In 2017, entrepreneur Billy McFarland attempted to put on a fantastical music festival in the Bahamas called the Fyre Festival. This elitist and very expensive event ended up being a total disaster. Now, both Netflix and Hulu have competing documentaries about this moment in history, but which one should you watch?Both of these movies pretty much come to the same conclusion, that event coordinator Billy McFarland is a functioning sociopath, compulsive liar, and a modern-day snake oil salesman. However, how both these films come to that conclusion is very different.Netflix`s Fyre and Hulu`s Fyre Fraud recount the events leading up to the Fyre Festival and how it all came together, which was way too quickly and without any experienced leader running it all. From having to switch the island where it was going to be held, to FEMA tents being used instead of villas, to the bands dropping out the last minute, it is the story of someone who desperately wants to be something he is ultimately not, a tech billionaire.Fyre, Netflix`s documentary about the event, has a bit more of a mature take on the events and presents them as seriously as possible. This is one of director Chris Smith`s best documentaries, which is saying quite a lot as he also directed 2017`s Jim and Andy: The Great Beyond for Netflix and 1999`s cult classic American Movie. The story is delivered as more of a mystery, asking the audience, `What went wrong?` It`s apparent, from the get-go, that the problem was lack of planning and trying to rush out a product--which rests squarely on the shoulders of Billy McFarland.The subjects being interviewed for the piece are those who worked on the festival, from the ones who set up the stages and `sleeping` areas to those involved in the planning of the event. As the movie progresses, it becomes clear that it`s nothing short of a `clusterf***,` with McFarland`s response to most problems being something along the lines of, `think positive and it will all work out.` ...
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