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While it's true that the movie is much better animated than the show, the show itself is one of the best animated tv series I've ever seen, rivaled only by Last Exile. No real drops in quality, unlike other shows like Samurai 7. It even does a pretty good job of mixing CG with tradtional looking animation, IMO. As for the storylines of the actual shows, I just felt that it had a good mix of action and story over the season to make you interested, whereas the second movie was flawed in that it was all exposition and no movement at all (besides the last 10 minutes or something, if memory serves right). So, while the atmosphere is great, I just can't ever seem to watch the movie in one sitting without dozing off here and there, so it just sits in my collection, collecting dust.
I'm probably in the minority, but I just feel that Mamoru Oshii's movies started going downhill after the Patlabor films as they kept focusing more and more towards the psychological aspects of characters/political conflicts and less on actual story and entertainment. I can totally respect what he's trying to do in creating challenging material like Jin-roh and the GitS movies, but I'm just not looking into that in movies.
Then again, you could just say that it's all the crazy ramblings of a Patlabor fan (TV and OAVs) because he doesn't make 'em like he used to...
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