10 Most Annoying Christmas Movies Of All Time

If the phrase "Ben Affleck Christmas movie" doesn't send chills down your spine, you probably don't remember (or have chosen to forget) the long, heavy midsection of his career that bred back-to-back stinkers Daredevil and Gigli. The following year, Affleck would cap off his movie misfortunes with this thoroughly embarrassing Christmas film.

In a (chest)nutshell, this is about a rich, obnoxious advertising executive (Affleck), literally renting a family so that he can relive some of his favorite childhood Christmases. But not with his actual family, because then he wouldn't be able to dictate his way through the holiday with such ease and douchiness. It's a shallow endeavor, which makes for an even shallower viewing experience.

What makes Surviving Christmas such a grueling undertaking -- besides THE CONSTANT SHOUTING BY EVERY CHARACTER -- is that it plays on the worst tropes of the genre -- the killjoy antagonist, the Dickensian cliches, the tacky sweaters -- and piles it on, but then never really delivers on the redemption story that's supposed to follow.

Watching Affleck trample around a stranger's house, spewing ad exec "lingo" to a group of equally unpleasant people, is no way to spend the holidays.