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Alert: what follows is a personal view.
I just wanted to cast a little light on things for our friends outside the UK lest they think the Ceremony represented what Britain is all about.
Personally, I found it a pity that the producer Danny Boyle let his left-leaning politics show through. I was angry at his preaching to people at a point where their defences were down.
Boyle's twisted version of our history seems to be:
England's green and pleasant land was once occupied by free and happy peasants frollicking in a William Blake idyll ('Jerusalem builded here...' etc.), then their serenity was destroyed by evil capitalists, led by a greedy-looking Isambard Kingdom Brunel (one of our greatest engineers actually - what a bloody insult to his memory) and his tribe of top-hated fat cats. The wonderful, innocent peasants were then used as slaves in the steel mills. Cut to the National Health Service (wha???????) and all the lovely little children (cheap 'puppy-dog' appeal). The 'storybook' monsters chased away by Mary Poppins was a barely-concealed metaphor for the present Government's reformers who are trying to turn the NHS money-gulping, inefficient leviathan into something we can actually afford, before it finally consumes every tax pound we can pay.
Boyle was crafty; sugaring the communist message pill with the Mr Bean nonsense (what WAS that all about? He was a TV star twenty years ago and never funny), and the Bond/Queen sketch. NB: It looked to me that at no time were Daniel Craig and the Queen really in the same shot - it looked matted in to me. Not to worry, that's the magic of film making.
Boyle completely left out our military personnel (apart from some red-coated Chelsea Pensioners who just walked along a bit), and his disgracefully short acknowledgement of the fallen in two World Wars was only included because no doubt he empathises with what he would call the 'cannon fodder' and so wouldn't countenance praising the actual present armed forces as they are part of an unnecessary invasive war in Afghanistan.
Ah well. Sorry about the rant, but Boyle just couldn't resist trying to re-write history when he knew he had such a one-time opportunity in front of a record audience.
The special FX were excellent though!
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Politics aside (as should be the case)' it was a show. I enjoyed almost all of it. I did want the last night at the proms and not an aging rocker who's quit most of his craft to spend money.
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One more member on my ever growing ignore list.
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Me again? Our Queen was great. We have the UEL family in part. Lost our property and dignity in Scotland and the USA and got our freedom in Canada. Makin music ever since.
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Political message or not all I could get through was about 10 minutes. To me anyway it seemed like a production of this magnitude with apparently an unlimited budget could have been a bit more entertaining.
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Be careful Keith. Pretty soon you'll have no one to talk to! 
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I'm left with the feeling that we could have put a team together from the forum to do it better and cheaper.
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Okay, so the need to post this on a music forum was what, exactly?
Also note that this is almost a direct cut and paste from CNN.
And I will now block this user. I don't even care about politics in America, much less England...
Almost time to leave this forum. My block list is at 11 now. 1 for his incessant advertising of his personal business, 3 for politics, 2 for general a-hole reasons....
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I didn't watch the opening ceremonies, but this is the first time I've ever read or heard about them being slanted politically one way or the other.
Everything I've encountered labeled them as left wing.
Why throw politics into the greatest sporting event in the world?
I'm not a sports fan, but I LOVE the Olympics, ... especially the summer Olympics. There's something about watching the best in the world from virtually every country compete. I'm watching a LOT of them.
Leave politics out and let the athletes have the stage!
Go team USA! (Everyone else should root for their country!)
These guys are the master "musicians" of sports. Dedication, desire, ... and practice, practice, practice.
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Well in the famous now derelict egg nest stadium in China I guess it was neutral. .?...?
I did not like the arctic monkeys, nor did I enjoy much of Sir Paul.
I was interested in the synchronization of sound, light, and pyrotechniques. How? Cabled, wireless, software?
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Why have such lavish opening ceremonies anyway? I thought the idea of the Olympics was to promote sport and for us to see top athletes in action. To me this is like The Oscars having a 3 set mixed-doubles tennis match before the 1st award. 
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I'm still trying to get my head around how bad Madonna's act would have to be in order to get booed off the stage by the French.
Just sayin'...
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I'm still trying to get my head around how bad Madonna's act would have to be in order to get booed off the stage by the French.
Probably just her normal act would do it.
When you consider that Zee Fronch think Jerry Lewis is funny.... Hey LAYdeeee......
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