The Sea of Monsters question

It made me ashamed to be a part of the PJO fandom. :(

it was actually better than the first one.

I am aware they can't fit in every detail from the book, but still, it was UNACCEPTABLE!!! Alot of it just kinda messed up the rest of the series. :*-( It was very disappointing.

They did fix a lot (well, maybe not a lot. But some) stuff from the first movie that they completely screwed up. Example: Annabeth's hair was blond, there was the prophecy... actually, that's about all I can think of.

I did enjoy (maybe 'enjoy' is pushing it...) the movie for the first part, but then it was just kind of boring after they meet Hermes. They get on the boat. They get to Circe land and fight the Cyclopes(seriously guys, it was supposed to be a spa, in the middle of the movie and the Cyclopes was not supposed to be there). And then Thalia magically appears when they put the Golden Fleece on the pine. They got that right at least. But there was nothing interesting there at all. If they had added the whole spa thing with C.C. and the guinea pigs and everything, it would have added another scene that would have made the movie better, instead of the whole trip being straight forward to the Cyclopes.

And when they're on the boat, they point out the traitors like Selena Beauregard. No! We weren't supposed to find that out until The Last Olympian, so that just ruined a whole plot line if they're planning on continuing the movies. And I was really disappointed that they cut out the first scene with Percy at the school. The whole dodgeball thing would have been cool. Why was the prophecy 'Shall reach TWENTY against all odds'? IT IS SIXTEEN! Get it right. It bothered me in the first movie, how they weren't 12. I think Logan Lerman would have been a good Percy in the last 2 books, when Percy was supposed to be 15/16.

I promise this is the last complaint. On the DVDs, they didn't even use the same font for the titles. And the first one is called 'Percy Jackson and the Olympians, The Lightning Thief' and the second one is called 'Percy Jackson, Sea of Monsters'. Pick a font and pick a title, and we're all good. Don't change them back and forth.

They did a better job on this movie than the first one (I honestly don't think the producers even read the book at that point, it was so messed up). Sorry for the rant.

yes please let's. why don't we? they totally ditched the book and wrote their own script. was very disappointed.

I make this point with The Shining, not all movies that don't follow the book are bad. But this was just pain abysmal. The graphics were atrocious, the plot line was terrible, the script was cringe-worthy; it was just overall a BAD movie. I actually enjoyed the first one more, because it seemed to have more of a purpose.

Yes! Lena, I totally agree with you! the first part was ok, even with the dodgeball game skipped over (I thought the opening scene and the song was awesome!) but the ending was terrible. I hated the fact that the Cyclops was in an amusement park and that they skipped Circe. Those were the parts where Annabeth really gets to shine and they would've added so much more action to the movie WITHOUT spoiling the rest of the books. That was my biggest complaint with the movies. As for the fact that the ages were ramped up, I would've have been fine with that if only they hadn't botched up the other things I've mentioned. Anyway, having said that, I still want to see the next movie, the person playing Thalia looks great.

I saw the first movie before I knew these books ever existed. I really liked the first movie in it's own right. It was funny and suspenseful. Obviously after reading the books I was able to nit pick but I still enjoy the movie. Sometimes people get too wrapped up in, "that wasn't in the book!" to appreciate the movie as a separate entity.

That being said, I absolutely hated the second movie. I did not find it entertaining in the least and then there was all the added business of, "that wasn't in the book". I think the only part I liked was them getting away from Charybdis. It was exciting and fun.

And then trouble started. The end of this movie was the worst adaptation of book to film. Worse than the second Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants movie where they shoved three books into one. *spoiler* They like defeated Kronos and Luke got eaten, but then they made Thalia come back. I couldn't decide if they were trying to end the series or keep it going.

I understand the manipulation of the prophecy. This book series, especially by this point, has a huge teenage following (and I'm 23 lol). So they wanted to pick characters their target audience could relate to. If they would have gotten actual twelve year olds it would have been more of a kids movie and that's not necessarily who they are marketing towards.

I'm totally with you Lena on them like completely skipping the point of Circe's island. I was literally in my seat at the theatre like yay he's gonna get turned into a guinea pig and then nothing happened. Total let down.

I was just in general not that entertained in this movie, so I was definitely disappointed. There's a thing on tumblr and it says, "The whole PJO fandom just ignores that the movies ever happened" It's so true.

Okey, to start with the totally ommited C.C and the mermaids. That part was awsome to show how Annabeth still wanted to rescue Luke, to bring him back. It was important to show that Annabeth still loved him, and so. Also, Cronos does not come out of his tomb, or whatever in the 2nd book!! God, it was such a spoiler. And I was very mad that they did not show how prcy knew tyson from Meriwether and did not just find out, out of nowwhere, that he existed. At several moments of the story Clarisse is shown to be even cute, when she is NOT AT ALL. Also Grover gets lost while searching for pan, which is totally ommited. Anyway, the 2 things that bugged me the most where that the last scene at the camp, where Annabeth and percy won the charriot competition was cut out. And, that Caribdis did not swallow percy and friends, they managed to escape. Another important fact is that Tyson was hurt at Clarisses boat, not at the island and, one last thing; Ares used to threaten Clarisse!!Which is not shown at the film. Yup, very dissapointed.

bookwormsoph wrote: "It wasn't even the fact that they added so much unnecessary crap or left 7548395743895278 pages of stuff out- the movie was just horribly done. Thoughts?"

So bad! ;-)

I just want to block the whole endeavor from my memory.

Was it just me or did Kronos rise in the Sea of Monsters book? I think not.
Sometimes I hate movies

i totally agree with everything you said, lena.
if they were aiming to please the PJO fandom, it was total failure. like, a bigger failure than Perachel shippers.