User blog comment:Darkcloud1111/Official "The Sea of Monsters (movie)" Discussion/@comment-6951062-20130327190539/@comment-15843945-20130329155324

@ Mark: The Harry Potter movies were not massively loyal to the books but that is nothing new. The Harry Potter movies were a massive success financially (Remember movies are products. Made to be consumed by the masses. So are books and music and painting) and critically (If the people who's jobn it is to say whether a movie is good or bad,say its good than it will be pretty hard to argue). If you wanna go against the majority and complain thats fine by me. My point is that Harry Potter (Both movies and books) are what ANY new movie series based off a book will be compared too. Percy Jackson is doing a good thing by going different (Twilight is what is called a failure) The Hunger Games finale will also be compared to Harry Potter. So will The 39 Clues (if the movie happens) and Warriors.... Harry Potter has set the bar. It is up to everyone else to either raise the bar OR side-step it and create a new bar like Percy Jackson should do because it HAS that potential.