Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28920054-20160704011048/@comment-29154221-20160808142004

Apparently the post I made before didn't go through, so I'll say it again.

I personally do think that they got quite a bit lazy when they were making the movies. For one, the characters were just horrendous. Let's talk about them as a whole before going into specifics. All the characters are at least four years older than what they are supposed to be. I know that is because it is supposed to be appealing to the older audiences, but that essentially got rid of the entire beginning and 5-year story. The character appearances were decent, but they could've done a LOT better. And to do so it wouldn't take that much. Just dye Logan's hair black, use some gel to make it more random and spiky, and give him green contacts. Same thing for Alexandra. Dye hair, contacts, gel or other hair thing for "princess curls." I personally thought Grover's appearance was okay, but his personality could use some changes. He wasn't the paranoid, shy satyr that he was in the books. Nuff said about the characters, now to the plot. In The Lightning Thief the beginning is decently accurate, although it went a bit down when it came to the underworld. That bit was slightly rushed it seemed, but they COMPLETELY FORGOT ABOUT THE BATTLE WITH ARES! %90 of the audience would have LOVED to see that part, but they forgot about it and ended it with Luke and Percy fighting. In The Sea of Monsters pretty much the same thing happened, but the ABSOLUTE WORST was the prophecy. As soon as I heard it, I knew they were just quitting on the movies. I really thought they got lazy when Percy was supposed to be 16 in TLT but then he's instantly 20, which isn't even the correct age to begin with, fighting Kronos in the wrong place, with no Styx bathing or awesome son of Poseidon or anything else.

But, just to cut them some slack, I'll try to defend the directors. For one, it is quite difficult to make. Movie that is more than 24 hours long. TLT and I believe TSOM all take place over multiple days in the books. On top of that, you would need a HUGE budget for special effects and all of that to show all of Percy's powers, the monsters, etc. While they did get quite lazy with the movies, they did the best they could. (I doubt that they did, just wanted to end on a better note.)