I'm starting to think there's some sort of trigger in these terrible movies that hits their programming to immediately hail it, and I never got that software installed.

it's all in the trailers. I can't quite put it into words, but there's a certain pacing and framing that trailers take on when a movie is supposed to be "the greatest thing ever" "a generation defining masterpiece".

You combine that framing with the clout that the Odyssey has as one of mankind's oldest living stories, and you get the programming you're talking about.