Internet even comes to life in “Trainwreck: Storm Area 51” by Netflix

Supposedly, a competitor for Netflix’s greatest real competitor is not the streaming service of another studio or even the general practice of leaving the house, but youtube pioneer of streaming video.

The almost universal site has become, among other things, an essential center for content creators (read: semi-professional) to disseminate (or regurgiter) of the best done points elsewhere. Never the idea of Netflix in competition with YouTube only makes sense when you watch the popular series of streaming giant documentaries under the Walnut banner.

Although the first documentary profiled the epic vision of Woodstock ’99, most WalnutS’an tackled the equipment more deeply in the Internet era: Balloon Boy, The Poop Cruise and now a 2019 incident where a Facebook JOKEY post turned into one but two real events in Trains: Storm zone 51Stronging Netflix on July 29.

If an S – Tpost of the 51 -brought area does not seem as memorable as the Astroworld tragedy or the canvas of Sleaze surrounding American clothes, this can be part of the attraction of this episode. Some journalists interviewed Storm zone 51 Freely admit that they assumed that the whole would turn into something like “Fyre Festival 2.0”, because several people refer to this.

But there is much less capitalism which takes place in the history of Matty Roberts, a 20 -year -old man who created a Facebook event inviting participants to “take over” the military of Nevada, informally under the name of zone 51, long associated with the secrets of the government and (more fanciful) of extraterrestrials. While the post became unexpectedly viral, Matty’s attempt to make his status as a clear joke by invoking an anime character (“If we Naruto Run, we can move faster than their bullets”) only fired his popularity. Soon, millions of people had registered, and the army was really concerned with the headquarters of planned citizen, for months.

It’s a funny story that Storm zone 51 Tells atrocious but still largely superficial details. Because the interest in the event was largely transmitted through memes, the film uses, well, showing a pile, threatening to turn into a feature film.

There are also spectacular reconstructions of rudimentary Google research. The characters interviewed here are simply not so colorful. Matty is an affable guy, easily overwhelmed by his creation, and feared that he was held responsible if two million people really arise. Connie West, owner of a campsite and a restaurant near the area in question, reserved her installations quickly and becomes ready to help a kind of event, although what she or whoever has in mind is never really specified. Some promoters try to dive and “help” with sponsorships or group reservations; Storm zone 51 is as vague as to their intentions as they are.

Perhaps some viewers will be really uncertain to know if this event (which was finally divided into two resolutely different events) ended with a massive disaster. But those who know the possible result may wonder why he justifies a documentary, while those unknown will probably find the painfully drawn answers.

Although others Walnut The documents do not work more than a television episode, it is a supporter, which lasts almost 100 minutes. It should not take so much time to explain a bunch of memes, highlight some opportunistic YouTube dops that have reserved trips in the desert, and explain the growing pressures of the accidental organizers of this Festival outing, as well as the military and local police responsible for determining the appropriate level of preparation.

This is an area where a creator of YouTube content in the garden variety could be useful, because there are generously about 20 minutes of interesting novelty and a vague overview of Internet power here. Even the latter is made like a kind of shoulders – online stuff, is I right? – Not to mention seriously the strangely durable cultural attraction of zone 51 as a mythical plot.