I only saw parts of it and what I saw was horrible, especially when it’s compared to China’s opening four years ago.
Danny Boyle was a wrong choice to direct for obvious reasons—he treated it like a movie, so everything looked small. Everything should look BIG considering your stage is a football field.
And another annoying thing: TOO MANY KIDS! The kids in the hospital beds was weird and baffling. And their national anthem sounded horrible with kids singing it—it should have been grand with a choir and symphony.
Paul McCartney: He’s overexposed, appearing everywhere, it seems. His performance wasn’t special—wasn’t he just at the Queeen’s jubilee last month?
I only saw the part when they lit the cauldron. I thought it was nice how the group of young, upcoming athletes did the final lighting (the passing of the torch....). The cauldron itself was REALLY cool with all of the leaves igniting individually, but then rising up and coming together to form the large flame (more great imagery - and GREAT engineering).
The fireworks was also cool - coming in along the roads(?) to the stadium, and all of the stuff on the stadium. I liked the graphic of the runner going across the stands of the stadium. The Pink Floyd song was a bit odd - the music fit, but not so sure about the lyrics.
At about this time I was hoping to see the cauldron rise up out of the stadium floor and adorn a huge tall pillar rising up over the stadium. One - it would be really cool. Two - shut the annoying commentators up.
McCartney’s little bit of music right after the Pink Floyd song was nice. They should have left it at that - “Hey Jude” sounded stupid - I quit watching during that song.