el_richo

Bloody Brilliant!!!

Made me very proud to be British

Oink

I'm watching it on the Asian channel. A lot less bloody annoying those Canadian announcers. Epic but could of done without the spammer song.

Boy d

I liked most of it and it was quite the production. I too felt proud and homesick, but at time it totally lost me. The NHs thing, the crap rapper the house with clips of corri and eastenders, and a mess of bits and pieces of pop music and culture...it seemed disjointed, but it certainly had its moments, like Rowan Atkinson. As a celebration of pop culture it rocked, as an Olympic ceremony....I don't know what to think.

I wonder what foreigners will make of it.....

Oink

Who cares? It was the best opening ceremony ever.

Oink

Now that's an Olympic caldron not like crap one here with the tin foil on it.

JonboyE

It was going OK till Macca turned up.

Oink

And he's not even from London. I think he needs to retire. They should of had Paul Weller.

el_richo

The news preview on telly just said:

"The London Olympics have officially begun. We discuss whether the opening ceremony was as good as Vancouvers".

It's the city version of small man syndrome

DandNHill

I was very disappointed in most of it.
A few bits were good. Like Rowan Atkinson and the actual lighting of the cauldron and the fireworks but the rest I thought was pretty crap and must have been even worse if you were there and couldn't see everything going on like we did on tv.
(Don't shoot me please )

el_richo

Shame.

Vancouver news have stated London was better than Vancouver.

The music was great, the walk through pre and post industrial revolution, celebrating literature, NHS, GOSH (the kids and staff were great), british influence on music, changing of generations and times, arrival of internet and social media....

And the Queen jumping from the helicopter before being introduced.

You have to admit it was pretty fun, educational, and history. More so than most, if not all, opening shows.

Danny Boyle did a great job.

My brother in law is there and said the atmosphere and show were spectacular, with so much pride felt throughout.

Oink

The duality of self-righteousness coupled with insecurity produces rather bizarre outcomes here.

DandNHill

Don't get me wrong the idea was great but I found it disjointed. When the tree started rising I thought the aliens had arrived! lol

Satisfy my curiosity if you can. How much was a ticket to the opening ceremony? My boss came back from lunch with his cronies and said he had been told it was $2012! lol

Oink

Good stuff.

Alan2005

Seems to have pissed off a few (well one now I think about it) tory MP's too. Result!

Atlantic Xpat

I thought it was great. Good tunes, good humour, definately British. Felt some swellings of national pride definately.

An amusing tweet from a local journo I follow:

"Becks on a boat on the Thames way better than Gretsky in the back of a truck in Vancouver"