Watched the Heaven's Feel movie finally, and I'll totally call it out for pacing issues (not as bad as 2001, but it's got some slow spots) but **** YEAH RIDER! The Lancer-Assassin battle is as awesome as it should be, Zouken is reaching new levels of evil creepy old zombie grandfather, and by god the visuals are beautiful, especially once the snow falls. They're definitely lobbing some love towards Shinkai with some of the shot composition in spots, which I find awesome.
Also, Sakura-chan~