Longest Post EVER

Ok, good plan Amy, letting me tell everything about the movie!

OK, so I'll have to recap from the book from my point of view so you all get it (BTW, this post is a big pot of spoiler soup).

So, Good things about the movie: The acting was pretty good. Alexandra Daddario (Annabeth) was not an amazing actress, and she doesn't really look like a 27 year old. She had amazing eyes though. Logan Lurman was a good 'I'm trying to be cool about all of this, even though its creeping me out and I don't know what the heck is going on' which, as we all know, is a resipe for someone making a complete fool of themself. Sean Bean was good, good as you can be when you are only in two scenes, but most of the acting was Brandon T Jackson, who played Grover. A lot of people were really annoyed that he was a black kid, but he pulled off Grover perfectly. I'm really, really happy they didn't make him the pathetic cry-in-every-scene character.

Uma Thurman did a good job of acting too, that whole scene was very good. Here clothes were the bomb.

Amy said that Matt Damon was an extra in the lotus casino, and you saw like, the back of his head for one second. I doubt it was him. I looked it up. I didn't find anything. Plus, everyone thinks Matt Damon is cooler than that, he wouldn't eat those nasty lotus flowers!

There were a lot of random scenes in the trailer that were not in the movie. (BTW, Annabeth and Percy did NOT kiss, like they totally did in the trailer)

The CGI was very good for a low budget PG movie, the fighting scenes were AMAZING.

Camp half-blood was very cool, I loved it.

I liked Luke and I very much liked Poseidon. I LOOOOOOVED how they did all of the water stuff. Like how it healed and all that. It gave me awesome-spasms.
The scene in Lotus Casino was all around amazing acting. First with the being drugged, and then Grovers funny satyr dance, and then them fighting and taking the awesomely sweet car.

All in all, I liked the whole movie, so I just need to touch on a couple little things they could have done that would have made it much better.

Things I didn't like about the movie: I liked how they didn't really add anything. They took out a lot of stuff (which kind of totally messed up the story, and they in no way set it up for a sequel) The first two thirds of the movie was so fast I could hardly process it, and I have read the books. I can't imagine what it was like for people who haven't (probably easier to get because they aren't constantly thinking, "but what about--!" and "They skipped the part--!" and "I can't believe that they--"). I didn't like how they didn't have any Luke-Annabeth thing going on like they were supposed to, that was a big part of ALL of the books. I didn't like how there was no Clarisse. Another thing I didn't really like wash how they kind of revolved around the three pearls thing, when in the book, it was a very small part of the story, (someone gives the pearls to them, right?" it wasn't like this big quest) I also didn't like how strange Annabeth and Percy's relationship was in this movie. First she saw him and she was like, "you whimp!" and then he like beat her, being totally show off-ish and stuff, and then she has to say, "I know I have strong feelings about you, I just haven't figured out if they are positive or negative yet," And then Percy is like, "Well tell me when you figure out." And then Hades like comes out of the fire, and blahdy-blahdy-blah, and then shes like, "I've never gone on a quest before, so I'm coming with you," and then they are like, ok, and so then I guess they are friends or something. After that it was ok, it was just before they left that it was weird. Other than that, it was all amazing.

All in all they chose good scenes to take out, but a tip, if you're going to make a movie from a book, people, DO NOT take out anything that has to do with not-really-seeming-important-but-kind-of-ends-up-being-in-the-end (like the Annabeth-Luke thing).

BTW everyone, I heard that instead of having his age be 12-16 like it was in the book, they were going to have it be 16-21. I don't know if that is true, but Grover did say at one point, "Yeah, its like the highschool, without the musical," which implied that they were in high school, but I don't think that he was sixteen, though he could have been since at one point he was driving (who cares, its life and death here, does it really matter if you are 16 or not?). If it were up to me to figure out how old he is supposed to be in the movies I would probably say like 14-15. But it's hard to tell, and if they really wanted, they could probably make it seem like he was 14 or 15, and make it seem like all of the books were crammed into 1-2 years, because this first movie was only over a time of like, what, 16 days?

It may seem like I didn't like it, because I just had to list all the terrible things about it, but I really did, I thought it was amazing. I'll admit I was more excited than I was about seeing Harry Potter just because there have already been 5 Harry Potter movies, so I knew that it was going to be good, and I knew just what to expect, and I knew they were going to leave out a bunch of stuff.

Just found out that on rotten tomatoes PJ only got 48. That. Is. Terrible. Thats two percent worse than Twilight. But then I found out that new moon got 28, so I'm good.

Ohh this is fun, I'm looking up all the Harry Potter movies on there.

HP6 got 83%

HP5 got 77%

HP4 got 88%

HP3 got 89%

HP2 got 82%

HP1 got 78%

This is sad.

Anyway, now that you know all the good and bad things about the movie, GO SEE IT!