I am most certain that anyone of a certain age and older (anyone who was able to go to Parties or had access to social media) ... at least heard about this Fyre festival. One can hope to only have been part of those who heard about it, but never actually spend money on it.

The insanity that gets unraveled here is mind boggling. And I feel for anyone who got duped ... be it a private person who thought they'd be doing or having the time of their lives (even without Swayze present or Jennifer Grey) or an influencer or even one of the business partners (one in particular seems to have gotten it particularly bad) ... they all got in on a promise ... on a dream ... and on a vision, that not just in retrospect was doomed to fail from the beginning.

At least the way it was planned and by who it was planned. Some people seem to get away with things ... hurting other people, if not physical than economical ... this is really harrowing. It may seem fun and there is a lot of great locations - and the ad they shot with the beautiful models looks stunning too. All false advertising as it turns out to be.

A great documentary that really reveals so much. I had little to no knowledge what happened. I knew that everyone was calling it a disaster .. turns out some were warning us way before the ... well Titanic hit the iceberg (if the Fyre festival would be compared to the Titanic than you could say no one did anything to stop the collision ... the captain seemed to know it would happen, actually steering towards the iceberg ... everyone else seemed clueless or doing anything they could to avoid the collision ... meanwhile the passengers being completely unaware of the situation ... until the very last minute) ... I would say that is not a bad analogy.

Not easy to watch, if you are a person with a big empathy level and emotions that cannot be contained. Still anyone who wants to know what went down and does not want to read about it, but see a movie about it ... well you found what you were looking for.

At about the same time "Fyre" was released on Netflix, "Fyre Fraud" was released on Hulu. Both were about the abortive Fyre Festival in the Bahamas...but while "Fyre" was well made and informative, the other film was annoying and badly made....and never really focused all that much on the festival!

"Fyre" does a good job of telling the story. It uses many interviews and clips of the festival's founder as well as folks working on trying to make the event work....even though there really was almost no money nor enough time to adequately run it even if there was money. The story seems complete, fair and didn't spend time making fun of those who bought tickets....which might have been an easy and cheap way to make the film had they gone there. Overall, this is THE film to watch on the subject...the other is just too problematic and poorly made to provide you with much in the way of information.

It's a Netflix documentary of the horrible failure of a modern social media tropical island event or a fraudulent scam. Hustler Billy McFarland first started working with Ja Rule on various projects from membership cards to an app to book lesser celebrities. The two starts promoting Fyre festival on a tropical island. Social media buzz from supermodels snowballs into a catastrophe. It's the story of hubris, incompetence, and sociopathy. There is certainly fraud. The question is his intentions. Billy is the classic bs artist and somewhere along the line, he becomes a straight up thief. The funny thing is that I actually got stressed when the attendees start arriving just like the organizers. It's somewhat hilarious and very sad.