hicksy
Junior Member
I'm good for some but I'm not for everyone
Posts: 1,567
|
Post by hicksy on Jul 26, 2024 17:19:05 GMT
Good job Snow Patrol weren’t booked as an opening act! Light up, Light up… I think I've figured out that user Hicksy is a bot that has been programmed with the consciousness of Tim Vine.
Don't even accuse me cause I'll go on the run But I suppose it'd be easy where to find me Cause I'll be at the bottom having fun |
|
|
|
Post by Whizzo on Jul 26, 2024 17:24:08 GMT
Maryam being Maryam on the news again, great stuff.
|
|
hicksy
Junior Member
I'm good for some but I'm not for everyone
Posts: 1,567
|
Post by hicksy on Jul 26, 2024 17:43:38 GMT
Maryam... Tha Shiznit
|
|
razz
New Member
PSN Razztafarai
Posts: 864
|
Post by razz on Jul 26, 2024 17:49:39 GMT
Lady... Gaga? What? No French singers available?
|
|
|
|
Post by Jambowayoh on Jul 26, 2024 17:52:45 GMT
|
|
|
|
Post by Whizzo on Jul 26, 2024 17:54:17 GMT
I can only assume no French singers wanted to sing that shite so they had to get a Yank.
|
|
Tomo
Junior Member
Posts: 3,492
|
Post by Tomo on Jul 26, 2024 18:02:50 GMT
That Maryam clip  Amazing. |
|
Tomo
Junior Member
Posts: 3,492
|
Post by Tomo on Jul 26, 2024 18:06:34 GMT
Notttttt sureeee about this opening ceremony yet. It feels very disjointed?
Also the dancers in those pink outfits were really quite shit if you paid attention :x
Strange to me they are front loading the countries coming out too. Hopefully they blow up half of the Seine with fireworks and shit once they've got through them all.
|
|
|
|
Post by The12thMonkey on Jul 26, 2024 18:08:12 GMT
It seems more made for TV, in that everyone on the bank will also need a screen to see the whole thing due to how spaced out it is. Good on them for trying something different, though.
|
|
|
|
Post by Whizzo on Jul 26, 2024 18:10:04 GMT
The Assassin's Creed parkour stuff is watchable, the rest? Hmm.
|
|
Tomo
Junior Member
Posts: 3,492
|
Post by Tomo on Jul 26, 2024 18:10:30 GMT
Also really makes me appreciate how impactful lighting effects are in stadiums. All these shots of dancers in flat, diffuse, cloudy light isn't exactly spectacular.
|
|
Zyrr
New Member
Posts: 986
|
Post by Zyrr on Jul 26, 2024 18:10:41 GMT
My question is who is Agent 47's target?
|
|
|
|
Post by Jambowayoh on Jul 26, 2024 18:11:14 GMT
BRING BACK MR.BEAN!
No Russell Brand though please.
|
|
|
|
Post by dfunked on Jul 26, 2024 18:12:02 GMT
The can-can bit looked like they'd never even practised together.
|
|
|
|
Post by Whizzo on Jul 26, 2024 18:12:22 GMT
Taking it out of a stadium environment really does seem to have fucked it up.
|
|
|
|
Post by atomix on Jul 26, 2024 18:13:35 GMT
It’s ok. Only another three and a quarter hours to go
|
|
|
|
Post by Jambowayoh on Jul 26, 2024 18:14:28 GMT
I mean tbf how many actually remember an opening ceremony?
|
|
Tomo
Junior Member
Posts: 3,492
|
Post by Tomo on Jul 26, 2024 18:15:58 GMT
I went to the London 2012 opening ceremony and it was utterly fucking incredible. Unforgettable.
The atmosphere in the stadium was like nothing I've experienced. The dancers, actors and athletes must have absolutely thrived off that. Feels a lot less likely when you're dancing on a plinth next to some filthy water -_-
|
|
cubby
Full Member
doesn't get subtext
Posts: 6,363
|
Post by cubby on Jul 26, 2024 18:16:35 GMT
The London one I'll genuinely always remember.
|
|
|
|
Post by Jambowayoh on Jul 26, 2024 18:17:17 GMT
I should have added not the London 2012 Olympics.
|
|
razz
New Member
PSN Razztafarai
Posts: 864
|
Post by razz on Jul 26, 2024 18:17:23 GMT
I didn't know I think it's getting cooler as the ceremony goes on. My only problem is the shit audio, why no source audio?
|
|
Tomo
Junior Member
Posts: 3,492
|
Post by Tomo on Jul 26, 2024 18:17:24 GMT
I mean tbf how many actually remember an opening ceremony? Also, the Beijing 2008 opening ceremony was insane. I think that was a real turning point for these things being blockbuster events. |
|
|
|
Post by atomix on Jul 26, 2024 18:17:41 GMT
The only ones you remember are LA ‘84 for the jet pack and London, because somehow we managed to not be rubbish.
|
|
gray
New Member
Posts: 438
|
Post by gray on Jul 26, 2024 18:18:21 GMT
This would be alright if the noise of the rain wasn’t 200% louder than the fucking music
Useless French cunts
|
|
Tomo
Junior Member
Posts: 3,492
|
Post by Tomo on Jul 26, 2024 18:18:37 GMT
Do feel sympathetic to the organisers unfortunately coinciding this ceremony with the worst fucking summer weather in forever.
|
|
|
|
Post by The12thMonkey on Jul 26, 2024 18:20:24 GMT
Yeah, London was unforgettable. I'd say Beijing was, as well, but for shere mesmerising spectacle of an authoritarian mindset, than anything else.
I can barely remember a thing about Rio. But Tokyo had a cool videogame medly, including Nier and Kingdom Hearts, when the althetes were arriving.
|
|
razz
New Member
PSN Razztafarai
Posts: 864
|
Post by razz on Jul 26, 2024 18:20:30 GMT
Is this Cirque de Raining?
|
|
cubby
Full Member
doesn't get subtext
Posts: 6,363
|
Post by cubby on Jul 26, 2024 18:20:51 GMT
I can't believe they've fucked the audio this badly.
|
|
|
|
Post by Whizzo on Jul 26, 2024 18:22:00 GMT
Sydney 2000 was pretty good, for a few hours it was like Australia acknowledged its past but I'm not sure that lasted more than the Olympics themselves though.
|
|
cubby
Full Member
doesn't get subtext
Posts: 6,363
|
Post by cubby on Jul 26, 2024 18:22:02 GMT
It's the gays!
|
|
