This should really be a reminder to people to pick up on older literature if anything. There's a reason why works like the Iliad and the Odyssey survive almost three thousand years after their inception while any other given book or story eventually loses its appeal and becomes a "product of its time" so to speak. Plus, there have already been lackluster (and bastardized in my eyes) adaptions of the the two stories in the past which made more egregious changes than the simple race-swapping and obvious political changes which this film is starting off with. It says something about the original epics when even the past so-called film and book adaptations of them were, and still are, praised even though they each fundamentally differed (and even misunderstood important points) from the originals.