To be fair, the second half feels like an entirely different story for a very different audience. It is still the same story, the same characters, and similar themes about imagination, shame and responsibility. But the part where he’s lost almost all of his memory, and only wishes for a place to belong, where he ends up with the monks and mines the paintings is probably the scene I’ve thought about the most in my life. And it’s so focused on the inner state of Bastian, that I just don’t think it could be translated to the screen satisfyingly. Maybe some director could make it happen. But it’d be a very different movie. Hell, it’s almost an entirely different book at that point, but it somehow works.

“Back to the Future Minute” is the one that came to my mind. Each episode talks about one minute of, well, back to the future - and looking it up right now, the length of each episode was somewhere between 15 min and over an hour. I stopped listening somewhere at the start of the second movie, but I remember actually really enjoying it. Maybe I should listen to it again.

Nothing for me then. I’m personally much more into male straw porn.