Nah, you're not alone. I liked his older movies but I was never blown away by any of them the way so many people claim to have been. (The Nausicaa manga was pretty good, though - the manga, not the anime.) And his more recent movies have just failed to impress me at all, except for the animation (that tends to be gorgeous). It doesn't help that he keeps rehashing the same old themes and he's as subtle about them as a Königstiger tank.