Given how Animation/Graphical/Physics technology has progressed in the last 15 years, its a shame no one has had a decent stab at making a spiritual successor

I loved this game. I spent ages making my own sci-fi adventures in it, but I was always disappointed that the game always hated my movies and preferred the ones I let the AI make for me. Damn game doesn't get my art!

This kind of games are not that popular nowadays and it wouldn't sell well, probably. But I would really love a new The Movies style game. I think current technology plus online capabilities could make wonders for a game like this.

Promoting a janitor to an actor. I don't really know if it should end badly. That's actually how Harrison Ford got into film industry lol.

I have to say, I wish they'd come out with a sequel with a more advanced version of the movie editor. I loved playing around with that thing.

1:25 "Morning log snap". God, Clint that sounded disturbing.

I really appreciate your brief mention of the state of the gaming industry and online portions of games ending. This is something a lot of gamers today don't consider well enough, in my opinion. In fact, the temporary nature of online service and digital copies of games with no boxed release is a subject in itself, and as you are a collector of hard boxed copies of games, I would love to hear your thoughts on it all sometime. I've always loved opening a brand new game, going through a (sometimes beautiful) manual, etc. And, of course, the wonderful smell of it. :p It's been so sad to see this disappear for so very many games. As always, thanks for the great videos!

this game is great and it actually shows how Lionhead games could have been a competitor to maxis if they had got their sh** together. I honestly do not understand what happened to Peter Molyneux and his gang, they made such good games

So proud of you for how "watchable" you've made your show in just a few years. A lot of little things you can't teach and you've really learned how to do those things well. Way to go. (The little on-camera bit you do at the beginning made me think of it.)

I want an LGR plays The Movies !!

This always seemed like a Maxis-type Sims-ish game to me. Despite not being that, of course. And just like no matter how hard I tried, my creature kept eating villagers. Here, no matter how hard I tried, my actors got addicted to food and alcohol before too long. Sort of imagined my movie studio doubled as a clinic on the side. :P

Oh yes, this is what I'm talking about. I was heavily obsessed with The Movies back in the day. I made quite a few contributions to the online service and even uploaded a couple of them on KZfaq (though I've set them on private). This game really opened up a lot of new horizons for me, and I basically got it just on a whim from my parents after my love of The Sims 2 started to die down. Like LGR said, the actual depth of this game is very deceptive. It locks you in and gets you toying with stuff, but it becomes repetitive due to its management aspects. Were it a game just about making movies and trying to compete with a system than either made logical sense or made satirical sense, then it would have been far stronger. Imagine having to put in scenes of gratuitous violence or make a gritty reboot to appease the audiences so you could stay in business. That would have made it far more interesting. It tickles that creative bone though. It's got just enough charm and flair to make you want to see how things are filmed. For me though, the most important aspect was always the community, and I really miss the days of sharing my crappy little movies and seeing what others were able to do.

I remember this game. I WANTED this game SO BAD when it came out but we didn't have a decent computer back then.

This game needs to be remade & remastered! It's so good!

2020? Wow, what an auspicious year for a game about the movie industry to end...

The movies is a great game even tho its 10 years old now its pretty great for its time. Im kind of sad they never really made anymore games like this or added more to this game. It wouldve been great to see how much better this game would be with todays technology. I remember spending hours trying to make a legit movie and it would end up being like 10 minutes lol

You should do review of Evil Genius.

"Morning Log Snap" Your creativity for these things never ceases to amaze and humor me.

The Movies and the Sims 2 are the two only games that basically formed my childhood. Oh the hundreds of hours I spent replaying The Movies over and over again, good memories. Really is one rare gem of a game, I wish more people would know about it. It's so fun, intuitive, immersive and the art direction for that time of the 2000s was really good.

The Movies could benefit from a remake. I sunk so many hours into it back in the day.

Super stoked you reviewed this! The Sims franchise and this game were basically all I played as a child. Ah, the nostalgia.

The soundtrack to this game was perfect. I love how 1968 would roll around with the loud guitar rock that sounded like something off of Led Zeppelin II, then 1974 would come in with the song that vaguely sounds like Pink Floyd.

the game had a horrible lack of possible employees. I remember always being low on janitors. Multibillion dollar movie studio and I can't find someone to pick up trash. There are a lot of negative things like in the game.

I actually remember hearing of this game in an old issue of Nintendo Power, because a console port of this was being made at one point for PS2, Gamecube, and Xbox, but said port was cancelled because of two reasons. First off was the acquisition of Lionhead by Microsoft, which meant they could no longer put out versions for all consoles. Second, apparently sales of the PC original just weren't that high to begin with, so they figured a console port wouldn't be that much more profitable. Shame it's not on GOG at least, I'd love to be able to just buy this and download right away.

I really feel stupid for not taking better care of my cd and dvd games. I have a lot of them but most discs are damaged and not in the proper case. I was too addicted to care about that stuff. Damn!

This is still the hardest game to find sometimes I wish that they would release it on steam maybe or some company would do it

The one game I always wanted to play but somehow never got around to it. Great Review, LGR!

Yay! Been looking forward to this one. I LOVED this game.

It’s funny, I’m watching this on the official second day of fall 6 years in the future from when this video went up. I always binge watch LGR when I’m sad about things. Clint, thank you for the years of amazing content that has brought me peace and joy all of the time, but especially when I really need it. Thank you kind sir for what you do and all that you put into it.

My experience with _The Movies_ was rather the opposite. I was very excited by the prospect of being able to make movies using the in-game engine, but when I actually opened it up and tried it out, I found the selection of scenes, moods, and camera angles shockingly lacking. I found no option to change the blocking of certain scenes (like going through _this_ door over here) and found myself struggling to make anything that seemed even the slightest bit cohesive. The avant-garde route was definitely the way to use this, but I just wanted to make something fairly traditional and tell a story. The gameplay itself was understandable but simultaneously managed to be both frantic and boring. I was totally unable to keep up with all the things that I needed to do to keep my studio in the black and in very short order stopped caring altogether because getting there was utterly dull. The sandbox mode was okay, in that it took the undue stress and tedium away, but the aforementioned issues with the movie-making tools and the limits on the options you had were astounding and discouraging. Maybe it's the letdown from the commercial hype talking, but I simply can't recommend this game in the slightest. Way too restricted for what it was touted to be.

I remember that website. I was just looking for videos I remember from the website today and I did find the top ones that were around at the time, but sadly not the smaller ones I remember. Great review Clint! It's good to see that people aren't forgetting about older games like this.

Yes! Finally you review The Movies, seen that box on your shelf a few times and was hoping you would review it.

I noticed that you had one of the Nancy Drew games on your shelf and I think that would be great to review! I have a ton of great memories playing the games when I was in junior high.

I loved this game as a kid!!! It was my addiction before I discovered sims. It's a lot like sims in some ways because you can make the actors have relationships with each other. I also liked the way you could decorate the studio lot.

I was a hardcore PC gamer from 1992 through 2007, when I swapped out for a mac for work reasons. Thank you for this awesome channel that dives into so many of my old favorites, including ones I'd totally forgotten about. It's a beautiful nostalgia bomb

"Actor pinches one off"(after getting called to the set while in the outhouse.) 10 years later I still remember that.

I was a game tester on The Movies! Testing took so, so long...

We need a the movies 2

Been wanting you to review this for ages!

I love your videos! I can watch your videos all day and still be entertained. You have a good balance of information and jokes, keep it up!

i loved this game, i made a whole series of "Space Nazi" films, including "Space natzi 3: a nazi at the OK corral" "Space Nazi goes vegas" and "Space Nazi vs. Ghost Gorilla"

This game is so good. I still remember when I uploaded my movies online. "Wild Wild East" a and "Wild Wild East 2". The first one was such a smash hit on the website, I was able to promote the second one on the website freely. Both got 5 stars. I even remember the plot of the first movie and remember how wacky the second one was. I wanted to make a third one; but never got around to it. Shame really.

Thank you so much for reviewing this, as an extreme movie geek and a filmmaker this is probably my favorite game. Very few games have really got my attention, but The Movies surely did.

I love that you play the theme music in these reviews. Takes me back haha

I believe The Movies was also going to get a release on the Nintendo GameCube, but that never saw the light of day.

Do you ever run into compatibility issues when you run a 2005 game on a modern operating system, or do you happen to keep around an older working Windows machine? Great video, BTW!

i know this video is a bit old now, but i was looking around for a fun sim to play and found this somewhere and someone mentioned your review of it on reddit. its so cute that pushinguproses was in there! i was watching the video on low quality and i still recognised her right away! what a likeness! i love your videos clint!

I got this game for Christmas about five years ago and I was so so interested in it and I badly wanted to play only for it to not load on any of my computers.Thanks for doing a review on it so I'm finally able to see what it's all about! You never let me down with new vids, LGR!

This game is still looking modern in 2021, for its solid gaming system and acceptable graphics

Though this video is already 2 years old: I have played the game "The Movies" too. It was really interesting and probably had a lot of influence to current games, like GTA etc. They feature integrated video editors too.. so you can do your own movies, but for example with GTA V characters ;)

OMG thank you sooo much LGR, I've been wanting a Movies Review from you so bad. I think I even commented about maybe seeing if you could do one, THANK YOU yaas

Thanks for that Clint! I've been curious and intrigued about The Movies ever since it was released

I'd love to see another game that is similar to the Microsoft 3D Movie Maker games. How fun were those?! I love making my own movies on those games. Imagine what a more modern version of that game would be like?

Thanks MyAbandonware. You are my savior.

I've spent so many days and hours playing this game back when it came out, I think I have some of my saved movies on my old hard drive... got to dust off that thing sometime. I also remember before you start the game and the lionhead logo shows up, if you click and move the mouse you can play around with the logo and the little squares. Physics in that are just clunky but fun, novelty of doing that usually wore out quickly but I kept doing that every time I started the game even just for a second. Great review btw!

i just started playing this game again this week! awesome to see you talk about it :)

I love this game and have been playing it since it was released years ago, I only recently got the expansion though, found it easily on Ebay. Great game, great review.

0:00-00:28 MY GOD EMPEROR, i love that game

It's awesome that you just reviewed one of my favorite games like five minutes after I subscribed to you. Thanks for being awesome.

I've been waiting for you to do this forever!

Funny. For 10 straight years I thought this game was a Mac exclusive. *Single tear rolls down cheek* I could have had it if I read the label in the store!

"It's blatantly obvious that Duke Nukem doesn't have a great deal of comedy experience" : D

Gosh I used to not only make movies in this all the time, but I'd invite my friends to come over and we would provide voice acting for all the scenes too. Looking back at it now it's pretty bad, but I won't ever forget the straight up fun we had setting up scenes and dressing up the actors. I wholeheartedly recommend checking it out too. Heck, the modding community is still providing fresh new content to this day!

Thanks for doing this. I've been waiting for this since you said you wanted to do one during the one Thrifts video.

I bought this game when it first came out and I *STILL* play it!

Dammit, I threw away my old copy of The Movies a few years ago. Hopefully, now that you've reviewed it, it'll pop up on GOG eventually. Hey, it happened with Afterlife.

This game brings back so much nostalgia from when I was a kid. And like always, great video!

Fun fact: The music for this game has been used in FX's TV show "Archer" during multiple scenes. One instance I remember is during that shrinking vessel inside the scientist's body episode. I had to rewind a few times and listen intently for it, but it's there. I believe the track is called: "All Out Action". Another one I remember from the soundtrack is "A Long Time Ago", a Godfather-esque track that was used for Archer's S03E08 for the one with the Italian President. Funny how that is the legacy of this game now.

Ahh, I loved this game so much when it first came out.

Yes! I used to make really fun sci fi films like alien but unfortunately most of my actors would end up in rehab. I called my studios, Albion Studios.

Im really happy you covered this game. I got the demo in some magazine in 2005 and finally managed to get a copy. Spent quite a lot of time playing this game.

Hey, I remember this one! I remember liking this game a lot when I was a teenager. I think the whole concept-from the ability to make your own content to hearing cranks of various eras of radios espouse odd views on topics that even manage to head into Red Scare territory-appealed to the historian and aspiring filmmaker in me. I remember playing it on Windows XP and 7 but was sadly was unable to get it up and running on Windows 10.

I can't help but think that if The Sims 3 would have been amazing if they had these features and gameplay when they rolled out with all that fame system and the backlot and whatnot.

Can someone recreate The Room in this game? :D

I was looking for reviews for this game but there was not much, nice to see a new review.

I love this game, and I love this review! You have a really unique way of presenting content!:D

I tested this game when I was employed at Activision. I was the first one to get the life time achievement award.

I miss proper instruction manuals.

I remember getting the character creator disc in a PC Gamer magazine subscription and loved this game when it came out. To this day sometimes I still think about the traffic outside of the studio how there would just randomly be a ton of the same vehicle lined up.

I was so excited to see you had a review of this game because it's a game I adore & still play to this day. It's such a great game & I don't know why more people don't talk about it. Probably because of the limited access. When I was younger, I used to tell my friends about it & they would come over & we'd make movies together. :) I remember purchasing this game out of the blue at Best Buy when I was a kid for $20 thinking it'll be an okay game, but wow I was impressed! I was so happy to find a copy of the expansion online, so I'm still exploring that! :) There aren't many games out there that you can appreciate as the years go by, I mean this game is so good that I am still playing it in my adulthood. It's a shame that the online community isn't in operation now, I never got to use it. I'm surprised there hasn't been many games that "shadow" this one now. If there were, I'd probably play them. I will probably continue to play The Movies game as the years go by like I have in years past. It's just that good. :)

We wanted more expansions!!!!

This game deserves a remake more than anything

Speaking of movie games, LGR should review the children's game from Brøderbund called "Write! Camera! Action!" from 1996. I learned so much about basic movie making from that game when I was 8. Thanks for the great nostalgic content LGR!

this game is still one of my favourites and probably one of the best management games ever made along with Simcity 4

This sounds like a celebrity version of SimCity

this was a great game! bring it back!!!

FINALLY. I've been waiting to see you review this game for a loooong ass time.

Man. I remember wanting this game so much when it released. I really hope someone releases a digital version sometime so I can finally play it. :) Awesome review, btw!

Neat game.

This game was so good :') I need to play it again :'D

Been playing this since it was new.. still amazes me how ahead of its time it was..

Oh... I remember playing this for hours!, it was so good, and still looks great today

seems awfully fitting your campaign ends at 2020

This game was freaking great, I spent countless hours making movies.

Okay, this is too cool. Didn't expect that. Great video, LGR! :D

I played this so much when I was a kid, thanks for reviewing it LGR!

Amazing game!

I saw that Nancy Drew game on your shelf. Have you thought about doing a review on one of them? I love the Nancy Drew games.

WOOOHOOO I've been waiting on this review for ages! *grabs popcorn*

I really wanted this game as a kid! Great review!