July Love

I love July. It’s been here for less than 12 hours, and I’ve already gone pretend-camping and had eight hours of sleep! Looking forward to much more,

Love,
Marci

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Movie Review: The Lightning Thief

There were a few questionable aspects to this movie.

1. The title is Too Long. (The full title is ‘Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief.’) I cannot remember all those words, and it seems a little pretentious. Like, that’s a lot of title to live up to, and the movie just doesn’t, quite.

2. Poor planning, poor choices, highly skeevy implications of abuse and/or sexual coercion. (Exhibit A: Four people, four marbles! Was there anyone who didn’t see this problem coming, except the characters themselves?) ((Exhibit B: Bakery, 24-hour fast food joint, perfume shop, Bath & Body store — really, the *only* solution Percy’s mom could come up with was marrying an abusive man with body odor?))

3. Highly disturbing visual imagery. If you don’t like snakes, or things that move in a snake-y way (like a hydra), this movie’s a definite skip. (Also, they carry Medusa’s head around. And then end up storing it in Percy’s mom’s fridge. WHO DOES THAT???)

But it also had some very fun aspects:

1. Jake Abel! HOLA, JAKE! I would love to read a story where he did not turn out to be the bad guy in the end. He was *hilarious* in his pre-evil scenes. Loved it!

2. Also loved the concept of Olympian bastard children (and assorted others) blending living in the modern world and training their old-skool powers. (The scene where Annabeth says — totally serious — that she’s never been on a real Quest before, like that’s a thing, and she should totally be checking that off the list. Awesome.)

And then there were some things that were just weird:

1. Pierce Brosnan. The centaur thing didn’t bother me, it was the hair. I couldn’t get past it. Every time he was on screen, all I could think was, “That’s Pierce Brosnan. But that hair!”)

2. Annabeth is played by Alexandra Daddario, who also played Kate in White Collar. Like, at the same time — the movie was released in 2010, and she was on WC between 2009 and 2011. I mean, crossover potential for sure, but really, really, weird crossover potential.

3. Why were the Greek gods giants? I sort of… didn’t get that part. I liked Poseidon’s hoodie, though. (Gee, there’s a shocker.)

Mirrored from The Marci Rating System.