Ironheart Review - It's NOT The Next Iron Man

 Nor is it supposed to be

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Excelsior! I am Axat the Marveler, and this is my review of the last Phase 5 show, Iron Heart

I want to say I like it, but it seems too rushed and the main character seems stubborn

Iron Man was stubborn too, and there are parallels drawn between both characters

Speaking of Iron Man kicking off the MCU, let me check 1 May 2008 17 years ago

A lot of time and a lot of audience saturation has happened since RDJ Junior

And now he will be back as Doctor von Doom in Avengers: Doomsday

I like the pop culture references, and Xavier’s Save Earth hoodie

But the plot moves somewhat haphazardly and conveniently

Riri always seems on the verge of tears - that’s not good

As for fighting magic with magic, “there’s a cost”

And the cost is AI NATALIE, in this case

The last episode is named the past is the past, and Sacha Baron Cohen finally appears - wow

I’ve appreciated his acting ability ever since his Ali G in Da Hood days, all the way to The Spy

His Mephisto demon uses standard devil barter to trade a soul for a favor, or a desire, actually

But as expected, Riri doesn’t fall for the trap - or does she? Overall this series is quite uneven

Spider-Man and Doctor Strange was tech side-by-side with magic, this is a combo hit - or miss

The mid-credits scene builds on the magic, but there are more loose ends than a frayed quilt

Overall, I’m just left waiting for the new Phase Six to begin with Fantastic Four - First Steps

Check out my other Marvel show reviews, Marvel movie reviews, not really breakdowns

But more about fandom and appreciation of imagination, I am Axat once again

Thank you so much for watching, Namaste

Adwitya’s Unique, Literally #Axat

 Adwitya says to me "Up aana hai." I wish I could record each and every moment of her waking life so that she knows how she evolved from a little bag of flesh, bones, and blood to a mind capable of critical reasoning and acting in good faith towards achieving her intentions, which are nice, at least for the moment, and I hope they'll always be so.

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These are the moments I will recall when I’m sixty nine, like the beatles sang. Speaking of nostalgia, What a weird time we are living in, but I guess every generation feels the same when they see what the youngsters are up to in their lives. Our younger generation, conshumans, lives digitally. The probable outcome of the zillions of parts making up Adwitya’s entire brain chemistry is that digital media will make up about 99 percent of its experience, if not more.

We are conshumans living 6hourisms, whether we like it or not, whether we make plans for 60 years, which is 6 decades, or 60 months, which is 5 national budgets, or 60 days which is 2 months, or 6 weeks which is 42 days, ultimately boiling down to 6 days, working our jobs till the next Sunday, which is always just a few 6hourisms away, if you count them cumulatively, but keep your hopes high and your spirits aloft because life is a good allegory for a raft floating down the holy Ganga, rocking and swaying for all you are worth; if you live life well you will emerge purged of your sins whether from this life or the previous, ready for the next life starting afresh to commit sins anew, you know! Wipe the slate clean, so to speak. Speaking of slates and wiping, I believe Adwitya was born tabula rasa, a blank slate, and she learns by observing. For example , she wipes her high chair after we eat, since she has seen us do that forever. Children are copycats/parrots - which we call tota in Hindi. I am teaching her Hindi more often than English.

Just when you think you have done more than life could ever make anyone do, you will have to make tricky decisions that you will wish you didn’t have to, and you won’t know the outcome of even a single one of them now, because the past is history and the future is a mystery, so thank you all for investing your precious time and mind space, goodbye for now, see you in another life within this polychromatic existence that we call living, and this is no time to give up on your dreaming, so make the most of what you have, shatter the whole world’s ears, just like how I intend my baby gogu gangsta daughter to live her life! Until my time on earth is up, I will protect her. Adwitya makes a gym out of me.

why is resident alien such a good adaptation of a comic book?

 precisely because of dialogue like "you will pay me for the whole hour" even when the client is under hypnosis. about alien abduction. and snapping fingers at the end of a countdown. so - tropes and new sarcastic stuff in the scripts.

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and is season 3 episode 3, i detect a shoutout to hit monkey of the marvel cinematic universe, with our eponymous alien dipping a teabag into a hot spring of white japanese monkeys, incurring their eternal wrath, like bryce fowler.

but let's forget jason sudeikis and ted lasso and english football - glory glory manchester united, by the way - for the moment to focus on the tussle among human-kidnapping grey aliens and wannabe earth-saver harry vanderspiegle

lol i always wanted to say that funny name out loud, the spiel part is absolutely spot on for an entity making up its life

apart from the human elements making up the show based on the comic book, which is VASTLY different, just so you know, i want to act because it allows us to be different people in virtual life without being disturbed people in real life

any actor who says they are well adjusted in their usual life are lying right out of their sweet patootie, as sheldon says

Ironheart

 Excelsior my fellow Marvelers! Did you notice a home decor in ironheart that says "Live, laugh, love"? Guess what - it appears in resident alien too! Spiral!

Ironheart Review by Axat

With that, let’s begin my thought Vlog on marvel television’s latest release, and the last part of phase five of the MCU, IH. It also shares its half-initials with the name of my employer company, Instahyre, an AI powered SaaS business. The AI in IH is named NATALIE, with a huge acronym like JARVIS or EDITH - even dead i'm the hero, that iron man said in spider man. We geeks and nerds love our acronyms and backronyms, which is when you create an acronym for things after they’re named initially, pun intended. I think the show moves fast and furious, with family as the focus of the drama and tech as the focus of the fighting. Heists aren’t uncommon in the MCU. Obviously the Time Heist takes the top spot there. This show teases 3 heists in the first episode, with a “big job” after those 3. We see the first one get done in the first 3 episodes that have dropped, and will see the rest in the upcoming three episodes. There’s a lot of slang language and tech talk, most of which is easy to process for us kind of people who’ll watch imaginative shows that build on flawed characters going on redemption arcs. Speaking of arcs, RiRi Williams has made the ironheart suit without the Stark arc reactor sitting under its chest plate. I really like how her ironheart suit is wind and solar powered, But this is my zero spoiler show promo, so I’ll desist from leaking plot points that you can scroll through on Wikipedia and just honourably mention that doctor strange style magic plays a part in this series. Although… I must mention the pop culture references that pop up here and there in the script, like Spy Kids, Google, Al Capone, little mermaid and…wait for it…Star Wars! On that note, did you know that Andor is the original name of Numenor, the Blessed Island or Lonely Isle, beacon of hope in Tolkien’s Middle-Earth? And guess what the Elvish name for the island was after it had been drowned in the sea by Eru? Atalantë! Does that name ring a bell, pop culture fans?

And Tolkien created a Straight Road as an allegory for attaining heaven, like a bridge, which is the root of the name of the alien baby in Resident Alien - Bridget. Spiral 🌀!

Such spirals just make me smile! Also, Riri’s AI friend very sarcastically says “How convenient” about a Chekhov’s Gun. Vinyasa yoga is practised by the anti-hero-villain, Hood. Just goes to show that not every guy who does yoga is a hero.

Let me know what you thought of ironheart in the comments! Don’t be shy!

See you next week for more on ironheart, xlsr! PS: JioStar shows ads of a protein snack, so I think it’s targeted pretty well at MCU fans who aren’t couch potatoes and take care of their health as much as they can, including yours truly! I’m Axat ;) ciao

India lost to Hong Kong in Asian AFC Cup qualifiers

 

Hello my bitterly disappointed Indian football fanatics! It was a hard loss to take.

Super-sub Stefan Pereira scored the last-second penalty awarded to Hong Kong.

In fact, the penalty was won against India’s goalkeeper Vihal Kaith by Udebuluzor.

He was subbed in the 75th minute. I wonder why Amrinder or Gurpreet didn’t play?

The introduction of super ex-captain Sunil Chhetri at the one hour mark did nothing.

Next, in October, we will play Singapore, both home and away, within just one week.

After those 2 matches, it will be Bangladesh hosting us on 18th November - we drew.

The last group stage match will be on the last day of March 2026, versus Hong Kong.

So, 4 matches to go, we are at the bottom place in our group, with a mountain to climb.

Watch my videos about Indian football, Manchester United, and lots of travel! Namaste!

Mountainhead Movie Review

 

Hello my fellow film aficionados! I am Axat, and I write my reviews while watching the movie or show I’m reviewing, with a final stream-of-thought rant at the end while the credits start rolling - or, in the case of most franchise movies and series, after all the mid/post credit scenes are over.

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In the case of Mountainhead, who better than Steve Carell to quote Star Wars by excluding his defeatist doctor from the tech-bros-hang get-together with the phrase “no droids in the cantina!”

The tech billionaire bros have massively contrasting personalities, which is a must-have for such bottle-plot movies. Bottle episodes in TV are when one set is used for the whole episode, which is the case here too. By the end of the movie, which doesn’t have much of a plot except petty jealousy and selfishness and the tyranny of evil men who control the technology which drives much of our digital world, I was mildly entertained. The script had a lot of Western philosophy thrown in, but most of it pretty much boiled down to “I want this, and I’ll justify my committing a crime to get it, no matter what the cost.” Eventually, though, nothing much changes for them.

They remain oblivious to the death raging in the world due to one of them, and carelessly cast it aside in favor of pursuing their personal agendas. So the moral of the story and my review of it is: watch Mountainhead, or don’t - it makes no difference to the ultra-rich, or the rest of society.

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November + December 2019

1

Debra Messing was also born on August 15, just a few years before myself!

30

There is a Blossoms (Mayim Bialik) poster on the wall in the Crazy Joe Davola scene of Seinfeld!

December 

2

Madonna and Sean Penn got married a day after I was born! LOLZZZ I am married now! :)

Also, was the guy who shouted “You’re breathtaking” at Keanu Reeves a Seinfeld fan? This was around the time Keanu gave people a ride near Bakersfield. Cue Space to Bakersfield, please, as I had done last night, to lull me into a good Sunday night’s sleep.

12

Xkcd has got the inevitability of death in an unpredictable amount of time down pat

24

Finished with this ennui-filled idiotic place. Adios, 2019! On to new things! 2020, here I come!

Ack-tober

1

Jane Leeves was integral to the resolution of Seinfeld

4

Founder’s Day, Lawrence School, Sanawar.

Also, George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair) was born in Motihari, Bihar, India! TIL thanks to KBC!

5

A Life Afloat is epistemological, but not too much in its current state. Perhaps more so in the second volume that I’m beginning to work on de novo (TBBT).

7

Steve Martin sang Maxwell’s Silver Hammer in Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (the movie).

Phil Hartman, RIP, was in Three Amigos.

23

Andre Braugher was in City of Angels

Sept-ender, and an assignment for getting hired

September

3

Dan Butler (Bulldog in Frasier) was in The Silence of the Lambs!

5

Netflix FTW!

10

https://www.netflix.com/watch/80077000?trackId=13589554

30

Apothegm and aphorism.

End of a roller coaster month.

Awesomax August

Yeah, I claim that portmanteau: awesomax!

August

7

Fed up.

8

Gotta explore.

9

Joanna Lumley was born in Srinagar! Saw her on the Doctor Who Comic Relief Special, foreshadowing a female Doctor.

12

Phil Hartman was in the SNL sketch that spoofed the Fay caning in Singapore.

Kelsey Grammer’s daughter is the voice of Summer in Rick and Morty.

20

Back and hating it. Gotta ensure participation in SRCP by Comedy Central. Last date is today. Speaking/writing/thinking like Rorschach.

22

Bastizzz organization being pitched for here; I just filled my ITR today! Spirals…

23

Richard Vernon did voice work for the Radio Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

26

One more week to go…

31

And done!

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July

4

Independence Day: the Movie

The swine returns from the land of the freebies and the home of the depraved

Ulysses contd.:

“You’re looking extra.” – how much social media speak occurs in Joyce? Did it seep through pop culture and permeate the internet?

Success for us is the death of intellect and of the imagination.

Is “time is money” really Roman?

“…aftercourse of both our lives.” “I’ in the first person is used here. Who is talking, and about whom? Bloom about himself and Stephen Dedalus?

Even the act of pushing up one’s spectacles is described allegorically: “…steadied them to a new focus.”

Contumely: insolent or insulting language or treatment

10

Hold up! Shut the front door! What what what? Ghost World, the movie based on the comic book, has a Mohammad Rafi song as its first track on the OST:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaan_Pehechan_Ho   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_World_(film) 

11

I saw John Mahoney’s tribute video mention Tin Men, and a spiral of wiki walking from watching an episode of Frasier (in which Mahoney gave an acclaimed performance) led me to the movie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonanza#Legacy                https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_Men

16

A timestamp spiral on Twitter while updating my Gmail signature for Canada

https://twitter.com/home?logout=1563254048367&prefetchTimestamp=1563254048376

17

The West End adaptation of The Lord of the Rings is the most expensive mounting of a production, yet it failed to win over critics, even though it also had A R Rahman – India’s de facto virtuoso for decades – scoring the musical. {A Life Afloat}

18

John Lithgow played Don Quixote! He had Bob Hoskins (of Who Framed Roger Rabbit? fame) as his Sancho Panza.

23

Keanu Reeves has played the Buddha/Sidhhartha in Little Buddha

26

Mystery Team was the debut for Aubrey Plaza.

29

Derek Jacobi narrated the audiobook for Farmer Giles of Ham by Tolkien.