Certainly Oshii is pretentious but heck, pretentiousness is underrated. There's truth to both of these criticisms, particularly in his weaker works. He's accused of being pretentious for its own sake, following the forms of arthouse flicks merely at the surface without adding sufficient depth to create a good film. He's squandered much of his goodwill on the fiasco Innocence (which I still liked but that's a whole 'nother story) and the rest of his cinematic canon is quite often dismissed, and not merely by action fans who dislike anything slow. StoryIt sometimes feels pretty lonely being a fan of Mamoru Oshii.
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