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[bryanee]

They ballsed that up lol.

 

[NYR]

WTF, hahahahahha!

Nice lip sync fail

 

[NihonTiger90]

Sync fail.

 

[Brazil]

What the fuck was that?

lmao

 

[Magnus]

Wow, sound out of sync? lol

 

[Plasmid]

So NBC isn't showing the opening ceremony?? Im so confused :lol

 

[Tamanon]

NBC being all cockblocky on their presentation. Less talk, more pomp, more circumstance.

 

[Meadows]

mic delay

if it's lip sync they shouldn't have bothered, he isn't exactly nailing it

 

[SunhiLegend]

 

[Wax Free Vanilla]

LOL, what was going on there?


Sounds terrible.

 

[Wes]

Oh they messed it up.

 

[Perro]

BOTCH!

 

[rezuth]

Did they find out who did the sieg heil?

 

[bitoriginal]

Was there a gaf then? This is out of time?

 

[owlbeak]

Shit, what just happened? Lip synch goof? Haha

 

[Dark Schala]

Welp, that was futzed up a little.

 

[Jezbollah]

Muse after this I think.

 

[kharma45]

Give me my Brian May dammit!

 

[Mac_Lane]

I'm French and I think I'm witnessing the greatest opening ceremony ever.

Danny Boyle you're the fuckin' man

 

[ConfusingJazz]

whoops, fucked up the backing track.

 

[ViewtifulJC]

I was thinking, "I bet they're gonna end this with a big hand-holding 'Hey Jude", that's so British"

and here we are

Thank you, Danny Boyle

 

[Fari]

Bit of a cock-up there.

 

[Nilaul]

Wont the fire be raised?

 

[Delio]

nbc isn't showing anything?

They are starting now.

 

[MRORANGE]

Paul McCartney clone

 

[fuenf]

Amazing opening ceremony. Well done Great Britain! and nice troll with lightning of the flame!

That's the olympic spirit!

 

[twobear]

Olympic Cauldron is/was AMAZING

 

[Gentleman Jack]

sound not in sync, what the hell is happening.

 

[TylerD]

nbc isn't showing anything?

They are showing Tom Brokaw and Bob Costas talking right now. I may skip it and wait to watch the BBC coverage.

The opening video was pretty solid.

 

[Napoleonthechimp]

Maybe he was supposed to lip sync and just started singing it anyway.

 

[snoopen]

How many of you gushing over this opening ceremony have actually seen one live before? Sydney and Beijing were amazing too, I wasn't a fan of Greece.

 

[Little Old Man]

And this is why Britain seems to moan and be have low expectations of events like this- because then we are always pleasantly surprised!

 

[KillGore]

I will stick to my earlier reply, theirs was more technical and bigger but ours had more heart, better music and more charm. Just my opinion, considering the low expectations it owned frankly.

That's your opinion I respect that. Personally I'm choosing between them as a third party while you may be a bit biased, since you're British. Again, this is my opinion though, I'm apologize if I come off like an ass. Not saying everyone will agree with me and probably most will not, but that's okay, different tastes I guess (I am fascinated by Asian culture so maybe that's why)

 

[ColtraineGF]

Gonna be pretty hard to post here based on NBC broadcast impressions, when everyone is talking about the end parts lol

 

[bitoriginal]

Well, that's annoying. It was all going so well.

 

[VelvetMouth]

How embarrassing Paul McCartney. Every good thing ruined. So fucking bad.

 

[Nevasleep]

I'd rather listen to white noise.

 

[Xun]

Brilliant ceremony.

Shame about the mixup on Hey Jude though.

 

[shaneskim]

After that ceremony, I have an overwhelming urge to watch Sunshine again. Danny smashed it.

 

[zomgbbqftw]

I will stick to my earlier reply, theirs was more technical and bigger but ours had more heart, better music and more charm. Just my opinion, considering the low expectations it owned frankly.

Yup, this morning I expected Britain to burst into flame overnight, but this was fucking boss. So fucking great to be British, what an awesome country!

 

[Dr.Acula]

Cauldron was nice, cool concept, having each country bring in part of it.

So I kinda fucked off and did other stuff after Canada marched in, but holy shit this is STILL going? Been like 4 hrs now.

Nothing's gonna top Mohammed Ali lighting the flame though.

 

[SJRB]

Wow what a dreadfully boring song to follow up such a mindblowing event.

Jesus Christ this is terrible.

 

[Quick]

I will stick to my earlier reply, theirs was more technical and bigger but ours had more heart, better music and more charm. Just my opinion, considering the low expectations it owned frankly.

Agreed. Beijing was a technical marvel, but this one is more charming and looks like a lot of love was put into it.

Hey Jude seems like an odd choice to close it out, but I like the song in any case.

 

[Meadows]

in a 4 hour performance something is always going to go wrong

at least the calderon lit

 

[Jackben]

Maybe he was supposed to lip sync and just started singing it anyway.

This is what I will imagine

 

[Fritz]

And it all started with some peasants and some cattle. Thanks GAF, pleasure as always.

 

[Jezbollah]

How embarrassing Paul McCartney. Every good thing ruined. So fucking bad.

I think it was a TV issue - the sound seemed ok in the stadium

 

[Rich!]

So, new years honour for Boyle? Likely?

 

[Igo]

It wasn't out of Sync. They were broadcasting the stadiums speakers instead of the direct feed for a moment.

 

[Barbacoatl]

Hey Jude
Hey Jude