2012 Summer Olympics: The Thread

[ManimalR]

^ Culturally ignorant or just trolling?

I was very impressed personally

 

[RewardMe]

Now that the British are done making a fool of themselves on the world stage, a question for our British escapees. Will you be ever able to live this down?

Ah well, I thought we done quite good. Hell, i enjoyed it. But i guess its just too hard to please our fat American cousins.

I have no idea what the hell you are talking about.

They put out all that sweet cultural action you expect from a opening ceremony in the first bit and then the rest sounded like someones mixed CD. The horde of people in glow in the dark fluorescent clothes doing the same simple choreography for thirty minutes did not help either.

It was dark... therefore fluorescent clothing was used. Simple right? It was a history of our nation that was being performed. From the industrial revolution to present day. A lot of focus was spent on 60's 70'snd 80's music wise, but hell i enjoyed every second of it.

Before it began, being British, i expected it to be shit. Thankfully i got a pleasant surprise.

 

[Luca72]

The Olympics opening ceremony was pretty good. I prefer the 2008 Beijing Olympics though. I was especially impressed when I saw Elizabeth drop from the heli. If that was her.


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Now that the British are done making a fool of themselves on the world stage, a question for our British escapees. Will you be ever able to live this down?

Ah well, I thought we done quite good. Hell, i enjoyed it. But i guess its just too hard to please our fat American cousins.

Goddmnit, quit ripping on us Americans!

Ever since we got to see Janet Jacksons' tits in the middle of an American Football game we've been irreversibly jaded by everything else.

 

[dunnace]

^ Culturally ignorant or just trolling?

I was very impressed personally

I felt that opening ceremony was shit, hence culturally ignorant? I do not understand your reasoning.

Ah, there's a good explanation here, if you are British the thing was packed to the gills with references that might go over the casual American onlooker. Now, if you are a Yank then I can understand your underwhelmed response, but if you're a brit then I fear your cynicism may have killed the fun rather than the show itself. It was a lot of fun, from James Bond parachuting the Queen in to Rowan Atkinson's hilarious performance the whole thing was deliciously British. Oh, and the introduction of the Child Catcher and Voldermort were excellent fun.

 

[NightHawk21]

No Iron Maiden?
No Genesis?
NO TOLKIEN?
NO DOCTOR WHO!?

I'm watching it now on the East Coast and at one point you hear the Tardis sound. (You know the takeoff/landing sound)

Idk maybe it's just me, but I've found it to be kinda meh. It has had its good moments, but I just can't help feeling like im listening to some guys remix video of songs that do not go well together. Especially the guy rapping the same chorus over and over in the middle of other songs...

Ya I heard that too. Also there's the running part with the guy that plays Mr. Bean, where I think you see the current doctor running in the first shot (well the actor; he's dressed the same as everyone else).

 

[NightHawk21]

This was my face watching the opening cerimony.

No seriously, wtf.

Danny Boyle made a score of nice movies, but this cerimony was ridiculous

Agreed. Ceremony was amazing. I thoroughly enjoyed it. One question though, why is that cat Polish?

 

[ChildishLegacy]

They put out all that sweet cultural action you expect from a opening ceremony in the first bit and then the rest sounded like someones mixed CD.

As a Brit I was impressed by it, and the reason it was focused on music was because... well we had a lot of fucking good bands throughout the 60s-80s that i'd say 95% of the people in our countries agree on being fucking good.

 

[Aris Khandr]

But remember, Paul McCartney was the bass player for The Beatles who did not go into signing and CERTAINLY DID NOT APPEAR AT THE OLYMPICS.

What was wrong with his performance? I quite enjoyed it.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

It's so much fun being behind everyone else in watching it, at least I know what to expect next!

I thought the very beginning of the opening was pretty damn cool. The music was pretty amazing too, and so far it has been all been really awesome to watch.

I'm still watching the countries file in so it's gonna be a while before the rest of the cool stuff happens.

 

[Brendan Stepladder]

Lack of the Doctor in the opening ceremony makes me sad. They had a rag-tag conglomeration of pretty much everyone famous, but no Doctor. Oh well, at least Benedict Cumberpatch was one of the announcers.

 

[WaysideMaze]

Now that the British are done making a fool of themselves on the world stage, a question for our British escapees. Will you be ever able to live this down?

i've not seen the ceremony myself, I was working, but I've generally heard a lot of good things. So how will I live down the fact that you didn't like it? Quite easily.

 

[Aris Khandr]

Sounds like London dropped the ball with the opening ceremony. Didn't see it yet, but I haven't heard anything good from thoes who have. Sounds like China made a hell of a lot better attempt and execution.

Read through the thread. With the exception of one Yank, the rest of us seem to have quite enjoyed it.

 

[Brendan Stepladder]

Sounds like London dropped the ball with the opening ceremony. Didn't see it yet, but I haven't heard anything good from thoes who have. Sounds like China made a hell of a lot better attempt and execution.

Read through the thread. With the exception of one Yank, the rest of us seem to have quite enjoyed it.

The first part with the transition between an agrarian and an industrial society was masterful. Paul McCartney was excellent. The "boy meets girl" part was shit. Mr. Bean was undoubtedly the funniest and best part of the show.

 

[Tono Makt]

No Iron Maiden?
No Genesis?
NO TOLKIEN?
NO DOCTOR WHO!?

Doctor Who was in there, though it was during the 70's music section and it was just the sound effect of the TARDIS stopping. I didn't notice Genesis, and come to think of it I didn't see anything from Tolkien either.

But the got Tubular Bells going on, so I'm willing to forgive the lack of Tolkien. (I know, I know, I'm a bad geek.)

 

[Tono Makt]

Now that the British are done making a fool of themselves on the world stage, a question for our British escapees. Will you be ever able to live this down?

Nothing to live down. It was quite a good opening ceremonies.