London 2012 Megathread [Part 1]

Capt'n Midnight

MistyCheese wrote: »

I'm not seeing a lot of British culture yet. They haven't yet represented fish 'n' chips, the X Factor or racist footballers.

or chicken tikka masala

Doff

Dizzee Rascal is just cringeworthy

Tox56

I know they have a non-commentary option, but why do BBC even bother offering commentary in the first place, it's just annoying

Redjeep!

Muse. Cool.

Spudmonkey

Muse!!! Class.

ballsymchugh

why did they include that bastardised version of valerie?!
it was cracking up until that.

supernova84

grey_so_what wrote: »

BLURR..........most of the 80's...........I can relate..............:::))))))

Blur so 90's

anniehoo

Jesus im rarely impressed...but im BLOWN away by this. The coordination and effort thats gone into this is unreal. Lovin all the music....its soooo fast paced i cant keep up. Thats unreal for a live event!!!!

grey_so_what

MUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tardis live on!!!!!!

supernova84

When will they celebrate Radiohead the best band to come out the UK

Duckworth_Luas

Al Gore is gonna be pissed with that!

Cienciano

Some amount of good music.

Samich

Muse are savage!

And who the **** is Danny Boyle?

Guy:Incognito

Quality. Absolutley ****ign epic.

grey_so_what

supernova84 wrote: »

Blur so 90's

Imagine someone older watching...........;)

iMuse

Anyone know how much the ceremony is costing? some serious effort gone into it.

Mint Sauce

This is definently going to overrun. Well worth it though.

Dunny

I wanna see Phil Mitchell knock the ****e out of someone

enfant terrible

supernova84 wrote: »

When will they celebrate Radiohead the best band to come out the UK

What about joy division?

FanadMan

Nicely done with Tim Bereners Lee

Samich

supernova84 wrote: »

When will they celebrate Radiohead the best band to come out the UK

The whole audience would just go into maaad depression then though...

MistyCheese

None of my suggestions have come out so far. Still, I can confidentally predict they're gonna roll out a giant cup of tea and a couple of biscuits at some point.

IvySlayer

Samich wrote: »

Muse are savage!

And who the **** is Danny Boyle?

The director of this...

Did 28 Days Later, Slumdog, 127 hours, Trainspotting...

ArmaniJeanss

Samich wrote: »

Would China, Australia or the USA even get this? Like the Mr Bean and Corrie thing?

Doesn't matter a fcuk really. I didn't know the background to a lot of the Beijing ceromony but was still able to enjoy it.

keith16

enfant terrible wrote: »

Why is that brilliant?

Because it shows that people haven't forgotten about Tony Blair and his war crimes in that country.

Apologies, I don't mean to suggest that this takes away from this event. It's brilliant so far and I for one am thoroughly enjoying it.

Phoenix Park

iMuse wrote: »

Anyone know how much the ceremony is costing? some serious effort gone into it.

17 million i think

Hercule Poirot

Hard to believe it's been on for over an hour - time has flown by...

mailforkev

If it wasn't for my good lady I'd have turned off an hour ago, am glad to admit it got good after they ditched the history lesson. Music bit deffo the best so far.

iMuse

Surprised there was no Oasis.

Kurz

enfant terrible wrote: »

What about joy division?

No Stone Roses either in their little music chronology.

Redjeep!

Ah. The inventor of the internet. Couldn't they have had a bigger tribute ? Say 10,000 blokes spanking their monkeys in unison ?

flyswatter

supernova84 wrote: »

When will they celebrate Radiohead the best band to come out the UK

Bit of a slap in the face to play Muse instead of them.

efb

Son who's lighting the flame???
Sir Steve?
Sir Rodger?
Sir Chris?
Dame Kelly?
Daley?

Dotsie~tmp

Redjeep! wrote: »

Ah. The inventor of the internet. Couldn't they have had a bigger tribute ? Say 10,000 blokes spanking their monkeys in unison ?

The world wide web u plonker. Not internet.

Queen-Mise

Those three parts so far were EPIC - the industrial revolution, kids & music. So well done.

I would like to note that I do not use the epic word often

titan18

I dont think it's that great. Some of the music/film section was good, and the Industrial part was good, but the country part at the start and the NHS thing were awful imo

enfant terrible

efb wrote: »

Son who's lighting the flame???
Sir Steve?
Sir Rodger?
Sir Chris?
Dame Kelly?
Daley?

The Queen?

Guy:Incognito

keith16 wrote: »

Because it shows that people haven't forgotten about Tony Blair and his war crimes in that country.
.

Is there not a thread somewhere for this ****? On another site preferably.

Capt'n Midnight

Phoenix Park wrote: »

17 million i think

so about 0.1% of the total budget

and a lot less than G4S were fined

supernova84

Samich wrote: »

supernova84 wrote: »

When will they celebrate Radiohead the best band to come out the UK

The whole audience would just go into maaad depression then though...

I want Thom Yorke to light the torch

LiamKK1982

What's the name of the song playing now

flyswatter

Love the David Holmes song they're playing now.

LiamKK1982 wrote: »

What's the name of the song playing now

David Holmes - I Heard Wonders

retalivity

belfast's david holmes getting a spin now

Samich

I don't wanna see Becks!

Brain Stroking

This is unbelievably good. Best ceremony of any sort i've seen. Boyle was an inspired choice

Mars Bar

Some amount of green screening there!

My god he is a beautiful man though.

ascanbe

iMuse wrote: »

Surprised there was no Oasis.

Yeah, was surprised by that too.
Was expecting to hear the strains of 'Don't look back in anger' or something ring out.
It's strange they weren't included given how incredibly huge they were in the 90's and how associated they are with that era.
Maybe the Gallaghers managed to piss-off Danny Boyle at some stage.

Guy:Incognito

Beckham for the next Bond!!!!:D

Mountainlad

The bit with boy and the girl was extremely cringe worthy. Didn't enjoy the whole technology bit though I get it with the whole culmination in Tim-Berners Lee.

The house was cool, the firewords were definitely the highlight so far for me, the airborne picture of it was unreal.

Is Beckham lighting the flame?

Capt'n Midnight

iMuse wrote: »

Surprised there was no Oasis.

They had Blur

Has this put a nail on the whole Blur vs. Oasis thing ...

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