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nwhikerPerry, AC, and I saw Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief.
It waaaaaaaaaaaaay exceeded my expectations.
Chris Columbus made the movie, and I expected a horror on the order of The Philosopher's Stone/Sorcerer's Stone, but I was quite surprised at how much better it was.
It starts out well: Poseidon (Kevin McKidd) and Zeus (Sean Bean) meet, in civvies. Hot, both of them. Yum.
Then kid stuff, give or take a sexy Centaur (Pierce Brosnan), more kid stuff, then more hot Greek Gods and Goddesses.
The end.
Heh. Not quite!
It was fun, to say the least. The humour was obvious to anyone who has read any Greek mythology, if you haven't, you might not get some of it. The sexual innuendo was well done enough that I'm pretty sure AC got it, and it flew completely over Perry's head.
Not better than the book (which I still haven't finished, really I'll get around to it. I read the first half waiting for AC to get out of a speech therapy appointment a few years ago, (3? 4?) and it didn't catch, though I think, in retrospect that that was my problem, not the book's. Anyhow. Perry and AC complained about every single difference, of course, but they seriously enjoyed the movie. OTOH, in a "typical Chris Columbus" he didn't include some thematic bits that would be needed if the next movies are to be made. I hope they do.
Anyhow, the plot was interesting enough but didn't drag out (no endless search for horcruxes here...) and the movie itself was well made. The animation was believable.
My only beef with the movie is that the human side was lacking... no, not in opposition to the gods, but in creating, deepening, and moving relationships. Not boy-girl-kiss-kiss type thing, but Percy loses his mother at the beginning and then goes off to play catch-the-flag. Annabeth fell into place as GirlBFF much too easily (Grocer as BoyBFF was plausible).
AC/DC is always a treat, and Steve Coogan as Hades was... genius!
I liked this much much better than Avatar, as did both AC and Perry.
It waaaaaaaaaaaaay exceeded my expectations.
Chris Columbus made the movie, and I expected a horror on the order of The Philosopher's Stone/Sorcerer's Stone, but I was quite surprised at how much better it was.
It starts out well: Poseidon (Kevin McKidd) and Zeus (Sean Bean) meet, in civvies. Hot, both of them. Yum.
Then kid stuff, give or take a sexy Centaur (Pierce Brosnan), more kid stuff, then more hot Greek Gods and Goddesses.
The end.
Heh. Not quite!
It was fun, to say the least. The humour was obvious to anyone who has read any Greek mythology, if you haven't, you might not get some of it. The sexual innuendo was well done enough that I'm pretty sure AC got it, and it flew completely over Perry's head.
Not better than the book (which I still haven't finished, really I'll get around to it. I read the first half waiting for AC to get out of a speech therapy appointment a few years ago, (3? 4?) and it didn't catch, though I think, in retrospect that that was my problem, not the book's. Anyhow. Perry and AC complained about every single difference, of course, but they seriously enjoyed the movie. OTOH, in a "typical Chris Columbus" he didn't include some thematic bits that would be needed if the next movies are to be made. I hope they do.
Anyhow, the plot was interesting enough but didn't drag out (no endless search for horcruxes here...) and the movie itself was well made. The animation was believable.
My only beef with the movie is that the human side was lacking... no, not in opposition to the gods, but in creating, deepening, and moving relationships. Not boy-girl-kiss-kiss type thing, but Percy loses his mother at the beginning and then goes off to play catch-the-flag. Annabeth fell into place as GirlBFF much too easily (Grocer as BoyBFF was plausible).
AC/DC is always a treat, and Steve Coogan as Hades was... genius!
I liked this much much better than Avatar, as did both AC and Perry.
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