I just came back from a movie with my family. Of course it had to be a random movie, because if it was not random, it would not be fun. That being said, we ended up watching Percy Jackson. The plot was really... Lets just say that the guy in charge of the story line was not getting paid enough. Unless you are excellent at suspending your disbelieve, you are probably going to question a hell lot in this movie. It is one of those movies that you do not have to think at all. You just sit there and accept everything you see as it is. A little like an economics lecture actually.
SPOILER ALERT: The following text contains spoilers that might ruined your already bad movie, making it even worse. If you intend to watch this movie, read the rest of this post at your own risk.
This movie is about a boy, Percy, who is a demi-god. Yes a demi-god. And yes it gets better. His best friend is a satyr, and is supposed to protect him. Percy gets attacked by a monster. A centaur saves him. Satyr guy tells him his real demi-godly identity, and he reacts appropriately, by following him to a camp for demi-gods to train their fighting skills. Why? It was not properly explained (Or I might have slept through that part.) but I figured they needed an outlet to pass time. Oh yea, his mother gets disintegrated by a minotaur. Ouch!
He trains for a day, and found out that he is the son of Poseidon (Which makes him very Powerful and Special.) That night, Hyades visited the camp and offered to trade the lightning Percy stole (He did not by the way, somebody else did and the godly gods somehow all thought that he was the one that stole it. Not very impressive.) for his mother, who was stuck in the underworld. So Percy goes of with ONE WHOLE DAY of training to seek out Hyades. Man, talk about being over prepared.
He goes on the find 3 pearls hidden around the United States that had the power to bring you to anywhere you wanted. These are supposed to get them out of hell. Getting in is easy, you just need to enter it via Hollywood and pay the ferry man to bring you to the heart of hell where Hyades resides. After all that, Percy tells Hyades that he did not have the lightning, but oh no! He does have it hidden in his shield! "You lie!" bellows Hyades before feeding him to the lost souls. But his wife took the lightning and zaps him before our heroes got killed. Yay! And finally, the geniuses realized that they only have 3 pearls, which means that one of them would have to stay in hell. Oh yea, I failed to mention that Percy, satyr dude and love interest of the show were travelling together all this while. You would have thought that they would be thoughtful enough to actually bring an extra pearl to get Percy's mum out of hell. So satyr dude, being an unimportant sidekick, had to stay in hell.
Percy goes on to the gateway to heaven, which is on top of the empire state building. He fights a boss battle with the guy that jacked him by passing him the shield. He wins. He goes to heaven. He passes the bolt of lightning to Zeus. The world is saved!
The end. Oh yea, he was this close to kissing the love interest. How can I forget the important part.
xw 5:46 AM
