It was never quite clear if Affleck's character was meant to be mentally challenged.

i survived through this film, i wish i didn't

Christmas Hunt 2019

Any one who thinks Ben Affleck’s worst performance was Batman has never seen this movie.

Yuletide's a bitch, ain't it?
-Doo-Dah Understudy

Paying $250,000.00 to spend Christmas with James Gandolfini seems perfectly reasonable to me. A bargain really.

At it's best it's mediocre, at it's worst it's kinda horrible. Reading that they made the film without a complete script explains a lot. There's some outdoor scenes that are clearly on a soundstage. Like they weren't even trying to hide it. Like it was during the point where everyone was just like "Fuuuuuck... let's just get this over with!"

This should be remade into a psychological thriller. Imagine a rich bastard paying a family to spend Christmas with them and as each day comes and goes he demands weirder and crueler shit from the family while increasing the final payment as he goes. The family turns against each other for money and does some really fucked up shit. Merry Christmas!

'Nuff Said

Getting $250,000 for allowing Ben Affleck to live with me sounds like fair compensation.

13

Man wanted to find a sister he could fall in love with. Anyhow Merry Christmas.

I only ever watched this for James Gandolfini. I wish I hadn’t.

This movie was released at the wrong time, back when Affleck was having his career on the down (fuck you Jennifer Lopez), and automatically it was panned. But watch it, its actually hilarious.

Full of one liners and slapstick comedy of Christmas Vacation similarities, Surviving Christmas is always one of my favourite Christmas movies. Affleck is brilliant as Drew Latham, an eccentric millionaire who rents a family for Christmas. Remember, this movie was done mostly on improv and its hilarious. How can this not be loved more?

Surprising cameo from Jen Morrison also made me smile. I couldn't remember her in this at all.

Easily passed on, but it shouldn't be ignored. Great fun viewing.

A psychodrama with an invisible laugh track about a wealthy psychopath exploiting a working-class family for his own petty amusement. 2003-2004 was a rough run for my boy Ben.

Reicher Mann will zu Weihnachten nicht alleine sein, also mietet er sich eine Familie, mit der er die Feiertage verbringen kann.

Dieser Film sollte wohl eher "Surviving Ben Affleck" heißen. Die Kinojahre 2003 und 2004 waren nicht gerade Affleck's Glanzzeiten in Hollywood und da reiht sich dieser Streifen hier ganz gut ein.

Der Hauptcharakter ist unsympathisch, nervig und einfach cringy af. Das ist schon mal das größte Problem an diesem Film.

1 Punkt für Christina Applegate. Als ihr Charakter eingeführt wurde, hatte ich zumindest das Gefühl, dass ab jetzt mal endlich jemand mitspielt, der noch ab und an sein Gehirn einschaltet.

Ein halber Punkt für das Christmas Setting. Aber das rettet dann in der Gesamtwertung auch nicht mehr viel.

ben affleck, what the fuck?
you won an oscar prior to the making of this movie 
it was harder for me to survive this movie than it was for the family to survive christmas

a decent Chirtmas movie its not that bad there a few a good jokes really a 7% on rotton tomatoes really maybe 30%

Xmas Movie Season 2020 - Part XIII

The Gone Girl Christmas Special

Much funnier and more insane than I expected it to be, but feels more like a great sitcom than an idea for a movie

James Gandolfini is in this and that's really all there is to say about this movie

The only good thing about this movie is James Gandolfini’s beard

1 star for all the looks Gandolfini gave Affleck & for how game Hicks always is. Affleck was definitely on something.

Não é roteiro mais original, mas o elenco é tão carismático e algumas situações são tão hilárias que fica impossível não gostar desse filme.

O final pode parecer um pouco clichê, mas é mais que apropriado em um filme de Natal.

Great Christmas movie
Funny twist
And not so predictable ending.

Ben Affleck and his beautiful broad shoulders are absolutely unhinged in this movie. And James Gandolfini’s character, Tom, is completely interchangeable with Tony Soprano. What a masterpiece. So bad that it’s good. I’m not sure why we watched this on January 2nd, but I think that gives my review even more credibility due to my post-holiday clarity.

5/12

This movie was strange and uncomfortable and while it appeared to be a cute Christmas movie, it was really creepy and disturbing. But Gandolfini and O’Hara are great, there’s some funny jokes (particularly the foley comedy with the squeaky stair), and the third act is much stronger than the rest of the film.

La primera media hora hila finísimo al representar el capitalismo de las experiencias: "vivir la experiencia navideña en un hogar feliz" podría ser un tipo de turismo navideño de nuestra contemporaneidad. Luego todo se echa a perder, pero se mantiene la idea de que el espíritu navideño es una cuestión de clase, donde la felicidad no se basa tanto en cultivar las relaciones familiares sino en no vivir tan con el agua al cuello que se te quitan las ganas hasta de poner lucecitas en la fachada de tu casa. Dsgraciadamente, esta idea también se desecha en el tramo final. A pesar de traicionarse a sí misma (pagar los peajes habituales de la comedia políticamente incorrecta), hay momentos donde ofrece situaciones tan incómodas y provocadoras que permanecen en nuestro cerebro aunque luego todo evolucione hacia terrenos más convencionales.

Ben Affleck, estupendo actor de comedia: hay que decirlo más.