My mom always wonders how I can watch so many horror movies and not be bothered by it. See, I don’t find them disturbing though. This, I find disturbing. SO weird…
All my favorite things as I discover them…or as soon as I get bored enough at work to write about it.
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I didn’t watch the whole thing, but what I saw is disturbing on so many levels. The cold dead stares, for a start.
Dudes, they aren’t REAL.
–Melanie
If you didn’t watch the whole thing then you missed the part where they showed a guy who actually had a girlfriend who actually seemed cool with the whole doll thing. That is until she found out that he had eight of them. Eight. Yeah, that relationship didn’t last too much longer.
You should see Love Object. I reviewed it on my blog (the review is gone now thanks to that server problem I had). It’s not especially scary or disturbing, just kind of creepy. Oh wait, the scene where he has sex with the doll for the first time is pretty unsettling. Anyway, I remember it being a lot better for the first 3/4 then the ending. Nevertheless, you should see it. The doll isn’t as lifelike as these, however. Probably didn’t have the frikkin budget to get a really well made one.
I watched that whole documentary this morning. The saddest case is definitely Davecat. The older dude with his mom’s stuff set up in the guest room is just Norman Bates in the making. The hick guy is probably going to commit suicide with those guns of his (or shoot someone else, probably a woman). But by far, the dude with the 8 dolls was the creepiest. That guy just gives me the heebie-jeebies. I shuddered when he was cleaning out his big-breasted doll. That was just… terrible. I’m going to have nightmares.
Yeah, Davecat was totally freaky. I kind of felt sorry for the British guy with the mom thing; he seemed pretty nice and well-spoken. Like he understood that he was living a really sad and lonely life. I don’t know why he was so down on himself.
I’m going to watch the rest of this now.
–Melanie
You could kind of figure out why the British guy hasn’t had a real girlfriend by how he talked about himself. Yeah, hang gliding is kind of cool. Chicks would dig that. But talking about yourself as if you were a superhero? Kind of turns the women off. The model thing…well, girls don’t think that’s cool. And the whole keeping your mom’s room exactly the same, including not dumping the garbage? You obviously need to move on and grow as a person, man.
You know what I thought was really freaky? The Real Doll repair guy. At first he seems almost like a toy maker, repairing these giant dolls, complaining about how used the vaginas are. He’s got a really normal girlfriend, and other than what he does for a living he seems pretty normal.
And then he drops the whole “I’ve fucked a couple of them” bomb. A) He seems WAY to into the Real Dolls (“They move back”) and B) what dolls would he be screwing exactly? Oh yeah, the ones he’s repairing. Wait, what? EWW!
I kind of wonder if the girlfriend even knows. I like to imagine them sitting down to watch this interesting documentary that they appeared in, and then that part comes on and the repair guy is like, “Oops. They weren’t supposed to keep that part in.”
But yeah, they did seem pretty normal, except that I thought the girlfriend’s misgivings about the dolls seemed a little misplaced. Jealous because they’re so perfect? Nah, how about freaked out because they’re so CREEPY? And people have sex with these things?
Well, it was a BBC documentary. Maybe he just figured they would never show it on American TV so he was safe to say whatever he wanted.
It was a little odd how jealous the woman was of the body type of the dolls. I mean, jeez, she was not bad looking at all. Just because she doesn’t have a Barbie body (literally) doesn’t mean she should be jealous of an inanimate object. Although, if your boyfriend gets that much joy out of doing a USED (EWW!) doll, maybe you should be worried. Or get more inventive in the sack. Apparently all it takes is a little gyration to get this perv off.
Yes! The doll repair guy was a creep. I was totally on his side, just thinking he had a weird job, until he threw out the sex thing. And that they “came to life” while he was doing it.
-Melanie