2012 is when it happened. The world did indeed "end" on that date. I moved back to my home town that year and when I met people I knew a few years later it was as if all of them had adapted to the "new world" and there was some problems communicating and I even lost some friends over it. I'm surprised there is not more talk about it.

Before that the process had still begun but there were still old school stuff going on.

Moonfall is a case in point. If that movie was made ten years ago it would be much the same movie. Empty, seen it before disaster fare with a diverse cast. Now though it's like a crack addict who can no longer get the same high so he starts shooting it raw into his veins. In this movie every background character has to be black. Like "damn, our leads are too white, how do we compensate?". So you go into a hospital and the lead doctor is black and the smartest guy in the room. You go to the white house and joint chiefs are all white, except for one black guy who is in charge and the only guy with lines. The entire movie is like this all the time. As if somebody in production went over the script and circled out all the characters they could turn into black people because a movie has to have that now. Turning a career criminal like George Floyd into a national hero is part of this psychosis. It has gone way beyond trying to be diverse and represent everybody, it's like an unhinged obsession. I get religious connotations from it, as if we are this close to putting up bon fires again.

Super hero actors make pennies in the beginning. Like a few hundred k. They can command larger salaries later when the fans become attached to them. Replacing them willy nilly could be done but I suspect there would be a lot of backlash and bad pr they don't want.

We'll end up with digital actors I think. At least in those type of movies.

I was thinking they can't possibly just keep on touring every year so I checked out Metallica, and yes you can. They've been on some kind of tour every year since 1983 except for 01-02, 05 and 2020.

If they release 2 songs every year that's going to cover a good few years for them.

I have fond memories of Hannibal. In my country the rating rules are different from America. Sex and nudity is okay but if there is violence the rating becomes equivalent to NC17 pretty fast. This was the first "grown up movie" I could watch at the cinema without feebly lying to the ticket puncher. It was one of those moments which confirmed your status as an adult for the first time.

Movie as I remembered it back then was a bit underwhelming. Not bad, quite good actually, but as you say it couldn't live up to Silence.

Now though I think I prefer it. Hopkins has more to do, Moore's "Clarice" is certainly not worse than Foster's. And of course Ray shines here. Scott is also superior to Demme.

I dare say, watching this on the telly in the hotel room on my last visit to England, it was the most enjoyable experience of the whole trip.

Looked like Richard Burton at the end in the latest pictures. He was a little older than I thought but still too young.

Around 2000 is probably when he did his best work. Cop Land, Hannibal, Narc. Classic movies with parts that suited him. Too unlikable I guess to be a big leading star, but he could act.

This decade has and will see a lot of great names kick the bucket. Clint is not seeing past 2030 I can't imagine, De Niro and Pacino will be approaching 90. Pesci, Nicholson, Keitel. And directors, Scorsese, Coppola, De Palma, Lucas, Spielberg. All of them very old.