Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief

[Kronics]

Personally I cant wait to see this film :D It looks really good.

If you don't know what im about about click here (http://www.habbo.co.uk/groups/percyjackson)

You'll be able to see a trailer of the movie! :)

Thoughts?

[Black_Apalachi]

Oh, it's part of a Habbo campaign? That just put me off.

[Kronics]

Lol yeh but still.

Film looks good.

[Stephen!]

Around 5% of people seeing this are going to quickly glance at the title and think it's called 'Peter Jackson's" and will go and see it :p

[Kronics]

Lol Yeh possibly :P

Nice sig btw!

[Hiro]

Saw the poster for this the other month and figured I'd want to see it, I personally cannot wait to see it.

[Kronics]

Well at least someone else is looking forward to it! :P:P:P

[dirrty]

the films name reminds me of a harry potter film and the plot also reminds me of hercules

[Neversoft]

the films name reminds me of a harry potter film

It's directed by Chris Columbus, the same guy who directed the first two Harry Potter films.

[TaffTalk]

Oh god not another Harry Potter, Narnia, Aragon, Golden Compass etc.

[Kronics]

Nah, I think it's going to be better mate.

[kk.]

Watched a trailer the other day for this and it looks good. Probs will only see it on DVD though.

[Rozi]

omg I was like so excited about this because I've read all the books (sadiknow :() but I watched the trailer and was quite disappointed. The main point that makes the books enjoyable is that they're rly funny and sort of are all about mythical creatures and the gods and all but also about like the problems you face while being a teenager. I saw like jack **** of that in the trailer but I'm still deffo gonna go see it and drag my friends along.

[Hiro]

Watched this last night. Russian CAM with English audio. It is actually a really good movie. Interesting and funny at times, it's possible there could be a sequal, but who knows.

[Misawa]

We gave it 1 star.

The Hollywood powers-that-be are hoping that this will one herald a franchise to take over from Harry Potter. Slim chance of that. Though kids will probably be entertained there's precious little here to impress the adults. It's clunky, episodic and has excruciating dialogue. It's also overlong and over-reliant on CGI effects while the central premise is unpersuasive.


Percy Jackson (Lerman) is your average 17-year-old high-schooler. He lives with his mum (a miscast Keener) and her no-good boyfriend (Pantoliano) having never seen his real father. That's because pa is legendary Greek God Poseidon (McKidd). His parents were somewhat mismatched. Anyway, Poseidon is involved in a skirmish with Zeus (pronounced Zoose by the actors), played by Bean. Apparently his lightning bolt has been stolen and he's convinced Poseidon's son is the culprit.


When his life is endangered Percy moves away from home to a training camp for demi-gods, the offspring of the Greek legends. He is helped by his best buddy Grover (Jackson), a satyr, and falls for pretty Annabeth (Daddario), the daughter of Athena while being mentored by Chiron the Centaur (Brosnan, unafraid to look ridiculous). Their quest takes them to destinations including New Jersey and Las Vegas where they behead evil Medusa (Thurman) and fight dastardly Hades (Coogan) who's accompanied by sexy Persephone (Dawson) before finishing at Mount Olympus, situated high above New York City don't you know.


By the time the the eventual climax is reached you'll be tired out from the hamfisted direction and relentless effects. Director Columbus adopts the same template as his two Harry Potter efforts and Young Sherlock Holmes - the three young innocent leads in constant peril. But this goes on forever and fails to charm. Though they have abundant energy the lead characters are not particularly likeable and the scenes with the Greek Gods are laughable. Bean, McKidd and co are all so po-faced and spout such ludicrous lines with utter solemnity you cannot fail to laugh.


One sincerely hopes that this does not lead to further sequels, but young children might well be impressed with the colourful design and fire-breathing monsters. They'll probably come out happily sated but elders will find it a feat of endurance to sit through. It wears you out with its plastic attempts at excitement and lack of intelligent scripting. Best to avoid it unless you have to bow to pressure from your little offspring.

[dbgtz]

Apparently MW2 has a cameo in it (according to Robert Bowling via twitter). What is it, like the bloke goes "hey lets go play mw2". Anyway doesn't interest me at all, don't even like harry potter.

[Misawa]

The game wasn't even out until way after it finished principal photography.

[dbgtz]

Hope everyone had a great Vday weekend! Anyone go see Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief and catch the #MW2 (http://twitter.com/search?q=%23MW2) cameo? 5:22 AM Feb 15th (http://twitter.com/fourzerotwo/status/9128455531)from web

http://twitter.com/fourzerotwo

[Misawa]

The film wrapped in July. The game would have been digitally added onto a TV to make the film look as current as possible in its 2 seconds of screen time.

[Hiro]

The cameo is Kevin McKidd (Poseidon), because he voices Soap MacTavish. Just a bit of insight there for ya ;)

[Misawa]

I looked into it and the game appears on screen for a couple of seconds, hence my previous post.

[Gibs960]

OK, Basically on Monday I went to see Percy Jackson and the lightening thief, I thought it was basically like harry potter with swords and gods.

Merged by Laurensh1 (Forum Moderator): Topic already on the same subject.

[Technologic]

You and every other review :p

[Misawa]

ALREADY A THREAD RIGHT BELOW, PLEASE OPEN YOUR EYES, THANK YOU!

[today]

ALREADY A THREAD RIGHT BELOW, PLEASE OPEN YOUR EYES, THANK YOU!
PLEASE CALM DOWN, THANK YOU!

[Hiro]

I looked into it and the game appears on screen for a couple of seconds, hence my previous post.

Is that what he picks up in the apartment? I figured it was just a book.

[Misawa]

A character plays it apparently.

[Hiro]

A character plays it apparently.

Oh yeah, I know where now. Lucas in his "pad" with that ridiculous set up of TVs. About 43 minutes in.

[Pixet]

CAPITALS DON'T MAKE YOU LOOK SMART OR IMPORTANT. THANK YOU.

Harry Potter with swords sounds awesome.

[Hiro]

Well, the director did direct some HP movies...

[Amzoe]

Yeah.. It's made by the same people. I'm sure it's not that much different, just different people I guess. I might go and see it tomorrow.

[DJ-Ains.T]

everyone says this, so i aint watching it. ill stick to harry potter.

[Misawa]

CAPITALS DON'T MAKE YOU LOOK SMART OR IMPORTANT.

I am both.

[Black_Apalachi]

CAPITALS DON'T MAKE YOU LOOK SMART OR IMPORTANT. THANK YOU.

Harry Potter with swords sounds awesome.

You're right. They make you look like you're shouting at someone for not reading a forum before they make a thread. Wow, it works too.

[Oleh]

The fact that on one screen hes on what looks like favela on free for all, he pauses it with a ps3 pad and enemies are shooting all around him yet he is on an xbox at the same time another screen shows the accolades page he's also using an automatic but frantically pulling the trigger - FAIL

[Amzoe]

Now that I've heard its' from the same people as Harry Potter, I'm thinking that it's going to be crap. I probably will end up watching it, however.

[Misawa]

The fact that on one screen hes on what looks like favela on free for all, he pauses it with a ps3 pad and enemies are shooting all around him yet he is on an xbox at the same time another screen shows the accolades page he's also using an automatic but frantically pulling the trigger - FAIL

Like I said, the actor wasn't actually playing the game. He was looking at a TV with green screen on it. The game wasn't out for four months after when it was being filmed. It's a digital effect!

[Fez]

Yay garbage fantasy films.

*awaits ragefest*

[Gibs960]

HARRY POTTER WITH SWORDS BASICALLY, EVEN THE HORSE/MAN GUY WAS LIKE DUMBLEDORE!!!! :@

[dbgtz]

Anyone got a clip of the mw2 thing, I wanna see it.

[Fez]

I like how everyone is more interested in 3 seconds of MW2 footage than the actual film.

[Phreedom]

I like how everyone is more interested in 3 seconds of MW2 footage than the actual film.
haha gotta love it

[superstar911]

This movie was so incredibly awful!