Leona Lewis’ Olympic Closing Ceremony

Obviously, the English are so tight with their money they cut their chance short of creativity.
No one expected extravaganza for the short handover show from the Chinese to the English. But the English presentation was dry, imaginative and uncreative.
They wanted to inject the London pop culture into the modernized world but failed miserably.
Enough said, you London people read other comments and figure that out.
I guess the English would take for granted of the Olympics 2012 because it will be their third time to host the Olympics.
But if you can afford the ticket to get to China may as well buy pretty clothes to dress yourself up.

Someone from the Buckingham palace would do better job at your presentation. How about Prince William instead that Leona Lewis??
Tourists come to London to see the historical monarchy, who cares about the bus stop and whole bunch of bus passengers?

The London part of the closing ceremony was, quite simply, ugly and awful. In contrast to the Chinese performers — shining with joy and pride –the London “inside-out” bus that looked like it was covered with moss was dark and depressing. I felt embarrassed for England.

LEona was stunning and she was not lip synching as Chinese singers..Leona performs always live..i saw all her performances ..so leave her alone..til 2012 she will become so famous that you cannot immagine!

wow the londoners need to calm down. i didnt think it was that bad of a performance. i thought it had spunk although the whole raising leona on a pole was a bit tacky

dont worry london. you got 4 years

I was confused as watching the performance, not sure what was going on. I had to watch it a second time ( replay of the ceremony at night ) to figure it out.
All of sudden the bus came out and a whole bunch of dreadful looking people reading newspapers and did clown dancing.
Right, the little girl looked awful too ( uncombed hair, dirty looking jogging pants )
Man, the show was very poor presented!

Oh well. at least it was like comic relief.

If you muppets think the Chinese did a good job go live there and see what it’s like. Hey we can get 1000 people to bang a drum in time. Yep, it’s all about voltage. You can train a human to do anything if you apply enough voltage.

The London bus was a great idea. It’s an icon. Check out London postcards.

Leona IS a great singer. The sound was messed up but as they had no rehersal in the stadium and no sound check, perhaps she should have mined rather than sing live (all the Chinese mimed, no one sang live). They chose her because she’s young, beautiful a great singer and not only comes from the east end of London where the Olympics will be held but still (unlike most celebs) lives there.

They only had 8 minutes. They did a great version of the national anthem. Yes the bit with the dancers and the girl with the football was a bit pointless but England is about being individual which was why our dancers were a contrast to the army of Chinese droids (Ever seen Starwars and Attack of the Clones?)

They could have used Becks a bit more.

The sound on TV was OK on other networks. I’ve got a copy of NBC’s version and the sound is good.

The people in the stadium loved the performance, there was a huge cheer when both she and Beckham came up out of the bus and a massive cheer at the end.

So what would any of you lot have done in 8 minutes instead? Some fat slob on Talksport wanted Spifires and soldiers there. Yet again showing the world the one thing I don’t want. We Brits do killing well. Hasn’t the world seen enough of the British army and it’s killing?