Some corrections! Grover is actually supposed to look slightly older than Percy. I missed this at first because it's only subtly alluded to, but Percy did suspect him of being held back a couple years in school due to his acne and facial hair. Chiron also later reveals that Grover is 28 years old, but looks younger because satyrs age at half the rate of humans, which would make him look around 14. It's revealed in the third Magnus Chase book, _The Ship of the Dead,_ that Riptide's pronouns are actually she/her. I deeply apologize for misgendering her, and will do better in the future. Technically, the cabins weren't all built when Camp Half-Blood was founded. According to _Camp Half-Blood Confidential,_ campers originally slept in the Big House. It wasn't until the camp got more crowded that Chiron divided the campers into family groups and had them build cabins. The idea that Poseidon built a cabin specifically for Percy is still inaccurate, but my explanation was mistaken. Also, if we really want to be technical, some of the cabins were destroyed and rebuilt at least once during the camp's lifetime, as alluded to by Zoë and Artemis in _The Titan's Curse._ In this video, I claim that the gift Poseidon gave the Athenians to rival Athena's olive tree was the saltwater spring. That is accurate to how Annabeth tells the story in _The Lightning Thief,_ but in the account of the competition Percy gives in _Percy Jackson's Greek Gods,_ Poseidon's gift for the competition was the horse, with the creation of the saltwater spring being a separate event. I can't seem to find anything to suggest either version of the story is correct or incorrect, so I'm just going to leave this at "I only quoted one version of the story, and failed to acknowledge other equally valid versions." More of an excuse than a correction, but it has since occurred to me that this movie came out before _The Mark of Athena,_ the first appearance of the Athena Parthenos statue in the Riordanverse canon. So at least from the perspective of the books, it's only an inaccuracy in retrospect, which isn't entirely fair. Of course, had they followed the book and not included the Parthenon scene, they wouldn't have opened themselves up to retroactive inaccuracies like this. And this doesn't solve the issue of them blatantly misrepresenting a real piece of classical artwork, but that's a whole other thing. My pronunciation of Thalia is different from how Rick Riordan pronounces it. He uses a short A in the middle (Thah-lia), I used a long A (Thay-lia). I believe I first got that pronunciation from the audiobooks, which are not always great about correct pronunciation. In my defense, various online sources do list Thay-lia as a valid alternative pronunciation, but from what I can tell, it's not the one the author intended. While Persephone's affair with Adonis is not mentioned in the mainline books, Percy does give an account of that story in _Percy Jackson's Greek Gods._ So it did still canonically happen, it just never comes up in Percy's own story. Persephone does, in fact, have some control over the forces of the Underworld. In _The Sword of Hades,_ she manipulates shadows to transport Nico to New York City, and splits the earth open to drop Nico, Percy and Thalia into her throne room. She is not just a nature goddess. It's five thrones on either side, not ten. Clearly, I forgot to make my customary sacrifice to Athena before doing the math for that sin. Artemis's preferred hair color is auburn, not black.

the fact that this video is like half the length of the movie says a lot about the adaptation

i can’t believe the Lightning Thief Musical is more accurate than the movie

Hades was never banished, he got the short straw in picking where to rule and was just never really invited to Olympus, he can leave whenever he likes

Also, for Poseidon coming out of the sea at the beginning of the movie, the fisherman shouldn't even be able to see him because of the mist.

God i hate to imagine what would they have done too Nico and Jason if they continued the films

You forgot to mention that Hades was angry over being accused of wanting to raise an army of the dead, as it's mentioned over the series that the Underworld is rather crowded BECAUSE there's too many dead souls coming into the Underworld Throughout the series, Percy has never actually managed to beat Luke. Thalia was the only demigod character in the series to have actually defeated Luke in battle. But in every battle Percy had against Luke, he was more or less on the losing end

"In this video, I use the word 'sin' to mean any difference between the book and movie. This is purely stylistic. Inaccurate does not mean bad." *Though in this movie's case, it does*

Now that you mention it, unless I'm mistaken there is no blue food in either movie. This is truly the biggest sin of them all.

I actually don't mind the "x character was blond in the books" differences because the appearance of characters rarelly influence plot... it's just that everything else was so wrong it's annowing they didn't even bother to get that right

They made Sally so tame in the movie and I hate it, Movie Sally definitely would not pick up a shotgun in the battle of Manhattan.

As someone who doesn’t read books I feel very informed and a little sad with how much they took out of the movies. Th original adventure sound far more interesting, the movie now feels rushed and cut in half.

I am SO HERE for the Hades, Hades/Persephone defense. I’m so sick of all media deciding he must be equitable to Satan and just making him the villain in every story.

36:20 This movie made the SAME BLOODY MISTAKE that Disney's Hercules made, by turning Hades into an outright villain

What's ironic about Hades, is that given that he's charged with ruling over the most miserable place in existence, and has the most motivation to be a villain,he's actually one of the most moral and honorable gods in mythology. Loves his wife, has a code of honor, and can be moved to charity with a simple love story. Compared to other gods like Hera who have everything, but still will lie, plot, cheat and murder for her own selfish gain. Hades has a complicated relationship with his siblings as he's been charged with ruling over all of the souls in a world of people who are constantly dying, but it's completely understandable. He still doesn't hate them for it. Side note that the movie missed that I loved in the book. The main reason the underworld was depressing is that the dead got exactly what they deserved, but for most of humanity, that was wandering aimlessly in a dreary field devoid of pleasure or pain, as they were content in life to accomplish nothing.

I blame Disney's Hercules for a lot of the inaccuracies in this movie. Think about some of the biggest inaccuracies and then look to Disney's Hercules: -not understanding the difference between Hades and the pop culture version of Satan and the pure vilification of Hades (let's be real, there is no understanding of either among most people) -the Hydra scene is an insert from Disney's Hercules -use of Christian termonology and visuals (Hell being the underworld/Hercules praying) Point is, a lot of paralells can be drawn. And now we just need to hope that the same company gets it right? To be fair given who is involved with the Disney+ series I do believe it will be good. It is ironic that we need to trust the studio that created this mess in the first place to fix it though.

This is something of a test run for an idea I've had for a while now: Adaptation Sins. Like CinemaSins, but for comparing adaptations to their source material instead of tongue-in-cheek film criticism. Definitely let me know what you think of it! Depending on how this goes, and how much material I can find, this may become the pilot to a full series.

Fun fact: here in Brazil there is this really famous singer called Zé Ramalho, and he looks exactly like this movie Hades, in the Portuguese dub of this movies Grover outright screams to him to “Stay in the Zé Ramalho vibe” (in Portuguese he says “Fica na pegada do Zé Ramalho”), and is genuinely the only joke with him that made me laugh in the two movies Another fun fact: the guy who does Grover’s voice in the dub version(Wendel Bezerra) also dubs Goku and SpongeBob(he’s so talented you don’t even recognize the difference unless you pay attention) So thanks to the dub version for making this movie 0000,01% better

“5 sins for turning Hades into Satan” MAKE IT TEN. I have only watched the the movie adaptation of SoM because my teacher put it on despite various complaints from classmates (this is before I read the PJ books), so I was PISSED when I saw that scene here. I didn’t understand why people hated the movies when I watched SoM with zero context, book or movie, but I do now. If it were its own thing, it’d have been fine. As an adaptation? It’s shit. Actually horrific.

17:02 I actually have a theory that this was a crappy attempt at foreshadowing. Basically, the idea was that, since monsters are attracted to Wi-Fi signals, this was supposed to be Luke setting up a beacon for where camp is. Unfortunately, it’s only able to be taken as foreshadowing if you know that, and since it wasn’t explained in the movie, you’d have had to have read the book, and therefore KNOW THE TWIST, to catch the foreshadowing. It doesn’t make the movie better, and in fact, if I’m right, that makes the movie even worse. 36:04 BANISHED? *_BANISHED?_* THIS IS BEYOND INANE! The three brothers cast lots to determine who ruled what. Zeus got the sky, Poseidon got water, and Hades got the underworld. In the Camp Half-Blood Series in particular, Zeus even had to convince Hades to take the underworld as his domain, as stated in Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods.

29:26 This single handedly was the most infuriating part of the film imo (along with Persephone being in the underworld during summer 😒), it’s like they left it in the taunt us. As Dominic Noble said “Guys, go back, you forgot to meet Ares!” Amazing work by the way!

Honestly, the fact that there was no mention of blue food should be worth 100 adaptation sins

The weirdest thing was how this movie changed the whole message of "the gods are awful and neglectful parents and need to do better" to "they are very loving, actually, they just can't be there" when really they just don't care as much

It's a cool concept, have you considered doing this to other book adaptations if this is received well? I can imagine you having a field day with Netflix The Witcher compared to the source material.

"Every inaccuracy in Percy Jackson* *the whole movie plays*

I feel pretty neutral about mrs. Dodds being changed to an English teacher, because it helps set up his dyslexia and powers.

In the first scene: Poseidon:"Omnipetence has blinded you,brother." There's no way he's that even in tellings where he's as strong as the rest of the Olympians,there's beings that get the better of him,such as the storm giant/ father of monsters,the dream/sleep god,night goddess,god of lust/love controls him, and the Three Fates controls him.

my thing with this movie was that if they'd rebranded it as a completely different franchise (some generic 2000's fantastical adventure piece with young adult demigods, with slightly different characters and such to avoid all out plagiarism) it probably could have passed for a decent movie. the problem was that it was SUPPOSED to be an on-screen adaptation for a beloved--mostly kids--series of books; so the inaccuracies are inexcusable (within reason). imo its one of the biggest reasons the movies failed.

Now we need one of these for the atrociously horrible "adaptation" that was Artemis Fowl (which was so bad that Disney+ literally completely removed it, meaning the only way to watch it now is via piracy).

This is what I thought CinemaSins would be like before I started watching them in 2012-2013. There was a period where I enjoyed their content, but as the KZfaq algorithm changed, they began to prioritize lengthy videos over legitimate points. This is good stuff. Although I haven't read the Lightning Thief since middle school!

Another inaccurate adaptation: The master bolt is said to be significantly stronger than a hydrogen bomb, even if Persephone used it; that whole palace should at least be damaged

Percy’s mother is still called Jackson, she’s listed as such in the end credits. The newsreader clearly just assumed that she’d changed her name when she married Gabe, just like she assumed that Percy was Gabe’s biological son.

I love how this is extra parody of CinemaSins cuz their infamous line for adaptations is “the books don’t fucking matter” haha. Great video!

Now you have to do the Sea Of Monsters movie. It's not a choice, it's a responsibility.

"inaccuracy doesn't mean bad" in this case, IT DOES

Your reading of the Medusa Anabeth scene was odd. I always took her “You will open your eyes” line more as a you can’t keep your eyes closed forever than implying she could magically persuade with her words.

I love how you don't mention skin color, instead picking on the stuff that is changeable, like beards and outfits. It's nice to have actual criticism instead of "THEIR SKIN IS WROJG!!!!!"

Although House of Hades hadn't been written at the time, it's still funny to me how changing Riptide from a capped pen to a click pen would have screwed them up really far down the line if they kept going. Also "Inaccurate does not mean bad" made me wheeze laugh for a solid minute. The only changes that can really be considered acceptable are very minor things, especially if it's for practicality reasons (Like how the new show Percy will be blond, I think it's fine to sacrifice that minor detail in exchange for the best actor possible)

I like the implication that Luke was the only one in his cabin. like where are all the other kids? Do they each just have their own cabin? WHERE ARE THEY

I much prefer this style to cinemasins, more informative and along the lines of Lost in Adaptation or CinemaWins, which doesn't make me feel like throwing a hardcover book at someone's head

I've just noticed one more thing in the Parthenon-scene: Annabeth uses a crossbow with arrows. Normal arrows cannot hurt monsters, so she surely only has arrows made by celestial bronze, since she does not intend to hurt mortals so she wouldn't have normal ones. She did not know those people were the hydra, why on earth would she shoot on percieved mortals with celestial bronze arrows, knowing that those cannot hurt mortals und tranquilizer darts only work when they pierce the skin which, if i remember correctly, wouldn't work with celestial bronze on mortals. Oh and while we're at it, why does she have tranquilizers?

You should do the other movies as well i havent met many people who liked the books as much as me and understand just how bad the movies are in comparison. I will never get over them being 17, driving everywhere they need to go and skipping the fight with ares. Which was always my favorite part because the spectacle of a 12 year old kid wounding the GOD OF WAR just seems silly no matter what his powers are lol i love it.

I personally took Gabe referring to Sally as “Sally Ugliano” as Gabe lying about her last name since Movie Gabe is much more standard “sucky gross guy” than Book Gabe. It’s stupid, sure; realistically the first thing investigators would find out is her registered legal name and Gabe’s word would’ve meant nothing, but it seems like the intent that Gabe just lied about her last name the same way he lied about Percy. Not defending the decision to change it, just stating a possible reason for it.

technically the most recent book says that Zeus always knew about percy, as he blasted Percy's kite out of the air, in a clear sky, for no reason other than spite. other than that nitpick, seems good

I'd love to see more of this! You blended pointing out the inaccuracies with giving back points for the little nods they did right and I like that. Another thing I wanted to toss in was how Grover freaked over the rat in aunty em's, but he's a satyr, and loves all nature creatures and wouldn't freak out over that. I'm curious, do you plan on continuing with Sea of Monsters next?

Watching this after seeing the trailers for the new PJ show and damn it makes me more excited for the show

I was looking forward to this film as Maria Olsen (who plays Mrs Dodds) is a longtime good friend of mine. She'd gone to shoot the film, only telling me it was a Chris Columbus project. A few days later at an AMC was the li'l "coming next year" teaser. I asked and got confirmation this was on what she was working. The first three books were in a box set so I acquired them. Halfway through the first book I quickly obtained the rest of the series. I also contacted Maria to clarify my suspicion she was playing Mrs Dodds. She confirmed, asking how I'd possibly know that. I told her I was reading the book series, and it was obvious that that would be the role for which she would be cast. 😉 On the more detailed trailer came out, focusing on Maria in the museum, I was thrilled that they clearly would be following the books. I went to see it its opening day, and understandably was horrified at how off the source material they went after Maria's exit, let alone during her Furie scene, and her character not returning in multiple forms on the bus, etc. 😠

I've never read the books though I've been intrigued. I now completely understand the hatred for the Fandom has for them. Just, wow. Thank you for this

watching this after the show came out shows how accurate the show is

You should do this with that Last Airbender movie by Shyamalan because it's awful oh, and the Netflix Series of Unfortunate Events would be a good one to do too, but positively because that one is a pretty good adaptation

What I find hilarious is the fact that Hades is the only one that held his end of the deal with not having mortal children, as Bianca and Nico were born in the 1930s, before the prophecy about a child of the Big Three came to fruition. He plainly shoved them into the casino to protect them from Zeus iirc.

"Every Inaccuracy In Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief" The entire movie.

14:55 Given Hades in all versions where he's not turned into Satan has him being one of the more chill, and least assholy of the Greek Gods, yeah, 5 sins seems fair, maybe even low by all accounts.

i feel like annabeth’s gray eyes being replaced with bright blue eyes was a bad decision too. medusa noticed her eyes which is how she knew she was athena’s daughter (or at least i think that’s how). medusa also kept complimenting annabeth’s eyes. i think it also adds to her serious personality, because her intense gray eyes made people a little intimidated when they first met her. her eye color is something that she shares with her mom, and i kinda wish she still had them in the movie.

I didn't even realise half the stuff the movies got wrong until watching the new series and I'm honestly so shocked they butchered it this much to begin with. The new series is definitely promising stuff and can't wait for Rick Riordan to finally get his work told accurately and faithfully.

Loved this, especially since there is much more of a focus on the actual "sins" than cinemasins which seems to just use cheap jokes as an excuse to "sin" sometimes. Would love to see you do Sea of Monsters!

Percy is pretty foolish considering Disney's Hercules understood to not:"Would you forget The head slicing thing?!!"

16 minutes in and this is SO cathartic. I'm going to rewatch the teaser trailers for the tv adaptation after this as a palate cleanser. I would also LOVE to see your take on the Sea of Monsters as well!!!

As soon as you mentioned Poseidon's horrid Hawaiian shirts you got a thumbs up.

I would love to see you review the Lighting Thief musical, especially since it's deemed as one of the holy adaptions besides the limits of being on stage

One thing I can disagree with the sin on is the "Sally Ugliano" it's likely either Gabe just didn't correct the last name said by the reporter because he's awful, or he disrespected Sally keeping her last name and only gave his last name.

honestly this just makes me look forward to the series even more! hopefully they get it right this time!

“Also ANNABETH IS BLONDE” can’t wait to see his reaction to annabeth now

I think my favourite review of this movie is "No hot biker dilf I f*cking hate it here". Also I was unfortunate enough to see the movie first and I was downright pissed at how much better the book was. Taking liberties with an adaptation is fine, but that's no excuse for disrespecting the source material or making a shit final product. Edit: Also I'm pretty sure mortals aren't allowed to even ride the elevator to the 600th floor, so Sally doubly shouldn't have been there.

I remember when i watched the movie for the first time, and during the scene in which Percy and Luke fight towards the end, i noticed Luke didn't have his scar. So i asked myself "where is the scar?" and then Luke got cut across the fave and my friend said "there it is". It was perfect Timing.

Grover would not have been afraid of mice. He loves all animals as he is a satyr

One thing you forgot about is that the thrones are much bigger. In the last book, it’s stated that Percy needs help to climb into Poseidon’s throne.

You raise some interesting ones because even though the Percy Jackson TV show is going to be way more accurate I actually think there will still be some of the changes that you mentioned here. Examples from the latest teaser trailer are Percy not saying donkey legs and having Riptide with him during the Minotaur attack. These are just a couple but there were more in the teaser trailer alone. People have to ready themselves for changes.

Also that the fisherman wouldn’t have even been able to see Poseidon

It’s so funny you pronounce “Thalia” the way that I read her name through the entire series. I always called her Thay-lee-yuh turns out it’s actually pronounced like Talia? Lmfao

I still think it's wild that DISNEY of all people saw these books that are actually rather dark and depressing most of the time, and decided "We need to make movies out of these that children can watch!" Like, bro, there are so many other books they could've made movies about lmao. And this series would've been way better in the hands of like, FOX or Sony tbh (though Sony is lazy as hell with their CGI, at least they're not afraid of telling very dark stories).

You should really do miss peregrine’s home of peculiar children. They completely changed some characters and the third act of the book entirely.

In this case, the differences are most definetly mostly sinful

Percy using an iPod touch to kill Medusa is so dated and absurd that it loops back around to being incredible. I genuinely hope the new TV show does something similar with a modern phone screen or camera because it's actually a pretty clever idea

I honestly don't know how you managed to keep this video shorter than the movie😂

As a test run for this idea, this was pretty entertaining and accurate. Percy Jackson was the first book series I ever read in my entirety, even before books like Harry Potter so it was nice to see another video discussing all the blatant mistakes in this movie compared to the books. I also think this was a pretty good time to test this idea given the recent renewed string of book IPs and their adaptations. The episodic adaptation of Percy Jackson comes up this December with a, fairly, more accurate adaptation of the book so you can check that out with this idea. Plus, there are rumors about JK Rowling creating a new TV adaptation for the Harry Potter books, to flesh out more stuff the movies skipped over, so if they are true, you could have some fun with that. I hope to see you continue this, especially with the Witcher.

Comparing this to the new series, so far it’s pretty spot on

44:08 "The only thanks Percy got from Zeus was not getting smited." That made me laugh. XD It legit sounds like Zeus.

As a non book reader, seeing a million hate videos on this adaptation & now watching the Disney+ series… they definitely were stupid for not listening to Rick’s critiques about the script.

i will say, the law of gods not seeing their kids did exist but not until the heroes of olympus series which was years later chronologically, same with the introduction to charm speak, which would be the closest thing in the books to what medusa is implied to have in the movie, but she never did and charm speak is exclusively an aphrodite trait passed down to her children(though exceedingly rare which is why it wasn’t introduced until the 2nd series

Istg the percy jackson series is one of the few where it is actually universally accepted for you to have the main character as your favorite one. Because Percy. The book one at least.

I would love to see you do this with Sea of Monsters and the Lightning Thief musical

every inaccuracy in less than an hour!? impressive, I would of thought this undertaking would be longer with how departed the movies are from the books.

2:05 I'm not actually sure how they fucked that one up, the first chapter of the book is titled "I Accidentally Vaporize My Pre-Algebra Teacher"

Man I kinda feel bad for the actors

Them making the hydra so huge always got a chuckle out of me. I'm from Florida so a 15 foot reptile is normal to me lol I always found the hyrda in Sea of Monsters cute

In this case I will say inaccuracies do equal bad

Thank you for pronouncing Thalia correctly 🙏

You're literally doing cinemasins job. You're like a good version of them. Pointing out actually inaccuracies. Even if some of them aren't a big deal, your just fulfilling your titles promise and even remove points for cool inclusions. I respect that and appreciate that so much. Definitely subbing.

I personally dont mind Percy already liking swimming before knowing who his father is, for movie purposes it does well to set up who his father is to new audiences who havent read the books and the scene they use does well to show Percy has always had abilities with water despite not knowing it himself, one adaptation i do not like and despise is the camp in the book the rooms for each half blood are said to be laid out in a U shape but all we get in the movie is some tents in the woods also also i dont like how they changed how quickly percy moves into the Poseidon cabin in the book he spends a night or 2 in the hermes cabin as that is where half bloods who dont know their father go

This was kind of fun. We will watch your career with great interest.

The fact that this video took 48 minutes made me laugh so hard

Small point in the movies favor regarding Luke's gaming setup. While he doesn't have it in the books, nor does it make sense for his character to have it, the Cabin 9 kids do actually have gaming setups in their bunks, at least Charlie Beckendorf did, which we saw when Leo got his old bunk in Lost Hero. So while it's still dumb, It's not entirely out of the realm of possibility.

4:20 also as far as I remember, even though she probably has suspicions but she wasn't confirmed that Percy is Poseidon's son so it wouldn't make sense for her to take him aside.

While it isn’t present in the book, the gaming setup is a great way to foreshadow his involvement to anyone who knows what it means.

It sucks because you can honestly enjoy them if you’ve never read the books lol. I think I saw the first movie before I read the book and I liked it. After reading everything changed. They really could have done this right but they didn’t for some reason.

I can’t wait for him to do this video on the tv show

This is so well done! I also love how you're not shy to reward the film for especially good bits of adaptation, plus this has really brought back some nostalgia for the Percy Jackson books...

You should do the show when it finishes!

I haven't even watched the video yet, but the fact that it takes 50 minutes is hysterical to me. It's like a full length movie to describe how bad this movie is.