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Oh man, I love Unicum. I have a Hungarian friend who brought me some for my birthday. He and I are the only ones in our friend group to drink it, though.

Agreed. I really like a Bavarian-style potato salad, which is made with vinegar and no mayo and is excellent. Not having mayonnaise in a potato salad is not necessarily a bad thing.

I didn't come here to make friends. I came here to become the Empire's Next Top Model.

Like most of the character bits in the movie. I like it more in explaining what it was supposed to be than what I actually saw.

The one good thing about watching with the Dutch subtitles is that it gave everyone's name and spelling. (They're all dumb by the way.)

He's got incredibly polarizing looks. The people who are into him are really into him, and the people who aren't think he's horrific. I'm not sure there's an in-between.

Oh man. I've had some experiences with the Romanian version, some better than others. It's a good spirit, though.

It just kept happening! All in a wave! I think once the grenade got thrown into the ship, it just became really silly to me.

This has been the first time it's been really helpful. Most of the time I just ignore them, but it's nice to have spellings and reminders of what the names are as the movie goes on.

Seriously. The idea of all the characters and the storyline sounds fantastic. But I'm a person who cries at just about every movie, and I started laughing when everyone kept dying. That should not be my reaction to that situation.

Tudyk was one of the few who actually did have a character I connected to (and he was basically CGI). But yeah, not every actor can do it on their own.

Yes, exactly this. The performances aren't bad, but there's just something off about them that makes me not connect as much as I wanted to.

He's got good actors who will do well no matter what - Brian Cranston, Donnie Yen, Diego Luna, etc - but with that level of skill he should be able to get more out of them.

Yes. I'd forgotten that he was doing Rogue One until the credits, when I put it together with his Godzilla and realized that they had the same strengths (amazing sense of scale, beautiful imagery, great sense of location) and the same weaknesses (terrible at emotional beats, no sense of characterization). He has real

Yes, thanks from me as well! There's a cheap Kindle version that will now be my winter break reading.

Honestly, that's all of the characters. The idea of them were/are so much better than their actual executions. (I don't think Gareth Edwards knows how to direct actors or gives any shits about characterization.)

I watched it in the Netherlands, English spoken with Dutch subtitles, so I learned what all the character's names were and how to spell them. Like how Chirrut Îmwe has that little thing on the I.

No one ever says France.

"Overall, he gives the kind of performance traditionally associated with stars who died during filming."

To me, that seems all the more reason to fancy it up. I rarely have it so I might as well go all-out when I do.