links for 2009-08-12

• Random Road Trip Recap
  This is pretty awesome. Geeky man and his wife take a road trip based on where their 4-sided die and coin flipping takes them. Once the truck's brakes get fixed, we are so doing this.
  (tags: awesome roadtrip travel)
• G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra in inspiring lots of entertaining reviews... First up, Roger Ebert.
  "G. I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra" is a 118-minute animated film with sequences involving the faces and other body parts of human beings. It is sure to be enjoyed by those whose movie appreciation is defined by the ability to discern that moving pictures and sound are being employed to depict violence. Nevertheless, it is better than "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen."
  (tags: movies review ebert movie GIJoe)
• The Movie Non-Review: 'GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra'
  "Sometimes, a film defies conventional narrative and artistic standards so utterly that it seems unfair to judge it by them. G.I. Joe is such a case, a movie that has, through its own inverse accomplishment, earned the right to speak for itself. Consider this a tone poem in 40 scraps of dialogue"
  (tags: funny movie GIJoe NewRepublic)