RE: Worst opening ceremony for anything I've ever seen in my life.

kiprooney wrote:

Fantastic show. A celebration of culture, music and history. Very witty at times.

However perhaps too subtle to the avarage american viewer at times.

That was not fantastic and there was nothing subtle about it. Featuring a Natiional Health Care is subtle???

Strange and inappropriate? Yes. Subtle? No.

worst opening ceremony ever wrote:

Actually she chose her husband wisely. Try to keep up.

are you sarcastic wrote:

What do you when by "actually she chose her husband wisely?" She is the royal, he married into the royal family - not vice versa. Please tell me you are being sarcastic?

I thought I'd already explained this. It was the wrong Elizabeth! The mother and the daughter have the same name except for those damn roman numerals. Try to keep up.

Admin wrote:

Ok, admit it, you were trying to find Galen Rupp among the US athletes...

The whole thing zipped by so fast it was hard to tell anyone from anyone...except when they paused on some NBA players...

I doubt Salazar wanted him or Mo spending that much time on their feet, even with a week to go for their races...

That girl with the pearl earring was HOT though!

worst opening ceremony ever wrote:

worst opening ceremony ever wrote:

Actually she chose her husband wisely. Try to keep up.

are you sarcastic wrote:

What do you when by "actually she chose her husband wisely?" She is the royal, he married into the royal family - not vice versa. Please tell me you are being sarcastic?

I thought I'd already explained this. It was the wrong Elizabeth! The mother and the daughter have the same name except for those damn roman numerals. Try to keep up.

Those damn Roman numerals?? Seriousl????. How can you possibily not have realized that Queen Elizabelth is the Royal? She has been the Queen for 60 years, not like she just began her reign. The lack of the most basic knowledge is sometimes astounding.

I watched the whole opening ceremony out of respect for the olympics and because there are usually some pretty cool parts. This was just a terrible show, this was the chance for London to showcase for the world and they blew it. If it were entertaining to the Brits, then to me it sounds like it was like that skit in the HS talent show that is full of inside jokes and only entertaining to the people doing the skit and 3 of their friends. Industrial revolution, agrarian economy, a lost cell phone, mr. bean, is that the best you got?

They had no shot of topping Beijing, but you gotta at least do better than that. I kept waiting for Elton John to perform, instead we get Hey Jude (at least they tried there). In their defense, the end was better, but didn't make up for everything before the parade of nations.

Why choose 7 teenage athletes to light the olympic flame, it works better when it is a national hero, not some no name teenagers. They let Muhammad Ali touch the olympic flag, wonderful, Atlanta already had a deteriorating Ali light the flame and that was awesome. This was not awesome, this was forced and sad.

The show sucked. What's with all fricking kids? Dump the choirs and kids in PJs and bring out some stripers.

Danny Boyle gets a big fat PC...for a real example of being PC...went way over board with the show the multi-ethnic modern UK.

Seriously, you would think modern Britain was more chocolate than vanilla (as Lolo might say.)

Kinda surreal.

+1 Sadly.

My Anglo ancestors scrawed the pooch.

Bitter Yanks wrote:

I knew americans just wouldn't get it - I'm glad it wasn't a cheese fest like 84 and 96. We knew we would never match Beijing in terms of the military style mass coordination of people - we wanted to do our own thing. It was a celebration of Britishness and went down well in the UK.

A celebration of Britishness? It seems to me Brits have been just ripping off music from Black Americans since WW2. Techno, House, Hip Hop, Rock n Roll, R n B. The only thing they've given us culturally in the past 100 years are those awful reality TV shows.

And that Brit rapper had a MLB baseball cap and varsity jacket, I didn't know that was common in the UK.

Also funny how none of that Industrial Revolutib included Britain exploiting people from their colonial empire for labor and resources.

And this country does nothing but hack on us Americans. This was like some cheapo concert out behind some field buy the local High School. Weak man really weak.

And this country does nothing but hack on us Americans. This was like some cheapo concert out behind some field buy the local High School. Weak man really weak.

The London olympic organizers said they weren't going to try to outdo Beijing, and boy, they weren't kidding.

noce wrote:

The London olympic organizers said they weren't going to try to outdo Beijing, and boy, they weren't kidding.

This pretty much sums it up right there.

noce wrote:

The London olympic organizers said they weren't going to try to outdo Beijing, and boy, they weren't kidding.

Right on noce...good post.

Beijing felt like a party? I thought it felt like a communist propaganda display. But to each his own.

TOOOOO wrote:

Beijing felt like a party.

This feels like history class on a rainy day.

Beijing's ceremony was unforgettable. I'm opening I forget this London one real soon.

wow that was seriously embarrassing...

best part of this thread is seeing these bloakes defending their country and ceremony when it was clearly cheap and sh*tty...

shame on you for UK, Britian, England or whatever country or nation is hosting it...

also whats with " the Majesty"? "God save the queen? who gives a shit about her? what makes her so "GREAT"

Never realized how much of losers the UK is made up of...i feel sorry for you

msnjd wrote:

Seriously, you would think modern Britain was more chocolate than vanilla (as Lolo might say.)

Kinda surreal.

well vanilla, chocolate or coffee the gal that played June is a stunner.