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Beijing Olympics Opening - Countdown

For those of you who missed it Friday. From NBC.
2nd Act/3rd Act/4th Act/5th Act/The Scroll/6th Act

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  • Date 8/9/2008 11:36:59 PM
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Flynn_2006 : LVL 43: VP 5: said:

Flynn_2006

25 votes NegativePositive

102 days 10 hours ago...

that last bit was pretty awesome.

gremwood : LVL 41: VP 4.9: said:

gremwood

12 votes NegativePositive

102 days 7 hours ago...

That was amazing, even better than the spectacular show Athens put on four years ago.

Caramelman : LVL 32: VP 4.1: said:

Caramelman

Hidden (Show Comment) -27 votes

102 days 5 hours ago...

OMG what happened in the end a terrorist attack!? Did the North Korean Chinese Terrorist Ninjas unleash their dragons!?!?!? I hope some of the crowd survived.

moaks : LVL 14: VP 2.3: said:

moaks

11 votes NegativePositive

102 days 5 hours ago...

thats alot of fuckin sparklers

Convalescence69 : LVL 30: VP 3.9: said:

Convalescence69

2 votes NegativePositive

102 days 4 hours ago...

China is proving that they are again the center of the world.

saltesc : LVL 33: VP 4.2: said:

saltesc

35 votes NegativePositive

102 days 4 hours ago...

So much better than our coverage in Australia...

We had camera men chatter going over the audio. The worst fucking commentators ever. Cameras being dropped mid-shot. And of course BOOM!! BOOM!! BOOM!! fireworks!!!! Then 120sec commercial break... every 5-10mins.... so we missed the dragons and a lot of other shit.

Australia Channel 7 sucks big time and I think everyone here was really fucking pissed off about it.

Dark_Griffin : LVL 34: VP 4.2: said:

Dark_Griffin

-6 votes NegativePositive

102 days 4 hours ago...

I appreciate the massive amount of effort that must go in to a stadium and performance such as this... but it`s depressing how much money is pissed away on toys like this every 4 years: the Bird`s Nest cost China around 3.5 billion yuan (over $500,000,000/£265,000,000)

Anyone who claims this is a good way to spend money.... doesn`t get this cookie

disco dirk : LVL 8: VP 1.7: said:

disco dirk

7 votes NegativePositive

102 days 4 hours ago...

It`s like fuckin` Gandalf and his fireworks, that was so awesome

(o_O) : LVL 34: VP 4.2: said:

(o_O)

30 votes NegativePositive

102 days 3 hours ago...

^whats with the criticism... this was an EPIC performance

"China is proving that they are again the center of the world." ??? wtf...where the hell did u get that from?

yes china had its ups and downs... but being a Chinese born Canadian myself... i feel proud that china has put this much effort into making a great Olympic game for the entire world to enjoy

thinkbolt : LVL 32: VP 4.1: said:

thinkbolt

Hidden (Show Comment) -35 votes

102 days 3 hours ago...

Anything about the Beijing Olympics gets an automatic ZERO from me.

Bummer : LVL 34: VP 4.2: said:

Bummer

34 votes NegativePositive

102 days 3 hours ago...

China is the no 1 fireworks producer in the world. They can use as much as they want.

scouter_18 : LVL 32: VP 4.1: said:

scouter_18

16 votes NegativePositive

101 days 23 hours ago...

Firework ? it looked like a nuke at first

DoctorRandomercam : LVL 25: VP 3.4: said:

DoctorRandomercam

3 votes NegativePositive

101 days 22 hours ago...

Spot on, Dark_Griffin. 90% of the world`s income is spent on determining who is the best at something. You`re watching humanity choking to death on its own ego.

Moparz : LVL 37: VP 4.5: said:

Moparz

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101 days 22 hours ago...

Anyone else notice during the count down... that none of the drummers actually touched the drums? The lights just came on automatically. Meaning that it was computer controlled because having the people do it left room for mistakes.
Just wondering if I was the only one that noticed.

Tada : LVL 40: VP 4.8: said:

Tada

7 votes NegativePositive

101 days 20 hours ago...

^Who cares it was still insanely nice.

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