Me too. Just watched Tokyo opening ceremony.

You're right

sad that the number of restrictions placed onto tokyo meant that they were limited to what they could do for their opening ceremony. if covid wasn’t a thing i think their opening ceremony would have been competitive to beijing’s

Yuh, it was the only one that had the potential to beat Beijing, but it was honestly disappointing

Alicia Casey let’s see 2022 Beijing winter Olympic game

Ikr

I am here again.

Because of social distancing, tokyo 2020 was kinda meh

Tokyo 2020's creative team was fired last minute and the original plans were scrapped. It had to be rapidly simplified to fit a "sober" mood which explains why it was subtle and kind of unstriking.

stop comparing, this year's Olympics wasn't suppose to happen anyway

Yeah bro you know it well haha

HaughtyFighter2007 8 is the lucky number and Red also means good luck in 🇨🇳❤️

AND when 8 p.m , all the world is in that day --2008.08.08

Yea, eight sounds like "get rich" in Chinese

That was how I got to know that 8 us a lucky number for Chinese .

Is it a coincidence that we hav the same pfp?

​@@duvaruva Mai NO 1

@@zw8608 yes

The CCP is a genocidal regime.

exactly

I think Tokyo might be able to

Koroniria Ryder Time will tell. c:

i think only China can top this with another performance

If Beijing wins the 2022 winter olympics we'll probably be able to see something like this again. Though probably not at this caliber, with the budget being pulled back and all.

There was a rumor going around that Shanghai might be bidding for the 2028 Summer Olympics so who knows maybe we'll see another spectacular performance from China in the coming decade or so.

wow.

r/thingsthatdidnthappen

Tony Stark i feel for you.

It hurts to read. I know you're regretting it but something tells me forgiveness is needed.

But you still have the chance for the next winter Olympic held in China

Me

Me kkk. The gap between them is mountain and see.

志郁姐姐好美

It’s the peak:(

nah, this is the bar of Olympics Opening Ceremony :)

+cgrie3 But think about that the other way round. We've got Olympics in South Korea and Japan in 2018 and 2020- probably at least one of them will use thousands of robots in their opening ceremony, and they may well choose a few random people from the audience to do some podium dancing, with each one's movements being imitated, live, by several hundred of the robots. That would be really scary!

A display of their power. Imagine that many men with that much synchronization and coordination with guns. That's what China was trying to show.

Ok there Cartman

Just imagine how insanely coordinated and perfectly synchronized a North Korean opening ceremony would be! Hell, they go all the fuck out for their dear sweet leader's damn birthday every year. Would feel sorry for anyone who dropped their baton or whatever. Can't imagine that would go over well with their uptight thin-skinned leader.

+Dustin Allen Music lol...definitely deserve a thumbs-up for that one. It never ceases to amuse me how hilariously freaked out some of my fellow Americans get by the mere _existence_ of another nation that dares to flex it's collective muscle even _one tenth_ of what we Americans boastfully push on the world.

SoWhat still awesome after 10 years!

I was a child who had no worries - like a blink of eye. we won't live too long.

so long ago

@@happywhale1786 saaaame💔

@@happywhale1786 呵呵

I was volunteering at the waiting area with all the athletes at that night and we were told it was forbidden to disturb the athletes unless they asked us for help. Later when Kobe entered with Team USA, a boy from my group was very excited as he was a big fan of Kobe. Because of the rules, he could only gaze at Kobe, but he was like, watching Kobe for 3 seconds and then turning away his head, and a few seconds later watching Kobe again 🤣🤣🤣 Later Kobe came to this boy, saying that he loved the outfit of volunteers (which was just a simple blue polo shirt with white collar) and he was wondering whether he could take a photo with a volunteer, and the boy was suddenly in tears 🥺 he was so nice to his supporters

Oh no, come on man. Don’t remind me that we’ve lost him for a long time. Rip Kobe, mamba never out.

Where is Kobe?

@@yz2566 9:48

巴嘎

Same man

Agree

If you compare budget sure

agree

Agree

You so naughty.

Winter on 2022 is coming

可以

哈哈😄

❤️

LMAO SAME

tbh, I didn’t give a fk to these olympics in the past.But now 2008 proves me wrong. China, my country did an admirable job indeed, it becomes my ego

@@gryfenfer1037 what

you are from Malaysia or Singapore?

Athens??

I agree with you

@@MySPIROS no, Beijing took it to another level. Sochi is the second best IMO.

I use to think the same, until london olympic ceremony arrived

And London😭

🤝

The drone globe was sooooo cool

ya,Tokyo 2020 opening ceremony like a shit,so many ghost😂

The Beijing Olympics opening ceremony is the best opening in this 12year Olympic opening ceremony

Supposed to be 2021

Ruwei Sheng 两个儍逼给中国摸黑

Phoebe Gao 傻逼 可以告诉你我是北京人了

Sorry to said , but i comment from 2018, and there is an Asian olympic games (not world olympic, but only asia) that held in Indonesia, andd the opening ceremony is more fantastic than opening ceremony Beijing ,you should watch it, and you will surprised, because now it's be the best opening ceremony in the world

Michael Siregar Oh really?

shut up. nobody want to listens to you. Indonesians already infamous of its overproud nationalism. It's a boring opening anyway. I dare you to list a memorable acts apart from the rato jamoe and jokowi's entrance.

Setting the bar ridiculously high. I think China and possibly the US are the only ones that could really do something like this, and I get a feeling Americans aren't even interested in hosting the Olympics these days.

+Mexican - American Martian but in 2024 is not Paris the olympic city?

says Mulan XD

Sangiogio but today it's abandoned ...sad

Kylan Hurt because it an economic burden in the end.

hahahahahahaha

xiao dead

😂😂

老阴阳人了。

+1

Probably the one in Beijing again next year?

Will be the next Beijing Olympic Games

London 2012 was better

2022 Beijing Winter: Hold my baijiu.

Ironically, such a huge investment makes the Beijing Olympics one of the few profitable Olympic Games. I personally don’t care much about the elements of humour. I care about participation. TO let the 1.3 billion individuals come out of the earthquake----disaster in the first half of the year, focusing on happiness. Believe me, It really is a placebo.

@Just Getting By well you have another aspect and i agree in a sense.

same

God Tokyo was so god damn bad

same

same

same

For real, it was absolutely INSANE! I'd say this opening ceremony pretty much cemented China as a world power.

Russia will ,tonight !

***** no way, russie sucks, its a failure already, and going to be worse before its over. fail and shame on russia

***** Did you see russia fail to open that olympics flower

Henry Brown lol I saw that. I wondered if they did it intentionally, then I found it was just a silly mistake...

My phone is made in China

Oldest civilization is tamil culture and oldest language in the world in tamil

Being Chinese is one thing, being from the mainland can be another.

@@salmaankhan2963 போடா🤣

@@chandlerminh6230 nee enna vena pesuva nee oru loosu

I came here to refresh after seeing your ugly face.

Bored the F out of me. China did it the best.

yup, I agree

2008 Beijing is the BEST!!!!!

Rio opening was fucking shit

Oh to bed

Just Getting By 呵呵

2020 Japan be like "cheap imitation shit, watch this....hold my beer"

trilingualkid Nah... Tokyo could never. Culture of China is just too OP

greece 2004

北京奥运会开幕式始终是无法超越的杰作！ 给你来个简繁互换。

马上就要被超越了，还有6个多月。

@@gyin9098 08年是中国走向世界的一年 21年是世界中国元年

@@gyin9098 冬奥应该没办法超越夏奥，

bless your grandfather 一起努力，复兴中华

Li Charles 谢谢🙏我辈定当复兴中华

F U C K C H I N A

tha1ne Go to the hell. 有病去医院。

@@JLZ-pb4iq better than going to China LOL

Chinese culture is only 70 years old

@@NorthernMafioso that’s modern China, but ancient Chinese culture goes back thousands of years

@@sabrinaghostblade3948 you sure pretty sure it was erased in the great leap backwards Chinese history is in Taiwan

@@NorthernMafioso 蛇精？

Only people in Taiwan believe that real Chinese culture is in Taiwan

13 years

13 years

cool story

I also enjoyed this story.

same

I was 7 or 8 years old and me and my parents were amazed!

Me tooooo......

Cringe

It does help that it was directed by one of China's best movie directors.

They spent over a billion because they wanted to prove to the western world that they were to be respected. They wanted to be known and didn't care how much they spent to achieve that, and it worked

dude,they earned 10 times the amount they spend......and most of the workers are volunteers.....

Waking Up From A Nightmare hey. black people walked the earth b4 anyone else.

+Waking Up From A Nightmare who cares GB finished above china in the medals in Rio we kick their asses

Give you a big hug, even i have the same feeling...

Me too

True Beijing has great opening ceremony but also I would forgive Tokyo olympics for lacking because of the pandemic and they could have done much if wasn’t for that reason

@@juanchoresultay2704 But they have much more budget

@@flandrescarlet486 Idk maybe politics ruined the budget and creativity of the opening ceremony and the budget for the game is quite expensive for them

@@juanchoresultay2704 the original plan for Tokyo's seems quite amazing with a lot of ACG themes but the government didn't try to help the entertainment industry during the pandemic and they even cut the existed financial help for some artists so the director ( Nomura Mansai, a very privileged traditional theatre artist) and the chef musician ( Shiina Ringo) decided to quit their job. Plus the government didn't respect Shiina Ringo and the chef choreographer at all only because they were women, so when Ringo quited, the chef choreographer quited too...

@@chachaxiao6860 Sad but atleast they made a simple ceremony they could have created something more that would be safe but also fun

I agree

Yes, lol, I came here looking for this, as I remember it being the biggest, bad ass drum spectacle of my lifetime. The volume is so low here, I need to get it on my TV so I can hear those 2000 drums!!

it's the most exciting ever ..... they have incredible culture in China and they were so exciting to host the Olympics more than Brazil and UK........Russian winter Olympics was amazing because they were expecting too

Got that right. Brazil was cheap -_-

5000 years of history, time to go big or go home. China was not going home that year.

you've repeated yourself twice now, its really time for you to stop trying.

Welcome to China！欢迎！

Welcome to China! China is actually a country you need time to know it and better to look by your eyes and experience by yourself, insteading of hearing from media ^-^

Many opening ceremonies (Beijing especially) were meant to impress the world but Britain has no need to do that because we built much of it. This ceremony was meant for Britain. I think it's the sign of a truly great and confident nation that can leave so much of their great achievements out and just sit back and wait for others from abroad to draw attention to them. GB - the masters of under statement. Danny Boyle and the organisers were keen to distance themselves from the Beijing ceremony and what it stood for. Otherwise, we could have just did what Russia did and had a watered down version using pyrotechnics as subs for the people. We certainly have the global history. Personally, I preferred Boyle's vision, which although not perfectly synchronised, showed real warmth and humanity of the British. I'm sorry but, If you find the Industrial Revolution segment, the children's choirs of the 4 nations of Britain at the start, Underworld's soundtrack (And I will Kiss particularly pulled at the heartstrings), the poppy tribute to the fallen, the Queen acting alongside James Bond, followed by a parachute jump, Mr Bean's Chariots of fire tribute, Shakespeare's Tempest, not to mention the lighting of the torch, particularly lacking, then we truly are a different species. And thank God for it!!!

Welcome 欢迎来中国🇨🇳

🥲😭

it's really good-no amazing! how can people forget about it?!

NEVER TO BE FORGOTTEN!! VIVA CHINA AND ITS RICH HISTORY! -

Annisa Fahriaji Thank you for your appreciation.

Cuervo Luminoso Thank you for your appreciation.

Those were TRULY Magic Moments which made many tears of Love flow all around our beautiful planet. God bless China! We can negatively condemn ANY country, of course; there is no Heaven on Earth~ But China showed WONDERFUL dignity, love and human aspirations in that exquisite Opening Ceremony. I am looking for the complete Closing Ceremony. Sadly, I cannot find it.

*the oldest civilization

I agree.

what are you talking about the British opener was by far the best opening in the world it shows how far the human race has come with the help of britain's inginuity.

I'm sorry but Britain's was incredible and so different. It didn't focus on Britain's stereotypes it focused on it's honesty. China did exactly what everyone thought it would do.

carter unrau LOL...o wait you were serious

China's was awesome I just preferred london personally.

After Coronavirus world is laughing at China. Forget Olympics.😂😂😂

Prateek Bhore Are you kidding?People only laugh at US and india which are “democracy model“from east and west world.

@@AZ-ee8vq to be fair, the US and India are just a couple of the most populated countries in the world, so they have more people to govern compared to Italy and the UK (for example)

@@scottibrown3274 like China is not the most populated place in the world. Lol.

@@sybelyan2535 given how disjointed India’s government is I bet there are plenty of uncounted ppl in India.

Maybe Korea-Japan 2020 will be better than this since Japan and Korea have an enormous rivality against China and eastern countries like those 3 have state of the art technology to do amazing things!

+Trafalgar D. Water Law well in 2020 is japan not 2 countries at the same time , lol

+Trafalgar D. Water Law China is too big of a country for them to beat😌

wait for Tokio 2020

*Tokyo

HAHAHAHA!!! Good one xD

Hell, I'm an American...and I was proud of your country when I watched this. You guys did a fantastic job with your opening ceremony. Probably the best one I've ever seen. Much better than the self-aggrandizing chaos of the Russian one...or the droll pedestrian British one. Can't wait to see what Brazil has in store though. I imagine they'll bring in elements of the flamboyant colorful psychedelia that is Carnival. That should be a treat for the eyes. Oh...and I recently heard Japan's opening ceremony(I think in 2020?) will incorporate *_man-made meteors_*...literally launched from satellites above the ceremony...tinged with the hues of various minerals that burn different colors. That'll be insane! But still...the Chinese opening ceremony is worth being proud of. Would love to visit your country someday soon... :)

avedic welcome！

I'm Russian and I really am proud of your country too:))))

proud that China is one of the biggest human rights violators on the planet? Good for you!

Have you ever been to China?

🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸

Japanese.

@@yizhang5570 Seriously? Your gonna answer a question asked two years ago? The person probably deleted his account already.

yi zhang I️ really don’t think japan has struggled in those areas nearly as much as China

China won't do this again, waste of money

太郎龟头 China did

太郎龟头 又是这个傻逼

We have no money to host again

@@VAPEIGET u guys have money but this event is not good it's doesn't give profit

dude, after 10 years, i still feel unreal when i open this video, i think it will still be the best show in another 10 years, even 20 years

It's been 10 years now ...... Still breathtaking and made me cry .......

that year China suffers server earthquake in Sichuan privince with casualties more than 50000

2008 is the year of the rat in the Chinese zodiac

Are the North Koreans your brothers because China certainly doesnt seem to think so the way they are human trafficking NK defectors.

@@Janellabelle we call you 蛇精

@@stanleytin7038 hahahahah