Comments on: 7 Things Gone Wrong During The 2008 Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony

By: darwin

darwin — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 18:07:11 +0000

Come on this ceremony is far from best..just fireworks and synchronised acrobatics..nice..for a circus parade..

By: Ashley

Ashley — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:02:53 +0000

What I want to say is “Wow!” Great performance! Excellent teamwork demonstrated! Great co-ordination! Nice visual effect and use of color! I just wish I was there to watch the great show in person!

Consider the effort and number of people involved, we should not have any complaints. Otherwise, it will be like “picking bone from an egg”.

I wasn’t happy about the lip-singing thing. But then think about it. It is just a show. They just want everything to be perfect. But because of the controversy, I think they will learn next time (please be reminided that most of the opening ceremony has pre-recorded music to avoid any potential technical error).

Anyway, great show! Thumbs-up to the Chinese Olympic organization team.

By: asdf

asdf — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 09:37:22 +0000

It has it’s faults, it’s difficult to achieve perfection no matter how well choreographed. Regardless the of the inexcusable situation of the little girls being swapped, the opening ceremony did live up to it’s hype.

By: Ray

Ray — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:49:35 +0000

Geez, I wonder what happens now to those who made these mistakes that severely tarnished China’s image and ruined the ceremony? Will they be sent to concentration camps? Cheers!

By: Christopher

Christopher — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:36:59 +0000

A number of you persons who sit down and find the most frivilous crap to pick apart about one of the single most amazing and highly executed displays on the planet evidently DON’T have enough going on in your lives to be more productive with your words. Not one country will begin to make an attempt to match or surpass the quality of that show. How ridiculous can you be talking about a guy that came out a box too early….omg….let’s see one of you do it for your country.

10/10 for Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:36:58 +0000

i thought the little kid next to the piano was blind or something…

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:30:18 +0000

@Rae that’s being too picky dude. I did notice it but not that interesting to point out

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:29:33 +0000

Thanks David that’s a great list!

By: rae

rae — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 19:56:59 +0000

during the movable type print, while the blocks were moving up and down to form patterns, there was one particular block which suddenly went up for a brief moment when it was supposed to be down. i think the guy made a mistake there. he immediately went down again. it was pretty obvious, when all the other blocks were down, n he suddenly popped up. i dunno why u missed that one

By: David West

David West — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:09:23 +0000

Let’s not forget the other screwups that are being reported:

1) One of the displays in the birdcage pulled an infamous Blue Screen of Death
2) The soldiers under the stadium were there for 6 hours and not allowed to go to the bathroom
3) The poor dancer that broke her back was already mentioned, but not fully.
4) The Chinese had a lip syncher with the song because the real little girl singing had buck teeth
5) The fireworks on TV were computer simulations because helicopters were not allowed due to the hazard
6) The 56 ethnic children were all of the Han ethnicity, despite originally claiming to be of all the different groups.

By: kim

kim — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 01:55:41 +0000

The silk road dancer woman was a last minute fill in. The original dancer broke her back in rehearsal and is paralized from the waste down.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:16:28 +0000

Didn’t they also pay some of the crowd to be there as well? So it looked like HEAPS of people turned up at their own free will, but some were actually “bribed”.

By: beached

beached — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:05:37 +0000

i truely think the are the bigest mistakes!!1

By: beached

beached — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:04:30 +0000

yea i completely agree they messed up the whole thing BUT…
YOU forgot a couple of things!!!
did you know, the fireworks at the opening ceremony were actualy done by a computer diagram!!!
AND the other thing was… The nine year old girl that was singing was actualy lip sinking :O and there was meant to be this other girl singing but they didn’y let her because she had criked teeth and didn’t look pretty enough!!!!
They are all so cruel amagine how the girl feels D:/):
but yea thats what you forgot!
here are tw pics the bottom one was the one meant to be singing and the top one is the one who was lipsinking you tell why they picked the top lol
C YA

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00382/standalone_split_382110a.jpg

By: tballou

tballou — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:41:46 +0000

You missed the biggest mistake of all! When the Chinese team marched in, Yau Ming carried the national flag. Next to him was one of the earthquake survivors, whose smaller flag was mounted upside down on the little stick he was holding!