Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief

Yes, the event I've possibly looked forward to the most this week has finally come to pass.

Today I went to see Percy Jackson. And I have one adjective for it: Amazing.

Honestly, the film was majorly different than the book. But you know, some of the stuff changed made it a good different than a bad different. It was good in its own way.

I loved the setting of Half Blood Hill. I'll admit it was different than what I imagined it to be like, but it was still a really nice place. I thought the characters were portrayed awesomely. Of course, I had to shout Boromir when Zeus came on, but which LOTR fan couldn't?

This is going to be short one today, its late and I want to finish Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters before I go to sleep. So I'll just do my summary instead of the usual essay that I write. I might write one tomorrow.

I thought the acting was superb for the most part, though there were some scenes that seemed really awkward.

The special effects were amazing, as you would expect of a Chris Columbus movie.

I loved the way they showed Percy's dyslexia, you know in one of the first scenes and he's reading the sentence and it all gets jumbled up? I thought that was really smart. A real insight into Percy's mind and dyslexia. Kudos for that.

I loved the whole atmosphere of the film. It seems to pack everything I love in a movie. Action, adventure, horror, fantasy, heroism, comedy. I couldn't have been happier....

One thing I didn't really like was the fact that Kronos didn't really get that much of a mention. I would have liked to have seen or heard of him more. He was mentioned once at the beginning, but isn't he like technically the driving force of the series? But I guess that can be explained later on.

One thing I was looking forward too in the series that didn't turn up was Percy's dreams. Percy seems to rely on his dreams a lot and I thought some of the dream sequences were really good in the book and I'd have liked to have seen them, but again, that's something that can be explored in the next movies? I know they are definitely making a sequel. So yay!

That's all for me now. I'm going to continue my Percython now :D I've literally got a couple of pages left then it's bed time!