Olympic Opening Ceremony, London 2012

[paolo]

The world seems to like it.

http://m.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/...ympic-opening-ceremony?cat=media&type=article

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

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

Further truth that Americans need celebrity in their life

Mr Plaschke tweeted: 'Very symbolic ending, but sort of anticlimatic... I like my cauldron lit by one person... and a person people have heard of.'

John Cherwa from the LA Times wrote: 'Hated the flame lighting. Just make a decision and pick someone.'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2180177/London-2012-Olympics-International-audience-hails-opening-ceremony-extravaganza-success.html#ixzz21vzwcwyB​

Mickey Mouse?

 

[Ozone]

If the Tories had been in charge of the ceremony, the set would have been made to look like a classroom at Eton, we would have had little Lord Fauntleroy's doing a dance and ordering the underclass to work, with Pulp's Common People playing in the background....

Danny Boyle pushed the show beyond the boundaries of "Boring Upper Class Britain" and gave us an extraordinarily inclusive show, that gave the world a hint of what real London looks like and the people who make it up....he made us laugh, nearly cry, stand there in awe and cheer with pride.

It was excellent and I can't say a bad word about last night's Opening Ceremony. I'm so proud.

 

[biggus dickus]

and anyway it was just a 20 minute show. the chinese has things like the worlds biggest computer scroll and a million people playing drums, the english had stuff like james bond and the queen

it's why planet earth is awesome

 

[maldwyn]

 

[pseudonarcissus]

I'm just reading through the review on O Globo and google makes a slight miss-translation, it comes up with this gem:
"the footballer-like pop star David Beckham appeared riding a boat at night". I love "footballer-like pop star"

 

[BlueSquareThing]

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.

I'm really hoping they didn't know the second verse though...

 

[Espresso]

Burley's on telly now, defending his position.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Burley's on telly now, defending his position.

I put video clip on on the Burley thread

Moaning about Shami Chakrabarti carrying flag as well

 

[biggus dickus]

minnie the minx just likes any post anyone puts on here!

 

[Corax]

Just before Pretty Vacant there were a few bars of the opening of God Save The Queen, but without the vocals. Spoilsports.

 

[Divisive Cotton]

Douglas Murray hated it: http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/douglas-murray/2012/07/the-olympic-opening-satire/

Which just reaffirms by believe in that was great

 

[gosub]

I put video clip on on the Burley thread

Moaning about Shami Chakrabarti carrying flag as well

Have less of a problem with Shami (only a fuck wit would consider civil liberty purely left wing). But UN Champion of the Earth. wtf. Is that incase Ming the merciless turns up demanding a game of conkers for control of the planet?

 

[magneze]

Douglas Murray hated it: http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/douglas-murray/2012/07/the-olympic-opening-satire/

Which just reaffirms by believe in that was great

A high accolade indeed!

 

[equationgirl]

I thought it was brilliant that Danny Boyle got the NHS in the opening ceremony, and used NHS staff. Nobody else would have - it would have been a show fawning over the Royal Family and a few knights jousting or something.

I was proud. I haven't been proud of much this nation has done recently, and it was fab to be blown away for a few hours.

 

[wayward bob]

Just before Pretty Vacant there were a few bars of the opening of God Save The Queen, but without the vocals. Spoilsports.

it was in the intro according to minnie's list. i skipped that bit it looked boring.

 

[Firky]

I did think though the choice of OMD's Enola Gay was odd, as its about the plane that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima!

Aye, had me scratching my head too.

 

[Badgers]

No Tolkien references were there?

 

[wayward bob]

none. none whatsoever

excluding the first hour or so

 

[equationgirl]

No Tolkien references were there?

Tons of them, I though - the whole Shire-like beginning all through to the ring being forged.

 

[Badgers]

Tons of them, I though - the whole Shire-like beginning all through to the ring being forged.

Hmmm

 

[mrsfran]

No Tolkien references were there?

 

[maldwyn]

No Tolkien references were there?

He was deeply influenced by WW1 and industrialisation.

 

[Badgers]

He was deeply influenced by WW1 and industrialisation.

So was most of the world

 

[Firky]

Things it should have included:

- Benny Hill chasing big breasted athletes in bikinis.
- Viz.
- Gazza with a bucket of KFC and a chicken rod.
- Groups of drunk girls with a giant inflatable cock stepping out of a limo.
- Welsh people speaking gibberish.
- Keith Allen trying to be clever.
- Frank Bruno.
- Scruffy vans parked on the hardshoulder selling greasy food and bootleg baccy.
- Fucking horrible yellow street lights.
- A Cornish fisherman in a yellow hat, with a beard and a porcelain pipe.
- A Random Glaswegian tramp, pissed outside a school or library.
- Old Hasidic Jewish guy driving a Volvo and holding everything up.
- Page 3 girls from the Sun.
- A Tutting and teeth sucking builder or mechanic costing a job.
- A melted dog shit bin.
- Carrier bags snagged in trees and barbed wire.
- The happy, beautiful, content families off the adverts on TV.
- PG Tips' chimpanzees.
- Ant & Dec.
- John Peel introducing some tape he was sent in by a shit student band.
- Lord Bath.
- Simon Harwood smashing a pinata.
- The participants of the Jeremy Kyle show.
- Trisha smoking a biffa.
- Maddeline McCann.
- NCB donkey jackets.
- Readers Wives.
- An entourage of mobilty scooters.

You get the idea

 

[sheothebudworths]

it was in the intro according to minnie's list. i skipped that bit it looked boring.

It was (I missed bits last night, so watched it all again today )

 

[wayward bob]

i was waiting for the... stuff to start that was all filler from what split-second glances i took

 

[Firky]

..

 

[sheothebudworths]

i was waiting for the... stuff to start that was all filler from what split-second glances i took

Well, yeah...that was me last night, tbh ....but I don't regret the 3+ hours I spent today RE-WATCHING, tbf! (I mean that, too! I loved it EVEN MORE! )

 

[smmudge]

Ok I watched it on the iplayer and it exceeded my expectations (though my expectations weren't high)

Paul McCartney cock up was just the beeb getting the crowd feed and stage feed out of sync.