Another good movie.

Still coming off the high of seeing Avatar, we decided to go see Lightning Thief. Two movies in as many weekends. My DVD budget is shot this month but both were well worth it. My daughter really enjoys Rick Riordan’s books and I didn’t want her to have to wait until I got around to buying the movie previously viewed.

It was a really good movie. Of course according to my daughter, the book was way better. I was only slightly disheartened to see so much of my last book of hers in it. Despite my facebook post, I shouldn’t toss out my book #9 just yet. Yes, I have the whole Greek god thing and their children down and even the fight between Poseidon & Athena, but I guess if you are quoting mythology, there is only one way to write it unless you rally wanna mess it up. In my book, they didn’t go to the underworld and I knew nothing about the pearls that bring you back, so maybe I’m okay. I still have the twist that only she and her best friend Samantha can add so maybe I’ll just tweak it some more… again. I don’t think I wrote it here but her comment after beta-ing for me was : “You know how when you have too much glue and the papers don’t stick? Yeah, that.” Gotta love her honesty.

Of course it really doesn’t matter whether I do anything with it or not for a long time because once again, I am just sitting on the whole series. Unless my other books take off & I land an agent interested in doing a Children’s series, I am not up to actively seeking getting these published. I’d like to enjoy the high of Dustin Time being out before I start getting beat up again and I still have months to go. One step at a time, Bug…

So, to throw some funny into the whole thing, as we’re walking in my daughter says, “Are you ready for some exciting beasts and to be scared by a “monitor’?”
“Did you mean Minotaur or does this movie have the dreaded computer screen monster?”
tee hee..

I may have steered you wrong in the past with some of my odd movie choices but this was really well done. *gets off movie review soapbox*