This had been sitting in my Netflix queue since it had been released on DVD in 2010. I guess I thought about finally watching it due to the release of "Welcome to Marwen," the mainstream film that bombed in 2018 that was based on this documentary. I didn't watch the 2018 bomb because it...bombed.
Anyway, while I truly felt sorry for what happened to Mark H., and while I think what he's done for himself is interesting, this seemed very thin to put into a nearly 90 minute documentary. Maybe a 20 minute version on a news magazine show would have been more appropriate. Or maybe if they dealt more with his personal life, especially that fetish that he has which wasn't revealed until late in the movie, it would have been more interesting. But showing me multiple make-believe stories that he has developed in his "town", and we see pictures of his dolls posed in positions to back up his story? I just found that to be very uninteresting and boring.
Anyway, while I truly felt sorry for what happened to Mark H., and while I think what he's done for himself is interesting, this seemed very thin to put into a nearly 90 minute documentary. Maybe a 20 minute version on a news magazine show would have been more appropriate. Or maybe if they dealt more with his personal life, especially that fetish that he has which wasn't revealed until late in the movie, it would have been more interesting. But showing me multiple make-believe stories that he has developed in his "town", and we see pictures of his dolls posed in positions to back up his story? I just found that to be very uninteresting and boring.