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Went and saw Percy Jackson tonight.
Made the mistake of reading the book first. Found myself enjoying the book and plan on reading the other four.
This is the SECOND foray of Chris Columbus's that I haven't enjoyed. He directed my least favorite Harry Potter movies. Why did I not like them? They didn't follow the freakin' book! Why do I not like the Percy Jackson movie very much? IT DIDN'T FOLLOW THE FREAKIN' BOOK!
Rick Riordan wrote a pretty good book, populated with all kinds of Greek Mythological characters both well-known and not so well-known. It gets made into a movie that has nothing to do with the book itself save for the main character. And Medusa. I'll give them that. But there is so much more in the book that could have been so cool in the movie. It's a case of "I don't want to take this so I need to make the story move along by adding this which means that I can't use that from the book so I have to... well, let's just start all over, shall we?" all over again.
Other books have had similar fates. Blood and Chocolate and Ella Enchanted to name two. Both good books. Pretty decent movies if you don't know what either of them should have been.
Why? Whywhywhywhywhywhywhydka;lkdna;ga;sinalkv'asa'fmlkfmn;s
I only hope that if/when I have a book on the shelves at my local library, some movie company doesn't come along and buy it for the title only. How depressing it must be for these authors to see their "children" ripped apart and sewn back together like that!
To celebrate my irritated mood, I think I'll go write fanfic. Yeah... I'll tear apart someone's "child" and put it back together like I want it to be. *grins*
Made the mistake of reading the book first. Found myself enjoying the book and plan on reading the other four.
This is the SECOND foray of Chris Columbus's that I haven't enjoyed. He directed my least favorite Harry Potter movies. Why did I not like them? They didn't follow the freakin' book! Why do I not like the Percy Jackson movie very much? IT DIDN'T FOLLOW THE FREAKIN' BOOK!
Rick Riordan wrote a pretty good book, populated with all kinds of Greek Mythological characters both well-known and not so well-known. It gets made into a movie that has nothing to do with the book itself save for the main character. And Medusa. I'll give them that. But there is so much more in the book that could have been so cool in the movie. It's a case of "I don't want to take this so I need to make the story move along by adding this which means that I can't use that from the book so I have to... well, let's just start all over, shall we?" all over again.
Other books have had similar fates. Blood and Chocolate and Ella Enchanted to name two. Both good books. Pretty decent movies if you don't know what either of them should have been.
Why? Whywhywhywhywhywhywhydka;lkdna;ga;sinalkv'asa'fmlkfmn;s
I only hope that if/when I have a book on the shelves at my local library, some movie company doesn't come along and buy it for the title only. How depressing it must be for these authors to see their "children" ripped apart and sewn back together like that!
To celebrate my irritated mood, I think I'll go write fanfic. Yeah... I'll tear apart someone's "child" and put it back together like I want it to be. *grins*
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Date: 2010-02-21 07:50 am (UTC)From:MEH.
I haven't read the Percy Jackson books yet. Wanted to see the movie.. haven't heard great reviews. Will probably wait until DVD.
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Date: 2010-02-22 12:37 am (UTC)From: