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OLYMPICKS (C;
Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 4:52 pm
by Xjmt
"What a terrific opening ceremony we have for you and we're going to get to it any day now. Just stay tuned through the next eight or ten thousand commercials for what will probably two minutes of the most exciting opening ceremony you have seen since the last one."
Re: OLYMPICKS (C;
Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 5:37 pm
by lswot
I know.......commercials......ruin everything.......that's why I don't like to watch it anymore.....
Re: OLYMPICKS (C;
Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 9:33 pm
by Xjmt
lswot wrote:I know.......commercials......ruin everything.......that's why I don't like to watch it anymore.....
Re: OLYMPICKS (C;
Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2012 8:39 am
by brian
That's why I DVR'd it and plan to watch it today, fast forwarding through all the retrospectives and commercials.
Re: OLYMPICKS (C;
Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2012 12:41 pm
by Xjmt
Actually many of the commercials, especially made for the Olympics were pretty good. It was the inane pontificating of the "hosts" that bothered me the most.
Re: OLYMPICKS (C;
Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2012 5:36 pm
by lswot
Watched some of it at my Sister's.......didn't bother here at home. She had dvr'd and did the fast forward. I like the swimming.......and a few other things.but, that's about it. Oh, didn't watch the opening ceremonies and from what I hear.......I didn't miss much.
Re: OLYMPICKS (C;
Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2012 5:04 am
by trucker2000
Does anyone have a video of the opening ceremony they can put up? It's the one part of the olympics that I like to watch, but missed.
and a search on youtube yeilded nothing eccept garbage.
Re: OLYMPICKS (C;
Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2012 10:07 am
by lswot
From what I hear it wasn't very good.........but, I didn't watch it......so....don't really know
Here's a recap written by an ex-pat.......sort of tongue in cheek....good read.
http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2 ... ony-recap/
Well....just finished watching the bike racing.....Men, yesterday and the Women, today. I'm so tired!
Pretty exciting.....
Re: OLYMPICKS (C;
Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2012 3:52 pm
by Xjmt
I thought the opening ceremony was good. Very busy but good.
Re: OLYMPICKS (C;
Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2012 5:08 pm
by lswot
Well.....as I said...I wouldn't know since I didn't watch it. ...and the people that talked to me about it....didn't like it.
Re: OLYMPICKS (C;
Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2012 2:35 pm
by Xjmt
lswot wrote:Well.....as I said...I wouldn't know since I didn't watch it. ...and the people that talked to me about it....didn't like it.
Well it was a bit pompous too. Like trying to stage a 3 hour play in a soccer stadium in under an hour . Not a very good medium. But the camera work was good to excellent.