I thought the first part with the industrial revolution was fantastic and the part with the NHS and voldermort was great, but then I thought it went a bit downhill.. Enjoyed seeing the countries come out and mr bean was awesome as usual :D

Fantastic show.

I loled when the home/host national team ( Great Britain ) came out the queen was picking her nails.

I just watched the opening show. Not bad but the first time I don't instantly feel like watching certain parts over.

In summary
- Live action version of the beginning of Lotr
- Marry Poppins flying in, played by the queen (she did not look impressed)
- Deranged psych ward section inspired by Silent hill
- Rowin Atkinson putting on the years, still funny
- Chaotic and cheesy celebration of British music badly missing live performances
- Finally some professional dancers, the end

And as usual what always works, lots of children, children singing and lots of drums.
That digital model of London at the beginning was pretty amazing though. When can we have that in a flight sim :)

Cultural ties? Have you ever visited London?

USA got one of the biggest cheers though.

The cheer for Jamaica was out of respect for a small country with a handful of people that took home more gold medals than countries with tens, hundreds of millions and even a billion people (and Bolt).

The British are not that narrow-minded to support countries strictly on cultural ties.

Great show, not as spectacular as the Chinese but London was never going to go that way.

Haha. Me too. I thought Prince Phillip was sleeping for most of it!!

i loved that show! exactly like i was hoping for, not too much "hey we make the biggest show you ever saw just to have the biggest show not thinking about if it still is a nice show" shit and they implemented some nice stuff. i loved that metal worker stuff building the rings and the reference to uk's strenghts in telling/writing tales for children and obviously much music.

chinas ceremony was way too much "we have to show the world" stuff which always looks fake.

and damn those small isles always have so nice clothes walking in the stadium!

I can't believe they ACTUALLY forged and welded the rings right there. That introwas epic.

That was a touch of class and the queen playing a part with Bond was brilliant.

That was a unique intro, but like others said, her majesty looks bored, and she even looked kinda upset.