I've been thinking about what I was missing most in the new Odyssey adaptation, and that thing is: emotion. If there's one story where people just cry whenever they feel like it, it's the Odyssey. They are not afraid to show emotions, and that's what makes it so beautiful.
Yeah, some tears were shed in the movie, but it was just... lacking. Nowhere near as many as they could have shown us. Give me men who cry when talking about their lost friends. Give me men who cry upon being reunited. Just... give me anything.
For reference, the unofficial cry count in the Odyssey, per book (based on quick tallying while re-reading, so I may have missed 1 or 2):
Book IV: Telemachos (twice), Menelaos (3 times), Helen, Peisistratos, Odysseus, Penelope, slaves
Book VII: Odysseus (off-page)
Book VIII: Odysseus (twice)
Book IX: Odysseus (off-page)
Book X: Odysseus (twice), Eurylochos, Odysseus' crew (6 times)
Book XI: Odysseus (4 times), Odysseus' crew, Agamemnon, Penelope (off-page)
Book XII: Odysseus, Odysseus' crew
Book XIII: Odysseus, Penelope
Book XIV: Eupeithes, Laertes
Book XVI: Odysseus, Penelope, Telemachos
Book XVIII: Penelope (off-page)
Book XIX: Penelope (3 times + once off-page), Eurykleia
Book XXI: Eumaios (twice), Philoetius (twice), Penelope (twice)
Book XXIII: Odysseus, Penelope (twice)
Odysseus: cries 16 times on page, another 2 times off-page
Penelope: cries 13 times on page, another 3 times off-page