Caveat: This is not going be pretty. Faint of heart, turn away now.
I understand that book to movie translations are rarely ever going to turn out great, and I don't expect movies to be completely loyal to its original medium. What I do expect is for adaptations to at least have a slight resemblance to the book/novel/short story they were based upon.
I feel I need to ask the writers of Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lighting Thief: did you find the original story lacking?
I mean, I know this movie adaptation exists a. to cater to the young adult demographic, b. to kick start a promising new franchise, c. to lure new fans into the fold, and d. to see whether director Chris Columbus can lend his Harry Potter magic to Percy Jackson. I won't even go to the Harry Potter-Percy Jackson comparison because they are not the same book, you would just find them in the same section in your local bookstore. There is no point in pitting them against each other.
Anyway, I watched The Lightning Thief with several of the my multiple personalities and three of them had different opinions of the movie:
The Percy Jackson and the Olympians fan: SACRILEGE! They smote off all the good parts and replaced them with different hacked off body parts. Why cut off a perfectly good arm and replace it with a bat wing?
The Inner Kid: Wow, Hydra! Wow, Medusa! Wait, how come Hades looks like a washed up rockstar?
The One Who was Asleep while I was Reading the Book Series: Is it just me or does this movie feel like they just made shit up as they went along? It's a Frankenmovie.
I'm sure some of you liked it, but then again, some people liked Eragon too.
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