- Michael Phillips - Co-Host: Our next category is "Fire Your Agent". The tie that binds this one is actress Malin Åkerman. I'm not saying that her movie, "Watchmen", felt long or anything, but sometime around hour SEVENTEEN of this single-mindedly vicious adaptation of the Alan Moore graphic novel, cinematic rigor mortis set in.
- A.O. Scott - Co-Host: [on "Knowing"] Sometime in the 1950s, a little girl wrote down a lot of numbers. It was part of an intergalactic conspiracy to make Nicholas Cage act crazy. It doesn't take much these days. The movie is called "Knowing", though a better title might've been "Wondering What in God's Name is Going On".
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- A.O. Scott - Co-Host: I THINK what's going on is that the world is ending. The aliens are coming, and boy, does it all make Cage mad.
- A.O. Scott - Co-Host: [on "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen"] This scrap metal monstrosity, directed by Michael Bay and starring a cast of broken toys, and also Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox, is not just a splitting headache of a movie, but really a threat to civilization as know it. Or, at the very least, a mortal insult to the idea that movies should aspire to wit, grace, coherence, entertainment.