Fiasco total: El verdadero Proyecto X

The documentary was a real disappointment. First of all, I found it completely unnecessary that the people involved didn't speak Dutch. That made it feel unbelievable. I still remember the day very well, and the media played a major role in escalating the situation. All the media were just waiting for riots to break out. That aspect was underrepresented in the documentary.

Merthe's story mostly just caused irritation. She was laughing more than showing any remorse. The same goes for the other people interviewed. All in all, it was not a pleasant documentary to watch. No police officers were interviewed. The residents of Haren were victims, but it was all treated like some kind of joke.

Merthe planned a 16th birthday party for about seventy people at her home in the small town of Haren. Unfortunately, the Facebook invite status was set to public, not private. Project X came to Haren.

Project X, that's a film I had all but forgotten about, not really my kind of thing as I'm getting older, but I understood the urge to party; however, I did not understand the urge to cause carnage and destruction.

There was lots of interesting and shocking footage, and some of the scenes were unbelievable. One thing, though, it mentioned two deaths yet told us absolutely nothing about the two young women; that was a bit off.

Merthe came across incredibly well; what an intelligent and hugely likeable person-respect. Some of the 'people' that took part, you can imagine the kind of personality traits they have; we all know the type. The tooth, of course there had to be the tooth.

I visited Holland several times in the early 2000s; I don't remember it being a shy and retiring place that some are making it out to be; the smaller towns and villages, of course, would have been. I'd question if the cities were so quiet as was suggested.

The authorities appeared to be less than useless and Facebook played a massive part, both were to blame.

7/10.

I cannot stress enough how much nothing happens in this documentary. Would you like a total recap? Once upon a time a bunch of party kids crowded a single street because they heard about a birthday party on Facebook. That's it. That's the story.

This nothing event (where, at worst, some police showed up and made noise to break-up the crowd) was practically as long as this doc itself. Barely an hour and you learn nothing except: some girl's birthday party went a little viral and then kids showed up making noise.

This is the bottom of the barrel for documentary topics. I mean, truly nothing to glean from any of this. Nothing happened worth remembering. Nothing happened to change anyone's lives. Nothing happened besides the above.

"Trainwreck" is almost becoming an ironic and appropriate title for this very series. They've covered a few interesting topics in their time. This one the most useless.

Title says it all. A girl wanted to have a nice birthday celebration with her friends and then men stepped in and had to ruin everything. And they're so proud of it. I felt bad for her and her family. Worst episode of the Trainwreck series for me, because I didn't feel entertained, just angry and disappointed.

Some entitled Dutch kids shared a Facebook event invite, two loser YouTubers incited aggression in the crowd for profit (they're still proud of that cause they are still losers "it was like being in a videogame" says this 52 year old narcissist), then the kids threw some guardrails around, then some police stopped it. 90% of who they spoke to were doing a lot of superficial uptalk about this willfully moronic 5 hour street-drinking event like it was years long war-time and their golden years of achievement. I've never been less impressed by people talking about something so utterly pointless with so much pride.