2012 Olympics: Opening Ceremony Thread

dballislife · Post #81 » by **dballislife** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 8:44 pm

london just threw their entire history of pop culture at us

lander · Post #82 » by **lander** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 8:44 pm

Wait, these are sick kids? Huh? Is that what he just said?

Raps in 4 · Post #83 » by **Raps in 4** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 8:45 pm

lander wrote:
LittleOzzy wrote:Where did London get all this money?

And people worried it wouldn't look great, this has been fantastic.

Even broke they're richer than we are.

Not really.

lander · Post #84 » by **lander** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 8:45 pm

dballislife wrote:london just threw their entire history of pop culture at us

Hate to say it, but thus far it's better than Vancouver.

Raps in 4 · Post #85 » by **Raps in 4** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 8:46 pm

lander wrote:
dballislife wrote:london just threw their entire history of pop culture at us

Hate to say it, but thus far it's better than Vancouver.

The Winter Olympics are a much smaller event, and therefore have much less money to work with (because they earn much less money).

Secueritae · Post #86 » by **Secueritae** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 8:47 pm

Mr. Bean!!!

Point forward · Post #87 » by **Point forward** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 8:47 pm

LOOOOOOLLL Mr Bean is getting ready to own "Chariots of Fire"

Rasho Brezec · Post #88 » by **Rasho Brezec** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 8:47 pm

dballislife wrote:london just threw their entire history of pop culture at us

All under a guitar solo. Danny Boyle must've been high as a kite planning this.

Aaaaaaaaaand there's Mr Bean but not with an entrance I expected. Boo.

dballislife · Post #89 » by **dballislife** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 8:48 pm

lander wrote:
dballislife wrote:london just threw their entire history of pop culture at us

Hate to say it, but thus far it's better than Vancouver.

ppl actually think this wouldn't be better than van-city, its canada, and its vancouver come on now

lander · Post #90 » by **lander** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 8:51 pm

UssjTrunks wrote:
lander wrote:
LittleOzzy wrote:Where did London get all this money?

And people worried it wouldn't look great, this has been fantastic.

Even broke they're richer than we are.

Not really.

Um actually yeah. When it comes to countries it's about size of economy and Britian trumps Canada everyday of the week. Canada is tenth in the world GDP and UK is 6th. This even with all their troubles and our relative economic health.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co ... P_(nominal)

Post #91 » by **suckfish** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 8:54 pm

Push the button.. Yeah!

Point forward · Post #92 » by **Point forward** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 8:54 pm

D'uh.... OMD

Raps in 4 · Post #93 » by **Raps in 4** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 8:54 pm

lander wrote:
UssjTrunks wrote:
lander wrote: Even broke they're richer than we are.

Not really.

Um actually yeah. When it comes to countries it's about size of economy and Britian trumps Canada everyday of the week. Canada is tenth in the world GDP and UK is 6th. This even with all their troubles and our relative economic health.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co ... P_(nominal)

We have a higher GDP per capita, which is what actually matters.

lander · Post #94 » by **lander** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 8:56 pm

UssjTrunks wrote:
lander wrote:
dballislife wrote:london just threw their entire history of pop culture at us

Hate to say it, but thus far it's better than Vancouver.

The Winter Olympics are a much smaller event, and therefore have much less money to work with (because they earn much less money).

They spent quite a bit of money in Vancouver. I just meant in terms of work put in and execution. I just felt the opening ceremony was corny. It's obvious the British did this show with thought of pleasing their own people first and thus pleased most of the veiwing public I think. In Vancouver I felt as Canadians, we wanted to please others and while overall it was nice, it was pretty cheesy at times and came accross as trying too hard. Meh JMO.

Rasho Brezec · Post #95 » by **Rasho Brezec** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 8:57 pm

I can't shake the feeling that this ceremony, for the most part, is a huge British circlejerk. Most of the casual viewers around the world probably don't understand half the references.

Point forward · Post #96 » by **Point forward** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 8:58 pm

The last 30 minutes have a sky high PCR (pop culture reference) per minute rate

Raps in 4 · Post #97 » by **Raps in 4** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 8:59 pm

Rasho Brezec wrote:I can't shake the feeling that this ceremony, for the most part, is a huge British circlejerk. Most of the casual viewers around the world probably don't understand half the references.

Considering that most of the world has been influenced by British pop culture over the past century, I'm pretty sure they will.

Post #98 » by **suckfish** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 9:00 pm

Rasho Brezec wrote:I can't shake the feeling that this ceremony, for the most part, is a huge British circlejerk. Most of the casual viewers around the world probably don't understand half the references.

That's what makes each ceremony unique. That's the point isn't it? To have it unique to each host city/country. That's what makes it special.

Point forward · Post #99 » by **Point forward** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 9:00 pm

I mean, I get one pop culture ref per 10 second (The Who, OMD, Gary Glitter, Boomtown Rats, Beatles, Queen...) and I am missing at least 70% of all the references

Post #100 » by **5DOM** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 9:01 pm

UssjTrunks wrote:
Rasho Brezec wrote:I can't shake the feeling that this ceremony, for the most part, is a huge British circlejerk. Most of the casual viewers around the world probably don't understand half the references.

Considering that most of the world has been influenced by British pop culture over the past century, I'm pretty sure they will.

Pretty much