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Neonman

neonman
Celluloid Junkie
# Film Ratings: 2987
Member Since: 29 Sep 2008
Location: Australia
Age: 34
Bio: Hey.

Recent Ratings

71 42%
Eno (2024) - Rated 28 Sep 2025
Just like Moonage Daydream (the doco on Eno's boyfriend David Bowie), this presents its main man as how he is, rather mild-mannered, down-to-earth, wittily eloquent, and with his head in the clouds only in relation to his art, but feet on the ground when it comes to the real world. Generally made doc (despite the gimmick of it that I wasn't aware of while watching it), Eno certainly makes for an inspiring watch (though the dude really needs to get AdBlock on his computer).
73 47%
One Battle After Another (2025) - Rated 28 Sep 2025
It's certainly never unexciting for its lengthy run-time, with a variety of excellent performances (mainly Penn), a cracking score, and stunning cinematography that isn't just showing off. But this is too cartoonish to be taken seriously as being substantial, appearing to only flirt with hot-button modern topics rather than truly utilise and expound on them, making this a loud, obvious, and unsurprising film (unusual for PTA). Oh well, it's certainly worked as cat-nip for the critics.
83 74%
The Long Walk (2025) - Rated 26 Sep 2025
If you can make a film that's about a bunch of people walking so damn intense and so revealing of our humanity, then I'd say you've succeeded. This film is like the road these characters walk along, straight and narrow, with most of the focus put on the varying attitudes, temperaments, and philosophies on how this messed up contest pits and brings these characters together, while hardly shying away from the brutality of it all (particularly the bloody feet and trying to shit while walking).
59 14%
Him (2025) - Rated 26 Sep 2025
To quote that NFL meme, "they had us in the first half." It starts off great, with the intense physical performances and visual flair adding to the focus it has on pushing the body beyond its limits and the sacrifice it takes for this glory. All this engaged me and had me wondering where it's going ... and the answer is towards a bunch of vaguities, typifying the worst of elevated horror, and then a deeply literal conclusion that's ridiculous for its own sake, entirely dropping the ball.
69 35%
Mickey 17 (2025) - Rated 21 Sep 2025
The first half gives me the impression this will be up my alley: big ideas on a big budget, yet with an amusing double Pattinson performance to alleviate any pretentiousness or dullness. Yet the satire really becomes juvenile (and unamusing) when Ruffalo and Collette enter the picture, and both give career worst performances. The same cannot be said for Daniel Henshall, with his brilliantly slimy and hilarious suck-up character -- terrific actor!
88 89%
Friendship (2025) - Rated 08 Sep 2025
This did such a great job at testing my sympathies with the lead character, as we see him go through quite the evolution, mostly a downward spiral fueled more by entitlement than disappointment. His cringiness may be exaggerated a little for comedic effect, but his initial social awkwardness starts snowballing into downright narcissistic behaviour. This is one of the very few recent movies that can make such an engaging and transformative characterisation so hilarious and hysterical.
69 35%
Kim's Video (2023) - Rated 01 Sep 2025
I like a fun nostalgic look on the VHS days, especially a glimpse into this highly regarded place that's been getting attention recently, but the strange circumstances turn this into a real-life heist movie. It's pretty cool to watch, even if it makes this doco feel structurally off because of this switcheroo. Ultimately a slight documentary, though some kind of message about never trusting Sicilians seems to come through.
65 24%
Angel's Egg (1985) - Rated 01 Sep 2025
I've seen fuck all anime, but even I know that when it comes to surrealism and symbolism in anime, End of Evangelion DWARFS this. This is fairly minimal and spacious at times, though I struggled to get invested in much of it. Even though it was only a few times, I was impressed by the gloomy animation style, particularly the awesome final shot.
81 67%
Opt ilustrate din lumea ideală (2024) - Rated 01 Sep 2025
The hands-off approach really lets these advertisements do the talking themselves, at least initially, though some of the editing tricks (removing audio, only showing the ads' stories and not product reveal) helped to make me laugh, though in an uncomfortable way. A curious cultural examination. This is filled with all sorts of smiling faces, happy goofy music, dumb humor, and general contrived pleasantness, and it all felt very sinister.
55 10%
The Life of Chuck (2025) - Rated 19 Aug 2025
It's got some pretty interesting ingredients, but they're just mixed and cooked in the worst way. Showing Chuck's life in backwards chronology has some benefits, though more drawbacks, as the apocalyptic opening is intriguing, yet it's also throwing us in the deep end of Chuck's life. Second act is total fucking bullshit, and the third act is maybe the best, despite still portraying a derivative tale of young Jewish adolescence. The glassy and muted cinematography truly doesn't help.