The footnote to this image is more interesting than the comic itself:
So this dialogue is pretty much verbatim about the love/hate relationship we both have with iOS games. The woman in the picture is of course, Amy Frear, a very talented actress that you can find out more about here.
I try to get her to play a game. She humours me. Etcetera.
The Magical Trapper-Keeper aesthetic of Robot Unicorn Attack 2 was more than she could resist this time though, she immediately picked up her phone and was hooked. The art style hit a deep nerve in the hippocampus, summoning up cherished grade-school day dreams and memories the way ( I'm sure ) a Terminator 2 arcade cabinet, Mac'n'Manco's pizza and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles take me so immediately back to a place that's made up of nothing but good memories.
But that's another subject.
One of the IAP ( In App. Purchases ) that is offered is the song "The Neverending Story" by Limahl. This lead to discussion about the 1984 Wolfgang Petersen film of the same name.
Neither one of us could quite parse the film correctly, or guess at its thesis. The movie felt lacking, "weird" and incomplete, among the other distinctly impoverished categories I have for critiquing art.
Read this blog post, it is fantastic. You'll see why the movie is hollow and incomplete and why the author calls it "that revolting movie."
Let me just say it would be the equivalent of Disney optioning Animal Farm, stripping the novel of any allegorical significance or meaning and making a heart-warming children's tale out of the husk of the characters and outline.
Just a sample of this guy's stuff, click on the paragraph to link to the article.
So that movie you watched growing up?
It was stupid.
