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Originally Posted by TinyRedLeaf
When it comes to anime, movies or TV programmes, it's very hard to make a show that is both intelligent and entertaining. Usually, most go for the latter: It's easier to entertain people than it is to make them think. That's the exact same problem Oshii suffers as a film-maker. He makes intelligent, but extremely boring, movies. So, yes, I don't blame anyone for hating The Sky Crawlers for being a tedious show, because it is. It expects too much of its audience and it proves that, in the end, it's hard for a leopard to change its spots: Oshii remains very much a self-indulgent storyteller.
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I think some people are forgetting that Oshii's movies, Ghost in the Shell (1, 2), Twilight Q and Angel's Egg for examples, can be boring for many but for others immersive and absorbing not because of the
pretentious 'intellectual' content, but because of their aesthetics. It seems utterly stupid (personally) to highly rate something you found boring, let alone extremely boring.
<---haven't watched Sky Crawlers yet