Fiasco total: La tragedia de Astroworld

I have no formal training in how to rate a documentary. I can only give my opinion.

Honestly, I appreciated this one. This event is of significant interest to me because I am from Houston, and remember hearing about this on the news. Travis Scott, in my opinion, brought disgrace to Houston. The fact that he gets to carry on with his life of luxury and others don't is disgusting.

However, while I initially solely blamed Travis Scott, after watching, I have an entirely new perspective. So, learned something, which is why I watch documentaries to begin with.

How Live Nation skirted the blame is beyond me. Perhaps we don't have all of the information? IDK, but those text messages between the producers and sound engineer tell me everything I need to know. I wish I had received my jury summons for that day. They 100% should have been sued for the $750 million dollars, and the people should have won. Maybe things would actually change if they were hit where it hurts- their greed.

This documentary won't bring back the people that were lost, but I'm glad someone was able to share their perspective, so it's definitely worth the watch. I don't know how the people at Live Nation sleep at night...so sad this tragedy could have been avoided.

The world opened up in 2021 after the COVID-19 pandemic. World-famous rapper Travis Scott put on another huge event, a two-day Astroworld festival. Tickets sold out in thirty minutes. As people arrived at the site, the chaos began; all control was lost, and people stormed the gates. The concert began, and a massive crowd tried to reach the front of the stage.

This is the most harrowing in the Trainwreck series that I've seen so far, this one is truly disturbing, it simply should not have happened.

Nobody seemed willing to take any responsibility for what happened; everyone played a part, from the encouragement to go too far from the stage, to the ineptitude of the security team, Live Nation, the planners, and the crowd themselves. It must have been terrifying for those in the crowd; absolutely awful.

The discussion about the compression of people is horrific, and the footage of people being crushed on stage is genuinely grotesque; it's sickening. The interviews are almost too much, they really hit hard.

If you're in the UK or a football fan, you'll be aware of the Hillsborough tragedy, where people were crushed at an overcrowded stadium-something that should never have happened, nor should the events here.

Ayden Cruz, respect! The fabulous nurse too, huge respect! They're the real superstars.

It should not have happened.

8/10.

This was really heartbreaking and scary to watch. Most people go to a concert and never think this could or would happen. I'm shocked that the planning was so poor, considering Live Nation is the biggest concert organizer in the world.

The lack of safety and planning is absolutely atrocious. My heart goes out to the victims and their families. This was just awful and devastating, but something everyone needs to watch. Large crowds are not safe. You really never know what will transpire attending something like this.

If you find yourself in this position, please get out ASAP if you're able to.

I just finished watching this documentary, and I must say, I'm both impressed and massively devastated. It's hard to comment on the filmmaking when the subject matter is so reprehensible, but I need to give props to the documentarians for weaving together an emotionally engaging, yet fair and balanced narrative drawn from numerous first-hand accounts. I particularly liked the input from the gentleman working for the company that performed the investigation, calling the concert promoters and artists to task by revealing the many blatant planning and safety transgressions leading to all those pointless deaths. Shame be upon them and their misguided greed. I hope they've learned from their grievous humanitarian error, thus enabling them to put their shame in the rearview.

When this incident happened, I was glued to social media as it was all going down. Once the concert attendees were tearing down gates and barriers to enter the venue, I wasn't surprised the disaster happened. I had never seen anything like that before and I have been to a lot of concerts. I'm not sure if it was just unruliness that came from youth finally being allowed out of the house for a music event mid-pandemic. My heart goes out to the families of the people lost at the concert. Nobody expects going to a concert would lead to a family member's demise. Doesn't seem like anyone was held accountable in the end and Travis Scott still continues to be a popular artist though I can't name any of his songs.