Well... I didn't HATE it. I wanted to love it. I was pleased that we finally got Thalia and ASH was great as the new Chiron (although he's barely in the movie) and Stanley Tucci is always a delight. And everyone agreed the one scene with Fillion as Hermes was the highlight of the movie (and he got the only big laugh in our theatre). I did my best not to get annoyed with the changes from the books, because I know that they need to change things to make it work in a movie length, or even just in the medium. Portable MIST in a bottle? It was already explained in the first movie that mortals can't see the weird stuff, and that Mist is just a naturally-occurring phenomena. Was it just easier to not have to CGI his eyes all the time? (I will say that I found Tyson way less irritating than in the book, a definite change for the better.) But regardless, I felt it was super predictable even with all the changes, and I was annoyed that they basically only encountered one sea monster in a story called SEA OF MONSTERS. Polyphemus doesn't
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I had a lot of the same thoughts about the movie. I really liked the first half and hated the second half because it was like at some point they just ditched character development to be all KRONOS. I really, really thought the sirens were an important part of the book and there was no need to leave it out. Also, I felt it lacked the real sadness of Tyson's 'death' because Percy and Annabeth traveled for a while after he thought Tyson died and in the movie it was like 5 minutes and during battle so not honestly enough time to let it sink in. I just wan't feeling Percy's "this is my brother and it was my responsibility to take care of him" thing from the book. I also really missed Tyson's "I asked daddy for a brother and he gave me you" stuff. I felt Tyson should have been portrayed as more... mentally deficient as in the books because he's, what, 8? And intellectually disabled. And they sort of just made him naive but not in need of actual protection. In the book he needs Percy to take care of him, and that was missing from the movie
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