Mike X. Nichols

@mikexnichols.bsky.social

Writer/Actor/Healthcare worker | Fought the void but the void won🌀| He/they | https://boxd.it/1oJd

Actually disgusting that nurses were treated like utter shit, overworked and dying during the pandemic and now RFK is on TV telling everyone that didn't happen. I can't even imagine a more thankless, hostile job right now.

It's absolutely insane we've somehow let the Covid recriminations debate become like "why didn't we reopen in person schools before there was a vaccine" and not "why did none of the trump guys go to jail for stealing PPE from New York hospitals in March 2020"

If you claim that we were too cautious about COVID and essentially make an argument rooted in rugged individualism, you have a severe case of Main Character Syndrome and are an interminable asshole.

The Spider-Man 2 train sequence is a masterclass in action, and none of the Spider-Man movies since Sam Raimi departed the series have come close to it. The team beautifully pulled it off with a mixture of VFX techniques available to them, including CGI!

Sam Raimi. Spider-Man 2 (2004). Spider-Man and Doctor Octopus face off on top of a moving New York City train.

The baggage of the MCU tends to suck the air out of its projects for me. I don’t want to feel like I need to do homework. Show me a guy who slays vampires. Show me a dude who spins webs. I don’t care about any of the universe’s machinations. The multiverse even less so.