Olympics Opening Ceremony..

Mole_J · Postby **Mole_J** » August 8th, 2008, 6:00 pm

Lighting the torch was very cool.

EagerBeaver · Postby **EagerBeaver** » August 8th, 2008, 6:01 pm

It is not defeatist, it's just me saying that China is really innovative, that's it.

Paully_44 · Postby **Paully_44** » August 8th, 2008, 6:01 pm

So I am behind here on the West Coast, but I loved the 2000 drummers. That was incredible.

EagerBeaver · Postby **EagerBeaver** » August 8th, 2008, 6:03 pm

TIME OF MY LIFE
TIME OF MY LIFE

AWESOME! NBC is using it for the ending of the broadcast for the night. Awesome.

Also love the Jim McKay tribute. RIP Jim.

DaJudge · Postby **DaJudge** » August 8th, 2008, 6:03 pm

They are playing Reggie Hamm's song right now.

Dr. Ron · Postby **Dr. Ron** » August 8th, 2008, 6:19 pm

I do not watch the olympic games for the same reasons some of you do not watch other things.

Many of you may not know that before these begin they call up the spirits of the olympiad. Gail Stathos and Brian Van Deventer told us about the games in Athens.....they said that they had to fight the spirits the entire time.

I will not be watching them.

dolfan · Postby **dolfan** » August 8th, 2008, 6:31 pm

All I know is that the parts I saw (first 80 minutes and last 30) were spectacular. You gotta hand it to the Chinese people -- they know how to put on a show. They can't admit they've got an ongoing air pollution problem, but they can put on a show.

DaJudge · Postby **DaJudge** » August 8th, 2008, 7:00 pm

Dr. Ron wrote:I do not watch the olympic games for the same reasons some of you do not watch other things.

Many of you may not know that before these begin they call up the spirits of the olympiad. Gail Stathos and Brian Van Deventer told us about the games in Athens.....they said that they had to fight the spirits the entire time.

I will not be watching them.

I don't know about that, but the whole thing did seem very New Agey and mystical. It just gives me a sick feeling to watch it.

Dr. Ron · Postby **Dr. Ron** » August 8th, 2008, 7:11 pm

We were told they might use it......that should take it to #1 if anything will.

Thank you lord that something good is coming out of all this!

Keep those cards and letters coming in!!!!!

Thanks guys for informing me.....I might just have to look at a few events myself.

Billy n NC · Postby **Billy n NC** » August 8th, 2008, 7:22 pm

The dude flying around the arena with the Video Wall backdrop.

I want one of those in our new church.. Where do I get it.. LOL

ps.

Will the opening ceremony be rebroadcast on another day??

gotta record it..

LisaMarie · Postby **LisaMarie** » August 9th, 2008, 8:34 pm

If you get one of em i wanna come over cuz I want one of them too. I thought the lighting of the torch was one of the most awesome things I've ever seen.

Dr. Ron · Postby **Dr. Ron** » August 10th, 2008, 6:22 pm

Well , the olympics are still using Time of my Life for their closing at night.
NBC obviously has chosen the song for the finale each evening./

Tonight was especially cool right after the men's relay swim team won the gold.....and they played the replay of the last lap as soon as it came on.

We are thankful.....

Jamais Vu · Postby **Jamais Vu** » August 11th, 2008, 3:02 am

DANG that is alot of money.....and for what? To awe the world??

HONESTLY, who cares about the poor and starving of the world!? We need to be tickled in our living rooms while the whole world dies around us!

-hey im just as guilty too.

DaJudge · Postby **DaJudge** » August 11th, 2008, 7:29 am

Jamais Vu wrote:DANG that is alot of money.....and for what? To awe the world??

HONESTLY, who cares about the poor and starving of the world!? We need to be tickled in our living rooms while the whole world dies around us!

-hey im just as guilty too.

That is why totalitarian states like China put on the "best" openings and closings. They use state funds to put on the show. When the Olympics were in the US in Salt Lake City and Atlanta, only privately donated funds were used. Who knows how many Chinese kids went without rice to fund that mess.

Mole_J · Postby **Mole_J** » August 11th, 2008, 1:40 pm

While the lighting of the torch was cool. All the firework display was fake.

While the dramatic fireworks display actually happened as portrayed on television, members of the Beijing Olympic Committee said it was necessary to replace live video with computer-generated imagery because the city’s hazy, smoggy skies made it too difficult to see, according to The Beijing Times, which first reported the story...

It took planners almost a year to create the 55-second sequence which appeared to be more than two dozen footprints amidst fireworks in the sky, said Gao Xiaolong, head of the visual effects team for the ceremony...

Even those at the city’s new Bird’s Nest National Stadium, where the Olympics are being held, viewed the computer-generated footage from their seats as they watched on the stadium’s giant television screens...

“Seeing how it worked out, it was still a bit too bright compared to the actual fireworks,” Xiaolong said in comments that appeared in the Daily Telegraph. “But most of the audience thought it was filmed live — so that was mission accomplished.”

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