It was a three-rental weekend.
Sin City was a spectacular visual experience. Even if you could care less about the story it’s worth just watching at least once to take in the gorgeous cinematography and rendering. The story on it’s own was impressive an interesting, and together with the style of filming it was a perfect combolation.
Assault on Precinct 13 was good as well but was almost more trouble that it was worth. Apparently this is a remake of a movie released in 1976, which I didn’t know until it started. 20 minutes and at trip back to the video store later, we were watching the *new* version, which was good enough but could not compare to the others.
Teacher’s Pet was a free impulse rental from the kid’s section. It’s yet another Disney movie based on Saturday morning cartoon series, but there’s one thing that easily sets this one apart from all the rest: Baseman. Those not familiar with Gary Baseman out to Google him (or better yet, Google image). I would venture to say that his style is among the most well-known today, and it really adds to a series that would’ve been just another Disney series otherwise. Add to that the voice talents of Nathan Lane, Debra Jo Rupp (from That 70’s Show), Megan Mullaly, Kelsey Grammar, Jerry Stiller and more and you’ve got one heck of a Disney movie. And singing – there’s singing too. I’m rather surprised at this but out of the three movies we rented I’d recommend this one the most.