Sunday, September 20, 2015

Book to Movie Review: Percy Jackson and the Lighting Theif

WARNING, Before I start this review I do need say that this review is going to spoil a lot from both the book and the movie Percy Jackson the Lighting Thief, so if you have NOT read or watched the movie I would recommend going and doing that now, or proceeding at your own risk, if you have or don’t care please continue, now the review.

There was so much going for this movie it should have been amazing, but there were so many things wrong with it, I don’t even know where to start. Compared to the book the movie is like a bad fan fiction it’s sad. Well I’m going to start with the minor details and move on to the bigger ones as we go. Before I continue I will say that I could not remember all of the thing wrong with the movie so I did go to the website Book Journey to get some more so I will leave a link for the page down below.

The first minor thing wrong with the movie compared to the book was Annabeth’s character. Now the character was portrayed correctly but in the book she is blond and in the movie she is brunet. Now this is a major problem, but it just annoys me how easily that could have been fixed. Another minor problem was that they forgot one of the beginning scenes it had to do with the main character being attacked by monsters, now this I can ignore this because maybe they didn’t have enough time to put it in, but I personally thought it was a cool scene so it annoys me. Now that’s all the minor details I can come up with so one to the big ones.

The first major thing the failed with was Medusa death. In the movie after they kill Medusa the keep her head and use it later on. But in the book after they kill Medusa they wrap up her and send to the gods as a joke, so it’s a very big difference. The final major plot point the movie forgot was Ares. See Ares is actually the main villain in the book but in the movie he is never mentioned. Instead Luke becomes the villain which changes so many things that it doesn’t make sense, it’s just stupid.

Now I’m going to end my “review”, more of a rant here because if I keep going this will go on all day and I really don’t think you want to read that. But if you do I am going to leave a few at the bottom, one will be for book to movie problems and the other will lead to just problems with the movie itself. I know this isn’t a very exciting review but I feel that it tells people one thing. If you have read Percy Jackson, please just please go watch the movies their horrible.


Problems with the movie in general: http://www.moviemistakes.com/film8396

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