The Movies (2005) (VG)

Director:

Peter Molyneux

Writers:

Martin Alexander Korda (writer) and
Mark Hill (writer)

Release Date:

8 November 2005 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Family

Plot:

You play the head of a movie studio who must produce movies, manage your personnel and market your product as the technology of the medium changes over the years.

Plot Keywords:

Studio | Movie Studio | 1920s | Performance | Gibberish

Cast

Benedict Caeser	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Ben Cullum	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Jamie Cullum	...	DJ English Hughie (voice)
Kyle Eastwood	...	DJ Andy Wright (voice)
Kenny Andrews	...	DJ Randy Shaw (voice) (as Kennie Andrews)
Louisa Gummer	...	Voice (voice)
Lillian Paulson	...	Additional Voices (voice)
William Roberts	...	DJ Wally Krunckleburger, Awards Man (voice)
Eric Meyers	...	Additional Voices (voice) (as Eric Myers)
Kerry Shale	...	DJ William McDuff, Future News (voice)
Laurel Lefkow	...	PA Announcer (voice)
Patricia Rodriguez	...	Adwards Woman (voice)
Lorelei King	...	Tech News Announcer (voice)
Robert O. Smith	...	DJ Mad Dog John (voice)
Tony Guida	...	Current News (voice)

Country:

UK

Color:

Color

Certification:

UK:12 | USA:T

Company:

Lionhead Studios

Trivia:

Most of the names of the various Stars and other crew that show up to work on your studio lot throughout the game are taken from staff members who worked on the game.

Quotes:

Alexa St. Fontain: I'm Alexa St. Fontain, your goddess of gossip.
Jim Sashe': And this is swami of celebrity swank, Jim Sashe', you're watching...
Both: This is Hollywood!
Alexa St. Fontain: [off-screen] Remember this apple-cheek little starlet? Here she is in her very first picture, "Cross Country with Uncle Leadfoot."
Jim Sashe': Wow, grandpa, keep your hands on the wheel!
Alexa St. Fontain: That's screen sensation Ashley Brown, star of last summer mega-blockbuster "Monkey in the Hauntings."
Jim Sashe': Of course she is, Alexa. Ashley Brown is bonified movie magic. Let's take a look at her transformation from "Barely Legal" to "Double D-light".

a let down

the major problem with this game is that it's not the great movie making game that it claims to be. the main goal is to become the richest studio in the world.

if you are an artistic film maker with a vision, this game is not for you're movie creating abilities. rather, you financial abillities. sure you can edit movie that already have scripts, but you can never create your own story.

you can however make a short with some movement, and sounds and dialoge, but if your thinking that you can make really cool, profound pictures, this game can't do it.

and another very real fact of the main stream is carried over to the game. the writers. in the game your writers mean nothing. all they do is sit in a little room and give you gold, and yet like the stars, you can not look at a writers mood, change there salary, or really have any other concers than writing.