This is the final part of an eight-part series about difficult movies.  Part 1 focused on S. Craig Zahler’s “Dragged Across Concrete”. Part 2 focused on Bernardo Bertolucci’s “Last Tango in Paris”. Part 3 focused on Don Edmonds’s “Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS”. Part 4 focused on Paul Verhoeven’s “Basic Instinct”. Part 5 focused on Terry Jones’s “Monty Python’s Life of Brian”. Part 6 focused on Martin Scorsese’s “The Last Temptation of Christ”. Part 7 focused on Spike Lee’s “Bamboozled”.  *** Referenced media: “Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope” (George Lucas, 1977)“The Last Temptation of Christ” (Martin Scorsese, 1988)“The Batman” (Matt Reeves, 2022)“Jackass Forever” (Jeff Tremaine, 2022)“RRR” (S.S. Rajamouli, 2022)“Everything Everywhere All at Once” (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, 2022)“Ambulance” (Michael Bay, 2022)“The Northman” (Robert Eggers, 2022)“The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent” (Tom Gormican, 2022)“Top Gun: Maverick” (Joseph Koskinski, 2022)Audio quotation: “2000 Mules” (Dinesh D’Souza, 2022)“Top Gun: Maverick” (Joseph Koskinski, 2022)