Movies!

[elementalhero]

I saw two movies tonight.


...was awful. I have read all five books in the series, and I can say that the movie not only stripped the plot down to its most basic elements, it took the characters, twisted and crushed them until they were down to the most offensively stereotypical incarnations of themselves, and then ignored it all in favor of showing off the special effects. I hate Chris Columbus. I really just loathe him. As a filmmaker. I want to just. Ugh. Annabeth turned into some kind of amalgamation of the barest elements of her character and Clarice's character, and was then completely stripped of personality and turned into The Girl. She's a daughter of Athena and she did NOTHING. NOTHING. GOD-FRACKING-DAMNIT. And then there's Grover, who was turned into the Black Best Friend (complete with general ineffectiveness and Lame Jive Slang).

I just.

/sob.


BUT THEN....


...WAS THE GREATEST DISNEY MOVIE IN A LONG TIME. OMFG. I WAS LIKE. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH. THE MUSIC, THE CHARACTERS, THE VILLAIN, THE ARTWORK, THE EVERYTHING, THE AAAAAH I WAS SO HAPPY EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. /NO WOOOOOOOOOOOOORDS


So yeah.

Comments

[okroginator.livejournal.com]

I normally never like to outright tell people not to see movies, but I cannot in good conscience say anything complimentary about this movie. If you go, I hope you enjoy the movie-going experience, but I wouldn't advise it. In any way. At all. (I DO, however, fully support you reading the rest of the books :Db)

AAAAAH I want to see it more times, but it's out of our local theaters. I only got to see it through our on-campus free movie weekend service. But omg yes, I was like. Flailing the whole time. I FULLY WANT THIS MOVIE IN THE NEXT KINGDOM HEARTS.

[batsu-espada.livejournal.com]

I already feel really iffy about books being made into movies, because I know people are going to somehow mess it all up. ;; (Oh, totally already bought the second book, so no worries there 8Db)

It should be coming to DVD soon, I would assume. =3 And when it does, I'm totally spending my last few dollars on it. XD

[okroginator.livejournal.com]

I usually don't care if a movie follows the book too closely, so long as the characters remain compelling, the plot still makes sense, and the movie works as a movie (i.e. good cinematography and things). Columbus's take on Percy Jackson did none of these things.

Saaaaaaame.