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...binge. The first part of the video depicts Jimmy’s life as a hazy, jumpily filmed swirl of sex, drugs, rock-’n’-roll, hating his mom, and watching Green Day perform “Jesus of Suburbia” on TV (so meta it hurts). This thrilling lifestyle is cut short about halfway through the video, as his girlfriend leaves him; he gets into fights, and assumes a general aura of angst. Never fear, for Jimmy’s life rebounds by the bridge of the song; at least the director...
...just to make this more meta, our internal criticism causes headlines. When FM bit the hand that fed us in our 2003 cover story “Should We All Just Have Gone To Yale?” Yale’s admissions office passed out copies of FM to touring students and the Yale Daily News covered our coverage...
...starring in his first intelligent buddy comedy. The directorial debut of Shane Black--the highest-paid screenwriter of the early to mid-'90s (Lethal Weapon, Last Action Hero), who hadn't worked in six years--Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang pairs Kilmer with Robert Downey Jr. in a very meta film-noir detective story in which the narrator is constantly interrupting to apologize for various film clichs. Kilmer plays Gay Perry, a private investigator who's gay and named Perry...
...Michael’s warning (bad move), and Michael transforms into a gruesome wolf-man before her very eyes. Then, surprise! This turns out to be a movie that Michael and his date are watching. Then, double surprise! It was actually all a dream! How refreshingly über-meta. How astoundingly moronic.At the blissful end of this travesty, I have nothing but sympathy for the girl. I too know what it’s like to witness Michael’s unholy transformation into a monstrosity, but I’m pretty sure his condition is the result...
...sucking sound that begins as Mrs. Lee eating and becomes the sound of a vampire feeding. The vampire is in a horror movie directed by the main character of the segment, who sets the movie in an apartment that looks just like his house. This and other bits of meta trickery lend a self-mocking element to the short, but it becomes horrific when a disgruntled extra imprisons the director, ties up his wife just out of reach, and threatens to cut off one of her fingers every five minutes unless the director strangles a child...