{"id":108142,"date":"2020-11-09T15:02:14","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T12:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/mel-gibson-is-the-worst-santa-of-all-time\/"},"modified":"2020-11-09T15:02:14","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T12:02:14","slug":"mel-gibson-is-the-worst-santa-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mel-gibson-is-the-worst-santa-of-all-time\/","title":{"rendered":"#Mel Gibson is the worst Santa of all time"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Mel Gibson is the worst Santa of all time<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n And here I thought the pandemic would ruin Christmas. But Mel Gibson got there first.<\/p>\n

For his latest instrument of torture, a\u2009k\u2009a film, the actor plays Chris Cringle, a\u2009k\u2009a Santa Claus, in \u201cFatman.\u201d Many performers have given a unique spin on Father Christmas, from Edmund Gwenn as the traditional jolly type in \u201cMiracle on 34th Street\u201d to Tim Allen as an angry divorced dad in \u201cThe Santa Clause.\u201d Mel\u2019s Canadian schlub with a sooty beard and John Wayne voice is the worst of them all.<\/p>\n

In this telling, Chris lives proudly out in the open on an average-looking farm in a real northern town with his wife Ruth (Marianne Jean-Baptiste). He is cranky and monotonous, he doesn\u2019t wear the red suit, he drinks beer at the pub and is friendly with the locals. No one seems to care or acknowledge that he is a magical being who annually sneaks into their homes to give them gifts.<\/p>\n

Santa\u2019s Workshop, like so many small businesses, has fallen on hard times, but for a dubious reason. The operation, which is subsidized by the US government (so stupid), has floundered because Santa is delivering as much coal as he is presents. Chris, we\u2019re told, is paid by volume of packages. He laments that the drop-off is because the world\u2019s children are misbehaving.<\/p>\n

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Mel Gibson as Kris Kringle.<\/span>petrmaur<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThere is a rising number of youth making poor decisions,\u201d he tells the elves, who are somber, slightly shorter-than-normal middle-class seasonal workers. \u201cThis has unfortunately caused our yearly subsidy to be well below our current budget.\u201d<\/p>\n

So he partners with the military to use the elves to make control panels for jet planes. Writers and directors Eshom and Ian Nelms clearly think this is all very clever, but it really makes you want to chuck tree ornaments at the TV.<\/p>\n

What exactly is this commenting on or satirizing anyway? Kids today are more coddled, spoiled and screen-obsessed than they were before, but they haven\u2019t all turned into tiny devils. But what\u2019s the use of wonderin\u2019? Combing for logic here is like trying to find nachos at a Japanese grocery. Good luck!<\/p>\n

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Chance Hurstfield as Billy Wenan.<\/span>Courtesy<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The B-plot \u2014 yes, there is somehow more \u2014 is about an annoying, supersmart rich kid who gets a lump of coal under the tree, and vows revenge on \u201cthe fatman!\u201d. He hires an assassin, credited as \u201cSkinny Man\u201d (Walton Goggins, overdoing it), to kill Santa. The movie ends in a bloody shootout, and although it considers itself a comedy, it is not funny.<\/p>\n

Oh, to peek into the mind of Mel Gibson. The 64-year-old actor\u2019s choices, both personal (\u201cF\u2009-\u2009-\u2009king Jews!\u201d) and professional, are highly suspect. He hasn\u2019t been in one good movie since 2002\u2019s \u201cSigns,\u201d but he was nominated for a Best Director Oscar just three years ago for \u201cHacksaw Ridge.\u201d There is an ounce of taste in there somewhere, but, like cicadas, it hides for years and years, makes a big fuss and then stars in \u201cDaddy\u2019s Home 2.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gibson\u2019s got another strong performance in him, I think, but this Christmas crapola sure ain\u2019t it.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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