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[huntersandkings]

I am of the belief that there are many ways in which a film can be good; in the case of an adaptation of a book, a film can be good because it conforms totally with the original text (and thus perhaps cheers diehard fans of the book, thinking that the film manages to bring to wide-screen reality what they have been fantasizing all along), or it can

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[heaven_sword]

Chris Columbus certainly benefits from his experience in working with the first two HP movies. Chamber of Secrets is still pretty coherent, but Philosopher's Stone is such a wreck - there are too manyt hings happening too fast.

One thing I disagree with in the movie: in the book, Riordan repeatedly says 'Western civilization' which I take to mean that he realizes there are other pantheons/beliefs and tries to hint that he takes them into account. He's simply playing in the WC sandbox. In the movie, it's shown that Zeus and Poseidon's incoming battle takes effect on the whole world (cities the world over are struck by extreme weather), and IINM Zeus says "all worlds." It's the usual Hollywood supriority complex, methinks.

[huntersandkings]

Ooh, yes, good point! Actually I was wondering about that point too but forgot it completely when I wrote this review out of a raging fit, hahahaha. Actually my friend laughed when I told her about that 'Western civilization' thing in the book...

[huntersandkings]

And imagine if the whole book's going to be put into the film. How many hours would it take...

Hmmmm.
Percy Jackson TV series maybe? *winkwinkwinkwink*

But later. Let us indulge ourselves with Logan first.