The Movies

by Feral Interactive

Product Features

• E-mail creations to family and friends or share with the world online
• Design and run your own movie studio in this exciting game
• Build a commercially successful studio in Story mode
• Focus exclusively on making movies in Sandbox mode
• Make comedies, action films, romances, sci-fi flicks, and more

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000GCBOV6
• Item Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Media: DVD-ROM
• Release Date: October 30, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #21,419 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #17 in Video Games > Mac Games > Role-Playing

Product Description

Platform: Mac

From the Manufacturer

Behind every box-office hit is a Hollywood mogul... in The Movies, that mogul is you. Build your studio from an empty lot into a glittering Hollywood empire by producing must-see blockbusters, creating huge stars, and giving the movie-going public exactly what they want to see.

If you are more "talent" than "suit", then why not settle into the director's chair? The Movies comes packed with tools to help you write and direct your own films. Once your have polished your films to perfection, you can upload them to The Movies online Web site and show the world your best shots.

Welcome to the dream factory, baby!

Features:

• Become an industry legend: design and run your own studio, from the early days of cinema through to the present day and beyond.
• From nobody to superstar: turn unknown wannabes into huge movie stars, but expect attitude not gratitude.
• From pitch to premiere: Take full creative control of your movies. Write the scripts, direct them yourself, and then edit your movie to perfection.
• From flops to runaway hits: Make comedies, action films, romances, sci-fi flicks, horror films, or anything in-between. Horrific sci-fi rom-com anyone?
• Two sides of Hollywood, two modes of play: In The Movies' Sandbox mode, you get to focus exclusively on making movies. And in Story mode, you must build a commercially successful studio.
• Show the world your talents: E-mail your movies to your friends and family. You can even share them with the world via The Movies' online community.

Product Description

Features include:

•E-mail creations to family and friends or share with the world online
•Design and run your own movie studio in this exciting game
•Build a commercially successful studio in Story mode
•Focus exclusively on making movies in Sandbox mode
•Make comedies, action films, romances, sci-fi flicks, and more

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A little easy, but..., January 29, 2007

By 

Jason C. Ditz (Saginaw, MI United States) - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: The Movies (Mac) (DVD-ROM)

For people who play a lot of business sims, The Movies comparatively low difficulty level may seem off-putting. I understand that the sandbox mode is this game's true bread and butter, but the possibility of multiple diffuclty settings for the game mode itself would've been a really nice touch. Unless you're really sloppy it's almost impossible to not end up the top studio in the game by the end of World War 2. And once you get there, it's really not that hard to remain there for the rest of the game.

But that's not what it's about, right? The reason people are willing to shell out full price for this game is not the game mode, it's to make your own movies. And if the PC version was passable in this regard, the Mac version truly shines. With full integration into the iLife series (though if you use copyrighted music off iTunes you can't upload your movie to the Lionhead site whether you had permission to use it or not) post-production has never been easier, and you have the possibility to make movies that PC users could only dream of.

One interesting sidenote for owners of the MacMini and Macbook systems. While the box clearly says "The Movies does not support GMA950 graphics cards with shared RAM", this is not strictly true. They may not officially support the card, but the game actually runs quite well on such a system, provided you have enough RAM.

And that to me was the most impressive thing about this game, the performance. With my CoreDuo Mini seemingly at or slightly below the system requirements stated on the box (though with 1 GB of RAM) the game performs absolutely spectacularly. While UB-patched games like Sims 2 require bare minimum settings and even then experience major slowdowns on my system, I was able to crank The Movies up to a healthy widescreen resolution with some nice effects and the game still never so much as hiccups during play.

It is truly a pleasure to play and if you're looking to play around at making some simple Machinema there is no cheaper or easier way to do so. And if you don't think you have machine enough to run it, do yourself a favor and download the demo: you might be pleasantly surprised at how well this runs on low end configurations.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ready for Some Lights, Camera, Action?, January 16, 2007

By 

John Arpin "Johnny Phantom" (Warwick, RI USA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: The Movies (Mac) (DVD-ROM)

This game is fantastic, combining the aspects of a Tycoon game where you manage and run your studio, pay attention to your employees behavior, and build what is needed with the aspects of Directing and creating your own movies!

Game runs great! only issue I see (not sure if anyone else has this Issue) is in the post production I can record my dialog and should be able to have the actors lip-sync to my voice. This feature works Great in the PC version. But the Mac version I cannot get it to work. Even after a clean install of my Machines Software (running on 10.4.8 Intel 2.16 Duo core Macbook Pro 15" 2GB Memory, 256 MB video)

Great Game! Even with that one small glitch!

(anyone else have the lip-syncing issue? anyone have it work?)

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good, but not great., October 27, 2007

By 

Randy Nelson "The_dark_knight" (Ottawa, IL USA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: The Movies (Mac) (DVD-ROM)

This game starts off great. Like most Sim-ish games, it eventually becomes tedious. The best part is the sandbox mode. If you are creative and love to micro-manage things, this game is for you.

2115|RP27KR7D9WBNP;2115|R18OKGL9J16Z9N;2115|R1EDIVJCXSDTVL;