“Surviving Christmas” Starring Ben Affleck, Christina Applegate and James Gandolfini
Directed by Mike Mitchell
Surviving Affleck
By Michele Dillon
Ben Affleck plays three basic (very basic) types of roles in his movies; stoner guy, romantic comedy guy and one very rare occasion an actual real actor (Good Will Hunting). This movie adds a fourth type of role to his filmography and I hope it is just as rare as his acting ability cause I don’t think I ever want to see it again; crazy weirdo! He goes from being completely normal in the beginning of the movie, some macho guy who has a lot of money and wants to go to Fiji for Christmas to some crazy whacko who decides to visit his old family home and then rent the family that lives there to be his fake mom, dad and brother for the Christmas holiday. I have to admit that this storyline stank, but the actual delivery of it wasn’t *horrible (* See definition at bottom of review). I was mildly entertained throughout just because I thought it was ridiculously funny how stupid Affleck was being. I was actually really surprised that Christina Applegate let herself be seen in this movie and on top of that decided to actually portray the character from the script and recite lines from it…she must not have had a very good agent at the time. I am not really going to step all over every actor that was in the movie, just mainly Affleck because I feel after all the movies that he has made, somewhere deep down, there HAS to be a good actor (reminiscent of his Good Will Hunting character) but he is just unwilling to unleash it or he will have to deal with higher fame. Come on Affleck, if you don’t shape up soon, you might be the next Tom Cruise (someone who started out as an actor but as he got richer, he decided not to act anymore, or rarely, but he still gets all the fame and attention because he is CRAZY!). I have no more to say to you other than, I like your brother, Casey Affleck, better (Gone, Baby, Gone…amazing).
*Horrible: any type of movie role that Ben Affleck, Jason Lee or any of his Kevin Smith affiliates may play.
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