This was by far the best OC of any sporting event ever known.
>that countdown
>that underworld soundtrack
>that forging of the rings
>that choreography
>that queen entrance
>that torch lighting
Only flaw was the shitty Beckham faggotry.
I honestly don't think I'll enjoy an Olympiad as much as I did London. Might watch the bluray box set again tonight.
lol are you like 60 years old or something?
>>69505620
Beijing was better
>>69505673
59, Aquafresh.
Beijing shits all over any other opening ceremony tbf
>>69505620
You're exactly right.
Russia tried to out-do us and this happened.
Fucking KEK
>>69505695
>American flag
Can't say I'm surprised, you guys can't seem to get that chink dick out your arses.
>>69505695
>>69505695
>CGI fireworks
>slave labour
>no charisma
>no humour
>no narrative
Nah, lad. It was glorified Beyonce concert. No surprise that Yanks lap this shit up when your sports are nothing but sideshow for film trailers, fizzy pop adverts and Coldplay songs
>>69505759
ahahah. best description about american sports i've ever read.
>>69505733
I thought the Sochi OC and CC were preddy gud desu. Not as good as London, but worth watching nonetheless.
>>69505620
agreed
had artistic stuff
had funny as hell stuff when Rowan Atkinson did his thing
can't think of a better one
>>69505758
>>69505759
hey don't lump us all in with that gook immigrant shilling for his homeland
london was good but if someone nuked that stadium mid-ceremony the overall quality of music in the UK would improve tenfold
London had faggy Harry Potter shit
Beijing had dem drums
I liked it apart from all the multi-cultist shit
>no mention of Abide With Me
https://youtu.be/jj2LqGvKsLw
>>69505898
That girl was a qt though.
>>69505898
Fuck off already
>that NHS bit
Beijing was based as fuck, and also the best event to watch on /sp/ since the board came back
>you will never see the galactic chimpout of Phelps winning by .01 seconds again
SOME
>>69505921
>america literally put ads on instead
It was pure cringe, fuck off
Only Britfaggots liked it to be completely honest.
Disgusting piece of self adulation MUH EMPIRE
MUH BOND MUH WE STILL RELEVANT
D I S G U S T I N G
>>69505620
The industrial revolution bit at the start made me tear up a bit, really beautifully done.
let's remember the reality
>>69506001
>German """history""" literally consists of various moustached men declaring themselves Emperors (of fuck all territory) and then a bit of genocide
>>69506022
>Britain
>White
Pick one my friends
Who /kenneth/ here?
>>69506037
so tolerant
Bejing > your bullshit nigger ceremony
>he enjoys watching Opening and Closing ceremonies
how does it feel to have a vagina between your legs you cucks?
>>69506065
>this parisian arsehurt
>>69506084
How does it feel to have a head that's flat at the back?
Funny how only Brits and CommonwealthWORMS say they liked it, rest of the world was just embarrassed kek
>>69506084
>Latvian opening ceremony
>just some old bloke plucking strings on a board for two hours
>>69506113
>the british empire isn't the world
Meanwhile the German Empire consists of a small sausage factory in Tanganiki
>>69506143
>being this butthurt
It was a shit ceremony, get over it Nigel.
>>69506113
>now you remember why germany doesn't get the olympics anymore
>>69506113
>>69506163
saltier than an anchovy's cunt
>>69506163
>being that mad it wasn't in Paris
>>69506163
>applauded and praised the world over
>shit-breath cowardly frog upset cos paris lost says otherwise
>>69505733
That's only because 3/4 of the money spent went to bribes.
>>69506179
The details of this shit was crazy, especially that airport stuff
>>69506190
>>69506196
>Britfuck will literally defends this
well if you liked your multicultral propaganda ceremony, it's ok for you :^)
I've said it before and I'll say it again, London has forever ruined the Olympics. It was too good and nothing will ever live up to it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoJKHmkb0g4
Do you not remember all the literal cuckoldry OP? The white woman gets impregnated by the black man, they have a daughter, then her boyfriend is an even BLACKER man.
Then the fact in the industrial revolution segment the factory owners were black and the workers were white which I thought was a bit historically inaccurate. Basically everyone was white back then. Owners and workers.
>>69505921
Maybe I'm uncultured or something but that just seemed like some really boring dancing with some really shitty singing of a song with practically no melody.
>2012 was 4 years ago
>literally cannot remember a damn thing
>>69506233
Don't worry, the rest of the world thinks otherwise, Flan.
>>69506206
Really interesting stuff though, prior with Germany apparently knowing about the plans weeks beforehand and doing nothing about it; and afterwards with Mossad going ape shit.
>>69506237
Kek, watch this shit now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60nEMZeHim8
>Brits will literallt defends this
>>69506228
>frogs
>moaning about multiculturalism
Kek
>>69505620
It was amazing, best opening ceremony ever and I can't see it ever being topped in the future.
>>69505955
But that's your country's greatest achievement m8
>>69506179
>>69506206
>incompetent german snipers
Guderian would be so disappointed
>>69506228
>multicultral propaganda
Isnt' that what you try and call your national team?
>>69505758
>>American flag
America's coverage was so butchered their views can't be trusted. Loads of them were literally begging for BBC streams. pls see this picture that was made at the time.
>>69506277
I ain't a fan of Dizzee, but he helped bring a more mainstream version of grime to the general public, and now Stormzy, Skepta and Co. are huge.
Hell, Drake is signed to Boy Better Know.
All France could provide out of their huge catalogue (no sarcasm) was David button pushing Guetta, for both events, top lel.
>>69506228
>>69506277
We all know Paris/France would get similar treatment if they were to host it.
>>69506365
>>69506363
>letting a rapper performing for a fucking ceremony
Very embarassing
>>69506365
Exactly and I wouldn't say "WAS FUCKING GREAT" like you delusional Brits say.
Bejing were much better.
>>69506403
So you're saying it was bad because of black people.
FFS. neck yerself
>>69506403
>>letting a rapper performing for a fucking ceremony
He's a well known resident and musical artist of London. It was the London Olympics.
>>69505620
This. I'm dead inside but I watched it a few weeks ago and was crying my eyes out.
>dat Kenneth Branagh
>dat soundtrack
>>69506403
What would you prefer, some boring pop slag from a reality TV show miming to a backing track?
Or this far superior button pushing madness:
https://vimeo.com/116652544
It was honestly one of the absolute worst opening ceremonies that I have ever seen.
>le mixracing :-)
>le multiculturalism :PP
>le NHS :))
JUST: The Ceremony.
>>69506277
Don't bother. Deluded Britcucks will never fess up.
Can't we all just after that the Industrial revolution , NHS ,James Bond and Mr.bean bit were goat and the rest was shit
If think we can all agree the race mixing shit ruined the laster sections
I want /pol/ to leave
>>69505620
>celebration of tolerancy
>best olympics
Nah, eurocuck tier desu.
>>69505620
It had its moments but overall was average (there have been far, far worse and cringy opening ceremonies over the years). The Games themselves were very good though. Many happy memories.
This is full on delusion
Only good bit was the EastEnders intro and they cut it to barely a second
Beijing and Barcelona in recent memory
>>69506503
Let us not forget Ed Sheeran's wank cover of Wish You Were Here
Spice Girls were mint tho
>>69506539
>spice girls
Was that not the closing ceremony?
>>69505620
>>69505733
Difference between Russian and British engineering.
>>69506001
Says the only country ever to lose two world wars. Speak when spoken to.
Atlanta was great
>>69505620
>that underworld soundtrack
shit did they play born slippy?
What about fuckin Nikki Webster
>>69506565
Nah but it is really great. Another collaboration with Danny Boyle as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM0fiegRbTg
>>69506262
I've watched every Olympics since 96. None of them came close to London. It was near perfection.
>spectacular opening ceremony
>host city fully embraced the games with 10s of thousands of volunteers
>stadiums packed with passionate fans
>BY FAR the best tv coverage of any games
>many dramatic moments
>some of the best athletes of all time competing
>great succecss for the athletes of the home nation
>the host city not financially ruined
>legacy cemented
We will never see anything like it again.
Rio is a guaranteed clusterfuck
Japan is too unrelatable to the rest of the world
That's the next two failing to match London already
Even the shitposters agree
>"It is one thing for the British to thrash Australia in the medals table of the London Olympics. But now the Games are over, it is just as clear they have knocked Sydney off its pedestal as the best host of a modern Olympic Games. As awful as it is to admit, London 2012 was bigger, slicker, almost as friendly and more thoughtfully planned than Sydney in terms of the legacy it will leave the host city... It is, I'm afraid to say, bronze for Barcelona, silver for Sydney, and gold for London."
Does anyone have the scene shot of all the posters saying how GOAT is was at the time
Those Olympics were so GOAT as well for a britfag. All those gold medals. Should really get the DVD or something. Anyone recommend anything?
>>69506608
>Spectacular opening ceremony
>social media blur of fuckery
Yeah no, that shit was retarded
>>69506622
All I remember is thread after thread laughing at how shit the opening ceremony was, genuinely deluded if you think it was good
The Olympics themselves were great but not the opening ceremony
>>69506648
No I don't
>>69506660
Fuck off trip fag everyone loved it and was saying how GOAT it was and how much better it was then bej
Your deluded
>>69506660
>an american trip fag
dropped.
>>69506648
Get this:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/London-2012-Olympic-Games-Blu-ray/dp/B008VSHXEE
Any compliment paid to a country that isn't the US is taken as a direct attack on their country by almost all Americans.
>>69506054
That speech from The Tempest gave me chills, desu
>>69506691
>>69506691
You fags are new if you think that's what happened, even most Brits thought the opening ceremony was shit
>>69506782
Everything on /sp/ is shit, every big and fast moving thread is full of shitposting women moaning.
>>69506782
It was cringeworthy as fuck and was clearly pushing some weird leftist agenda
The games themselves were GOAT though
>>69506839
Yes they were, wouldn't disagree with that
>>69506650
not their fault you were to ignorant to understand it
It was a critically acclaimed work of art .
>>69505620
Nah, it was boring, kitsch and terrible. 100% pure cuck cringe.
Not that we would have done better.
>>69506730
cheap as fuck desu
Bookmarked
>>69505620
>being so autistic to the point of unironically watching the opening ceremony
>fucking garbage olympics of all things
>>69506896
>meaningless words
We get it, Kolo. You're angry that London best Paris. Get over it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4As0e4de-rI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Summer_Olympics_opening_ceremony#Music
Honestly the best part of the entire ceremony.
I just remember it had recognizable songs instead of all sweeping orchestral stuff which was fun but at the same time ruined the majesty. And Mr. Bean was there.
>>69505620
Forging of the rings at the beginning of the ceremony is one of the all time GOAT opening ceremony moments
Shame everything else in it sucks
Interesting how all these fags keep saying it was shit and that Beijing was better, yet make no effort to explain what was so GOAT about Beijing
>>69507033
The fucking drums shits on every single other opening ceremony moment in history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUy9OgRRXnw
>>69507062
Best Korean military displays are better than that.
>>69507062
>CGI fireworks
>>69507033
It was just better, the presentation was great while all the shit in London was cringey as fuck. Unless you're a teenage girl and think Beckhamin a yacht was great
I'm not even a /pol/ tard but it was just shit and I genuinely thought it would be better
>>69505620
Why are all the British so full of themselves? Literally bragging about an opening ceremony like they finally did something in soccer, the sport they claim as their own every single day
>A
>FUCKING
>DENTIST
>>69507166
>entire london 2012 opening ceremony was just beckham on a boat
Yeah, I can see why people filter you .
>>69507166
Especially after the opening segment of London. Industrial era segment was fucking great and we end up with kids in beds fighting giant Voldemort and twitter romance.
>>69507175
>>69507175
>Literally bragging about an opening ceremony like they finally did something in soccer
No one mentioned football though.
/sp/ isn't just about football, fat lad.
>>69507186
This, it started off so well then devolved into shit about 40 minutes in or so. I lost interested after a while and stopped watching, but I always come back to that Industrial revolution segment.
Only middle aged women give a shit about the Olympic opening ceremony and only faggots care about the Olympics in general.
>>69507186
The giant beds, the internet grease dancing bullshit, dizee rascal. It was really shit
>>69507183
Why are you so touchy? Unless you're the fag who orchestrated that shit show you shouldn't care. It was shit
So where will Rio rank?
>The creative directors for the ceremony will be the Brazilian film directors Fernando Meirelles (City of God, The Constant Gardener), and the producer Daniela Thomas (who co-directed the handover from London 2012) and Andrucha Waddington.[2] Deborah Colker, Brazil's most celebrated choreographer, will prepare a cast of over 6000 volunteers who will dance in the opening ceremony, of which the rehearsals started at the end of May 2016.[3]
Meirelles stated that the ceremonies for the 2016 Summer Olympics would have a significantly lower budget than those of other recent Olympics, totalling only 10% of the total budget for the ceremonies of the 2012 Summer Olympics. Explaining his rationale, he explained that "I guess I'd be ashamed to waste what London spent in a country where we need sanitation; where education needs money. So I'm very glad we're not spending money like crazy. I'm happy to work with this low budget because it makes sense for Brazil." Meirelles outlined that because of the lower budget, the ceremony will eschew "high-tech" ideas such as moving stages and drones; fellow ceremonies director Leonardo Caetano went on to say that the concept of the ceremony would emphasize "originality" over "luxury", and "compensate with creativity, rhythm and emotion"[4][5]
>Fernando Meirelles said in September 2015 that the ceremony will be a vision of the country "and what I hope it will become". Meirelles said he will try to steer away from cliches, but not all of them; for example, the carnival has been confirmed to be a part of the ceremony.[7]
>>69506228
Is it multicultural propaganda if this is what London looks like anyway? It's all people from the local area.
>>69507308
>why do people disagree with a pathetic attention whore?
>>69507349
3 hours of tedious steel drum and samba arsewash.
Then a Rio cop blows a child's brains out for shits and giggles.
>>69506926
I don't give a fuck m8.
>>69507421
Of course you don't.
>>69507349
Oh, it's going to be rough. London's ceremony already had a drastically smaller budget than Beijing's and now there's yet another massive cut. You could see the guy making excuses already saying Brazil needs water instead of a good ceremony just cementing the fact that the olympics should never have been held there.
>>69507427
No.
Also the British cameo at the end of 2008's closing ceremony was pure cringe too, it looked like a mentally deranged person was in charge after that powerful Chinese show.
Once again I don't think we would have done better, and the closing ceremony of the Euro 2016 was a shame.
>>69507615
#pray4gayparis
>nothing will ever be as bad as the vancouver opening ceremony
A fucking neckbeard slam poem
>>69507692
Piss ant.
>>69505620
Beijing was better
>>69508591
Norway is better.
Is the transgender policy already active for 2016?
Do we have open trannies in the women sections?
2008 was the best of all time.
>>69508838
t. Ty'Rone Ping Xing Ting
>>69505620
LE PUNKS ON POGOS!!!
How can anyone forget this meme moment?
>>69505620
Tokyo will be pretty based. The Japs take this kind of thing very seriously
