Bond and the Olympics
The opening ceremony was mostly pretty good, with this being the highlight:
The opening film clip was shit (stuttery and sounding like a buzz), most of the first half of the ceremony was great - especially Bond and Bean, and the 40 years of music - but it fell apart when they started on Abide With Me. The parade of athletes was terminally boring as always, and then Macca squished any remaining pleasure by being well past his sell-by date (why couldn't we have had Tom Jones instead, who's kept his voice?) and also overran so that the Dr Who, Corrie and Monty Python themes used in the tech rehearsal didn't get used. The fireworks were great, and some bits (the kids' nightmare, the winged bicycles) appear to have been drug-induced hallucinations.
Overall it was a lot better than I expected, with the Abide With Me and Macca bits being what I'd expected...
Meanwhile US audiences also got this new trailer for Skyfall...
The opening film clip was shit (stuttery and sounding like a buzz), most of the first half of the ceremony was great - especially Bond and Bean, and the 40 years of music - but it fell apart when they started on Abide With Me. The parade of athletes was terminally boring as always, and then Macca squished any remaining pleasure by being well past his sell-by date (why couldn't we have had Tom Jones instead, who's kept his voice?) and also overran so that the Dr Who, Corrie and Monty Python themes used in the tech rehearsal didn't get used. The fireworks were great, and some bits (the kids' nightmare, the winged bicycles) appear to have been drug-induced hallucinations.
Overall it was a lot better than I expected, with the Abide With Me and Macca bits being what I'd expected...
Meanwhile US audiences also got this new trailer for Skyfall...
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