Percy Jackson vs my homework

So I saw Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief last night at the dollar theater with a friend. It was actually pretty cool. I had read the reviews online where people said "It's basically like Harry Potter: instead of finding out he's a wizard, he finds out he's a demigod (the son of Poseidon), and instead of going to a school for wizards he goes to a camp for demigods."

I don't agree that it was like Harry Potter, mostly because the camp was pretty insignificant. It was all about this story of Percy and his friends going on an adventure to save his mom (rather than go to save the world from a war that only he and he alone can stop). Somehow even though he went on his own personal quest he also managed to stop the war of the Gods in literally the last second possible.

It was a good movie. There were some great effects with swirling water controlled by Percy, the son of Poseidon. There were also some rather nasty looking beasts they had to fight. There was also some great choreography of swordplay throughout the movie.

Now I get to finish my homework that is due in three hours! It shouldn't be a problem though. Computer Science homework can be fun to do. I'm giving a presentation on the programming language Ruby on Rails. Maybe I'll post a link of some webapps I make using it.