Comments on: The Lightning Thief – Movie vs. Book

By: ME

ME — Wed, 18 May 2011 17:18:22 +0000

Yeah person above me is right, Rick did not work with the director and he didnt see the movie because he thinks it will change his view of his characters,
Stop giving out false information.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 23:07:48 +0000

for ryguy:
first of all it says in Rick Riordan’s website that he did NOT work with the director in the movie he just visited the set and met the actors. Also he didnt even see the movie because he said it would change his point of view for future books!
so do some research before you do some stupid comment!!!

By: Quora

Quora — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:32:05 +0000

How is The Lightning Thief different as a movie, vs. the book?…

I found the list below and I can verify that it is accurate.

In general the movie did not showcase the gods as much as it should have. I was most disappointed that Ares didn’t make an appearance in the movie. There is so much potential for the go…

By: blah blah

blah blah — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:42:22 +0000

Percy didn’t even fight the minotaur! There was MUCH MORE action in the books!!! The movie is OK, but could have been SO MUCH better had it followed the book’s storyline. They didn’t even mention Hades’ helm of darkness and Ares wasn’t even there! Whatever happened to the whole mechanical spider attack? Like I said… NO ACTION! I think there should DEFINITELY be a remake, because the last book has 16 year olds, but if they go on like this, the last movie will have 21 year old kids… which is NOT what any reader has in mind!

By: Joelle

Joelle — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 23:28:42 +0000

Major differences:
NO Ares or Clarisse
NO mention of Titans
Chiron is supposed to be the only centaur there, everyone else is a Party Pony
Yancy is a boarding school
NO going to Missouri
Going to Tenessee
Posiedon helps Percy, not Persephone
NO charmed fly shoes to go to Tartarus
Annabeth has CURLY PRINCESS BLOND HAIR
Bolt in backpack
Lotus Casino is all wrong- they don’t have to eat flowers to stay there
supposed to be the ONLY people in Auntie Em’s
SNACK BAR in Auntie Em’s
all THREE FURIES on bus on way
Bus breaks down and they run to Auntie Em’s, only stopping cause they are hungry

Those are just a few. i think we are in need of a remake

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 01:56:15 +0000

I would have probably like the movie better if I hadn’t read the book, because when people read the book they already have a picture in there mind on how the characters, scenes, and plot should be like, and the director has to factor in that most people won’t have read the book, what will sell, and how to keep everything in a time limit, so you can’t really blame anyone that the movie never turns out exactly like the book.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 01:05:53 +0000

why is annabeth a brunette?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 01:12:29 +0000

-actors are too old
- Annabeth is suppose to have blonde hair
-percy and his mom were suppose to go to a beachhouse and Grover was suppose to show up in the middle of the night, then they were suppose to get struck by lightning and they wrecked in a ditch, then they got to the top of half blood hill and the Minotaur got percys mom and she dissenigrated, then Percy defeated the Minotaur, and he woke up in halfblood camp.
- there wasn’t even a halfblood hill
- thalias tree wasn’t mentioned
- Annabeth, Grover and percys quest was to find zeus’ lighting bolt
- the pearls were a gift from a water spirit
- they were suppose to crash in a bus in the beginning of the quest, and the three fates were suppose to be on the bus
- they were suppose to randomly fing Auntie Ems garden gnome shop, then go to the gateway arch in Missouri and fight Echidna, then they go to the lotus hotel and then they go to the crab guys mattress shop and then they go to the place to get to the underworld. Then they go in the underworld and they see Cerberus and then they go to the pit with Tartarus to save Grover with his cursed flying shoes. Percy then realizes his backpack is heavy because of the bolt.

The movie doesn’t follow any of this at all.. They need a remake.

By: Kat

Kat — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 08:57:40 +0000

The movie was okay but if Rick was working with the director i don’t know what they were thinking. the movie and the book are only loosely tied together but it is better than the adaptation of Eragon. Although leaving out Cronos is very very hard to understand why they would do that and also Luke being defeated at the end of the movie. Without those two things it would be very very hard to do a sequel but at least they could maybe do flashbacks but still. They could have done a lot better. I love the series that i wouldn’t have minded at all if it were a little longer if it were more accurate and there is in my opinion a clear difference between artistic licensing and plain leaving out crucial information.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 22:55:15 +0000

RyGuy, thanks for your comment. The main discussion point of the article were the differences between the book and the movie. I would certainly like to see the second book in the series as a movie, but have not heard any news in that regard. The movie did “ok”, with IMDB stating the box office gross at $89,000,000 when the movie costs $95,000,000. I’m sure DVD Sales will pick that up a bit.