Debby's+Comparison

The Lightning Thief Novel Was Better Than The Movie!!

Point One: The Lightning Thief novel was a lot better than the sadly dissapointing movie. First of all, may I point out, the book had more events! In the movie, many parts of the main events in the story was left out. And did the movie make up for the loss of events with their own? No! Unlike the exciting novel, filled up with encounters of Percy Jackson with monsters, the movie had only 5 main events: the faceup with Medusa, the Dragon, the incident with the Lotus Casino, the venture to the Underworld, and the battle with Luke. Think of the much more exciting adventures in the story, such as incidents with Crusty a.k.a. the Stretcher, who "sells waterbeds" and a one-on-one suspenseful battle with the Ares, the powerful god of war! Sure, the movie changed the events a bit, but that doesn't mean it was better! Not only did the novel have ALL of these events, it was more interesting as well! Do you really want to pay for a simple foretaste instead of the full-on sensational experience of the book? Point Two:Now, some people may say that the movie was better for it was more exciting because the audience got to visualize the story. However, in the novel, there were more details. The readers got to see Percy better. They got to go inside his head and experience his truely sincere and interesting thoughts. They got to listen to Percy's side and see his notations of things he noticed. And these plusses were much more enjoyable than the movie visualizations, because Percy had ADHD, which gave him much more ejoyable and humorous ideas and notations. Besides, there was much vivid description in the novel, allowing readers to visualize scenes just, and maybe more clear than the ones in the movie. Wouldn't you rather see things in a clear pair of eyes instead of foggy glassses? Point Three: Finally, the movie was way too short for such an expense. It lacked of the full-on experience of the novel, brimmed to the top with idea-ful chapters. The movie was only about two short hours, while the book would last about a week. And the movie would cost a lot more!! The movie: $10 versus the novel: $7 at the most. Now isn't that a rip-off? An action-packed book cheaper than the movie-- merely a foretaste of the Lightning Thief story. I can even get the novel at a sale price of $4.50 at Costo! The movie was just a short-lengthed wave of the movie: a full package of the REAL sensation. It's just like Percy's words in the novel: "The magic cup can give me Coka-Cola of any kind, but it's just not like the Coka-Cola straight from the can."