Olympic Opening Ceremony

Post by **Timster** » Sat Jul 28, 2012 1:16 am

Mostly brilliant in my opinion. Good mix of heritage, humour and spectacle.

However.... WTF was crinkly McCartney doing closing this show ???
IS THIS THE BEST WE'VE GOT.

Yes... I said the same about the Jubilee too.

Post by **amanda1** » Sat Jul 28, 2012 7:48 am

I thought it was absolute rubbish

Post by **sonny** » Sat Jul 28, 2012 7:53 am

Iv only just seen it on catch up TV, to be fair I though it was great! Well done.

However I agree, WTF was Mcartney doing, how many times have we heard him play that song... We should have put him in the Olympic cauldron.

Post by **Nickyboy** » Sat Jul 28, 2012 9:12 am

I thought it was laughable and so did a lot of my mates.

Post by **lma07** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 9:49 pm

Mr Bean was the best bit.

Post by **F@tBoyF@t** » Mon Jul 30, 2012 8:11 pm

Timster wrote:Mostly brilliant in my opinion. Good mix of heritage, humour and spectacle.

However.... WTF was crinkly McCartney doing closing this show ???
IS THIS THE BEST WE'VE GOT.

Yes... I said the same about the Jubilee too.

Can't agree more about McCartney - he is such a boring barsteward.
- at exactly what point in a career do you realise that your audience has had enough?
- we must be almost there?
Can't stand all his "Peace...Love" claptrap.
I might believe it if I thought that he was remotely sincere?

Given my advancing years, I've seen quite a few of these opening ceremonies, but this is the only one I found remotely interesting
- just makes you realise how much Britain has given to the world?

Some of it was a bit "off the wall" mind you
- at one point, I thought that we were going to get a rendition of "Two World Wars and one World Cup......"
Great fun & I'm Scottish......

Thought that the TEAM GB "Elvis" outfits were a bit crass, though?

Hats off to the cast of 15,000 volunteers.

Cost of the ceremony? £27 MIL

Confirmed BBC audience 26.9 MIL - where else could you be entertained for just over a quid each?

Well done Danny Boyle & his cast of thousands

Post by **stu** » Mon Jul 30, 2012 8:16 pm

I also loved it. To the haters: you have to consider it as a production for the world audience, not just the UK. It really wasn't meant for us but for the billion or whatever other people who had the opportunity to see it. I think it was a great ambassador for metropolis London and secondarily Great Britain.

Post by **Timster** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 9:27 pm

Oh FFS, Macca's daughter is on the telly now whining on about her Olympic costume designs.

Jeez, they've got it sown-up haven't they.

All we need now is for Heather to do some official Olympic b*llocks.

.... bah, grumble.

Post by **F@tBoyF@t** » Thu Aug 02, 2012 10:10 pm

Timster wrote:Oh FFS, Macca's daughter is on the telly now whining on about her Olympic costume designs.

Jeez, they've got it sown-up haven't they.

All we need now is for Heather to do some official Olympic b*llocks.

.... bah, grumble.

Nah - she widnae huv a leg to stand on, on that score

Post by **adsgreen** » Fri Aug 03, 2012 9:03 am

Timster wrote:Oh FFS, Macca's daughter is on the telly now whining on about her Olympic costume designs.

Jeez, they've got it sown-up haven't they.

All we need now is for Heather to do some official Olympic b*llocks.

.... bah, grumble.

To be fair I found it quite interesting that it's not a case of slapping together stuff like I thought it was going to be but in some events they have very strict "dress codes" and will get marks awarded and taken off based on the costume.

Post by **sonny** » Sun Aug 12, 2012 10:00 pm

So what did we think about the closing ceremony?

Post by **Nickyboy** » Sun Aug 12, 2012 10:04 pm

So far very average. Loved the Olympics as a whole though. Found myself very choked many times when our athletes were on.

Post by **sonny** » Sun Aug 12, 2012 10:08 pm

Totally agree.

It seems that they have there ipod on repeat on the closing ceremony... awkward :/

Post by **sonny** » Sun Aug 12, 2012 11:52 pm

Well, it started off a bit boring, but must admit, got better....Take That and the Spice Girls...amazing lol

Post by **Timster** » Mon Aug 13, 2012 1:42 am

I thought it was good that Eric sang "life's a piece of sh!t".. with no word changes, to the world.

Overall pretty good. Some predictable rubbish like Spice Dogs and Take That.
The ubiquitous Jessy J looked well hot, didn't she.

Oh and the athletes are sooo much fitter with a bit of lippy on.

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