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Bubba Gee (147 KP) rated the PlayStation 3 version of Assassin's Creed 2 in Video Games

Jun 19, 2019  
Assassin's Creed 2
Assassin's Creed 2
Action/Adventure
Gameplay story characters history (0 more)
Best saga ever
I played the first Assassins Creed and thought it was great if a little repetetive, but this one oh wow.
They really stepped it up in terms of gameplay and story, this game felt so immersive.
Almost as if you were in renaissance Italy.
From the start in Florence to the middle part in Monteriggioni to the final part in Rome this game just draws you in.
Lots of interesting history to pick up as well from the Pazzi to the Borgias, and of course the interesting interjections from Leonardo da Vinci.
Requiescat in pace Ezio Auditore da Firenze.
  
Resident Evil (2002)
Resident Evil (2002)
2002 | Action, Horror, Mystery
Casting (2 more)
Acting
Story
Repetitive (0 more)
A Promising Start to the Saga!
Contains spoilers, click to show
Resident Evil is a good start to the 6 film series, though could it have been better? Yes.

The film is loosely based on the first Resident Evil game, starting in the notorious mansion (albeit for about 5 minutes) before moving to the underground Umbrella facility, the site of the "incident", and carrying on in the traditional "investigation gone wrong" style, with lots of zombies, dogs and not much else.

The film is a fun action film that can be considered as an mediocre standalone movie, or a good start to a 15 year franchise.
  
Star Wars: Master & Apprentice
Star Wars: Master & Apprentice
Claudia Gray | 2019 | Science Fiction/Fantasy
5
7.5 (2 Ratings)
Book Rating
Story (2 more)
Convoluted
Unadventurous
Canon, but not really worth the read.
Contains spoilers, click to show
One spoiler ahead that doesn't really add much but it's nice to know, if we didn't know it already.

A pretty poor attempt at a Star Wars story, especially as it's considered canon.

This may be the second earliest installment in the Star Wars canon, but it fails to add anything to the saga, apart from we find out that Count Dooku was Qui-Gon Jin's master.

The story is mainly based around an adventure featuring Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan involving something about a princess and some jewel thieves...pretty uninspiring characters in terms of originality.
  
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William Finnegan recommended Invisible Man in Books (curated)

 
Invisible Man
Invisible Man
John Callahan, Ralph Ellison | 2001 | Fiction & Poetry
6.0 (5 Ratings)
Book Favorite

"Invisible Man has become something of an invisible book. It’s an American masterpiece and a pure, if searing, joy to read. Published in 1952, it dramatizes the doubleness of black life in America in a raucous, outrageous saga, as its unnamed narrator makes the Great Migration north to New York. “I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.” Its brilliance is distinctly midcentury, though, and Ellison, once a Marxist firebrand, became an arch elitist, doing his book no favors with his disdain for popular struggles around race and inequality. But the vitality of Invisible Man is undiminished, and its most caustic insights into American life still painfully relevant."

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