Movies!
I saw two movies tonight.
...was awful. I have read all five books in the series, and I can say that the movie not only stripped the plot down to its most basic elements, it took the characters, twisted and crushed them until they were down to the most offensively stereotypical incarnations of themselves, and then ignored it all in favor of showing off the special effects. I hate Chris Columbus. I really just loathe him. As a filmmaker. I want to just. Ugh. Annabeth turned into some kind of amalgamation of the barest elements of her character and Clarice's character, and was then completely stripped of personality and turned into The Girl. She's a daughter of Athena and she did NOTHING. NOTHING. GOD-FRACKING-DAMNIT. And then there's Grover, who was turned into the Black Best Friend (complete with general ineffectiveness and Lame Jive Slang).
I just.
/sob.
BUT THEN....
...WAS THE GREATEST DISNEY MOVIE IN A LONG TIME. OMFG. I WAS LIKE. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH. THE MUSIC, THE CHARACTERS, THE VILLAIN, THE ARTWORK, THE EVERYTHING, THE AAAAAH I WAS SO HAPPY EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. /NO WOOOOOOOOOOOOORDS
So yeah.
...was awful. I have read all five books in the series, and I can say that the movie not only stripped the plot down to its most basic elements, it took the characters, twisted and crushed them until they were down to the most offensively stereotypical incarnations of themselves, and then ignored it all in favor of showing off the special effects. I hate Chris Columbus. I really just loathe him. As a filmmaker. I want to just. Ugh. Annabeth turned into some kind of amalgamation of the barest elements of her character and Clarice's character, and was then completely stripped of personality and turned into The Girl. She's a daughter of Athena and she did NOTHING. NOTHING. GOD-FRACKING-DAMNIT. And then there's Grover, who was turned into the Black Best Friend (complete with general ineffectiveness and Lame Jive Slang).
I just.
/sob.
BUT THEN....
...WAS THE GREATEST DISNEY MOVIE IN A LONG TIME. OMFG. I WAS LIKE. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH. THE MUSIC, THE CHARACTERS, THE VILLAIN, THE ARTWORK, THE EVERYTHING, THE AAAAAH I WAS SO HAPPY EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. /NO WOOOOOOOOOOOOORDS
So yeah.