Winter, I am forced to agree with you. Hollywood only casts the next "hottie" nowadays and a shitload of great actors weither go to waste or get forced to minimal roles in movies. By the way, James Woods is also a brilliant actor who is completely underrated. He made way to few movies when he was actively acting. And the ones he did make, were really good.

Bill Murray is also way too underrated. I admit, he did have good streak of success earlier in his career but it was by no means rediculously huge. He deserved more. And what makes me even more disgusted by hollywood, is that they didn't cash in on his talent later on anymore. They started only casting "popular" actors.

Christian Bale is also a very kickass actor. He was awesome in Batman Begins, played his role perfectly in American Psycho, and shows no sign of stopping unless Hollywood keeps him down.

And yet another underrated yet equally talented actor is Kevin Spacey. He's played mutliple roles which he geniously delivered yet he is still not hyped as one of the greatest actors. Screw hollywood and it's stupid hierarchy. All you need to cash billions for a movie nowadays is to cast Orlando Bloom, Colin Farrell, and some Paris Hilton dits to act "cute".

Americna horror sucks ass...hard. It's no wonder that the Japanese filming industry was able to so easily sweep in and dominate the horror film making market. At least from what I can tell from going to the video rental store, almost all horror movies listed are from Japan. They don't even take the time to stock things like Chucky the Killer Doll anymore.

Saw an excellent Japanese/Thai collaboration movie recently. It's one of those movies that uses the effect of silence/no background music to make the viewer feel as if he is there and/or it could be real life. The movie is called "Last Life in the Universe" and stars Asano Tadanobu (Ichi the Killer, Zatoichi: the Blind Swordsman). The movie offers a good mix of black humour while not unbalancing the serious element. I can only recomend this movie.