Most disappointing movie adaptation
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Re: Most disappointing movie adaptation
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in my opinion, the twilight movies are an utter disappointment except for the action sequences in the movie
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Kiss the girls also kinds didmt sit well.with me! The book has quite a lot more meaning amd in depth as the movie
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Now, I wanted to like the movie. I loved some of the actors, and I thought the movie would be a lot of fun. And granted, the visuals were amazing. The one thing that the movie did well was give the viewer a sense of scale of the Maze, which was difficult for the book to do.
But the movie stripped the book down to its skeleton--and then seemed to leave out half the bones. It just missed the book. You could see studio interference, and where they changed things just to better fit the stereotypes of YA movies. So yeah--not very good.
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ColetteVC7 wrote:There are a lot of lackluster movie adaptations but I think that Percy Jackson probably the most disappointing movie adaptation for me. I mean, I don't really expect every detail from a book to translate to the screen (that would make movies way too long and it would defeat the purpose of using another art form to portray the story) but EVERYTHING was wrong. The ages of the characters, the backstory and foundation of the story, and then just the plot itself. All of it was off. It's like they didn't even read the book before making the movie.
This. Very much this. The Lightning Thief ruined a lot of the charm from the original book by aging up the characters, and not just by way of plot. The character interactions became quite forced and, honestly, it was just lame in comparison. The second movie was even more lacking in that they tried to compress four books into one, and that just ruined it completely.
If they had only stuck closer to the source material, Percy Jackson could have well been the next Harry Potter franchise.
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