General Chat

I cannot beleive after all this time they could put such rubbish on for the opening of the Games. I cringed at what the world must have been thinking It is suppose to be Games not the history of Britian. what that must have cost is beyond belief.

was the children singing the national Antheun suppose to sing God save the KIng. ? I thought the Quuen didnt seem to like that. she looked quiet stern. I shut it off and went to bed with a book.

I got up before dawn to watch it but only caught it from when they were singing Jerusalem onwards. I missed the agricultural bit that I wanted to see particularly having a lot of hard working Ag. Labs ancestors.

The Industrial Revolution segment was amazing. Britain has a lot to be proud of and as I have a thoroughly British ancestry even though I don't live there and have never been there I still felt proud to be of British origin.

The whole format was very cleverly put together and showed a lot of imagination although I did not appreciate Paul McC. singing.

It was a nice change from the endless exhibitions of hundreds of people moving like one person. There have been a lot of boring opening ceremonies in the past. Well done London.

Loved it all.....very well done..If we had just cut a ribbon everyone would be moaning about that.

The only bit I hated was Paul McCartney..should have give up performing ages ago. He was embarrassing. Still at least he helped clear the stadium lol

Linda ;-)

Overall, it seems to have been met with wide acclaim. As danny boyle pointed out, it wouldnt matter what you did, there would always be some people who didnt like it. But those people wouldnt like anything, so you just have to ignore them.

In retrospect, i would have like to have seen more of a celebration of the wonderful sport of ladies beach volleyball, but im prepared to overlook that minor point in the interests of harmony and national pride.

I loved bits of it, liked most of it and cringed at some of it.

Rowan Atkinson and Her Maj :-D :-D :-D Also loved the arrival and lighting of the torch, very beatiful and dramatic.

Agree that Sir Paul was a bit of an anti-climax, although I think the Diamond Jubilee concert showed that he can still pull it out of the bag when he wants to.

Not read all replies,but I agree Paul Mcartney is getting a bit past it.Did he get a bit out of time or get a bit mixed up?
I missed Mr Bean I should have paused it or went back.

The Queen looked like she enjoyed it.....not.

I watched it till the end and allthough at the start I thought it was a bit dull I did enjoy it.

Marion

We thought the Queen didn't look well but it was very late for an elderly lady and she may have just been tired and 'Jubileed out'.


Rita I think the children singing the National Anthem were deaf, they were signing it as well as some of them singing. I thought theyw ere great, but being hard of hearing I probably would,

I do think that on the TV screen we couldn't appreciate the larger picture and with my hearing problem I couldn't always hear the commentary so had to 'guess' what was going on. But mostly it was great, and can you imagine the preparation and organisation it took to put that lot together, even getting the athletes organised for the parade must take some doing. And to see the builders lining the tunnel was great too. I say, well done everyone, you did UK proud. :-)

I don't think McCartney could ever 'pull it out of the bag' he would be better singing 'in a bag' Lol ;-)


Linda

Whether they will recoupe the 26million + that its cost overall will remain to be seen........!

I think any athelete that qualifies for a world event that only takes place every 4 years anyway,,,,they deserve a grand opening to mark their hard work so really giving the public and people all over the world a share is wonderful.


In reallity just to cut a ribbon would be an insult to any athelete thats reached this stage...and lasts nights affair may not have held some of us in raptues for one reason or another, those that were enthralled by it all, enjoyed and supported it to the full a once in a life time event.

well who judged far too early - ME ME ME - and I retract my OP - the lighting of the cauldron was spectacular but FGS someone tell Paul McCartney - he can't sing and he never could!!!! Should've been Elton all the way

Found Mr Bean lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVM0FzHlDVI

Should've been Elton no way Ann lol :-0 :-)

I thought it was great having the builders etc. in the tunnel Ann adding a very nice touch to the event :-D would have been even better if they'd folowed out.

The children with their signage of the National Anthem was marvellous and the lady on percussion (Evelyn Glennie) is profoundly deaf too

Over all I don't think there was anything Danny Boyle missed out imo

Mau

Let's hope that the Builders did include the *Builders* who actually got their hands dirty, and not just the Managers.

I thought Elton was about as bad as Paul...sorry Ann lol.
Both good but aging like us all.

I agree Marion they could had Adele or Robbie or lots of good performers under the age ot 30 you dont need to wheel multi billionaires to show age concern and the place was so buzzed up they would of sang and danced to anything ......nice to see the artic monkeys performing :-D

Hayley.Robbie wasnt going to perform as his wifes baby is due quite soon.I'm sure i read that some place.
He wold have been good though :-D :-D :-D

Could have been worse might have been Cliff.

My Cilla would of brought the roof down Marion ...... ;-)

They should have wheeled on the Rolling Stones :-D :-D :-D

I'll bet she would have lol

Whyever not Englebert Humperdink.
He was good enough to be rolled out for Eurovision.