Trainwreck: Storm Area 51

But here's the real deal, she saw and felt nothing but dollar signs and the cool liquid coinage of Scrooge McDuck - come now, as if your whole life wasn't adding up to this moment - at least YOU believed - one doesn't consider selling thier house to bankroll some stoner dreamscape, when they don't see a massive back end - ok ok ok, objectively re this documentary : didn't need to be told and not really a trainwreck, more like a failed happenstance and symptom of perils of social media - whatever.

I was excited for this. I remember following it from the U. K. how ever this is so badly put together and all over the place.

Rarely do I need to switch off a series I've been excited to watch. I'm sure the makers at Netflix took something when putting this together. Jumps to pointless stuff and it's dire. Worth cancelling Netflix over. Looks like a student made it but tried to use an editing app and they had ADHD. The storyline was here but instead of following what happens it constantly edited in ridiculous and pointless scenes.

How do you police a joke?

That was what the FBI agent states at the very end of this overly long and drawn out story about a bunch of nerds with nothing better to do but drive into the desert for attention.

If any recent Netflix documentary best describes modern America it is this one. A stupid kid posting an event as a joke gets taken seriously that a group of conspiracy nutjobs, attention seeking influencers and random weird alien obsessed people decide to take seriously and actually attend.

What follows is this kid being out of his depth as he works with a conman who didn't want to put any of his own money into the event, a local business woman who got greedy and alienated (no pun intended) the rest of her town and a modern day mafioso who tried to scam her which she thankfully backed out of.

That's not even taking into account all the media attention it got or the response of the military in dealing with a potential threat on a US military base. It truly was the best example of a trainwreck in this series.

Unfortunately, the filmmaking let's it down with weird editing choices, random animation sequences and splitting it into two parts which hasn't been done in the other trainwreck documentaries for a story that didn't seem to offer much in the end.

Nobody comes out looking good at the end of this and all it did was showcase how easy it is to manipulate a generation of young adults raised on social media with ADHD, brain-rot and no ambition other than to be famous on the internet.

If Netflix wants to keep making these it would be nice if they made one that had serious consequences instead of them all being a playful joke but maybe that's wishful thinking.

Overall, it is a strange story told in a strange way with the actual 'storming' of Area 51 happening in the last ten minutes. It would have been nice to get different interviews from the locals on life after this event and what has been done to prevent it from happening again but with people's dependency on social media only becoming more and more important it's more likely to happen again sooner rather than later.

I now have an answer to the question "Can you make a documentary and only interview morons?"

the answer from Netflix is "yes"

This is a repetitive and meandering mess. Everyone says the same thing several times. The Vice guy was unnecessary and dumb as a stump. There were so many unnecessary interviews, it boggles the mind. Disco Donnie is the creepiest dude ever.

My review jumps all over the place, as this doc does. As dumb as the interview subjects seem, the Director and editor of this are clearly the dumbest people involved.

Just an absolutely unwatchable mess. The internet Historian did a short doc on this with no money, and it's head and shoulders aboce this crap.

I loved the story telling of this documentary. The comic book art in between takes, super cool. Loved all the perspectives of those interviewed, from people social media, ex US military and government who were involved.

Thank goodness two episodes were made, so it didn't feel rushed. I felt like they did a similar job to WoodStock 99'.

Although, it did take a whilllleee to get to the actual event and festival. Lots of interviews and people. But you know, fantastic story telling. Battles between those who wanted for festival to happen and those who didn't.

A short review, but as way more captivating than the recent Train wreck documentaries. Great and exciting story telling.