Weirdly, cinema is especially great at cannibalizing its greatest failures and turning them into films about how hard it is to make films. Such meta-cinematic exercises figure among our favorite movies ever, as you’ll no doubt agree while flipping through The Onion A.V. Club’s listicle of 27 Movies About the Difficulty of Making Movies. While we really liked Lost in La Mancha, 8 1/2, Bowfinger and Ed Wood, our favorite of their picks is Robert Altman’s The Player. We noted some major omissions from the list, though, which we’ve included after the jump.

King Kong: You may recall that the original reason the crew heads to Skull Island is for a movie shoot.

Contempt: Jean-Luc Godard’s movie about Brigitte Bardot’s body also follows an increasingly compromised project to shoot an adaptation of Ulysses.

Mulholland Drive: Somewhere in the backdrop of David Lynch’s psychosexual movie about Hollywood, a director is trying to make a movie without pissing off the mob (or maybe they’re in his movie).

Boogie Nights: Sure, it’s about making adult films, but it’s still about the difficult business of making movies.

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back: Okay, it’s crazy dumb and juvenile, but Jay and Bob’s cross-country epic begins when they discover that a Hollywood film is adapted from the comic book about their lives.