It was a 6 IMO. Huge stepback from Beijing and London but not the mess we were expecting.

Following Beijing and London would be tough for any country, but especially so because Rio had 10% of the budget Danny Boyle had to direct the OC.

I liked a lot of the music and dancing, but I wasn't on the edge of my seat. I would give a solid 6 too tbh.

It was Meh.

Athens 2004 still remains the best opening of the millennium.

I thought London was so ordinary and blasé, don't remember anything from it.

Brazil brought a nice show with way less budget.

It was fine, I'll go with 6 as well.

Here's there a link? I haven seen it

I gave it a six. There were some nice moments and I liked some of the messages, but the show itself honestly felt empty and distant. I thought it relied too much on projection which made every section of the show look really similar. The bad sound didn't help here either. I don't remember much of the ceremony compared to, say, London, even though I only saw that once 4 years ago while Rio was last night.

I haven't watched the ceremony yet. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...ening-ceremony

That parkour performance was dope though. I give them that.

Russia coming out without the booing from the crowd helped a bit.

Brazil marching was the messiest yet funnest though. It looked like a fiesta.

I thought it's going to happen in like two weeks Let me watch it first.

Thanks

Just going to watch it now.

Will be tough for it because Beijing was phenomenally executed, and London was so original and meaningful.

The flame was amazing... The colours of everything were too.... Overall, just meh

It is a 2.016 for me....

xD

2. That climate change lecture was the absolute worst, then they made me sit through a 2 hour parade of nations just to see that part 2.

It made London look like an absolute masterpiece. London had some of the biggest music artists, the queen jumping out of a plane (I know it was fake) and James Bond, David Beckham, good atmosphere, nice visuals, Mr Bean scene, and a big ending.

It was actually quite amazing when you look back at it. People do too much on London, when it was just very uniquely British and didn't go out of its way to try and appeal to every nationality. No other country could pull off an opening ceremony like London.

Brazil, in comparison, was a **** show.

A typical Rio Carnival has 10000% more vibrancy, energy and creativity than whatever that was.

And the "environmentally friendly torch" thing was hilarious when it preceded an explosive fireworks display that dissipated an extraordinary amount of toxins into the air.

It was cute but it could have been more. I get they didn't have as big as a budget as usual but they could have executed the budget they had better. Parts of it felt very rushed.

However the Olympic cauldron SLAYED That sun is so badass

5

The carnaval section could have been better (it was a disappointment compared to what we actually do every year) and all those country marches were an endless borefest