Imagine somehow being able to tell Homer, as he set pen to paper to start work on The Odyssey, that thousands of years into the future, his epic tale of Odysseus\u2019 long, strange journey home from the Trojan War would become the latest battleground in another war\u2014one that would manage to be even more stupid and pointless than the one from which his hero was politely excusing himself.<\/p>\n
Yes, people, Elon Musk\u2019s Grok-powered Odyssey has arrived, and it\u2019s ready to strap on its bronze armor and charge forth in a heroic bid to save Western civilization from the dastardly forces of the Woke, the Feminists and the Historically Inaccurate Presence of People Who Look Suspiciously Black. Marvel at the bravery of this artistic vision! Thrill to its battlecry of \u201c\u03bf\u03c5\u03ad\u03bb \u03ac\u03ba\u03c4\u03bf\u03c5\u03bb\u03bb\u03b9!\u201d Cower as an entire website army full of weird nerds unleashes its righteous rage on Hollywood!<\/p>\n
Watch Episode 1 of our Odyssey series made with Grok Imagine.<\/p>\n
Let us know in the comments if you’d like a full breakdown of how it was done! <\/p>\n
Creative collaboration with @WonderStudiosX<\/a> and director Dev Walker @glumlot_<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/xpgpkqSCpq<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Grok Imagine (@imagine) October 23, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n \u2026for seven minutes, anyway. While Musk promised an entire feature-length rival to Christopher Nolan\u2019s version of The Odyssey, what arrived over the weekend was no such thing\u2014instead, it was billed as \u201cEpisode 1 of our Odyssey series.\u201d Turns out that making movies maybe isn\u2019t quite as easy as typing \u201cMake The Odyssey but without anything that would upset people who are still mad about Gamergate,\u201d even with the backing of the world\u2019s richest man and his favorite toy.<\/p>\n In fairness, the footage shows how far AI-powered video has come since the hilarity of its early days\u2014which were only a couple of years ago, god help us\u2014but it also shows that there\u2019s a world of difference between making something that looks kinda cinematic and making something that is worth watching. Sure, the landscapes look realistic, even if the wide shots are a bit ropey, while the baby is only vaguely terrifying and everyone has the correct number of fingers. Great!<\/p>\n But this is meant to be more than a tech demo; it\u2019s meant to be proof that Grok is liberating filmmaking from the grasp of the libs. So is it a good film? Well, no. It\u2019s not a good film in the slightest. If anything, it reads more like a trailer or the overlong intro to a video game, the kind you skip halfway through the first viewing and then install a mod so you don\u2019t have to smash the space bar every time.<\/p>\n There\u2019s no coherent narrative; instead, it\u2019s just a selection of portentous shots, all of which allude to a story rather than try to actually tell it. Odysseus hits a table because Odysseus is mad! The Greeks yell \u201cvengeance!\u201d because they want vengeance! Penelope calls Odysseus \u201cmy love\u201d and tells him that he must go to war, even though it\u2019s dumb and he doesn\u2019t want to, because she\u2019s a dutiful tradwife! The obligatory overconfident joker dude pukes off the side of a boat because he\u2019s actually a big pansy! A shot of lil Telemachus learning to fight back home is juxtaposed against the Madness Of War\u2122 IRL, because the intended audience is dumb as a rock! And so on and so forth.<\/p>\n The only surprise is that the whole masturbatory enterprise doesn\u2019t end with a Cybertruck thundering across the battlefield so that Elon can hang himself out the window and give a Nazi salute. Maybe the Cybertruck got stuck in the mud. Or maybe that\u2019s scheduled for Part 2\u2014assuming that there is in fact a Part 2, because god knows it\u2019s hard to imagine that anyone would volunteer to sit through more of this. But then again, there are plenty of people who choose of their own free will to pay real actual money for blue checks on Twitter, so who knows.<\/p>\n Anyway, as Wonder Studios, the people behind this silliness, boast<\/a> in their tweet announcing its release: \u201cHomer didn\u2019t have Grok. We do.\u201d Yeah. It shows.<\/p>\n