The Movies

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Product Features

• Design your own studio and run it from the early days of cinema through present day and beyond in Story Mode by managing studio resources, investing in RD and maximizing box office success
• Make your own movies - Make movies that appeal to the masses in Story Mode or in Sandbox Mode you can jump into any era and create your dream movie.
• Control the destiny of your cast and crew - Fire and hire them, turn unknowns into movie stars, and take full creative control over script selection and the content of the movies you'll create.
• More than 30 hours of continuous gameplay, thousands of exciting movie characters, and limitless options allow you to vary just about everything
• Show the world your talents - Post your movies to the web for all to see.

Product Details

• Our recommended age: 12 - 20 years
• Manufacturer recommended age: 0 months and up
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00026D13A
• Item Weight: 2 pounds
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: November 8, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (68 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,937 in Video Games (See Bestsellers in Video Games)

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• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: PC

Amazon.com Product Description

Imagine you could make any movie you wanted to. Imagine you could pluck someone from obscurity and make him or her the hottest star in Tinseltown. Imagine that you had control of an entire movie studio, competing with others to create a string of box office smashes. Imagine being able to use your judgement alone, deciding whether success lies with epic action pictures or lots of low budget, hammy 'B' movies.

Will the stars you've so lovingly groomed develop monstrous egos - refusing to accept that they are now too old to play the romantic leads that made them famous? You can help, but there are only so many times you can send them to fat farms and plastic surgeons.

Will you watch your movies being shot or do you want to direct the action yourself? Will you decide to innovate and introduce the talkies, color or digital sound before any of your rivals? Or will you let the other studios make the investments, leaving you to jump on the bandwagon if the new technology becomes popular?

Many of the things you've ever read or heard about Hollywood are right here in The Movies - from stars having affairs and hitting the bottle to teams of genius filmmakers creating the box office hit of the year. Movie mogul, talent spotter or film director. You can be one or you can be all three. That's the magic of The Movies.

Product Description
Imagine you could make any movie you wanted to. Imagine you could pluck someone from obscurity and turn them into a superstar. Imagine you had control of an entire movie studio, competing with other studios to create box office hits and predicting what audiences want—from epic action films to campy B-movies. With The Movies, you can make it big in Hollywood by building the ultimate movie studio and shooting the ultimate picture. Choose a script and turn it into a major release. Pick or create actors and locations. Control budgets, build sets, hire and fire at will, settle into the director’s chair and film a hit. Customize unique movies within the game, then watch and review them, adding your very own voiceover or sound effects and saving them to your hard drive. E-mail your masterpieces to friends, upload them to the web or post them on The Movies’ official site for the world to see and vote on in online awards ceremonies. Just as you can create or modify unique films, you can create or modify actors, customizing their look and renaming them to resemble anyone you wish. You can even replicate every movie star currently in Hollywood and remake all your favorite films with them. Anything you’ve ever read about Hollywood—from starlet scandals to broken box office records—is right here in The Movies.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

47 of 52 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pretty good! Although it may not be what you expect., November 12, 2005

By	mdizzog (USA) - See all my reviews

Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This game is actually pretty good. A lot of people seem to have been let down by Black and White 2, which I can understand. Black and White 2 becomes tedious.

The Movies is more about producing movies and making money. You can make movies, but you do not have complete freedom. Instead, you have a ton of sets, and like 100 different scenes for every set that you can put actors into. This actually works out pretty well as you can create a ton of different interesting scenes in interesting ways by using tiny pre-built scenes. If you don't want to create movies, you can have script writers do it. There are seemingly billions of movies they can write. I get eager to see what kind of movie they are making when I see interesting titles and such.

You create stars, cast the movie, then shoot it. During the shoot you can alter the screenwriter's movies slightly. Or, you can let the director shoot it himself and manage your huge studio lot. You unlock more stuff as you progress, and every 5 years there are awards. The awards are hard to get, and I get excited whenever I see my name nominated.

As you progress, your stars start to want things, and eventually they become big. It's really awesome to see one of my stars become such a huge success after doing so many crappy movies. You can give your star plastic surgery and treat him like royalty by giving him an entourage. It works out pretty well, but the only downside to this is that sometimes other stars might get jealous.

There is even an online feature where you can post movies and earn more game stuff.

I would reccomend this movie to anyone who likes The Sims.

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Completly Additctive!, November 27, 2005

By	C. Canterbury "player" (USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

I am a big Sims 2 fan and fan of simulation games in general (I hate to destroy anything). I had been waiting a while for this game and was a bit dissapointed when I read the reviews. Playing the first 30 min, I am inclined to agree with a lot of what is said here.
The animation is pretty bad. All the characters are hideously ugly unlike those adotrable Sims and even when you dress them up, it's kinda like putting lipstick on a gorilla.
But then, watch out.
Like a junkie you will be glued to your computer screen.
It slowly and insidiously takes you over.
You begin to build sets only to get new sets. You make movies that after a while, you don't even watch because you are too busy trying to please all your actors as much as you can to reap the rewards you will get at the "award ceremony" every five year mark. I actually cheered when my studio was nominated. I was alone. In front of my laptop. Unshaven in sweats with a sink full of unwashed dishes. Yes, "The Movies" has turned me into a junkie loser.
Even though the graphics are terrible, the 3-D effects are top notch. You can actually go deep inside any sound stage or studio to watch your movie being filmed first hand. Amazing.
I got this version not knowing there was a "deluxe" version available. Damn.
There are still a few kinks, like basic studio dressing like trees, chairs and garbage cans not being redily available and not findind a quick stress-relever for your overworked stars (dropping them into rehab is just a waste of time) other than that and the hideous looks of your actors, this is an amazing game.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Take Control of Hollywood, December 19, 2005

By	Aaron Lohr "Visionary" (Maryland) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

Have you ever dreamed of making movies? If you're like me you've dreamed of making a horror film starring an axe-wielding gorilla. Well friends, last night I made my dream a reality thanks to The Movies.

This game has multiple components to it which must be addressed in order to have a complete review. First, the movie-making process. Yes this is fun. You have multiple sets, costumes, props and actions that your actors can utilize. It's fun putting these flicks together and then showing them to your friends. My brother was over for dinner a couple days ago and we made a silly film of robots invading the wild west and we laughed our butts off.

Unfortunately there is a limited number of scenes/actions that your actors can use. There is also a limit to camera angles you can use which is a bit of a downer. I would like complete control, and while I don't have it here, this games comes closer to anything I've seen in this price range.

Now there is the sim component. If you like micro-managing to the extreme you'll love this part. I think it's a pain in the neck. Here's what generally happens. You're having fun making an awesome movie when all of the sudden something interrupts the shooting. Your star has wandered off to the bar to get drunk and your director is so stressed out about that he refuses to work. So you put your star in rehab and drop your director someplace where he can have fun, but then they complain about their salary, or the quality of their trailer, or how many assistants they have. And as soon as you finally make one happy, the rest get upset because they aren't getting the same treatment. And all you want to do is make a gorilla flick!

But there is a sandbox mode where you can focuse more on the movies. However there is a catch. The sandbox only lets you use sets and costumers relative to what you've unlocked in the main game. So you still have to play that sucker and meet all these demands just to use the cool stuff.

If you get this game, I would recommend not having more than 6 stars/directors. It is too much of a headache even to deal with that many, but you can't get much done without that many.

So in the end, the game is so fun and creative, that i am willing to put myself through the stress of babysitting these whiners. And once you get far enough in the game, mosey on over to sandbox and have fun.

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