The Movies

The Movies states that it gives you a chance to run your own movie studio from the silent films, to the golden days of Hollywood, up to the modern day. It says you can write whatever kind of movie you want. All these things are true, at least to some extent.

The Movies allows you to run a studio starting in 1920. You begin with a gated, walled-in field of dirt and an employee office. Once you get the basics built - stage school, casting office, script studio, crew building and a set or two - you are ready to begin filming. You hire some writers to write a script, hire a few actors and a director, put the script and actors/director together, and wait. Yes, that's it, at least in the beginning. You can jump into a scene as it's being filmed and occasionally change a slider or two to modify a scene, but since you don't know where the movie is headed, plot-wise, you can mess up your film's continuity significantly. At this juncture it's better to let the director and actors work on their own. Once they've finished, you release the movie and await public acclaim. However, the in-game audiences never seems to outright reject a film, no matter how bad it it is, so you'll never lose your money on a bad film.

After a few years you're told that there's going to be an awards ceremony starting. This begins your task of out-doing all the other studios in the game. New studios open every once in a while so to keep things fresh. However, you rarely have time to dwell on your opposition thanks to the micro-managing your studio requires. Your buildings will decay, folks will litter all over your lot, and your actors are either stressed from being over-worked or bored from a lack of work (or both at the same time!).

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