Beijing Olympic: Opening Ceremonies were amazing!

[SilentKnight]

Just finished watching a rerun of the opening ceremonies in Beijing.

Awesome spectacle, to say the least. I was amazed at the globe and the runners on the outside of it and the video projections.

Opinions?

[TampaToker]

I was very impressed with it myself. They spent a shit load on it and it showed. Was a very enjoying and entertaining evening

[broke]

God I hate the opening ceremonies... ff there's anything more boring than watching thousands of people walk around in a circle for 2 hours, I don't know what it is.

Thankfully the coverage of the actual games will start soon.

[SilentKnight]

Originally Posted by broke

God I hate the opening ceremonies... ff there's anything more boring than watching thousands of people walk around in a circle for 2 hours, I don't know what it is.

Thankfully the coverage of the actual games will start soon.

That's got to be the stupidest, most dismissive observation I can imagine.

I have to ask - did you even watch it?

[broke]

Originally Posted by SilentKnight

That's got to be the stupidest, most dismissive observation I can imagine.

I have to ask - did you even watch it?

Unfortunately.

Before the athletes started walking was ok. The torch lighting was cool and the subsequent fireworks were neat.

Sorry - two hours of the talking heads showing me on a map where the athletes are from and giving me a current events snippet while they walk in a circle is not interesting to me. I don't need to be shown where Niger is... I already know. I don't need a tidbit on what's happening in Georgia... I already know.

Let's get on to the competition.

[teentime]

Originally Posted by broke

God I hate the opening ceremonies... ff there's anything more boring than watching thousands of people walk around in a circle for 2 hours, I don't know what it is.

You obviously did not see the opening ceremony.

This is one Olympic event that will take a very, very long time to beat.
As the American announcer said at the end of the ceremony.
"When it comes to opening ceremonies we can now retire the trophy."

Retire it, pack it up and put it away, those poor sods in Vancouver are up shits creek without a paddle. A couple of beavers paddling around in a pool of maple syrup just ain't gonna cut it, now that we've seen exactly what an opening ceremony for an Olympiad should be.

Way to go China, now please buy some porn from me

[broke]

Originally Posted by teentime

You obviously did not see the opening ceremony.

I saw it start to finish and have it on my DVR if I'm ever suffering from insomnia.

Originally Posted by teentime

This is one Olympic event that will take a very, very long time to beat.

I didn't realize that the Olympic games had become nothing more than a competition of which host country can put on the most gaudy opening and closing ceremonies. I'm sorry for looking forward to the actual competition. Won't happen again.

[Mutt]

Originally Posted by teentime

You obviously did not see the opening ceremony.

This is one Olympic event that will take a very, very long time to beat.
As the American announcer said at the end of the ceremony.
"When it comes to opening ceremonies we can now retire the trophy."

Retire it, pack it up and put it away, those poor sods in Vancouver are up shits creek without a paddle. A couple of beavers paddling around in a pool of maple syrup just ain't gonna cut it, now that we've seen exactly what an opening ceremony for an Olympiad should be.

Way to go China, now please buy some porn from me

Winter Olympics rock - Vancouver won't put on the same spectacle of an opening ceremonies because the Winter Olympics are smaller and always folksier and that's what makes them special.

I do wish Canada when they put on an Olympics would forget the fucking Native Indian folklore shit- it means nothing to 90% of Canada let alone the rest of the world. They should just have some drunk violent natives from Winnipeg stagger across the stage shitting vomiting and pissing on it - that's something that Canadians can relate to not some mythical romantic native folklore

[SilentKnight]

Originally Posted by Mutt

Winter Olympics rock - Vancouver won't put on the same spectacle of an opening ceremonies because the Winter Olympics are smaller and always folksier and that's what makes them special.

I do wish Canada when they put on an Olympics would forget the fucking Native Indian folklore shit- it means nothing to 90% of Canada let alone the rest of the world. They should just have some drunk violent natives from Winnipeg stagger across the stage shitting vomiting and pissing on it - that's something that Canadians can relate to not some mythical romantic native folklore

Rod Black will host the ceremonies and mention "groin injury" three times in the first paragraph.

They'll dust off a bunch of multi-cultural crap and tell everyone how its representative of Canada. Maybe get Rita McMeal, er...McNeil to warble a tune while Ashley MacIsaac pees on his fiddle.

Then maybe we can have the Mounties do a horsey ride around the stadium ending with a dazzling Tazer demonstration in place of a pyro show.