Since I work at a movie theatre, I get to screen the movies the night before they came out. I saw Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince two days before it 'came out,' and Sherlock Holmes on Christmas Eve. These little blurps will be my movie reviews after seeing them midnight the night before.
This week's is 'Pery Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief,' based on Rick Riordan's best selling childeren's series. I am a huge fan of the books, so I was scared that the plot line from the books would be mutilated (i.e. Harry Potter 3-6, and I'm sure to be 7). When I found out that Chris Columbus was directing it, I found new hope. He is usually really good at respecting the original book in the book based movies (i.e. Harry Potter 1 and 2). I approved of almost all of the casting - I don't like Pierce Brosnan, so I did not think he would make a good Chiron, trainer of heros.
I'll have to say that, granted - it was 2 o'clock in the morning, I was strangely pleased with the way the movie turned out. It had the same basic plot line of the book: Percy finds out he is a Half-Blood, is accused of stealing Zeus's Thunderbolt, goes to clear his name and save his mother, and ends up victoriously returning the stolen property. So what they did in the book was correctly portrayed in the movie - it's how they did it that changed. Unlike the most recent Harry Potter movies, they accomplished what they were doing in a plausable way. It was all in line wth the basic Greek Mythology, and they made sure they had everything they needed for the sequels. The CGI's were really good, and the entire movie was action packed!
I definitly reccomend it!
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