Also, I bet a lot of the people complaining about that loved 300 and will tell people how it's actually really deep and has an important message

Hasn't pretty much every period piece ever produced been criticized through the lens of historical accuracy?

They were very upset about Denzel being in Rome.

whereas no-one seemed to give a shit about all the inaccuracies in the Gladiator movies for example.

Do you know that for a fact? Or did you just not pay attention?

the horror!!!! someone I don't know does something different from what I would do!!! it's the end of the world I taell ya

Even if that were the case, the Odyssey is a work of fiction; we don't even know if Homer actually existed, if he was a single person or multiple story tellers blended together by lack of details...

"Critics" pretending to know and be outraged about X not been exactly what they thought when they read the book cliff notes in their mom's sock smelling basement are just noise

It's so weird to be complaining about the accents. It's a movie that takes place in ancient Greece, FFS; we have no idea what their accents would sound like if they were somehow capable of speaking modern English, since their entire culture pre-dates audio recording technology (and modern English, for that matter) by multiple millenia.

Seriously, people are just weirdly conditioned to the classical world speaking with a British accent for some reason, I guess.

even so, who cares? it's not a documentary