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War Horse (2011)
Nothing I can write here will add much to my earlier review. Suffice it to say if this inexplicable Oscar nominee had won the ultimate prize, it would've surpassed Forrest Gump as my annual punch line about the Academy Awards.
Wild Hogs (2007)
This one's almost identical to 1991's City Slickers, another movie about a group of whiny fortysomethings unable to come to grips with their receding hairlines and shattered dreams. If you must make this, at least take the biker analogy to the logical "Easy Rider" shotgun-to-the-face ending and spare us the possibility of seeing Travolta in leather again.
Norbit (2007)
Fun fact: This movie came out the same year Eddie Murphy was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Dreamgirls...it's funny 'cause she's fat.
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Peter Vonder Haar writes movie reviews for the Houston Press and the occasional book. The first three novels in the "Clarke & Clarke Mysteries" - Lucky Town, Point Blank, and Empty Sky - are out now.
