Better Than It Sounds/Film G

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Galaxy Quest: A look at obsessive fans of a beloved science fiction series.
  • Gamera: A little boy becomes best friends with a big turtle who is really neat.
    • Gamera: Guardian Of The Universe: Big turtle saves Japan from giant man-eating bats.
    • Gamera: Advent of Legion: Flying turtle fights giant bug.
    • Gamera: Revenge of Irys: Girl seeks revenge against a giant turtle. Giant tentacled monster offers his help only to manipulate the girl's emotions for his own gain. Oh, and the giant bat-monsters come back.
  • Gangs of New York: An angry orphan comes to a rapidly growing city during wartime. He nearly gets mugged by a woman with a shifting accent before going to work for a mustachioed, plaid-wearing hypocrite. He starts to forget why he came to the city in the first place, but then is set straight by a self-proclaimed Shakespearean scholar while a celebrity impersonator hovers above their heads and gets fruit hurled at him. Later on, an elephant stampedes through blood-soaked streets.
  • Gattaca: A man who may or may not be terminally ill steals his roommate's identity in order to fulfill his childhood dream, which will almost certainly put his coworkers' lives in danger. Later, he seduces a woman with no intention of revealing his true identity to her, then proves that he isn't mature enough to cope with his sibling-rivalry issues. In the end, the protagonist fulfills his dream while his roommate commits suicide in an incinerator.
  • Get Shorty: Mob-connected loan shark discovers he's a natural Hollywood player.
    • Be Cool: Disgruntled natural Hollywood player fights against, participates in and makes beautiful music with organized crime.
  • Ghostbusters: Four guys drive around in a van and trap restless spirits. They save New York City from a giant candy mascot by taking serious risks with their equipment.
    • Ghostbusters II: Evil painting comes to life and summons pink goo within disused subway tunnels to stalk an infant. He is eventually defeated by four guys piloting a mobile national monument.
  • G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra: Man fights his ex-girlfriend's new friends.
  • Ginger Snaps: Coming of age/werewolf drama. Morbid friendless sisters feature in a study of the similarity between premenstrual tension and uncontrollably violent lycanthropic blood-lust.
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: To get his job back, man brings the girl who lead to his dismissal to a small, cold village.
  • Glengarry Glen Ross: A band of real estate agents endeavor to sell undesirable property to unwilling prospective buyers.
  • Gnomeo and Juliet: Romeo and Juliet...with lawn gnomes!
  • The Godfather: Importer of olive oil struggles to keep with the times. It gets violent.
    • The Godfather Part II: Son inherits family business and flashbacks are shown throughout.
    • The Godfather Part III: Organization leader starts a charity fund.
  • The Gods Must Be Crazy: An epic quest to get rid of an old glass bottle.
  • Godspell: The Gospel According to Saint Matthew preformed by clowns on a Manhattan Island devoid of people.
  • Godzilla: An examination of post-war national disillusionment, heartbreakingly told through the allegory of a giant dinosaur.
    • King Kong VS Godzilla: Giant gorilla fights big dinosaur.
    • Ghidorah: The Three-Headed Monster: A radioactive dinosaur, a giant caterpillar, and a giant pterodactyl team up to save Japan from a space dragon.
    • Son Of Godzilla: Father and child bonding told through the eyes of dinosaurs.
    • Godzilla VS Megalon: Giant dinosaur vs beetle with Chrysler buildings for arms vs a robot version of Jack Nicholson. Actually, this one is pretty bad.
    • Godzilla VS Mechagodzilla: Giant Dinosaur VS Robot Dinosaur VS Ancient Lion-Dog Thingy.
    • Godzilla VS King Ghidorah: Time travelers from the future send a giant dragon to fight a big dinosaur.
    • Godzilla vs. Destoroyah: A dinosaur explodes from a nuclear meltdown while fighting a giant demonic crab-monster that murdered his son.
    • Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All Out Attack: enraged spirits of Japanese soldiers who fought in WWII possess a dead giant dinosaur and fight against a dragon, a butterfly, and a red dinosaur thing while trying to destroy Japan.
    • Godzilla Final Wars: A mustachioed Badass and his crew release giant dinosaur he once imprisoned to stop the invasion of leather wearing aliens by beating the shit out of all the monsters they control. Also, one of the crew members is the Japanese equivalent to Neo
    • Godzilla (1998, American): Sea critter gets stuck with a misnomer and tries to nest despite humans disturbing the area.
  • Gone in Sixty Seconds (1974): Professional carjacker steals '73 Mustang, proceeds to utterly void its warranty.
  • Gone with the Wind: A spoiled bitch and a lecherous scoundrel fight for chattel slavery to be made a subtitute against both wage slavery and the use of taxes to transfer money from one place to another. They're our heroes.
  • Good Bye Lenin!: Woman falls into coma, wakes up in another country. Her son tries to cover it up.
  • Goodfellas: A kid gets a job parking cars for the people across the street and talks about the things his employers have him do.
  • Good Will Hunting: A therapist, a mathematician, and working class roughs vie for the soul of a really smart janitor.
  • A Goofy Movie: Reject from the Disney Animated Canon, featuring wacko suburbanite and his son on a physically dangerous Road Trip. One of them ends up on stage at a concert by a performer who appears to be a cross between Prince and 1980s-era Michael Jackson. A fly-fishing move becomes a dance move and helps the father with his audience.
  • The Goonies: A hobbit and his friends try to find some treasure that was buried in a cave. They end up not getting to keep much of it.
  • Gorgo: Irish mother travels to London to rescue her kidnapped son. Visits various monuments and destroys them.
  • Gorillas in The Mist: The inspiring true story of a white woman who goes to Africa and spends most of her time hanging out with apes while pissing off a lot of black people. Ultimately she is mysteriously murdered after trying to interfere with said black people's way of making money.
  • Gosford Park: Love and intrigue at a 1930s British house party. Michael Gambon is murdered twice.
  • Gran Torino: Guy gets gangsters who broke his garden dwarf away from his property. This turns him into a neighborhood hero.
    • Alternatively: A Grumpy Old Man keeps threatening to shoot people. He befriends the kids from next door because of it.
  • Gremlins: City gets attacked by corrupted Christmas gift.
    • Gremlins 2: Office building is conquered by Tony Randall and an army consisting entirely of Frank Welker.
  • Grindhouse - Planet Terror: Woman quits dancing the same day she becomes crippled. Gets used to her new prosthetic limb, though. Also, zombies happen.
    • Grindhouse - Death Proof: Women who are tired of putting up with celebrities go and rent a car, kill Kurt Russell.
  • Grosse Pointe Blank: A hit-man attends his ten-year reunion to get back together with his high school sweetheart.
  • Groundhog Day: A journalist falls into a time loop, and kills himself and a woodchuck several times. Eventually he becomes enlightened.
    • Or: Big town weatherman experiences small-town life.
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