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Eh. If you like watching movies made for 11 year olds.

On the other hand, my choices were this or the valentines movie, and it sounds like that one was horrid.

I am pretty curious about this movie and sometimes I feel like I am 11 years old.

The reviews haven't been bad enough to make me want to see it, they've merely portrayed it as boring. Which does not interest me. Guess it's time to watch The Neverending Story again.

I might see it in theatres, anyway. It looks like a lot of fun and I'm a sucker for kids movies.

its called 'percy jackson and the olympians' where you guys are?

its called 'percy jackson and the lightning thief' here, which sounds a bit more badass. wonder why they changed it?

Here it's called "Peter Jackson Eats a Giant Hoagie".

twitchmoss said:

its called 'percy jackson and the olympians' where you guys are?

its called 'percy jackson and the lightning thief' here, which sounds a bit more badass. wonder why they changed it?

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It's called that down here too. Weird.

Peter Jackson and The Lovely Boner

twitchmoss said:

its called 'percy jackson and the olympians' where you guys are?

its called 'percy jackson and the lightning thief' here, which sounds a bit more badass. wonder why they changed it?

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Technically it's called

Percy Jackson and The Olympians:
The Lightning Thief

here, but that's way too long.

I like how Percy's mom is "briefly married" to Poseidon. Yeah, that's what happened when the Greek gods had sex with someone/something. They briefly married and then got a divorce or annulment or something. I'd love to see Greek pantheon divorce court.

Though I wonder if that's how it actually is in the fiction, or if that's just how Percy's mom tells it to her son.

escushion said:

I like how Percy's mom is "briefly married" to Poseidon. Yeah, that's what happened when the Greek gods had sex with someone/something. They briefly married and then got a divorce or annulment or something. I'd love to see Greek pantheon divorce court.

Though I wonder if that's how it actually is in the fiction, or if that's just how Percy's mom tells it to her son.

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I doubt marraige matters to the greek gods, but if he truly loved her (with even a fleeting love of an immortal) then he might be willing to go through the ceremony for her. Pretty sure it wouldn't matter to him beyond that.

From the outside, it's merely something they included for cultural reasons. It's a very, very formulaic storyline - they went down the list and checked all the boxes, including the "don't offend the majority" box.

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I like how Percy's mom is "briefly married" to Poseidon. Yeah, that's what happened when the Greek gods had sex with someone/something. They briefly married and then got a divorce or annulment or something. I'd love to see Greek pantheon divorce court.

Though I wonder if that's how it actually is in the fiction, or if that's just how Percy's mom tells it to her son.

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I doubt marriage matters to the greek gods, but if he truly loved her (with even a fleeting love of an immortal) then he might be willing to go through the ceremony for her. Pretty sure it wouldn't matter to him beyond that.
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Based on what the greeks believed was the mechanism of impregnation by gods if the woman also had a husband she slept with around the same time there was no way anyone would have used actual myth for that part.

But the funniest thing is that Poseidon, like most of the greek gods, is already married (though apparently later greeks downplayed his marriage)... and that never stopped them from even raping whoever they wanted...

I don't intend to run down either the movie or the books (which I haven't seen/read), but just from the various descriptions I've read around and about and the reviews I've seen, I think I'd rather re-read my old collection of Saint Seiya manga...

...and now that I've done that, I'm amazed by how much I didn't remember that SS has an absurd number of scenes involving passionately-crying teenage boys and men for a shonen manga. :shocked:

Saint Seiya is quite probably the most popular anime in Latin America for people my age.... the younger ones had Dragon Ball Z.

There's an action figure of Camus still on my bookshelf. The new figures, not the old ones I used to play with as a kid.

When I was 8, I had a figure of Hyoga, but I lost him a long time ago.

Still have some of the trading cards though.