Facade [VHS]
by Carl Colpaert

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Movie Review: a crappy movie that's better then the average crappy movie
Summary: 2 Stars

Time went by, I no longer live with my brother, and for ages I was never able to find out anything about this movie. Finally, a couple months ago, I looked it up on iMDb.com (which is actually a better site then Amazon then finding out information about movies, but then they don't sell them) and got a list of about twenty movies called "Death Valley", ranging from an old low budget horror movie, to "Death Valley: Exploring Nevada's Natural Mystery" or something like that. Somewhere though, in that list was a movie called "Facade", which iMDb mentioned as also being called "Death Valley" but gave no explanation to why the movie might have more then one title (I still don't know). I went to Amazon and looked "Facade" and from the box could see that yeah, it's the same movie. So, I bought it. The only thing that's different is, the blue title screen says "Facade" instead of "Death Valley". It's even in the same font.

So, when the movie came in the mail, I was pretty excited, and kept telling my best friend how funny it was and how we had to watch it together. So he came over, and even though I'd just bought some other really funny movies too, like A Fish Called Wanda and Raising Arizona, we decided to go with Facade. And.... we were extremely disappointed. Like, have you ever watched a movie where you desperately WANT to be amused, so you find yourself overlaughing at things that weren't even all that funny, and then when the movie is over you realized that you still didn't actually laugh all that much? I guess that, when you're expecting a movie to be bad, but then the movie keeps having random weird funny moments, then that's awesome. But if you're expecting a movie to be really funny, and instead you have to sit thru a crappy movie that only has a funny moment about once every seven minutes, and you know that you COULD be watching a comedy that has non-stop funny scenes in it instead, then it's just not a very enjoyable movie watching experience. Also, I remembered the end being really funny, and this time it just wasn't funny at all, and I can't decide if it's because the different titled version of the movie I saw had a slightly different ending (although I really doubt it), or if it's because last time I saw it was at three o'clock in the morning and I was half asleep and so anything would have been funny, or if it's because last time I saw it my brother was pretty smashed and his easily amuseidness was rubbing off on me, or if it's because this time the only reason me and my friend didn't turn it off and watch a better movie is because I remember the end being great, and then we got to the end and I was like "That was it?!".

So, I'm giving this movie two stars instead of one, partly because if you WANT to watch a crappy movie, this movie is actually going to exceed your expectations, and partly because this seems to be one of these movies where everyone who reviews it either loves to praise movies and gives it a five, or loves to bash movies and gives it a one. I had actually wanted to give it a three just to be different but decided it honestly didn't deserve that. I will say though, that the one gentleman who said this movie was sexual without showing a single breast? He must have seen yet a different version then I, because about the funniest scene in the movie involves a woman coming home to find her husband dead in bed with a topless woman.

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