Theme music from “The Exorcist”, followed by:
A celebration of Socialized Medicine, followed by:
Scary villains from children’s literature, chiefly Lord Voldemort, followed by:
The arrival of Mary Poppins singing “A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down”, followed by:
Theme music from the wonderful Christian film “Chariots of Fire” — which was rudely mocked and made fun of.
Where are we going? And why am I in this hand-basket??
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I remember the China opening ceremonies: “One World, one dream.”
Translation: Communism will rule the World someday.
The could have, and should have ended it when they joined the five rings in the sky with the pyro technics.
That was a memorable shot.
Then they lost it, especially depicting digital age.
They feted the (British) inventor of the world wide web? Come on! There is no single person that deserves this recognition. The internet age came upon us as an evolutionary process.
The Muslim countries all witness to their religion by having the new moon and the star on their flags. Everyone knows what their religion is.
Where are the Christians? Hiding their faith because it is too offensive to the Muslims and the ungodly.
Christianity will soon be gone in most of the countries that marched in the opening ceremonies.
The opening ceremonies are loaded with Satanic symbolism as per usual - but more so than ever now.
The opening ceremonies are loaded with Satanic symbolism as per usual - but more so than ever now.
I didn’t see all of it, but as you synopsized it, it looks like they were trying to strike some ineffectual and lame sense
of “balance”, but predictably, “the glorious mosaic” that now defines Britain’s self-image rapidly seemed to take over.
As if the overwrought production numbers weren’t tedious enough, they were followed by an inexplicably gaudy , noisy,
and vapid bow to “youth culture”, complete with a montage tweeting, texting, and some apparently interracial “romance”
which played out like a cheesy, overproduced commercial for he latest cyber-gadget.
Aidan Burley had it right.
Did Churchill make any type of appearance?
Now lets get on with the real show.
The cultural-political show was peppered with too many pre-taped segments which detracted from the spontaneity and real time-ness of a live Olympics opening ceremony.
Heh. That's not the line!
My wife and I sat there with our mouths agape that the opening ceremonies were so bad. I’ll use a very british phrase to respond to this claptrap- “Baaah, humbug!”
Horrid PC show!! But I did notice one thing missing, young girls/ women in head scarfs!!!
Bad, BAD.
They started out with Shakespeare, how nice. Then a hobbit like agrarian setting, and everything was idyllic (in actually, people led lives of grinding poverty).
Sudden the farms were destroyed by dark smokestacks, and self important men with cigars in their mouths, having pictures taken, so proud of the people toiling away - the commentators said they actually had the smell of sulphur blowing over the crowd.
They stopped for WWI (a moment of silence) and then concentrated on what the commentators said the producer thought the two great accomplishments of the British people - the NHS and children’s literature.
How could they do this absolute bosh tripe? THE NHS? I mean, they had lights lit up with “NHS” in the center. It was totally bizarre.
I think for our next olympics we should have “Social Security “ and “Food Stamps” in lights. Can’t think of much else special about us. Geez.
I feel sorry for the British. If all they can find to celebrate after a thousand years is the rotten NHS, Peter Pan, and a whole bunch of screaming British music and punk outfits, no wonder they spend all their time clubbing and drinking. I’d be depressed too.
I only saw parts of it and what I saw was horrible, especially when it’s compared to China’s opening four years ago.
Danny Boyle was a wrong choice to direct for obvious reasons—he treated it like a movie, so everything looked small. Everything should look BIG considering your stage is a football field.
And another annoying thing: TOO MANY KIDS! The kids in the hospital beds was weird and baffling. And their national anthem sounded horrible with kids singing it—it should have been grand with a choir and symphony.
Paul McCartney: He’s overexposed, appearing everywhere, it seems. His performance wasn’t special—wasn’t he just at the Queeen’s jubilee last month?
I am glad someone picked up on this...I watched the opening ceremony, and must admit I did not pick up on the Christian-based beginning...but the influence of the moral force of Judeo-Christian values was pretty much ignored after that, and I certainly saw that and was dismayed.
England has sadly forgotten her history. America is hurtling down the same road.
Pray for a spiritual revival. God is greater than the evil one, He is mighty to save.