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Author Topic: Olympic opening ceremony. Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 07-27-2012 03:42 PM                     What do you think of it so far?  |  IP: Logged Mitchell Dvoskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1869 From: West Milford, NJ, USA Registered: Jan 2001 posted 07-27-2012 03:51 PM                     Yawn. Not that it was any worse (or better) than any other Olympic opening, they are all boring.  |  IP: Logged Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 07-27-2012 04:22 PM                     I don't think I've ever seen another one.  |  IP: Logged Mark Lensenmayer Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1605 From: Upper Arlington, OH Registered: Sep 1999 posted 07-27-2012 08:42 PM                     I kept shouting "XANADU" during the drum sequence. Rowan Atkinson was the best part.  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 07-27-2012 09:12 PM                        I hope the Blue Man Group got a royalty. Here in the States, our American network talking heads did not stop talking. It probably was wonderful in other countries where they shut up. Louis  |  IP: Logged Gerard S. Cohen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 975 From: Forest Hills, NY, USA Registered: Sep 2001 posted 07-27-2012 11:44 PM                     As I viewed it on NBC CH 4 in NYC, it was a mashup of documentary film footage, "live" edited footage shot earlier because of time zone differences, and brief commentary. That confused and disappointed me at first, but was part of our multimedia, non-linear age where everything is happening simultaneasly. So despite a slow start and a social-studies- textbook depiction of agrarian and manufacturing eras in U.K. history, I sat back and enjoyed it. The presentation included not only what was going on in the Olympic Stadium, but via airborn cameras, all of London,its environs, and beyond. But when the action entered the stadium, there were so many activities, light shows, fireworks, etc., that it was like a dozen three-ring circuses at once--excess or overkill. I have been viewing lots of beautiful PBS programs on the royal family and E.R.II the last couple of months, and noted the queen's smiling demeanor at the start of the James Bond skit. But after the pretense of her entering the stadium by parachuting from a helicopter, her face showed fierce anger and disapproval, unrelieved until the finale. I wondered why, in the procession of athletes, each flagbearer was partnered with a longhaired young woman carrying a bronze bowl. Most carried as if shlepping a shissel to assist a midwife, but the bearer with the Brittish delegation bore hers ceremoniously with two uplifted white-gloved hands. Only at the lighting of the torch was it revealed that these bowls spread the flame in a circle igniting the conflagration of 200 torches--"e pluribus unim" style. I wondered whether those in the stadium seats missed the many closeups afforded the TV audience, as I didn't notice any giant screens in the arena. I was amazed by the fireworks spectacular,and the use of stadium electronic visual displays. I really wished I had a state-of-the art huge flatscreen TV, as my 26 inch Sony seemed too small to encompass all that was to be enjoyed.  |  IP: Logged Paul Rousseas Film Handler Posts: 7 From: Athens, Attiki, Greece Registered: Jun 2012 posted 07-28-2012 01:07 PM                        Everyone please check what an opening ceremony should be... Athens 2004 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony (from Youtube)  |  IP: Logged Marco Giustini Film God Posts: 2713 From: Reading, UK Registered: Nov 2007 posted 07-28-2012 01:35 PM                     amazed by how many people don't know how to use a camera - using the flash from 500 yards! Found it cool, maybe a little too long, and the Queen looked like she woke up during her everning nap to quickly dress up and go to the ceremony!  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 07-28-2012 01:51 PM                     Mr. Bean Pretty funny.  |  IP: Logged Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 07-28-2012 06:06 PM                     No longer available due to a copyright claim by the IOC. It's still on the BBC site, starting at 50 minutes, but I'm not sure if that's available from the US. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/2012/live-video/p00wm0br  |  IP: Logged Richard Fowler Film God Posts: 2392 From: Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA Registered: Jun 2001 posted 07-29-2012 07:41 AM                     The baby WAS creepy.......  |  IP: Logged Mark Hajducki Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 500 From: Edinburgh, UK Registered: May 2003 posted 07-29-2012 08:46 AM                     I wonder what contingency plans they for wet weather. Outdoor events in the UK have a fairly high level of risk associated with them. The South East of the country has gone from hose pipe bans to flood warnings in recent months.  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 07-29-2012 03:05 PM                        ERII did look a little out of sorts about something, not the composed royal countenance we're so used to seeing. But after all, she did just jump out of a helicopter. One of the countless memes that have flooded the webspace in the last few hours suggested that she may have been promised a ride in a TARDIS instead of a mere helicopter. Missing out on something like that would have been enough to put me in a bit of a dour mood. I love big spectacular productions, and this one paid off big in all ways. Congratulations to Danny Boyle for pulling off this rather cinematic vision as a live (mostly) theatrical performance. Well done sir!  |  IP: Logged

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