D'Olympic Opnin. RTE TWO 9:00pm

JonathanAnon

Here we go... who has the money on Beckham for Beckham to hit a freekick off a button that ignites the flame.

looksee

Looking more like eurovision at the moment

Basq

Reeks of a tacky Eurovision opening.

Also, for a Danny Boyle production, there's a severe lack of Scottish drug addicts and zombies.

JonathanAnon

oh ffs.. it's on two minutes and they're already clapping them selves on the back.. Who's out next, the 1966 football team?

JonathanAnon

Young cute kid singing?... I've been caught out with this one before... Cmon, show us the ugly kid who's really singing.

I8A4RE

Bejings was better

why wont this stream on rte

Basq

I'm jabbed a fork into my hand just to make sure this isn't a ludicrous bore of a dream...





.. it's not!

desaparecidos

Jasus this is ****e!

looksee

Ah now, that was weepily sentimental, I loved it.

Rael

bluewolf wrote: »

why wont this stream on rte

Because they're crap, they've been crap all week and couldn't get the simplest thing to work!

JonathanAnon

Did somebody tell Danny Boyle that it was the opening of the Commonwealth Games?

ok it's streaming now and there is some dude in a top hat waffling on

what is this

ankles

Ah the cynicism. Give it a chance. What do you expect from an Olympic opening, if you virulently hate the UK, switch off now

cristoir

I'll be honest I wasn't expecting Tempest quotes tonight :P

Oh here comes the drums.

Basq

We looking at Hobbiton or wha?

Tabnabs

What's next, hobbits?!

desaparecidos

Zombies coming out of a tree!!!

ankles

Miners I think

Sunnyisland

Love the drums :-)

valerie

Why all the rugby clips? It's not an Olympic sport.
Seriously, this cost £27m to produce.

Red21

I'd love to be stoned wandering around those green hills and fields

cristoir

valerie wrote: »

Why all the rugby clips? It's not an Olympic sport.
Seriously, this cost £27m to produce.

Give it a chance it's barely started.

ankles

Its mumford and sons video

dfbemt

Really, really poor but I expect it will get better.

It has to........

hobbiton was my exact thought on seeing this all right

Sunnyisland

ankles wrote: »

Miners I think

Wonder if arthur will make an appearance

CH3OH

PLAN A

Crap start -- can only get better

desaparecidos

I don't think story telling works for these types of events. Just have spectacular stuff happen.

Tabnabs

Soundtrack by Underworld, the best bit so far...

ankles

Hours to fill, unless they got Bruce fresh from the RDS they need to fill the time with a story

dfbemt

Expect this to just take off at some stage.

the people interviewed during the week after rehearsals couldn't have being raving about this bit.

It's just a bit...... abstract !!!!!

Think I'll go make a cuppa and come back after the 9 o'clock news

kneemos

Just a lot of people moving about.

JonathanAnon

I'm waiting for the next stage in history where Margaret Thatcher walks out and kicks the sh1t out of the miners...

supernova84

Some building going on there lads.

Rael

What's the bet in the next bit Branagh appears in a giant mechanical spider

ankles

Property developers eh?:rolleyes:

calex71

Some of the effects they had on the crowd earlier were impressive, not sure if they were holding up cards or what but more of that please !!!

I think so far Dan Boyle has done a very good job, it's very ambitious indeed.

CH3OH

People in China are probably saying this looks just like home- polluting chimneys

Tabnabs

Wrong place for this war rememberence.

sticker

It's far too bloody busy - just impress with spectacle as opposed to national storytelling - did they not consider any non uk viewers would consider it totally self indulgent?

Tinie

Those chimneys and smoke look spectacular.

JonathanAnon

Could you imagine if this was on the telly six years ago... Johnny Ronan and all the boys would be queueing up to bid for the site.

ankles

sticker wrote: »

It's far too bloody busy - just impress with spectacle as opposed to national storytelling - did they not consider any non uk viewers would consider it totally self indulgent?

DO you remember Beijing?

FouxDaFaFa

The dancing aristocrats are kind of hilarious, though.

calex71

Basq wrote: »

Reeks of a tacky Eurovision opening.

Also, for a Danny Boyle production, there's a severe lack of Scottish drug addicts and zombies.

Didn't you hear ? the army was called in weeks ago, seems they did a great job against that pesky zombie horde :pac:

bennyineire

Started of **** but its starting to look impressive now

ok the forges thing was cool

ankles

I think it's fairly class tbh

looksee

Amazing industrial scenes

desaparecidos

Transforming of the stage in real time is impressive.