Beijing vs Athens vs Sydney opening ceremony (2 Viewers)

[Snaykew]

But getting to host the Olympics is muscle flexing anyway. Why not flex some more during the opening ceremony?

 

[Iron]

Sore winners? But still, there are sore losers. Russia just invades a little backwater though

 

[Admiral Nelson]

I love the seven token Greeks who voted for Athens.

 

[Snaykew]

Sore winners? But still, there are sore losers. Russia just invades a little backwater though

They want to become a superpower again, I suppose. It's what superpowers do. o/

I love the seven token Greeks who voted for Athens.

I voted for all of them because it let me.

 

[-tal-]

We were humble, humourous, warm, welcoming. It was the ideal Olympics, not muscle flexing

Could not agree more! Bloody Beijing was freaking showing off throughout the whole ceremony. At first, the synchronicity of everything was kinda cool, and the whole lights thing was too.

Then everything got boring, the same crap over and over again. Synchronised this, synchronised that. No creativity. And, there was no big bang at the end. Bloody showing off how "big" they were, and how many people they had. Bloody Beijing. Incredibly boring.

Am determined to hate China now. It's ok if any other country wins, as long as it's not the USA or China (for giving me an absolutely shitty opening ceremony).

 

[sundirtwater]

bejing did have the WOW factor

but after awhile you couldn't help but notice that most of the WOW was displayed through A GIANT SCREEN!?!?!?!?!?!
definatley shows how technology is taking over the world!!!!
hehe

loved the drums...
and the idea of the athletes walking footsteps on the canvas

 

[L-esky]

the Beijing opening was really impressive.
That's all I can say. I didn't expect that much but was incredibly impressed.

 

[always.dreaming]

At the time I thought the Sydney OC was pretty cool. Mind you i was only 9. It wasn't amazing, but it had its highlights - the problem was that they were so few and far between. As soon as the drag queens, floating jelly fish and tap dancers came out I was like "DAMMIT SYDNEY, you have such a rich and vibrant culture to draw upon...why did you have to draw your inspiration from the mardigras "

A lot of time was filled with annoying and irrelevant crap. As someone mentioned before: bike riding kangaroo’s ?? Someone also had the brilliant idea of making Dawn Fraser the unofficial ambassador of Australian Sport. Firstly why THE HELL isn't she dead yet? And secondly, WTF?? I hate her, seeing her sitting next to the IOC president, chatting away and eye fucking him at every chance made me cringe. She's an old bitch who has contributed little, if anything to Australia and thinks that she has some god given right to have a say on anything and everything regarding Australian sport. The tragedy is that when she dies, a state funeral will probably be conducted, at the tax payer’s expense, celebrating the life of someone who has given so little and yet demanded so much of Australia

Anyway Athens was devoid of any mention of Dawn, which made it instantly popular in my books. It was colourful, and I liked how a story unfolded as the night went on. It seemed more precise and planned than Sydney and carried a degree of elegance that Beijing couldn’t match. However it was a bit bland and took some time to get going – Beijing seemed to be at set at such a higher tempo, regardless of when you tuned in there was always something amazing happening (unlike Sydney or Athens). And as a teenage male, high-tempo-amazing anything spells success for me.

 

[MissSarajevo]

Beijing Opening was better than Sydney or Athens , except air pollution. But they allege that the fireworks outside and over the stadium were computer generated LOL!

 

[HalcyonSky]

beijing opening was fake

 

[Snaykew]

Beijing Opening was better than Sydney or Athens , except air pollution. But they allege that the fireworks outside and over the stadium were computer generated LOL!

The part where there was an forward moving overhead view of fireworks going off as the camera came past was fake. But that was outside the stadium.

 

[Admiral Nelson]

The part where there was an forward moving overhead view of fireworks going off as the camera came past was fake. But that was outside the stadium.

I personally like how the Chinese added this little touch of computer generation.

 

[Snaykew]

Aw man, I love Microsoft.

 

[ur_inner_child]

I'm sick of this comparing, it's usually by fuckwits.

Fuckwit: "Yeah you only stole Nikki Webster, and our fireworks display"
Me: .... We INVENTED fireworks.

 

[Enteebee]

I'm sick of this comparing, it's usually by fuckwits.

Fuckwit: "Yeah you only stole Nikki Webster, and our fireworks display"
Me: .... We INVENTED fireworks.

nah u guys didn't really steal nikki webster, our one actually did the singing herself. Yours was a pretty doll lip synching for the uglier girl.

 

[zstar]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1I30dCKZZY

The 36' Berlin Olympics were the best.

They had the salute and everything.

 

[Snaykew]

i don't hate or discriminate against anyone but China is the modern day fascist, as was in 1939 with Nazi Germany!

Hahahahaha, oh man, love Youtube comments.

 

[Matt Samson]

Free Tibet

 

[Snaykew]

Free Tibet

Denied.

 

[Garygaz]

Beijing = fail

Fake singer (That little girl you saw, wasn't singing live and the recording was of a different girl who they dumped at the last minute because she wasn't cute enough)

Shit air quality

Fake fireworks

Rent-a-crowd of people's army who were pretty much cheer leaders.

GG for the fake atmosphere...