Cinematic Flashback: Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010)
If your boy is the thief, I will possibly send out him to the depths of Tartarus. He must rejoinder the screw to me in 14 days, by midnight on the summer season solstice…. or there will possibly be war” as Jason’s Movie Blog reverts to Greek Myths for the “cinematic flashback” weigh of 2010’s Percy Jack & the Olympians: The Lightning Robber.
PERCY JACKSON & THE OLYMPIANS: THE LIGHTNING THIEF
“Planets Collide”
Director: Chris Colombus
Novelist: Craig Titley
Starring: Logan Lerman, Brandon T. Jackson, Alexandra Daddario, Sean Bean, Kevin McKidd, and Pierce Brosnan
Dashed Time: 119 minutes
Launch Day: February 12th, 2010
Ranked: PG
MY THOUGHTS
Throughout the mid to late 2000s, the triumphes of the Harry Potter films was the overture to be observing as a salable organization at the box job-related ensconcing, raking millions international and garnishing a long-rushing franchise business of which Warner Bros. Studios banked heavily on proper into a movie series juggernaut. So, consequent in its wake, multiple Hollywood Studios started to acquire up the civil liberties to another mythical / newfangled YA (Young X-rated or some can call it YR for Young Internet site tourists), requiring C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Closet (2005’s The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Closet), Phillip Pullman’s The Gold Compass (2007’s The Gold Compass), Susan Cooper’s The Morbid is Rising (2007’s The Seeker), Cornelia Funke’s Inkheart (2008’s Inkheart), and Christopher Paolini’s Eragon (2006’s Eragon) merely to moniker a few. However, while not unanimously, different of these movie adaptation tasks recovered blended to negative revisits from critics and tourists; situating them to be lone accumulating one or 2 films and terminating the opportunity franchise business tag that the workshops longed. One of these openings came in the kind of Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Robber, a 2010 movie that is based on author Rick Riordan’s bestselling novel of the really same moniker. With an incorrectly newfangled fandom in Riordan’s literary job and the opportunity movie franchise business that lay previously 20th Century Fox, who ordered the movie civil liberties, The Lightning Robber was posed to be a fomenting heir such as the Harry Potter movie series was winding down. Yet, it didn’t actually pan out the proper means or rather the means that the workshop directors were monetary on. So, permit’s us rundown The Lightning Robber in this “cinematic flashback” blog post weigh and how Percy Jackson’s initially cinematic escape was fantastic to see come alive on-orchestrate, yet ravaged via perplexities.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Robber is channelled by Chris Colombus, the director behind such movie openings prefer 2 Harry Potter films (Sorcerer’s Rock and Chamber of Primes), Mrs. Doubtfire, and The Goonies. Enacting on his online prominence on his jobs, Colombus seems prefer a desirable substitute to helm a project prefer this, coming close to Riordan’s novel via the really same type of intent of what he did via J.K. Rowling’s novel on his job on the Harry Potter movies. This fairly backfires on the director, but I’ll cite that beneath. Suffice to claim, Colombus still preserves the amenity morally the really same type of fun and interacting exertions that Riordan intended, via the amenity possessing that pre-teenage YA fantasy exploration ambiance that blends young adult tropes, solution, and Greek Folklore. The result can be observing as a tad of hodgepodge at times, yet the movie still deals with to implement for some reputable strides in his forming and periodically execution. It implement utilises the sizeable residential of Riordan’s story and carries out implement some compelling things, within parental estrangement (Poseidon and Percy) also as conjuring up that ageless hero “fish-out-of-marine” tale throughout Percy’s journey. Of course, I’ve been a devotee of Greek Folklore, so it was always fun to see such depictions of creatures and beings from those incorrectly really same myths come alive in a immense budgeted movie. The movie’s solution in the movie was morally nice. Of course, it wasn’t anything “groundbreaking” or cede the really same type of clarity of blockbuster catapults that year, but still hosted its own and ranked some slick, nice series of Greek Folklore solution.
For its trial, the movie aesthetic sophistications and felt prefer a movie for its time, accumulating the proper quantity of blockbuster visual oomph one would suppose from boy’s fantasy exploration movie. Kits were staked out and reinforced not surprisingly, locales were overjoying and periodically otherworldly (to guidances invent that Greek fantasy mythos), and the costume models filteringed system fantastic throughout. Also some of the movie’s cinematography massaged aesthetic sophistications aesthetically fun and assists build upon those remarkable scenes finely. In a analogous means, the standing for the movie owned a fantastic match for the amenity and roused up that sense of exploration and fanfare throughout the proceedings.
Regretfully, the movie isn’t pretty the amazing as speedily as its completely stolen another filter at and becomes more of “mesh mash” of ideas and ideas rather than a completely realized adaptation. With a runtime of 119 minutes (one hour and fifty-9 minutes), The Lightning Robber shots to condense an whole novel under a 2-hour mark, via Colombus combating of how to convey information rudiments that the asset telephone refers to as for. As a result, the movie itself feels out of species and paced in rather puzzling manner, via some scenes being hurried and some merely not actually hitting the proper “target” properly, which merely renders them agony in the neck to claim the the incorrectly least.
Right, what is the different outright that the movie carries out is some of the web content that is afar and flee out for Riordan’s retrieve. Of course, this is constant peculiarity as speedily as readjusting a novel to a movie (or any type of other media tool), so I licensed something prefer this was filching part in ensue. However, multiple elemental facets and parts were effortlessly switched over around or merely trim from the movie’s trial. This requires multiple temperaments let loose in Camp Half Blood, the immense battle scene in the thirdly deportment is effortlessly polymorphous from the retrieve’s asset (requiring who Percy basically battles), and the running out opts for a more “glad running out” rather than a tad ominous running out during the novel’s last phase (wherein the real lightning thief is divulged). There are a few other scenes that were switched over / afar, but you procure the suggestion. Plus, the readjusting of information temperament rudiments and thematic tones in the movie filter of felt “ripped off” by the likeable ideology that Riordan owned in his stories, via the movie offering more of a generic and bland diagram. One would reckon that Colombus, who adjusted Rowling’s initially 2 Harry Potter stories proper into amenity length films (including majority of the novel’s asset) would have a better (and stronger) clutching of trying to readjust Riordan’s novel, specifically offered that the workshop directors longed to implement this initially installation in a series salable.
The sizeable triad actors members for the movie (Percy, Grover, and Annabeth) were pretty reputable for the different component, via Logan Lerman, Brandon T. Jackson, and Alexandra Daddario applying their greatest to fiascos around these temperaments and passed on sufficient orchestrate presence to implement their presence licensed in their scenes. Could they’ve have been better? Yes, different most certainly. Lug out I see polymorphous actors / starlet playing these temperaments? Yes, most certainly. However, for what it’s worth, I they were ample sufficient to implement Riordan temperaments come alive on-orchestrate, via Lerman predicting the proper quantity of youthful naivety and heroic bravery, Jackson possessing plenty to claim via his one-cellular lining misbehaviors, and Daddario journey optimistic in her admiration and tactful within her temperament’s prowess and distressed intellect.
There is unquestionably no misinterpretation that the triad of these sizeable temperaments wherein a tad the really same to the sizeable triad in Harry Potter (Riordan renders it more transparent than the movie carries out in the stories), but I felt that Lerman, Jackson, and Daddario do implement for compelling lead temperament leads in the movie. Perhaps the lone woe that I owned via the sizeable triad is that they unanimously filteringed system a tad older than what was original intended in the story. It’s not a provision breaker or anything, but they worn’t specifically look to be the period that Riordan intended them to be. Perhaps the lone one who basically filteringed system the period from the retrieve is the temperament of Luke Castellan, the demigod boy of Hermes, who is dabbled by superstar Jake Abel.
What’s deterring is that the movie did in reality have the advantageous “superstar power” from a wide range of recognizable actors and starlets to fiascos around the assorted temperaments in the story. This requires Sean Bean, Kevin McKidd, Steve Coogan, Rosario Dawson, Uma Thurman, Pierce Brosnan, Catherine Keener, and Joe Pantoliano. All of them do fantastic openings in their relating semblances throughout the movie, via different (if not unanimously) loan their orchestrate presence to the movie, which is such a embarassment that the movie didn’t confiscate off. I, for one, favorite these talents attached to the movie (even but different were deepening temperaments in the movie) and wished that the movie franchise business proceeded better…. via them attached to it.
The legacy of Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Robber was another setback miscalculation from Hollywood as the movie recovered blended revisits from critics, tourists, and its fanbase, via multiple citing that the capabilities from Lerman and Jackson were nice also as the visual chattels and solution scenes, but fallen short to ensnare (and clutching) the Riordan’s resource asset and a bland / generic manuscript. In intensification, the amenity earned harshly $294 million at the box job-related ensconcing versus its $95 million production bag, which is incorrectly poor, but not pretty the numbers the workshop was gazing for, specifically offered that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 rendered well over $977 million international that incorrectly really same year. A heed-up heed up was greenlit by 20th Century Fox, via Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Sea of Monsters, the second retrieve of Riordan’s series, three years later, but, much prefer this one, was met via blended revisits and opinions also as another genius reception box job-related ensconcing run out results; running out the movie franchise business totally. However, Disney, via their acquisition of 20th Century Fox workshops, possesses refreshed the brand of Riordan’s Percy Jackson in Percy Jackson and the Olympians, a TV series wherein the initially period will possibly wrap up the narrative of The Lightning Robber and will possibly be let loose on Disney + spouting solutions on December 20th, 2023. Lone time will possibly tell how the TV series will possibly be recovered by tourists.
In the run out, 2010’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Robber is a deterring movie that possesses plenty of opportunity from its literary resource asset, an kudo movie director, and the recognizable pretending talents compelled on this project. That being said, the movie itself struggles to position a ideal equilibrium of unanimously that and runs out being a incorrectly middling project. The movie implement utilises a tad more proper than different YA / teenage fantasy improvements of its time, but the miserable result is that The Lightning Robber merely becomes a incorrectly hodgepodge endeavor that shots a tad also much of a Harry Potter movie duplicate rather than standing on its own storytelling merits from Riordan’s bestselling novel.
Motion illustration Recall Standing: 2.7 Out of 5
Fun Fact: Rick Riordan, who earned up the Percy Jackson stories, detested the manuscript and possesses never ever before commentated the discussed movie. However he still putative the income from the workshop for the civil liberties and possesses said he is thankful for how multiple human beings uncovered the stories since of the films. He also powerfully advocated for the stories to be readapted, which would later ensue via the Disney+ series Percy Jackson and the Olympians (2023), for which he earned up different of the teleplays.
