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movie review - Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2017.10.22

This is a movie telling of a book I have read to my son. Movie remakes of books are often problematic, but I think that despite the choppy plot they've managed to maintain a fairly consistent tone and anyone who's had the misfortune of reading my mini-reviews knows, I put a lot of stock in that. What I liked about this is the relative novelty of the story and the line that it walks between teenage stuff and plot that will appeal to all ages.

Recommended.

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Society is indeed a contract... [the state] is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.

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