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”. 

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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)