God I'm so glad people agree with me about Oshii. Everyone acts like he's some unassailable genius.
I think he's capable of some really beautiful filmmaking, but he's also capable of boring me to sleep. He needs an editor or a producer or someone like that with a firm hand to control him. When he works with someone else who keeps him from doing things like that, the works are brilliant. See: Patlabor, Jin-Roh, et cetera. The difference between Jin-Roh (riveting) and Stray Dog (incredibly boring) is amazing.
Even so, maybe this will be one of the good ones.