[MattinNJ]

Hollywood can't hold a candle to Japan, South Korea, or China when it comes to film making...And I am not just talking old school (Kurosawa) either.

I dare Hollywood to make a movie as good as China's "House of Flying Daggers" (stunning), South Korea's "Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance" (brutal, slow descent into hell as kidnapping plan goes awry), or Japan's "Audition" (Fatal Attraction on steroids-truly sick and twisted).

Let Hollywood keep making movies about gay cowboys. I love to watch liberals lose their money.

For every "Saving Private Ryan" there is a "Brotherhood of War" (Korean Civil War movie where Americans are worshipped).

[wideawake]

You seem to labor under the illusion that:

(1) There are no cheesy throwaway pictures made in Japanm, South Korea or China - just the handful of high quality art films that justly become famous internationally.

Not the case.

(2) That Hollywood = the American cinema and

(3) That no American films are competitive in quality with Pacific rim art films.

I would argue that the recent film Capote is superior to at least two of the films you mentioned.