Instinctively I was about to rail against that, but I think you may have a point. The corporate wankers would have never approved.
Olympic Opening Ceremony, London 2012
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Instinctively I was about to rail against that, but I think you may have a point. The corporate wankers would have never approved.
Do you actually like *anything*? Do you actually approve of other people liking *anything*?
Or are they all mugs?
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Yeah, I got all that and thought it was admirable, but it sticks a bit when you learn about all these people being arrested for cycling nearby. And the overwhelming feeling I got was this nauseating celebration of the industrial revolution that led to the enslavement of much of the rest of the world.
I was pissed though and amongst a bunch of hoorays standing up for the anthem and singing along with it. I may have felt differently if I'd been watching from home.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Why are you being so hostile? And why are you reading my posts so selectively. I liked it. Loved it even. I can like something but still have qualms about the tone of it, can't I?
I do think people are mugs, though. You are correct on that matter. We're all easily taken in mugs.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
fuck knows this is why i don't post in p&p
yer sorry dude but that was an open goal and I have no decorum whatsoever
That's just totally Victorian British though!
free spirit
more tea vicar?
I took it more as a look at the shit we went through, and the fights the people had to put up to get to where we're now at, and then a celebration of the best of what we're now about as a country.
It probably helped that I managed to switch off the commentary, so only got danny boyles works directly to reflect on.
I sympathise.
wayward bob
i ate all your bees
my impression isn't that it's the *tone* of the ceremony so much as the unpleasant/unfamiliar feelings it's evoked in you ou
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safely back in n&s territory with this one i reckon 
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Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Other people I was with felt the same way though
The American audience thought we were a good show. Here's the US TV ratings for 'overseas' games (no idea how they are worked out). I expect half their audience was baffled.
1. London – 2012 23.0/40 NBC
2. Beijing – 2008 21.5/37 NBC
3. Lillehammer – 1994 21.0/34 CBS
4. Vancouver – 2010 20.0/33 NBC
5. Nagano – 1998 18.6/30 CBS
6. Sydney – 2000 18.5/32 NBC
7. Seoul – 1988 18.3/33 NBC
8. Athens – 2004 18.0/30 NBC
9. Sarajevo – 1984 17.2/27 ABC
10. Calgary – 1988 17.0/40 ABC
11. Barcelona – 1992 16.5/32 NBC
12. Albertville – 1992 16.0/26 CBS
13. Torino – 2006
1. London – 2012 23.0/40 NBC
2. Beijing – 2008 21.5/37 NBC
3. Lillehammer – 1994 21.0/34 CBS
4. Vancouver – 2010 20.0/33 NBC
5. Nagano – 1998 18.6/30 CBS
6. Sydney – 2000 18.5/32 NBC
7. Seoul – 1988 18.3/33 NBC
8. Athens – 2004 18.0/30 NBC
9. Sarajevo – 1984 17.2/27 ABC
10. Calgary – 1988 17.0/40 ABC
11. Barcelona – 1992 16.5/32 NBC
12. Albertville – 1992 16.0/26 CBS
13. Torino – 2006
Blagsta
Minimum cage, maximum cage
I've just been watching it again on iplayer as I didn't catch all of it cos I was watching it while at work last night. The symbolism of the NHS sequence is brilliant, the baddies from children's stories destroying the NHS was perfectly subversive. Maybe its the lack of sleep from being on nights at the moment, but I've come over all emotional.
wayward bob
i ate all your bees
you should have skipped the big screen and the little englanders and watched it with urban ou, you'd have had a much better time
cos my hunch is you don't like that it evoked the *same* emotion in you as it did in them, but they're a bunch of halfwitted morons who read the fail and voted libdem, yunno
(to avoid confusion the them i'm referring to is the standing-up-for-the-anthem crowd, not the mates you were with
)you should have skipped the big screen and the little englanders and watched it with urban ou, you'd have had a much better time
Big cheers for the NHS at the pub I was at.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I thought the baddies were Morlocks or people on benefits! I didn't get the kids' story reference or the NHS destroying for that matter
Blagsta
Minimum cage, maximum cage
I thought the baddies were Morlocks or people on benefits! I didn't get the kids' story reference or the NHS destroying for that matter
LOL!
Instinctively I was about to rail against that, but I think you may have a point. The corporate wankers would have never approved.
this is something that winds me up
of course 'government funded' is not ideal because governments have an agenda, but everyone has an agenda. the whole idea of having government is to get past agendas
it doesn't work, but that is the idea!
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
I thought the baddies were Morlocks or people on benefits! I didn't get the kids' story reference or the NHS destroying for that matter
I can see why you feel the need to watch it again
The danger with governments of course, is they take time to dislodge. But all things considered I'll take flawed democracy vs. corporate rule. (We should take this to the politics forum
)
So "Slumdog" was funded entirely by the British government?
Fuck me. My understanding of international film financing says otherwise.
But morons abide on the interwebs
A lot of the money came from the Indian and British governments directly and through tax breaks. I didn't say British funded I said government funded
Go away shreddy. I hate you
ShiftyBagLady
Thinks she is a flower to be looked at
I recorded it for ShiftyJunior to watch, he thinks it is ''random'' and 'childish'. Still, he reckons it should have been him.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
wayward bob
i ate all your bees
"always going to be" is the key there. how tf would he have ever got it passed if it wasn't? 
doesn't mean he didn't manage to somehow smuggle a MASSIVE "save our nhs" segment slap bang in the middle of it
so now all those stander-upers not only feeling warm and good about themselves are also feeling warm and good about the nhs. way to convert a few million to the cause danny
doesn't mean he didn't manage to somehow smuggle a MASSIVE "save our nhs" segment slap bang in the middle of it
so now all those stander-upers not only feeling warm and good about themselves are also feeling warm and good about the nhs. way to convert a few million to the cause danny
Corax
Luke 5:16
The last sentence makes the rest of it utterly invalid.
What did people want - a hand-wringing monologue on the slave trade, colonial massacres and military-industrial oil wars?
They were enslaved before the industrial revolution as well!
It's a kind of arrogance to assume that the British ruined the world, the industrial revolution did start in Britain and it did change the world, but it wasn't like everything was great up until that point. The fact that Britain with a little bit of science managed to make the governments of the Chinese and Indian empire do what they told them shows how badly those countries were run more than anything. No point in feeling sorry for the rest of the world
The industrial revolution did not enslave the world it was a step towards liberation. The British Empire made a lot of money from slaves but then I think it was the first country to outlaw slavery on the basis of ethics.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Yes! That would have been even acer!The last sentence makes the rest of it utterly invalid.
What did people want - a hand-wringing monologue on the slave trade, colonial massacres and military-industrial oil wars?
Divisive Cotton
Now I just have my toy soldiers
Not that I like linking to the Daily Mail but there seems to have been general enthusiastic thumbs up from the foreign press: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ls-opening-ceremony-extravaganza-success.html
Shreddy
Truth Through Character
Thirteen yr old teenage girls are so funny.
