Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27966940-20161222072426/@comment-14138255-20170514162451

The movies (well, movie at the time, The Lightning Thief, the only one I watched) were pretty bad, and I only found out after I read the books. They pointlessly made Grover black (yet another "black best friend comic relief" guy), removed Annabeth's Yankees Cap of invisibility, and changed Luke's involvement in the plot.

Worse yet, it was suicidal in its not following of the story (the above were minor really, almost cosmetic), they removed plot points (like Ares and his curse being one of the big ones), ambiguously killed Luke (who is almost central to the plot), and removed almost all hint of Kronos. In essence, it shot itself in the foot for the future movies they wanted to do for the sake of adapting the book.