Great Film overall

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Terence Malick is a genius. I still think The Thin Red Line is his best movie but Knight of Cups and Song to Song are very close. He is at best when he keeps the esotheric religious nonsense to a minimum and also lets loose of subtext and story. Whats left is an artistic description of human nature that is more accurate than any rational story could be. For me it is like a dance it makes you understand by feeling it ...no rigid story or understanding necessary and also in the end not the same meaning for everyone. Movies like this are not entertainment they are art and that is why Terence Malick will be still famous long after humanity doesn't care about Steven Spielberg etc...

This is my first time seeing a Malick film, and at first the thing that grabbed my attention where the places they recorded, they were different in a way, they showed you so many places like it was a documentary and not a movie, and that can work in a way but... in every film the thing that counts the most it's the story, the STORY is everything, but not just that, they way is TOLD. Not just the story went slow and confusing but even the actors talked slowly like we had the time of the world, another thing it's the way they kept repiting the same type of scenes, we got an incredible amount of almost sex- very touchy-romantic scenes between the characters. This is a truly shame because the cast had the talent to do way more, and the places they went where magical!

..this film is a prime example why you should never watch a movie any other way than streaming.. ..over your lifetime you'll save HUGE amounts of precious time.....at 129 minutes in length... if you jump every couple minutes or so... in 60 clicks you can pretty much view this entire thing.. ..and will not have missed very much in the process....loads of hi-end talent gone to waste in this muddled production.. with a script.. well there really isn't much of one... ...just loads of edited 'artistic' filming... can easily see why it took years to put together after shooting.... it will probably still make money.. as die-hard fans will be keen to roll the dice.. most will not be thrilled..

Most directors turn out some great movies (Bananas, Schindler's List, Dr. Strangelove, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest) and some terrible ones (Everyone Says I Love You, The Lost World, Eyes Wide Shut, Man on the Moon). Some (i.e., John Sayles) consistently turn out good movies, while others (i.e., Paul W.S. Anderson) appear to be on a mission to destroy cinema. But Terrence Malick is one of a kind: he has gotten progressively worse as a director. His debut "Badlands" was a masterpiece. His follow-up "Days of Heaven" was OK, not great. "The Thin Red Line" was well-intentioned but had a too narrow focus. "The New World" was too long and too slow. Malick continues this downward spiral with the forgettable "Song to Song". There's no plot here, just two hours of people thinking things that they want to say to each other. I don't know what possessed Ryan Gosling, Natalie Portman, Michael Fassbender and Rooney Mara to waste their time on something so bland and empty.Basically, it's the sort of pointless movie that you'll need to wash out of your memory with another movie (in my case, I watched "An American Werewolf in London"). Terrence Malick is nothing but a hack. I don't know why anyone finances his pseudo-intellectual Oscar bait wannabe.