Monday, August 13, 2012

One More Olympic Thought

I watched the opening ceremony, incredulous to think that anyone could find the retelling of the extensive history of the British Isles appropriate for setting the stage for a world-wide athletic competition. Danny Boyle needed to edit his vision to make it palatable for the minions. Boyle reinforced the belief that Bollywood bigger is not always better.

For all the rave reviews of the closing ceremony for England's Olympics, I found the whole event to be monstrously tedious, uninteresting, visually confusing, marred with poor audio, and a complete waste of [my] time. Yes, I did watch it, all the while hoping that something, anything would improve the experience and that it would suddenly rise above the on-going presentation and dazzle with brillliance.

Didn't happen.

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