screenplays too along with the directing & editing, right? Brilliant. He dropped out of Hollywood in the seventies after his first two films, and taught philosophy at M.I.T. -- he's no lightweight. If you like his introspective narrative style, also check out "The New World" which came out in 2005. He's wrapped shooting on "Tree of Life" with Sean Penn and Brad Pitt and is editing it right now- it's expected to be epic.