starlight32 Posted July 28, 2012 Report Share Posted July 28, 2012 team GB come in and the queen is sitting there picking her nails rather than watching the team, just about sums it up. If you had to officiate and watch all what she has to you probably would get a little bored.............. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
englishman-in-wales Posted July 28, 2012 Report Share Posted July 28, 2012 I thought it was great. Funny, self deprecating and impressive. It made me puff my chest out a bit. Big respect to Her Maj for parachuting out of that Helicopter too! Seriously, what a good sport she is for allowing them to film that. I wish I'd had tickets. I think PW is full of of right miserable old whingers who couldn't see the good in anything if their lives depended on it. Still, I suppose even that it a traditional British attribute, maybe it should have featured in some kind of misery tableau? If Danny Boyle was looking for negative, depressing, doom mongers to tell us all how **** everything is he'd have been spoilt for choice on on here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starlight32 Posted July 28, 2012 Report Share Posted July 28, 2012 Great or not, it still cost 27 million, which at this current time the country does'nt hav to spend. There is many a country still feeling the cost from hosting the olympics, even now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasper3 Posted July 28, 2012 Report Share Posted July 28, 2012 personaly I thought the opening was fantastic..really well organised..the only down side was the endding using macca.in a word he was rubbish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted July 28, 2012 Report Share Posted July 28, 2012 I thought it was excellent, although I wonder if the whole world understood the entire theme. The urns becoming the Olympic flame was particularly good. The only down sides were the rapper (I hate rappers), Macca and the time it took the teams to march in. As someone else has already mentioned, as soon as the first team was announced I had a flashback to the Lee Evans routine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
utectok Posted July 28, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 28, 2012 (edited) Come on team gb in the cycling road race a real chance of gold !!! Starts at 10 today Edited July 28, 2012 by utectok Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted July 28, 2012 Report Share Posted July 28, 2012 (edited) Womens 10m air rifle is on today at 9am BBC1, 11am Olympics channel 10 then mens 10m air pistol again channel 10, 3.25pm....lets see how much coverage there is The BBC have over 20 channels,showing EVERY sport(so they claim)all you have to do is scroll through the red button menus 'til you find the one you want. Today there is Mens 50m rifle prone finals 11.55-12.50(BBC olympics 23)and mens 25m rapid fire pistol finals 2.25-3.35(BBC olympics 23). Edited July 28, 2012 by Scully Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pimpkiller Posted July 28, 2012 Report Share Posted July 28, 2012 well I liked the start of it the countryside/industrial revolution bit and I thought It would of carried on like that through the ages but you can tell the rest was done by an ethnic peace crisp comity. After that amazing start they just emptied out the stadium and just had people prancing about for a bit, why? whats with the stupid james bond videos? and great ormand street? i half expected a giant M to appear and say im lovin it. What the hell was all them people prancing about that house with 2 black people texting about? then the inventor of the www. appeared for no reason. I said to my partner if someone from another country watched this they would think Great britain was a black country full of rappers and whatnot. I thought the fairy tale bit was half bummed, harry potter? why not alice in wonderland/junglebook/peterpan? What cheeses me off is it had a good start and should of been much much better. If they really wanted to appeal to multiculturalism why not focus on say the abolition of slavery? that was all us that was Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackpowder Posted July 28, 2012 Report Share Posted July 28, 2012 Whether or not it was to everyone's taste or liking the technical side of the opening ceremony was well planned and carried out. In fact brilliant. Blackpowder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gimlet Posted July 28, 2012 Report Share Posted July 28, 2012 I agree with Pimpkiller. It was all going far better than expected until the HNS nonsense. Why do some people think this country is defined by over-staffed ineffecient sovietised public services. Our country is great in spite of such things, not because of them. And the music was dire. Rap, dirgeful Brit-pop and a vegetarian pensioner who wasn't much good when he was young. Our culture has more substance than that. Where was the band of the Royal Marines or massed Scottish pipers or Vaughan Williams? And if we must have a warbling dolly bird get one that can sing. What's wrong with Katherine Jenkins? Top marks for imaginative touches like the cauldron and the forging of the rings (very impressive and life-like), shame that right-on PC student union politics had to creep in like a bad smell. As for the young mixed-race mobile phone addicts falling in love in someones loft, the less said the better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shotgun sam Posted July 28, 2012 Report Share Posted July 28, 2012 what a lot of rubbish better watching paint dry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Holliday Posted July 28, 2012 Report Share Posted July 28, 2012 Bit pants. but i think my sub has just blownup Are you playing battleships or has your foot long sandwich just exploded on you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chr15j Posted July 28, 2012 Report Share Posted July 28, 2012 (edited) It was superbly choreographed and artistically excellent, but bloody hell it was overall dark and durgy. It portrayed the UK as being only 'down't pit' or unemployed dossers. There was so much that could have been done. Way too much focus on industrial revolution. What about the digital (not teenage texting) age, the growth of the UK and London especially as the capital of the financial and business world. Or what about manufacturing, we made some of the best cars in the world once, or what about more emphasis on.... Hmmmm oh yes, SPORT! Danny Boyle mussed so many opportunities to portray GB in a positive light. In the end it was more like a sequel to trainspotting! Rant over Edited July 28, 2012 by Chr15j Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HDAV Posted July 28, 2012 Report Share Posted July 28, 2012 They could have made more of Tim Berners-Lee in context, and less said about big finance to most of the rest of the world the better at present! Forging the rings was awesome! Cauldron looks incredible Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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