Forum menu
Yeah, love that logo. My wife can't see it!
Neat diptych Flame/girl.
Surely, at some point in the planning, someone asked "Mais et s'il pleut"?
Boring washout ☹ as a spectacle it's not working, I'm of down the pub ?
Where's the guillotine? The person responsible for this fiasco needs to "visit" it.
Logo is excellent.
Sorry, the rest is dull, hoping something might happen after the parade of countries, but for now, I'm out. The weather certainly isn't helping, but it must be difficult to create any real atmosphere when not in a stadium.
Danny Boyle's London ceremony still rules. One of the most unexpectedly brilliant bits of TV watching I've ever seen, I only tuned in with low expectations as it was "on a budget" compared with Beijing, yet I stayed until they rolled out McCartney at the end.
Binners - am I being dense, who is she meant to be?
For design, nothing is going to beat Heatherwick's cauldron of all the nations in 2012.
I assume they are doing the athlete parade first?
And then afterwards it will be fireworks, drones , people swimming in the river ?
Maybe there's a bit of bias when I say this, but it certainly ain't London 2012........
I went from a sceptic to a convert and evangelist within the first 10 minutes of that and sat through the whole thing.
This is fingers down the chalkboard stuff. Very disjointed and awkward. Too many venues, too many single people standing on massive buildings feeling totally lost and small scale things against an enormous backdrop. The rain isn't helping, but that aside it feels very clumsy with long periods of nothing. Where's the spectacle?
And where are all of the athletes? Seems like a very small contingent from most countries. Is it just the spread out boat thing giving a sparse impression or are there less athletes involved than a traditional ceremony?
It's a brave decision to hold it outside the stadium. Well its good enough for me and people seem genuinely happy to be there.
I disagree with those who are unimpressed I think. It's very French, of course it is. Its never going to be like the way 'we' did it and it shouldn't be. I bet there's a heck of a buzz across the city despite the rain.
It's interesting how despite being our closest neighbours, we have a huge difference in our culture, our film, TV, music, arts etc this probably all seems a bit 'french' to us in the same way that our big celebrations must seem a bit foreign and odd to the French.
Amusingly, it's pretty much the only part of France that is getting rained on. God clearly hates the French Olympic Committee.
this probably all seems a bit ‘
frenchdreadful’ to us
The French really know how to put on a show. Just not the French that designed this.
Oh so the parade is it 🙁
Still might come back later for the inevitable drone and firework show at the end
God this is ****
Needs Jean Paul Gautier and a bunch of fishermen in bondage gear. Propa French culture.
It’s almost a bit D-Day ish ie they have scoured the land for as many boats that they can find, and then given the crappiest shitty ones to the poorest nations
Dear me this is dreadful.
Oh now they have c'est vrai, dit fred
It’s almost a bit D-Day ish ie they have scoured the land for as many boats that they can find, and then given the crappiest shitty ones to the poorest nations
Stolen from elsewhere…
Newsflash
Nigel Farage just had a heart attack. He just turned onto BBC 1 and thought these were live scenes from the English Channel.
Nice to hear N1NO get the shout out as the highlight of the Swiss team.
I must admit, looking out of my living room window that’s behind my telly while I’m watching the boat parade on a very wet Paris and Seine, seeing a nice blue evening sky with fluffy clouds, and feeling a certain amount of schadenfreude.
Am I a bad person?
Newsflash
Nigel Farage just had a heart attack. He just turned onto BBC 1 and thought these were live scenes from the English Channel.
[img] 
[/img]
This so needs Graham Norton commentating.
The recent film on Netflix, Under Paris - the one about giant sharks in the Seine.
That's what this needs, more giant sharks, ideally ones able to eat all these rather plain looking barges.
Its a little pompous. The wet pianist said it all.
Wish I lived nearer a pub.
I know I can 'turn the tv off and go out and do something less boring instead'.....but it is strangely compelling viewing precisely because it so awful.
Eurotrash the live boat musical. It's different!
To be honest it's very reminiscent of the sons et illuminaires show I went to in Argentiere many years back.
I'm liking the Europop disco and the LED boat.
It really is rubbish, so shocked expected a lot better.
at least the smurf was kept dry under the klosh
It’s like they’ve said ‘Eurotrash hasn’t been on for a while, let’s revive that’
I’m just waiting for the old bloke dressed as a penguin
They really don’t like pianos, do they?
Another piano!!
I've given up and switched over to something that's less of a disaster.
Chernobyl on Sky Atlantic.
Not much of a goer then?
Started watching the beginning and found out a bit odd that there dashing central focal point....
Then got invited to a party by a load of Italians. By the comments I'm guessing I lucked out.
Bring on The Romeo Cleaners.
The model horse galloping down the Seine is kind of cool.
Still needs more sharks.
I switched to the international feed without commentary. It was much improved by not knowing wtf is going on.
All feels a little disjointed (shrugs)
Who now doesn’t want an aquatic Robocop horse?
There were symbolic winged cyclist doves at London 2012? I wonder what that must have been like!
This is more like what I expected. A piano on fire for no reason during a, to be fair, lovely version of Imagine, followed by a lost member of the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse galloping randomly down the Seine for a bit too long. Much better.
Or maybe its the wine. French, St Emilion, of course.
Been out for early doors and just switched on 20 mins ago.... WTF is this?!
Utter crap.... They should be ashamed!
Please tell me the flame is going to be on top of the Tower. That would be good.
"just switched on 20 mins ago"
You got off lightly.
The disco dancing sections reminded me of David Brent in The Office.
How long is this assasins creed looking bint gonna ride this robo-horse for?
It’s like Adam Curtis is directing one of my cheese dreams
Oh wait she found a real one
disco dancing
Ok grandad, time for bed 😆
It’s like Adam Curtis is directing one of my cheese dreams
Bet those are actually interesting though
So the flag on the horse on the river was not the one in this bit.....
Looks like they've done it in a car park.... Could they not get rid of the road markings FFS.
assasins creed looking bint
Farcical aquatic ceremony
The anthem's almost as long as the ceremony
Good gawd alive this is awful. For all of the rich French history in the arts, music and technology, and we get this bollocks. And every single person that is attending is holding up a phone too 🙁
He’s fighting off a couple of soldiers then jumping off a cathedral into a cart full of hay.
Be awful if he accidentally set fire to the Notre Dame.
How long will her arm last!!
Nice to see Team GB treating this with the respect it deserves 😀
https://Twitter.com/teamgb/status/1816902720529236401?s=46&t=1lK7Dw1b6RqGJyvufO-trQ
That's France's version of Penny 'The Sword' Mordaunt. She'll have a bicep like a teenage boy who's found the password to the router settings.
The Olympic flame has to be on the top of the Eiffel Tower, right?
I do love the logo also.
Any reason why Paris is all capitals apart from the i? PARiS
They could.but the flame on top of Mordor and it still whouldn't save this shower of
I’m not sure about the logo - the idea is there, but the execution feels a bit clip art.
And she doesn’t have a beard.
Did the rain extinguish the flame so they've had to get another one? He's got a lot to say.
Jesus, grandad is droning on a bit
I admire the sentiment but I doubt this is actually going to deliver world peace
Mrs Binners just said
What did you do at the Olympics? Well I was a high jumper but I ended up holding an umbrella up over a bloke making a speech for 20 minutes until I got cramp and then tweaked a muscle so I couldn’t compete in the end
I was just wondering whether being the umbrella bearer or the flag bearer is more prestigious?
It will drown any opposition