// THE VERGE — INTELLIGENZA ARTIFICIALE
The 2.5-hour AI-generated Odyssey movie is 2.5 hours too long
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Going up against Christopher Nolan with AI slop was ill-advised.
Going up against Christopher Nolan with AI slop was ill-advised.
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Christopher Nolan’s engrossing take on The Odyssey dominated at the box office and spurred a newfound interest in classic literature among filmgoers. But a new retelling of the story made entirely with AI is so bad that it might just make viewers hate the original tale altogether.
The new film, called Odysseus: The Fall, comes via AI firm Fountain 0 and is written and directed by company cofounder Ash Koosha, who also lent his likeness to the title character and created all of the music. (The film’s credits are very short.) The studio’s only previous work is an AI film called Dreams of Violets that made it into Tribeca earlier this year. The Fall is, on its face, a much more ambitious project, billed as “the first completely AI generated film produced at the level of a Hollywood blockbuster.” In reality, it’s nothing close to “the level of a Hollywood blockbuster.” That may not necessarily be surprising, but after watching the entire 2.5-hour production I nonetheless found myself constantly surprised by just how much worse things could get. The Fall is the opposite of a glimpse at the future of AI filmmaking — it’ll make you wonder if there’s really any future in it at all.
The movie is available to rent now for $9.99 and, as far as I can tell, you can only watch it via a web browser. In order to view it on my living room TV I had to mirror the screen from my phone, which is not exactly IMAX in 70mm. Things didn’t get much better once I pressed play.