GTA 6 Extended Look is being reviewed on Letterboxd like it's a movie
The 26-minute Extended Look has its own Letterboxd page, where tens of thousands of users have logged it like a film — complete with star ratings, half-joking reviews and a 4.2 average. GameSpot covered the phenomenon as fans turn the presentation into a movie review.
A game presentation with its own Letterboxd page
The GTA 6 Extended Look, which premiered on Netflix on August 27, is now being treated like a film in the one place gamers love to parody the movie industry: Letterboxd. The presentation has its own page on the social cataloging platform — "Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look (2026)" — and tens of thousands of users have logged it, rated it and written reviews for it, GameSpot reports.
The numbers alone tell the story. The page shows a 4.24 average rating across tens of thousands of reviews, and the popular reviews section mixes genuine enthusiasm, ironic one-liners and full-blown jokes about the game swallowing people's lives in November (Letterboxd).
A joke that became a trend
The trend picked up steam before the premiere even aired. A Threads post noted that the Extended Look was already rateable on Letterboxd — the platform draws its data from TMDB, which lists the presentation as a short film — and fans quickly turned it into a meme (Threads). Reddit users picked up the joke, asking "Letterboxd, explain" as the page filled up with reviews.
The best of the reviews
The popular reviews read like a microcosm of the community's mood. One user confesses they "tried, but didn't like doing crime," unable to finish GTA 5's opening shootout. Another delivers a deadpan film-critic verdict: "structure was a mess, narrative was vague and confusing (felt like a trailer instead of a movie), animation looked like a video game... gameplay looked incredible." A Florida native claims the game "was based off me," joking that Rockstar scanned their abs and body hair for Lucia. And a recurring theme: "Rest In Peace 'before GTA 6' joke," and promises to disappear from social life once November 19 arrives (Letterboxd).
Why it matters
The Letterboxd phenomenon is more than a meme. It shows how far the Extended Look's presentation has blurred the line between game marketing and entertainment — a 26-minute showcase streamed on Netflix like a special, dissected frame by frame by a community that treats every Rockstar beat as canon. For the studio, it is free hype: the same footage is being reviewed, rated and shared across platforms weeks before launch.
What to watch
The page will likely keep growing as new trailers and previews land. For now, it is a snapshot of the mood at 80 days from release: a community so locked in that it reviews a gameplay presentation as a film — and mostly gives it four stars and up (Letterboxd).
Update — 2026-09-01
A day later, the Letterboxd page has become a ranking story of its own. Chinese outlet 驱动之家 reports that, as of September 1, the Extended Look has passed 32,000 ratings on Letterboxd with an average of 4.2 stars out of 5 — enough to land it at #34 on the platform's 2026 best-films chart, ahead of several Hollywood releases (驱动之家). The outlet highlights the comparison that made the headline: this year's Spider-Man: Brand New Day sits at 4.1 stars on Letterboxd, and Seth Rogen's comedy The Invitation also scores below the gameplay presentation (驱动之家).
The review mix is unchanged in spirit. Users praise the presentation's visual direction, the night-city detail and the chemistry between Jason and Lucia, while others joke that the editing is "too fragmented" and the story "more like a trailer" — before conceding that the visuals and the gameplay itself are "stunning" (驱动之家). The figures come from Letterboxd's public page as read by the outlet; the ranking is the platform's own. What started as a meme on August 27 has, in five days, turned a 26-minute game presentation into one of the most-rated "films" of the year on the platform.
