Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief

So this last week I went to see the Lightning Thief movie. I actually liked it a lot more than I thought I would. It's always really hard when I go to see a movie about a book I really like. It's hard because books have so much information in them that it's really hard to put it all into about two hours. So they have to cut out a lot of parts from the book, even if they were kind of important. So it's really hard when you've read the book about 50 times and then they all of the sudden change it so it has a completely different plot. But even though they changed a lot of it, it was still good and they kept the parts of it that made the story really good. Something that I really like about the Lightning Thief is that it has all the original Ancient Greek stories, but it's all combined with the modern world so they all go together. They brought that out in the movie even more. In one part where Percy is fighting Medusa, he takes out his iPhone and uses it to look at her reflection. I thought it was cool how they brought out the attributes of all the gods in their children. Poseidon's children can breathe underwater, and water makes them stronger. Hermes's children are thieves, but know about roads and traveling. Athena's kids are smart and good fighters, and Aphrodites's children are beautiful flirts. They also brought out a lot of the myths from Greek mythology. They were trapped for what felt like a few hours, but was really a few days, in the lair of the Lotus Eaters. They had to cut off Medusa's head like Perseus did because her stare turned people into statues. And then it has things like satyrs, and centaurs, and it really helps people learn about mythology in an easy way. A hard part about the movie was that they changed some of the really important parts, and they even took out some majorly important characters; so I'm not sure if there's going to be any more movies after this one. But I think that overall it was worth going to see. They brought out the parts of the book that really made it unique, so in a way it made the movie unique too. And most of the actors were good too. The actor who did Percy was pretty good because he really let you see Percy's character. Pierce Brosnan (James Bond) was Chiron, the centaur mentor guy so he was really good. And all the actors who played the gods seemed to really be able to feel their character and they were believable gods. I also liked the way that Percy's mom (Sally Jackson) really seemed like a mom, and not some actor pretending to be one. Overall, I would really recommend that people should go see this movie. Even if you haven't read the books you'll like it, but you should read them too. They're one of my all-time favorite series and a lot of different kinds of people like them. I really liked the movie, and it was a really fun way to spend President's Day.