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Aggressively breaks fourth wall

Percy: Hey, Annabeth, do you want to go to the movies with me? Annabeth: Sure, Percy, that sounds nice. What movie do you want to see? Percy: How about The Lightning Thief? Annabeth: … Percy: What? Is something wrong? Annabeth: Percy, you do realize that movie is based on our lives, right? Percy: Yeah, so? Annabeth: So, it’s terrible. It’s inaccurate, boring, and insulting. It’s an abomination that should never have been made. Percy: Oh. Well, then how about Sea of Monsters? Annabeth: Percy, that’s the sequel. Percy: Oh. Well, then how about The Titan’s Curse? Annabeth: Percy, that’s the third one. Percy: Oh. Well, then how about The Battle of the Labyrinth? Annabeth: Percy, are you just naming all the books in order? Percy: Maybe.

"if you ignore the inaccuracies the pjo movies are good" who are you lying to bc my mum watched the first one (she knows nothing about the series) and she may hate it more than I do bc of all the sexism and bad writing

*Me seeing everyone posting that the Percy Jackson movies are trash*

Me: I'm sure people are just overreacting.

*Watches the actual movies*

Me After: There are no Percy Jackson movies, there are only Peter Johnson movies.

Okay hear me out here.

The Percy Jackson movies are good.

Now I do have an explanation for this.

They’re good - ignoring the books. Like, if you take them away from being the stories of the books.

Like how they do Grover! I love Grover in the movies so much. I can’t lie, in the first movie, with the Hydra I think it was, all I could think of was that “OH SHIT! OH SHIT!” meme because that is so something Grover would do.

Now, I’ve just been watching them, I’m just starting Sea of Monsters right now, as I can’t wait for the series and can’t read the books right now, and I needed SOMETHING. I can’t really remember the movie too well, so I’m mainly talking about Lightning Thief in this post.

Just one thing that REALLY annoys me, regardless of the story, is when Percy and Luke are fighting, and Percy is about to be beat, so he uses the water from the water thingies to attack Luke.

That could have KILLED Luke, he was holding the embodiment of fucking lightning. Electrified water is very very dangerous, could have very easily killed Luke. Percy was being extremely reckless.

Also just the things that they miss out, like the Laestrygonians at the start of Sea of Monsters and Clarisse in Lightning Thief, and Tantalus in Sea of Monsters again. All these little things, would make it so much better. I understand that they didn’t have the time as it’s a movie, but at least Tantalus would have added to the movie so much if done well.

(Also random side note, I always imagined Clarisse as rather bulky, not a skinny little thing like in the movies.)

As amazing as the series looks, and it does look amazing, I think they should re-make the movies too. I don’t even care if they aren’t completely book accurate at this point, just make them a little bit better here and there, and they’d be amazing.

Thank you for your time.

I’m sobbing

We’ve finally finished the lightning thief in my English class, now we’re watching the first movie to compare with it; wherein I also get to see the Peter Johnson movie for the first time, we were given like papers to compare with the book and movie while we watched the movie; I was seated over in the back in the class, and I was working very hard to write down my thoughts… which turned into a very biased hypercritical (I think?) note taking session on things I didn’t like about the movies. I apologize for not putting a transcript down for the pictures below, but it was a long period of just yelling into my paper and silently apologizing to my braincells that had to be subjected to the movie, I mention in the photos what I consider bad writing (and several times I think I scribble out show don’t tell) and to note that I’m not a like writing genius that knows movies, but they kind of just… word vomit things at the viewer in like a 5 minute speed round that is like fact after fact and I was sitting there still thinking about the Mrs. Dodds scene, and they make the gods very involved? If that’s the right sentiment, if you get what I mean,