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

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one 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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A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupery