Fyre

this documentary is INCREDIBLE - i can’t recommend it enough. billy mcfarland reeks of privilege and i was completely appalled and blown away by his blasé attitude to literally committing several counts of white collar crime - living in the lap of luxury in a penthouse suite after being released on $300,000 bail? after scamming bahamians out of $250,000 worth of unpaid manual labour? after setting up a brand new scam targeting victims who’ve already lost thousands of dollars to this catastrophe? after endangering lives through both the lack of adequate shelter and water for guests and the awful working conditions for the employees? and laughing and joking all the way through it like destroying financial livelihoods is nothing. this documentary has got me so riled up and disgusted which is a sign of a very well-made doc!!! my one criticism would be that i’d have much preferred a criminological critique at the end rather than the spiel about social media being a ~facade~ which we all already know. i think it would’ve been awesome to have instead looked at stats for how many people get away with this sort of thing, for how he got 6 years (6 years!) when some people are put away for triple that for dealing freaking marijuana, if the bahamians ever got that money, etc. - cause people love to say that white collar crimes are victimless crimes but somebody, somewhere is working for nothing. overall a fantastic doc providing many genuine wtf moments but lacking a commentary on race/class/wealth and privilege

Wowsers - this guy was a dick! It's not the festival goers I necessarily feel sorry for - they had money to burn by all accounts - but its the people who worked on this event, especially the Bahamians, who didn't get paid, that were hit the worst. Billy McFarland needs to take stock of his life and BACK OFF from doing anything like this again.

A great doc, certainly eye opening, and a valuable lesson for those people in Billy's shoes right now.

I had never heard of the festival before this. As some of reviews suggested I watched the Hulu version first and then the Netflix version too. I agree, Hulu version gives great overview of how it started and what happened. For me Netflix version was nice addition, for details, more interviews and behind the scenes footage.

This was an interesting and we-delivered documentary.   I've always been fascinated with people like the guy that is the focus of this story. At some point was he at least a little bit well-meaning?

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I will never understand this influencer lifestyle cult.

This film gave me so much schadenfreude that I'm arguably still high off of it. Seeing all these rich phony pieces of sh*t get completely screwed over was magnificent. Of course, seeing the local Bahamians and whatnot also get screwed over was depressing. So I guess it balances out. Either way, this was a quick 90 minutes and made me want to watch the other less famous one from Hulu so I guess I liked it well enough.

Great documentary! However, after watching the Hulu version, this version seamed disjointed with it's back 'n forth style of storytelling. The Hulu version is more a linear timeline, digging into who Billy was before the festival and some of his other failed companies before telling the viewer about the Fyre Festival. The Hulu version also has interviews with Billy himself as well as his girlfriend which are even more revealing.

Also, it's good to know that the Netflix version was produced in coordination with the social media company which put on the Fyre Festival - F**K Jerry Media. I found it interesting how the Netflix version mostly glossed over their involvement while the Hulu version had an interview with the actual designer of all the social media elements from FJM. He gave a lot more insight into their involvement, which is very interesting.

All in all, I'd recommend watching the Hulu version first, and then watching this version.

After reading comments I literally feel like these fucktards are still making money off this stupid Fyre festival by making documentaries about it and milking it like crazy. I didnt pay a cent to watch this so that's fine, and I think it was a decent enough film, but I got a crazy hatred for the sociopaths behind it now, and feel like this documentary doesn't do enough to hold them accountable. Also something seriously needs to be done about influencer culture, and they briefly brush on the subject in this by saying the rules for posting advertisements are getting stricter but that’s not enough - that’s maybe the only good thing about Fyre festival, it’s that these dumb rich kids got what was coming to them.

Fyre was an interesting documentary, showing the power of influence and FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out)

Netflix and Hulu both released a documentary on this, but Netflix took a bit of a disjointed approach to the story telling that got a bit tiresome by the end.

The interviews and footage used in the movie are quite interesting, and I definitely enjoyed watching it.

If you're interested in the Fyre Festival, I'd recommend both movies. If you're just curious to see what this was, I'd recommend skipping this for Fyre Fraud on Hulu.

this was just the stanford prison experiment for fucking morons.