I sit here at my desk after just finishing eating a piece of fairy bread and long for another one. My common sense tells me "No! Too many extra carbs!" but my heart (and stomach) tells me "Yes! It tastes yummy- to Hell with health!" My stomach will probably win. But first, I type.
Today my brother, sisters and I went to the movie theatre to see Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters. I had to set it up as an outing for the service group I'm currently the leader of. Not everything went smoothly, as things rarely go. It was a pretty minor deal, but it totally dampened my mood. When texting everyone the details, I texted the wrong number of one of the girls (I must say that she changes her telephone number constantly, so I had two of them) and her mother was really upset. I know this because she said to our supervisor
"I am very upset." And then proceeded to slather blame on whoever stood still long enough.
Cryptic, I know, but I read between the lines.
Everything is all right, my supervisor assured me; it was an accident after all (they still arrived in time to see the movie), but I'm still kind of worried. That one mother kind of intimidates me, I'm sheepish to say.
About the movie: I read the Percy Jackson series when I was thirteen and was still at the Rick Riordan reading age (I'm a senior in high school now, and trust me, I've tried. Not so much now), and loved them (still do, actually). I love anything to do with Greek, Roman, Egyptian, etc. legend, and after hearing that Thor Freudenthal was directing the second movie (After Chris Columbus and Craig Titley caused outrage within the fans for the first one) I had high hopes for The Sea of Monsters (the Diary of a Wimpy Kid adaptions he directed are some of my favorites) but honestly, it didn't live up to my lofty expectations.
It was super kid-friendly (as in, almost lame), script-wise which was fine except not very believable considering in the film adaptions the main characters are like sixteen. The score was reminiscent of Pixar's The Incredibles. And of course, as a fan of the series, I was annoyed by every little change from the book. But I reasoned with myself that these changes in the beginning were necessary to tie up the loose ends from the mess Chris Columbus directed (mess with very high box office numbers, let me just say), but as it progressed I got more annoyed, and by the near end I wasn't a happy camper (haha, see what I did there?) at all. But then bam! strings got tied up and things made sense, causing my anger to sufficiently simmer down.
So all-in-all yes, go see it if you are a Percy Jackson fan, but be prepared to question where the writers and producers are taking the story the whole time. See it if you're not a Percy Jackson fan. The adults I was with laughed loudly at all the jokes and seemed to thoroughly enjoy it. And I guess it really won me over when the opening song turned out to be "My Songs KnowWhat You Did In the Dark (Light 'Em Up)" by Fall Out Boy, and Tyson. That is all.
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