Advantages: Atmosphere. Well produced - Escapist Disadvantages: Story line too unrealistic for me
Last week I came across one of those special offers in HMV (4 DVds for £20). It was end of the season sale and I picked up a film called "The Village" just to make up the numbers. It struck me as being some sort of clichéd horror film from the blurb on the cover and I didn't expect to be watching it in the very near future. But it was one of those DVDs that keep popping up every time I looked through my shelf of dozens of other unwatched movies. Well the other evening, it popped up again and I just put it in the machine without giving it too much thought. As I wasn't in the mood for thinking anyway, it would probably be an ideal film.
As we got into the film, enter the monster, well, a glimpse of it. It was supposed to be scaring me but even my wife, who makes me jump out of my skin with her sudden screams in scary movies, remained ...
derek-j-a 06.10.2005 (07.10.2005)
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of The Village (DVD)
Advantages: Everything on board this cruise liner Disadvantages: Nothing what so ever, unless you are a very fussy person.
Just returned from the Villa`s and vino`s cruise with Ocean Village 2 and was very very impressed.
First of all I must say after reading certain negative reviews, some people MUST be hard to please. They have criticised the food, which both my wife and I thought was wonderful, plentiful and a choice to please all, except a certain few who must be the most hard to please of people. In fact, some have criticised most the ship had to offer. If it`s fantastic food with a great choice, great trips on offer and great friendly service, don't book an Ocean village tour, go to your Benidorms instead. Some folk just moan for moanings sake.
This cruise was our first, it was our pearl wedding anniversary and we did not want any formal evenings with the Captain etc, we just wanted to wear casual all through the week, and that's what Ocean Village ...
living in a home shopping channel TV studio. Suddenly it was "Diamonique Hour", then "Swarovski Day", etc, etc.
We found the excursions in general good, but quite over priced when compared to local alternatives.
It is worth pointing out that we took the Shopping Spree excursion in Tunisia which was ABSOLUTELY DREADFUL and was nothing like the description in the action ashore brochure. In the end we got 40 minutes (not 3 hours) to ourselves to do some shopping, the rest of the time our dodgy tour guy took us to pre-arranged "sales presentations". We were very unhappy with this, particularly with Ocean Villages dishonest description of the tour and their rude (and quite frankly embarrassing) action ashore "manager" who was screaming to us over the reception desk when we complained.
The sun deck area was very cramped, full of screaming kids ...
