What did you think of the Beijing Olympic opening ceremony?

Saturday 09th August, 05:11 AM JST

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teaabe at 10:07 AM JST - 9th August

team sports and all national symbols should be excluded from the olympics, but unfortunately they are not. the olympics is just peacetime warfare. note the us's disproportionate numbers relative to its population, for example, while india's is staggeringly low.
irabujapanu at 11:06 AM JST - 9th August

The best Olympic show ever, Congrates China..i doubt if any other country can put together such a grand show..Guys dont be cynical and throw away your anti-china sunglasses. btw, thanks to NHK for broadcasting the ceremony and as always the commentators sucked..they had done very little homework except JoshiANA's classic insightful lines like * sugooooiiiii, subarashiiiii* for every 2 minutes.
Terrikus at 11:23 AM JST - 9th August

Very great show :)
burikko at 11:25 AM JST - 9th August

Great ceremony same as Berlin in 1936.
TRUTHxHURTS at 11:31 AM JST - 9th August

Bejing Olympics was the best show on earth. It was CREATIVE and BRILLIANT. I do not know if London can top that. And 2016 Summer Olympics 1st pick (? BRAZIL ? ) 2nd pick ( ? Chicago ? ) Good Luck to the althletes !!!!
burikko at 02:03 PM JST - 9th August

If a country wants to hold great ceremony it should be fascism or communism regime.

TRUTHx, you are right. Tokyo should not hold Olympic in 2016.
stanoue at 02:31 PM JST - 9th August

I thought the ceremony was great and I love seeing each team come through - the athletes were just glowing, weren't they? I think they need to limit the parade to athletes only though - would save time and no need for those coaches/officials really. Like some of the teams only had 3 athletes but still an entourage of 10-15 ppl. Thought some of the national uniforms were interesting - Japan's was nice and simple and NZs looked good too. Australia's was....ermm... no comment.
DeepAir65 at 05:52 PM JST - 9th August

what I saw was OK but that thing drags on far too long!
Triple888 at 08:15 PM JST - 9th August

Excellent show. Enjoyed every moment of it. Loved the beginning when the drums woke up the "ancestor" and he starts to walk towards the stadium shown by giant fireworks in the shape of footsteps across Beijing.
tclh at 09:48 PM JST - 9th August

Spectacular! Fantastic!Almost 10 out of 10,what will London do now?The show was all about culture,tradition,achievements ,power,beauty,harmony ...but lack of human emotion.China must be very pleased and proud with Middle Kingdom status where every important countries,leaders in the world gathered in Beijing to hear Hu jin Tao's speech.From now on,China should not be classified as developing nation and exempt from Kyoto,Bush has been right about this.America had the best look.
Nippon5 at 10:29 PM JST - 9th August

It was wonderful , I loved the large torch!!!
yomuri at 12:38 AM JST - 10th August

it was fantastic, but im sure all the ppl that were forced out of their homes and arrested if they complained, so they could make the new stadiums, didnt enjoy it as much.
MPNiea at 12:20 PM JST - 13th August

Overdone and pathetic. China needlessly produced a flamboyant circus to tout its archaic themed nationalism, gross conformity, and glorification of fabricated history. Now we have reports that the fireworks and the singer were fakes.
Raymasaki at 10:13 PM JST - 13th August

I finally saw some clips of it. I didnt watch on TV cause i thought there would be clips on youtube, But alot were removed? i dont think youtube removed them cause they wanted to. Did china have them removed? i asked my self. WHY? this is a very positive thing. several ones i clicked on were slide show to music, i took awhile but found a few. from what i saw it Looked exstravigant & very Fun.
burikko at 06:53 PM JST - 15th August

Viva, a fake ceremony !!

The midsummer night's dream had cheated many people and is burning still now.