I’m from BC and that was some serious horseshit IMO.
Everyone in this thread nailed it, the ceremony sucked hard. WTF was with the fat neckbeard guy? Why did the giant polar bear not fire laser beams out of its eyes? Why was the shaman dude casting frost nova on the ground? Why did all the music blow?
Oh wait, why did we have these stupid Olympics in the first place?
Man I look at this shit and think of how our province is going to be beggared for the next decade…makes me want to puke.
On top of it all the ceremony sucked. Sure Nelly Furtado was hot as always, but I can look that shit up on Youtube and it doesn’t cost me a dime. Let the Russians have the bloody Olympics!
:arazz:
EDIT: Also, Kiefer Sutherland wasn’t in there, that is a crime against Canada.
I got to see the torch in person on Thursday, that was really cool, took pics too
I thought the opening ceremony was one of the better Winter Olympic opening ceremonies, botches aside I definitely felt proud (when there were no botches)
Props to the police in keeping the retarded protesters at bay
I’d still hit Catriona
All the singers for Canada were fantastic with the exception of that noname girl who sung O Canada and CTV’s very generic Believe theme song
Gretzky, Nash, Greene, LeMay Doan and Hansen were great, regardless of the horrible mechanical botch
Donald Sutherland is top tier
Sutherland, Villenueve, Orr and company were awesome
@ KD Lang has pretty much completed her full transformation as a man
@ WTF at Japan dual flag-bearing, more on this later
If you thought Professional Wrestling was full of botches, this opening ceremony could probably headline its own Botchamania
The heads of state/vip people looked confused because the chiefs of the four First Nations who were given heads of state status for the Olympics were apparently late, though this isn’t so much of a botch really
Obviously the Georgian Luger’s accident is terrible, but what’s more terrible is the fact TV networks are showing him going to his death over and over, ugh
The indoor BC Flame Cauldron botch, that is just really bad with how the fourth mechanical arm didn’t come up, but on the plus side it was the mechanical arm for Catriona LeMay Doan, since she looks good and that happening to Nash or the others would be even more awkward imo
CTV’s camera crew kept showing Team Japan when trying to show Team Canada, looks like the dual flag bearing of the Japanese helped to sneak in some more airtime, that or the camera guy was just an idiot
Not just with the ceremony itself, but there were botches by the world media, from leaving out Rick Hansen who was a part of the final five to botching Catriona’s name in Katrina
All in all, botches aside, I enjoyed it, and here’s to a great games, although the Whistler Luge track is pretty much danger on ice, well they better ramp up the safety on that.
And yes, we have bizarro mild weather here, get used to our snowless Winter Games. =P
I’m just wondering if they ever had a contingency plan. Because seriously so much could go wrong and it makes me wonder if they ever brought up the idea that these hydrolics will not fucking work, what to do in the meanwhile? I mean it sucked for Catoriana, but I half imagined her saying through a clenched smile, “Oi…Rick…scooch over so I can…you know share the lighting for me. What the fuck Rick? Come on, don’t make me ask Steve over there!”
It’s too bad I didn’t stay downtown though, I could have caught a glimpse of the Great One.
One of the better Winter Games opening ceremonies. About the whole Beijing thing, part of it is dollar and cents and well…number of performers too I suppose. I think they had more people in their first half than we did for the whole thing.
edit - was waiting for a Watchmen moment during the whole KD Lang-Hallelujah thing.
Scoresberg looks skinny. Pedobear mascot cracks me up. The snowboarder jumping through the Olympic rings just seemed lame, like watching Randy jump things in Trailer Park Boys. Why the fuck did they play the sad song from Platoon??? That fat neckbeard freak scared me…it’s like harry knowles, bigfoot, and that yeti mother fucker from Hollywood Squares got together and had a lovechild.
Broken mechanical part didnt really affect me much. Still dunno why they went sooooo hardcore with natives and inuit though, considering Vancouver is like 80% asian. The light shows and everything was badass though. Best winter opening IMHO though.
Never cared much for the Olympics, even if they’re in my home country. Opening ceremony yesterday was simply garbage, give a dumbass portrayal of Canadians. Yeah, our whole country is made up of fat, drunken fiddlers, dancing natives, and endless fields with Peter Pan-esque people running around.
whoah whoah…did Wyclef lose his damn mind? Did anyone else see the new “We Are the World”? NBC just showed it a little while ago. Each time they went to Wyclef’s part in the song, it sounded completely ridiculous…like one of those bad American Idol auditions where you KNOW the person was just trying to be a silly “character” so he could get 15 minutes of fame.