Book-to-movie review: Percy Jackson and the Olympians~ The Lightning Thief
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Book-to-movie review: Percy Jackson and the Olympians~ The Lightning Thief
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I absolutely agree with you. That is the bane of reading the book before the movie. You know every scene the skip or merge into another or change altogether. The Lighteing Thief movie was good but definitely not as good as the book. I think I finished all the books in the series in less than a week.mattie_morrow2 wrote: ↑11 May 2018, 21:27 So I’m sure many of you have heard of the famous author, Rick Riordan. He wrote the book series, ‘Percy Jackson and the Olympians’ along with manyyy other amazingly, well written books also made into different series’. The first book of the ‘Percy Jackson and the Olympians’ series is called ‘The lightning thief’. This book is outstanding and so beautifully written like every other book by Rick Riordan, in mine and a lot of other peoples opinions. But another opinion many others would agree with as well is how bad the movie is, compared to the book itself. The movie is good but it doesn’t really match the book at all, therefore making it not enjoyable because the whole time you’re watching it you’re just screaming at the tv saying, “IT WASN’T LIKE THAT IN THE BOOK FOR CHRISTS SAKE AGH.” Books in my opinion, always, a l w a y s, overrule the movie. I have a very vivid imagination and the books words jut paint a picture in my head. So this was my review of Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief vs the Movie version. Thank you !
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I agree with this. If you hadn’t read the books, the movies would have been entertaining and good enough. However, because of the expectations, the enjoyment is decreased. These expectations restricted the movies as well. The expectations prevented them from possibly being better because they had to stay true (or as close to it as they could) to the books and couldn’t go through with other (maybe better) ideas.AmateurBookCritic wrote: ↑06 Aug 2019, 17:34 The book were definitely better than the movie however I do feel that the movies are quite good; only if it weren't advertised as the adaptation of the novel. The movie really wanted to go another direction instead of following the novel and I feel that is what made it a box office bomb.
Movies and books are different mediums. Some things in one won’t translate as well on the other; each have their own strengths.
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