This weekend my family went to Austin and my dad and I saw "The Lightning Thief" which was renamed "Percy Jackson and The Lightning Thief". I liked the movie. I liked how Grover, Anna Beth and Percy worked as a team when they found the pearls and had to get out of the Underworld. The liar of the lotus flower part of the movie I thought looked like lots of fun because they were in Las Vegas which looks like a very cool place. (I would not like to live there though.) When Percy first got the flying shoes, I was thrilled because they looked like regular sneakers but they had little wings attached. I would like a pair!
Do you remember what I said about books and movies? This movie was not as good as the book. There was not as much action, for example they missed blowing up the bus. In this movie Luke was the Lightning Thief but in the book Aries was and he and Percy had a sword fight that I thought would have been good in the movie. Anna Beth was different too. In the movie she had red hair and blue eyes and in the book she had blond hair and grey eyes. Why would they have changed that? Anna Beth is supposed to be the daughter of Athena and everyone knows that Athena has gray eyes. They could have given her gray contacts or changed it on the computer. In the end of the book, Percy is betrayed by his friend and almost dies with a poisonous bug, but not in the movie. In the movie, Percy starts fighting for fun with Anna Beth (because they were training) and then the camera goes up and that's the end of the movie. That's a big ole difference. I still think it was a good movie and I would go see the next one, but I enjoyed the book more and it was way longer.
Did you see that I am on book 20? It's going good, I think. I have 30 more books until I reach half of my goal and get a beautiful blue blazer for school. I can't wait!
Hi gracie ,I liked the Lightning Thief too but they did leave out alot of parts . I would of liked to see a scene with Clarisse in it , like when she gets her head into the toilet .My favorite part of the movie was Medusa's scene , and the Lotus Casino
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Hi Gracie, Sounds like you enjoyed the book more than the movie which I knew you would. It's fun to see how creative the movie people can be though. You are doing great with keeping up on your reading. Papa and I are very proud of you. Love you
ReplyDeleteAs you said before, the books are always better than the movie. I'm still going to go see it, but I'm glad to know ahead of time that it is different than the movie. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of movies based on books, I just noticed you're reading Bed Knobs and Broomsticks. Did you ever see that movie? It had really good special effects (for the time).
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