Now do you mean Stand Alone Complex or the first movie? If the former - eh, I wasn't that impressed either, but if the latter I will be so disappointed.

Without Anime, there would be no Gnac's avatar.

I was talking about Stand Alone Complex in that post.

I disliked the movie for different reasons.  Essentially the movie didn't feel coherent.  It was very spastic in its transitions and didn't fully explain what was going on till towards the very end.  It's one of those shows where you would understand quite a bit more from rewatching it but it was just so bad that there's no motivation to rewatch it.

Now I'm sad again.

thats mamoru oshii's style, and the main reason the sky crawlers didn't get the oscar nomination, eventhough the movie is as beautiful as movies get, a main plot and various subplots are presented and not resolved until the very end(barely resolved that is) while the movie drags on with no specific goal in mind for the most part, a same case is seing in the jin-roh script made by oshii. anyways ghost in the shell ain't as good as some people say it is, maybe thats the reason why its only popular on the west, while in japan they actually had to completely that out the name "ghost in the shell"

I tend to prefer a strong and clear narrative with a good sense of pacing.  Works such as Kiki's Delivery Service, Toki wo kakeru shoujo, and Read or Die OVA are more interesting to me than others such as Ghost in the Shell, Hoshi no Koe, and the like.

i also like tokikake alot and mostly movies and to a degree series with straight forward plots, mainly because i don't have to go read a wikipedia article to understand what the fuck happened, but movies with a bizarre or alternative narrative are also very fun to watch, just because they have those shocking "oh noes he is ghost" m.night shamalayn moments.

Well because they have better visuals than other cartoons. Most american cartoons suck. Anime is so much better.

Ignorance becomes you.

One of the biggest hurdles most people need to overcome is the tendency to liken anime to cartoons.  Anime really needs to overcome this connotation because an anime like Great Teacher Onizuka has more in common with House M.D. than Sponge Bob.  People can't see that though.  They just look at the fact that GTO and Sponge Bob are both animated and think they're closer to compare.  It really is a shame that one of the biggest challenges for anime is overcoming its own medium.

As a side note, America has produced the best animated films in the world courtesy of Disney.  Aladdin, Hercules, Robin Hood, Little Mermaid, Tarzan, Mulan, and more are amazing films that people of ages young and old can enjoy and are stilling enjoying decades after their creation.

Pixar creates better animated films than Disney, even though they are linked.