Gran Turismo
From gamer to racer.
The ultimate wish-fulfillment tale of a teenage Gran Turismo player whose gaming skills won him a series of Nissan competitions to become an actual professional racecar driver.
Wokeness: 20%
Overall Score: 80%
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45trump47
Ginger, spice, and everything nice
No noticeable woke elements or themes. There are 2 interracial couples, but this is based on a true story, so the interracial couples weren't "forced" which would make it woke.
Created: 09-28-2023
Vonseux
Favourite movie this year
Comming of age movie mixed with motor sports. Highly enjoyable despite having some mandatory wokeness to it: there is a female driver in the GT academy that didn't exist in real life (check pictures of 2011 class) but they couldn't pass the message women can't do it, right?
I'm ok with that, it's a nice message, I can live with some fiction in a real life storyline.
The other deciding woke element is the protagonist himself, yeah it's a true story of a black kid overcoming the odds, an nice pitch for the Investors and the opportunity to license a movie like this on the woke-age was irresistible, if not a necessity, and thanks for this wokeness we got one of the best movies this year. It may portrait Jann as a better driver than he is but the kid story is awesome on his own merits.
Created: 10-05-2023
Tournel
Created: 10-23-2023
J T
No noticeable wokeness.
Enjoyed this. One of the better video game movies.
Created: 11-10-2023
Pha-Q woke
Dull, Boring, And In Its Own Way Woke
As others have stated the only actual woke in the film is some female racers when there were none. However, the premise of the film is that this kid is some sort of racing genius and the game makers came up with the idea of the academy and sent out select invitations to a very few and this kid won and was the first ever gamer to become a real racer. None of that is true. Everyone knew about the academy and anyone could enter and try to win a spot. Jann wasn't even the first one to win, or the second, but the third. The first and second were both very white looking males. One from Spain and one From France. In fact Lucas Ordóñez who was the first one to do it placed 2nd at Le Mans. He did it first and placed higher. Plus Jann's career as a pro is unimpressive and mediocre at best. It's not like he went on to be some incredible racer. So while the contents of the film itself aren't woke the fact that the movie was made the way it was with Jann instead of the actual first person to do it is absolutely woke! The film itself is rather poor. The acting is generally not great with the actor playing Jann and his friends in particular being pretty bad. The dialogue is not good the race scenes are boring and the writing in general is just poor. There is no flow or natural progression to anything, it all just happens. The way some of the things are portrayed are so unbelievable they just can't possibly be accurate. If you really like Gran Turismo or just like racing you may enjoy it. Personally I was bored the entire bloated 2 plus hours runtime.
Created: 01-03-2024
