{"id":657841,"date":"2026-10-26T19:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T19:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/657841\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T19:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T19:12:10","slug":"elon-musks-ai-the-odyssey-movie-gets-reviewed-as-soulless-slop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/657841\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk’s AI ‘The Odyssey’ Movie Gets Reviewed as ‘Soulless Slop’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tElon Musk<\/a> is probably relieved filmmaker Alex Gibney\u2019s highly critical four-hour documentary about the tech titan, Musk, has flopped at the box office and has been almost entirely pulled from theaters after just one week of wide release. <\/p>\n

\n\tBut a new AI-created, anti-woke take on The Odyssey<\/a> championed by Musk isn\u2019t exactly a hit either. <\/p>\n

\n\tMusk, you\u2019ll recall, repeatedly bashed Christopher Nolan<\/a>\u2018s blockbuster take on the material over the summer and teased a Grok-created \u201chistorically accurate and true to the art of Homer\u201d version coming to his social media platform X. The first seven minutes of this AI-fueled take were released over the weekend (watch it below) and most viewers are ripping the result. <\/p>\n

\n\tA critic for The Telegraph<\/a> wrote that the footage \u2014 made with AI specialists Wonder Studios and director Dev Walker \u2014 is \u201cso unsettling you can feel your eyeballs twitch at its sloppy gruesomeness \u2026 the glassy-eyed characters, with their expressionless voices, give the episode a zombie-like quality \u2026 Penelope looks completely different in each scene \u2026 a take on the tale of Troy that deserves to be put to the sword, burned to the ground and hidden forever beneath the sands of time.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tThat said, the critic said the battle sequences \u201chave some of the epic quality of Zack Snyder\u2019s Spartan romp 300.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tThe most-upvoted viewer comment on the official X post says, \u201cHoly f\u2013k, this is absolute shit \u2026 as expected.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cJust soulless slop with no thought or anything\u2026\u201d agreed another. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThis is the Odyssey flop Elon predicted,\u201d chimed another.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe inability to effectively express emotion through high-quality acting in voice, carriage, and expression are all distracting,\u201d wrote another. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThis is definitely an example where writers and their creative artistry are severely under appreciated,\u201d opined another. \u201cThe script feels flat and cliche. No matter how pretty you make something look, there has to be substance.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOne has to scroll pretty far down the comments find some tempered praise: \u201cThere are subtle tiny things that feel \u2018cgi.\u2019 However, overall very impressive! Looking forward to more episodes. Would be great to see the approach on the prompts for sure!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tTo be fair, one suspects if this video had been released one year ago, responses would have been far more positive given the relative photo realism of the footage. The video is, to some extent, a sign of how quickly AI is evolving and how fast viewers are getting accustomed to its wonders that the chapter is being met with a collective diss and shrug. <\/p>\n

\n\tAs of Monday, the video has racked up 6.8 million impressions (which isn\u2019t actually too much considering a view can be triggered just by scrolling past the video, not by watching the full thing). <\/p>\n

\n\tMusk wrote several tweets earlier this year attempting to fuel a backlash to Nolan\u2019s The Odyssey, writing in January that \u201cNolan has lost his integrity\u201d after seeing reports of Lupita Nyong\u2019o\u2019s casting as Helen of Troy. He also agreed with a conservative commentator calling the director a \u201ccoward\u201d in May and tried to spur a conspiracy theory that Nolan only wanted diverse actors in the film to fulfill an Academy Awards inclusion requirement. <\/p>\n

\n\tNolan\u2019s film went on to make more than $1.78 billion worldwide, making it the highest-grossing film of his career. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elon Musk is probably relieved filmmaker Alex Gibney\u2019s highly critical four-hour documentary about the tech titan, Musk, has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[25444,350,146,85,46,397,64098],"class_list":["post-657841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-christopher-nolan","tag-elon-musk","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-movies","tag-the-odyssey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}