The Last Movie You Watched

[Rev. Rye]

Granted, I have yet to watch either Hulu or Netflix' documentaries, but I suspect that they'll just build on the same material.

I have since watched both the Hulu and Netflix Fyre Documentaries. While, admittedly, the picture of the disaster is pretty much the same as Internet Historian made it, the two films managed to fill in some of the details for how badly they fucked up, because not only did they try to build a ludicrously elaborate festival in the span of a few months, they decided to hold it on a weekend that's, in the words of one interviewee, "bigger than Christmas," and, when they found an island to host it, they broke the biggest condition they were given and proclaimed the island's relationship with Pablo Escobar as early as they could, and when the shit went down and Billy-boy was finally arrested (for reasons that are, surprisingly, NOT related to Fyre) and got bailed out, he decided to keep scamming and even more blatantly this time, by offering meet-and-greets with artists who don't do meet-and-greets and selling tickets to events that DON'T EVEN SELL TICKETS.

The Hulu one is a bit more underwhelming than the Netflix one, despite the addition of interviews with Billy-Boy himself, due to its being pretty heavy-handed (Millennials are solipsistic and egotistical leading them to fall for shit like this, Billy-Boy is Trump, and Jerry Media is the devil; admittedly, not theses I would reject, even as a Millennial myself, but still) and heavy overuse of computerised voices for documents that don't have their own sound, but it was still fairly enlightening. One interesting thing I discovered was that, in addition to using the festival to promote the Fyre App, he wanted to use it to help create a thriving community of artists in the Caribbean.

Admittedly, this is actually an intriguing idea, and especially poignant after one finds out about how there used to be an amazing community of musicians on Montserrat, with albums like Brothers in Arms and Synchronicity being recorded there and Jimmy Buffet writing one of his biggest songs About it, and ultimately foreshadowing the 1997 volcanic eruption that left most of the island uninhabitable and led to 2/3 of the population leaving. It would be so awesome for such a thing to happen again, even if it is on an island that's going to be underwater by 2100. That said, clearly, Billy-Boy did it in the worst possible way, doing it somewhere with no infrastructure, on an absurdly small timeline, and setting up the festival before creating the thriving community.