It's the end of the year, so we're serving up a deluxe-sized episode of Never Did It, mostly because the movies that Brad Garoon and Jake Ziegler selected for each other for 1993 sparked a lot of conversation.
First up, Brad assigned Jake the Joel Schumacher film Falling Down, another in their series of excuses to fawn over Michael Douglas. They talk about what they believe to be misinterpretations of the film, some of which they were guilty of themselves, and underrated turn from Robert Duvall, the strong performances from Barbara Hershey and Rachel Ticotin, and the peculiar case of Tuesday Weld's character.
Things shift somewhat extremely in the latter half of the episode as Jake assigns Brad Schindler's List. The hosts talk about how their own Jewish identities inform how they viewed this film, and what the place of Steven Spielberg's most celebrated movie is in the history of Jewish movies and the wider culture.
Other movies discussed in this episode: Come and See (1985), Jurassic Park (1993), Demolition Man (1993), The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), Dazed and Confused (1993), Last Action Hero (1993), What's Love Got to Do with It (1993), Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), The Piano (1993), The Age of Innocence (1993), Grumpy Old Men (1993), The Fugitive (1993), Philadelphia (1993), Groundhog Day (1993), Batman Forever (1995), Batman and Robin (1997), The Boondock Saints (1999), Phone Booth (2002), Defiance (2008)



