Opening/Closing Ceremonies Discussion - Page 43

SpongeG · #**841** Posted **Mar 1, 2010, 5:02 AM**

facebook people i know are divided

most hated it - and someone actually loved that nickleback and hedley were in it and were the best thing about it - i need the unlike button!

Yume-sama · #**842** Posted **Mar 1, 2010, 5:06 AM**

I wasn't a fan of the closing act. I don't even know who they are

There was no formal "end" to the ceremony, which was... weird.

lightrail · #**843** Posted **Mar 1, 2010, 5:12 AM**

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Originally Posted by Yume-sama

Martin Short was in the program giude. WHERE WAS MARTIN SHORT?

Other than that, I thought it was a clever Closing Ceremony. I loved the beginning.

Was it just me, or did Avril get away with the line "motherf**ing princess" in Girlfriend?

Yume-sama · #**844** Posted **Mar 1, 2010, 5:13 AM**

I wasn't really paying attention to her lol

Though I think she may have said motherloving

Phil McAvity · #**845** Posted **Mar 1, 2010, 5:27 AM**

it needed more maple syrup.

whatnext · #**846** Posted **Mar 1, 2010, 5:36 AM**

The Buble-led over the top Canadiana segment was the best part. The closing acts were just random and scattered with low star power. And then it just petered out.

Something tells me the Sochi games are going to be short on the fun factor. Russians just seem gloomy.

Canadian Mind · #**847** Posted **Mar 1, 2010, 5:38 AM**

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Originally Posted by lightrail

Was it just me, or did Avril get away with the line "motherf**ing princess" in Girlfriend?

she did, the bitch.

big T · #**848** Posted **Mar 1, 2010, 5:57 AM**

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Originally Posted by whatnext

The Buble-led over the top Canadiana segment was the best part.

Seconded. That and the very beginning with the mime trying to fix the cauldron were really neat, laugh-out-loud moments. As tiresome as the "rah rah we're so polite and humble" segments in the opening ceremony were, this light-hearted goodbye more than made up for it in my mind. Great stuff!

SpongeG · #**849** Posted **Mar 1, 2010, 6:25 AM**

NBC's closing broadcast showed some of the street scenes on Robson!

but they cut away after the Canadiana part to show Marriage ref

seems they will show "the party" segment at 11:30 after the ref and the news

red-paladin · #**850** Posted **Mar 1, 2010, 7:26 AM**

I love William Shatner and that was the most badass thing ever!

SpongeG · #**851** Posted **Mar 1, 2010, 7:29 AM**

i think after rewatching it - they should have put the hip hop and k-os to open the "party" section and ended it with nickelback

love em or hate em they rocked their performance and it would have been the best energy to end the show on - it seemed to end with a dud like thats it?

mr.x · #**852** Posted **Mar 1, 2010, 8:18 AM**

The Closing Ceremony was alright...it had its sweet moments, but there were times I cringed (e.g. Nickelback?). I thought the ending was a bit anti-climatic...I didn't expect them to end it so soft.

Yume-sama · #**853** Posted **Mar 1, 2010, 8:19 AM**

They didn't end it soft. They just didn't end it at all.

These guys I never heard of come up, they finish, they say "It's over, please leave quickly and safely" lol

canucks23 · #**854** Posted **Mar 1, 2010, 10:48 AM**

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Originally Posted by SpongeG

facebook people i know are divided

most hated it - and someone actually loved that nickleback and hedley were in it and were the best thing about it - i need the unlike button!

Its funny that you mention that because just as my friend and I were watching the part where Hedly came out to perform my friend was like " right now there is someone out there giddily clapping to see both Nickleback and Hedley tonight".

SpongeG · #**855** Posted **Mar 1, 2010, 11:10 AM**

haha

someone asked about fireworks was it in here?

Fireworks explode over BC Place Stadium at the end of the closing ceremony of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, February 28, 2010.
Photograph by: Todd Korol, Reuters

some other pics

General view taken during the closing ceremony at the BC Place in Vancouver, on the last day of the 2010 Winter Olympics on February 28, 2010.
Photograph by: TOSHIFUMI KITAMURA, AFP/Getty Images

Audience members hold up cards to form flowers during the Closing Ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics on Sunday, February 28, 2010, in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Photograph by: George Bridges , MCT

Delirium · #**856** Posted **Mar 1, 2010, 1:59 PM**

i LOVED the very beginning! very clever. holy cleavage on Alanis! she busted out. they should have swapped Avril for Shania imo.

the russia presentation was all over the map imo. those 'zorbs' were really odd. i think they were trying to fit too much in 8 minutes...

WarrenC12 · #**857** Posted **Mar 1, 2010, 2:36 PM**

Some cool parts, some weird parts. I thought the humour could have been a lot funnier, but Shatner is funny just standing there.

I don't like Nickelback, but that performance did rock, it would have been a great ending.

Delirium · #**858** Posted **Mar 1, 2010, 4:33 PM**

this made me laugh... especially the zorb part!

Rendezvous in Sochi?
The Globe and Mail
By Rod Mickleburgh, The Globe and Mail

Advice for the five of you out there thinking of going to Sochi for the 2014 Winter Olympics: don't. Not unless you're a fan of construction sites, concrete silos and Vladimir Putin. Those seemed to be the main features of the Black Sea resort, as highlighted in an unbelievably boring video played by Sochi Olympic organizers to entice assembled hacks covering Vancouver's version of the Winter Games. It was more like a company promotion for Metallurg, circa 1971, than anything remotely connected to the Olympics.

Sochi organizing committee CEO Dmitry Chernyshenko added to the mystery of Sochi's Winter Games allure by referring to his city as "the most popular summer tourist destination in Russia. People call it the Russian Riviera. We have a sub-tropical climate. Lots of palm trees."

Great. Just what the Winter Olympic needs. Palm trees.

As a piece de resistance, just in case there were still a few reporters in the room resistant to Sochi's Olympic charms, Mr. Chernyshenko unveiled the zorb.

What's a zorb, you ask? Mr. Chernyshenko seemed puzzled, too. Gamely, he offered that a zorb was a large, transparent sphere expected to bounce around during Sochi's portion of Sunday's closing ceremonies.

"They reflect the open, transparent society we are trying to create in Sochi," he quipped. "The zorbs reflect the Sochi universe."

Then someone went and spoiled it all by asking if ‘zorb' was a Russian word. "I have no idea," the 2014 Games czar replied. "If someone knows, please advise me."

Another cheeky reporter added to the merriment by asking Mr. Chernyshenko how to spell ‘zorb'.

"This wonderful word ‘zorb'," he sighed in response. "I'm not sure how to spell it."

A few minutes later, Mr. Chernyshenko turned the screen of his computer around to face the media. On it, in large bold capitals, was the word "ZORBS". He beamed with pride.

Cost of hosting the 2010 Winter Olympics? Billions and billions of rubles. Dmitry Chernyshenko, with a large name tag in front of him reading "ZORBS"? Priceless.

http://www.ctvolympics.ca/news-centre/newsid=54285.html#mickleburgh+blog+rendezvous+sochi

WarrenC12 · #**859** Posted **Mar 1, 2010, 5:00 PM**

In fairness, they still have 4 years to figure it out. Russian media aside, I wish them the best of luck.

lightrail · #**860** Posted **Mar 1, 2010, 5:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by WarrenC12

In fairness, they still have 4 years to figure it out. Russian media aside, I wish them the best of luck.

The Zorb is actually a Kiwi invention and it was featured on "The Amazing Race" - season 5. They put water in them and then you roll them down a hill with somebody in - kind of like an out of control waterslide to the person inside.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jgnDgighHs
Source: YouTube