Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief: How to Doom a Franchise

This video is sponsored by Audible. Visit http://audible.com/midnight or text "midnight" to 500-500 to sign up and get your 30 day free trial. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief was the first attempt to bring Rick Riordan's books to life. And it...didn't go well. In this video I go over what does not work in this film, despite the movie featuring a great cast that includes Uma Thurman, Sean Bean and Pierce Brosnan. MERCH: https://standard.tv/collections/captain-midnight Music by Epidemic Sound (http://www.epidemicsound.com) Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/midnightcap Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/midnightcap Special thanks to Andrew Elliott (Stalli111: https://www.youtube.com/user/Stalli111 ) for editing this video!