Greatest Movie Of All-Time

Dana and Tom are joined by first-time guest, Daryl Smith (Host of the Daryl Smith Podcast: Our Voices, Our Views, and Our Generation - Available on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts) to discuss the 1980s action-comedy, Beverly Hills Cop (1984) starring Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, John Ashton, Ronny Cox, and Lisa Eilbacher.

Plot Summary: Young and reckless Detroit Police Department detective, Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy), in hot water for an unauthorized sting operation, travels to Beverly Hills looking for the murderer of his childhood friend, Michael Tandino. With unlikely alliances between himself and the straight-laced Beverly Hills Police Force: Sgt. Taggert (John Ashton), Det. Rosewood (Judge Reinhold), and Lt. Bogomil (Ronny Cox), Axel soon finds that Michael and his other childhood friend Jenny Summers (Lisa Eilbacher) are caught in something much larger than one murder. Can the renegade cop and the by-the-book police work together to stop Victor Maitland (Steven Berkoff)?

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Dana and Tom welcome new guest, Roman LC Martinez (Filmmaker and Founder of Film Reframed (filmreframed.com)) to the show to discuss one of Roman's favorite films that holds a large piece of nostalgia for kids of the 90s, Jurassic Park: directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Sam Neill, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum.

Plot Summary: John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) is the owner of Jurassic Park, a dinosaur wildlife theme park located on Isla Nublar. After an incident with a velociraptor, Hammond brings in three specialists to sign off on the park to calm investors. The specialists, paleontologist Alan Grant (Sam Neill), paleobotanist Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern), and chaos theorist Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) are surprised to see the island park's main attraction are living, breathing dinosaurs, created with a mixture of fossilized DNA and genetic cross-breeding/cloning. When lead programmer Dennis Nedry (Wayne Knight) turns off the park's power to sneak out with samples of the dinosaur embryos to sell to a corporate rival, the dinosaurs break free, and the survivors must find a way to turn the power back on and make it out alive.

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Dana and Tom discuss the Vietnam War epic, Apocalypse Now (1979): written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, co-written by John Milius, starring Martin Sheen, Dennis Hopper, Robert Duvall, and Marlon Brando.

Plot Summary: In Vietnam in 1970, Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) takes a perilous and increasingly hallucinatory journey upriver to find and terminate Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), a once-promising officer who has reportedly gone completely mad. In the company of a Navy patrol boat filled with street-smart kids, a surfing-obsessed Air Cavalry officer (Robert Duvall), and a crazed freelance photographer (Dennis Hopper), Willard travels further and further into the heart of darkness.

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Dana and Tom welcome Joseph Burke (screenwriter and co-host of the Clapperboard Climax podcast) to the show to discuss one of the most guest requested movies to date, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, starring Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Tom Wilkinson, Mark Ruffalo, Elijah Wood, and Kirsten Dunst.

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Plot Summary: After a fight, Joel Barish (played by Jim Carrey) discovers that his girlfriend Clementine Kruczynski (played by Kate Winslet) has had her memories of him erased by the New York City firm Lacuna. Heartbroken, he decides to undergo the same procedure. In preparation, he records a tape for Lacuna, recounting his memories of their volatile relationship. As the Lacuna employees work on Joel's brain as he sleeps in his apartment so that he will wake up with no memory of Clementine, Joel re-experiences his memories of Clementine as they are erased, starting with their last fight. As he reaches earlier, happier memories, he realizes that he does not want to forget her. They ultimately have to determine if love with pain is better or worse than no love at all.

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Dana and Tom explore their first Bollywood film with the help of a new guest, Saloni Nahar (find her on Instagram and TikTok @suhhhloni), 3 Idiots starring Aamir Khan, R. Madhavan, and Sharman Joshi.

Plot Summary: Two friends are contacted by an old classmate regarding the whereabout of a long lost friend, Ranchoddas “Rancho” Shyamaldas Chanchad (Aamir Khan). They soon embark on a quest to locate Rancho, but, on the way, reminisce about the years when the three were in the Imperial College of Engineering, run by Director Viru “Virus” Sahastrabuddhe (Boman Irani), a dictatorial teacher who pressures students to follow a discipline of memorization and structured study. Farhan Qureshi (R. Madhavan) and Raju Rastogi (Sharman Joshi), remember their trials, triumphs, and antics with Rancho in school as they continue their search. Included in their memories is the history of Rancho and Virus, and Rancho’s love for Khan Virus’ daughter Pia (Kareena Kapoor), as well as their student nemesis, Chatur Ramalingam (Omi Vaidya). Will the two friends find Rancho?

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