I can't inagine a full length documentary lives up, but that trailer was fantastic. It's a shame it's taken this long to get to air.
Duncan Idaho said:
Will definitely torrent
ChiliBeans said:
I would like to see interviews with the people who booked their trips with no questions asked.
hypeiv said:
Just as a follow up to my original comment two years ago:
This show happen in Frisco the same year as this failed event and tickets were not hard to get. Guess they should have hired some IG models and set up some tents.
Thats a sentence I never thought I would read...Quote:
311 and Offspring stole the show.
aggietony2010 said:
The Hulu one was pretty solid. A couple random shots at Trump that just didn't really fit. It really comes across like they finished the doc, looked at a checklist of how to appeal to millennials and went, "oh ****, we forgot to take a shot at Trump" and stuck them in.
Other than that, it was very well done. Had interviews with many of the main players/victims. I hadn't really followed the story since the first week or so, and the scale of the screw up/deception is impressive.
Tobias Funke said:aggietony2010 said:
The Hulu one was pretty solid. A couple random shots at Trump that just didn't really fit. It really comes across like they finished the doc, looked at a checklist of how to appeal to millennials and went, "oh ****, we forgot to take a shot at Trump" and stuck them in.
Other than that, it was very well done. Had interviews with many of the main players/victims. I hadn't really followed the story since the first week or so, and the scale of the screw up/deception is impressive.
Agreed, that was obnoxious
Silky Johnston said:
Thought the Hulu doc was pretty good. At the end they say something about the F Jerry people producing their own documentary which I assume is referring to the Netflix doc. Wonder which angle the Netflix doc will take and how it differs from the Hulu version.
Well he was paid ... something:Bunk Moreland said:Tobias Funke said:aggietony2010 said:
The Hulu one was pretty solid. A couple random shots at Trump that just didn't really fit. It really comes across like they finished the doc, looked at a checklist of how to appeal to millennials and went, "oh ****, we forgot to take a shot at Trump" and stuck them in.
Other than that, it was very well done. Had interviews with many of the main players/victims. I hadn't really followed the story since the first week or so, and the scale of the screw up/deception is impressive.
Agreed, that was obnoxious
First reference I was fine with. So many moron millennials (friends of mine included) were acting like the world was over after the election and if you live your life thru social media then I can see that angst having a 'comment on the culture' that led to this want to go find utopia and acid at a festival.
The 2nd reference comparing him to McFarland and saying he scams people every day in the west wing was ****ing bizarre and so weirdly placed.
But overall this doc was exactly what I wanted. And I want more.
I echo the comment that I can't believe that moron agreed to be interviewed for this.
https://www.theringer.com/movies/2019/1/15/18183308/fyre-festival-documentary-netflix-hulu-billy-mcfarland-payQuote:
"We were aware of [the Hulu production] because we were supposed to film Billy McFarland for an interview," says Smith. "He told us that they were offering $250,000 for an interview. He asked us if we would pay him $125,000. And after spending time with so many people who had such a negative impact on their lives from their experience on Fyre, it felt particularly wrong to us for him to be benefiting. It was a difficult decision but we had to walk away for that reason. So then he came back and asked if we would do it for $100,000 in cash. And we still said this wasn't something that was going to work for us."
Reached for comment, Fyre Fraud director Jenner Furst, who codirected the film with his creative partner, Julia Willoughby Nason, admitted that the production paid McFarland for licensed behind-the-scenes footage and consent to an eight-hour interview. As for the amount paid to McFarland, he emphatically denied the $250,000 figure.
"I can't tell you the amount," he said, "but what I can tell you is that if you printed [$250,000], that would be a lie. That was not the amount. It was less than that. I don't know why Chris [Smith] is quoting him that way. We both made a film about the same person. We know the person is a compulsive liar."
Sex Panther said: