We were unabashed fans of Zhang Yimou's opening ceremony for the Beijing Olympics, and eagerly looked forward to last night's closing ceremony, assuming it would offer the same mix of jaw-dropping stagecraft, awe-inspiring fireworks, and pants-wetting population. Imagine our disappointment when the closing ceremony included little that we couldn't have thought up if someone gave us millions of dollars, thousands of people, and terrible taste. Drummers in bike helmets! Dancers wearing sleigh bells! People flying around on wires, again!
The London section was particularly lousy, with an embalmed-looking Jimmy Page acting incoherent guitar while Leona Lewis american ginseng, we pretend, "Whole Lotta Love," and extras with umbrellas danced around a red autobus bus. Cor blimey, where were the fish-and-chips, Buckingham Palace guards, and Austin Powers?
We were about to give up on the ceremony when that huge-ass tower covered in acrobats blew us away, by and large because we couldn't trust no one fell to his dying. And the fireworks, we'll grudgingly admit, were blame astonishing once again. We still want Zhang Yimou to direct the conventions.
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