The Onion Looks Back At 'The Sound Of Music'
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The Onion's movie critic Peter K. Rosenthal looks back at 'The Sound of Music' in this week's Film Standard.
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Peter really goes much deeper than the average critic.
he's inspired by David Bordwell's neoformalism. Peter can you review "It's a Hard Knock Life" please?
This review fuels my hate for everything this movie represents. I knew i was not the only one thinking about the horrible sacrifices for meaningless media. Oh a musical and when you thougth that was it they made a movie, and when there was no conceivable way it could be worse the japanese came out and made the thing into an anime, and all that filth mixed together into one single abomination that is this franchise.
What are you even talking about? I can't tell if he is joking or serious when mocking Non-Jewish Minorities that were persecuted in WW2. The entire movie Begins in a Catholic Monastery and Ends in a Catholic Monastery that calls into question the corruption of the outside world, and how that world encroaches no matter how hard you try to ignore it. The movie is more prescient today than it was in 1965. And Rolfe was such a handsome young progressive too. He saw something and said something. What a Good Progressive Boy.
(edit) I bet he was a male feminist too.
I start laughing the second Peter's face shows up.
Me too 😂
maria brown Me three
@@RanIrons 😂😂😂
Dudes a icon
This is why we need to divest funding from all artistic and cultural programs and pour that cash into the military-industrial complex. It's a far better way to create truly great art.
To be fair lot of war movies are really good. We just need a new war to get more inspiration as the ww2 genre is already really stale.
@@Jebu911 Yeah, about that…
America's well on the way...
Truly an eloquent, insightful plunge into the profundity produced by gruesome, horror-filled war. Peter Rosenthal never fails to amaze me with his extensive knowledge of film craft. I look at the overly peaceful world today with new, disappointed eyes.
I concur.
I second that emotion. Well said!
We have truly lost our way, false flags, limited engagements, government spying. How is there any hope of truly great film craft with this Orwellian, big brother, thought controlled populace reveling in Sniper movies or dancing Penguins? We need the brown shirts to lace up their boots, strap on the fascist regalia and lead us into a global nuclear war. Without total devastation and gruesome carnage our children and our children's children will be forced to endure remakes of Hot Tub time machine until they all die of boredom.
Kudos to Peter for telling it like it is and getting the conversation going in the right direction, war is the creative spark that lights the fire in our hearts, now light the fire at the Reichstag and get this party started.
Completely, I don't know why I hadn't come to the same realization sooner.
At summer camp they fed us lunch at 2. Why? Because we were so hungry by then that the Hungarian goulash out of a can they served us was the best food ever (over 40 years later, and veg for 37 and i still remember those lunches).
Just yesterday I was saying to my coworkers how much I loved winter. They glared at me until I pointed out that if it wasn't for winter we wouldn't appreciate this day. It was mid 40's and partly sunny, and after months of sub teens it felt glorious. If we lived in FL, we'd be complaining how awful it was.
If this isn't enough incentive for all us hippies to stop with all our anti war agitating, I don't know what is. To hell with environmental regulations, no more safety regs for nuclear power,too.
I would gladly sacrifice my almost 20 year old self, having my skin melted, body eviscerated, and brain blown to bits to allow future generations to experience one more musical of the caliber of the Sound of Music.
"Horror, my friends, is the furnace of which the gold standards of cinema are forged."
Poetry. Pure poetry
“in which”, but OK.
Really caught me off guard when they showed actual pics of the Holocaust, gave me an "O SHIT" moment. Man these guys got balls.
And that's one of the reasons that The Onion is so awesome. :)
Chaim 6milliowitz I don't thing any mass killing should be compared to another. Saying the Holocaust, the killing fields of Cambodia, the mass peasant starvation orchestrated by Mao, or the Trail of Tears are not as significant as the massive 13-30 million deaths caused by Stalin, is a bizarre and morbid way of thinking. Any mass loss of human life is tragic, and to trivialize them by comparing them is ignorant. Not trying to start an argument, just saying.
I was talking to my sister 5 minuets before watching this about how I detested holocaust photos exploiting victims.... then I laughed at the WWII archive footage of this.
justicetrooper Yhea, i'm aware of my fallacy now.
Chaim 6milliowitz Just because the Russians were more terrible doesn't mean it's small.
What helter1234 is precisely my opinion, too.
Roses are red
Violets are blue
The great Sound of Music?
Thanks! World War II
Art is suffering therefore all must die. Not only could that give us another "The Sound of Music", we might even get another Beethoven!
All that artillery is sure to deafen someone, fingers crossed.
The 1992 family film "Beethoven" wasn't borne of the destruction caused by the Gulf War. It was actually in post-production before that war even started.
Thank you for the trivia...
Truer words have never been spoken.
Please TH-cam "Applause Acoustic Sukkiri" She is already in our midst :-)
Shrapnel that stays on my nose and eyelashes
Silver gray bullets that shoot down plane wings
These are a few of my favorite things!
Wait... what?
Raindrops of acid and napalm on kittens,
bright muzzle flashes and ABC mittens,
brown paper packages filled with C4,
these are a few of the things seen before.
Cream-colored ponies all burnt into cinders,
doorbells and sleighbells in nuclear winters --
Nuclear winters with no hope for springs,
these are a few of the important things.
Girls burnt to ashes in thermal bomb flashes...
... When the dog bites,
when the pain stings,
when we're feeling sad.
I remember those are the crucial things
that make our films
less baaaaad.
@@onkelpappkov2666 THIS IS ART I WANT TO SEE IT SUNG TO THE TUNE OF THE ORIGINAL NOW
@@onkelpappkov2666 You are too fucking clever.
Watching this in 2022....Peter's wish may come true.
we gotta look out for those ukrainian movies in the future. Probably going to make at least one masterpiece.
The Onion Movie Reviews are the best pieces of satire in media!
Cracked fuck you Cracked! You used to be an important piece of internet culture but now you're the male version of buzzfeed.
Much better than that other humor site that used to be funny but now just whines about Trump and how people aren't more sensitive to SJWs
This wasn't satire, that dude was serious
Lol the absurd levels of entitlement some people have get me every time
Satire? Would WWIII not make for a great setting for a movie? I agree with the onion un-satirically
I knew a simple soldier boy
Who grinned at life in empty joy,
Slept soundly through the lonesome dark,
And whistled early with the lark.
In winter trenches, cowed and glum,
With crumps and lice and lack of rum,
He put a bullet through his brain.
No one spoke of him again.
You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
Sneak home and pray you'll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go.
by Siegfried Sassoon
Peter K. Rosenthal should run for president in 2016.
Thank God for Donald Trump
Nuking North Korea, Iran and maybe even Russia! The creative juices will be flowing like blood in the streets in no time. Thanks Trump!
After what else 2020 has brought us, I wouldn't be surprised to see him on the ballot 😆
C'mon Iran, North Korea, China, and Russia. Let's start WWIII so we can have another great musical.
In 2012 the German American Business Association forecasted the War will be with China on/after 2016
CamTroid If the Spanish Civil War could result in "Guernica," another World War could create another Golden Age of Show Business.
India Pakistan has a good potential to go nuclear
Fear not my friends, North Korea will save cinema.
they say they will, but five years later and still no results
@@nyankers frankly starting to lose hope
@@VincentTornudeDon't worry. Our eternal glorious leader is timeless and will make it happen...soon.
As usual Mr. Rosenthal captures the gist of a movie. And you must ask yourself, isn't the nuclear Armageddon worth another great movie? We all must honestly answer ourselves irrevocable: Yes.
"...well, I'll tell you why: BOOOOOOOOOOM" I lol'd
There are things that escalate quickly and there's this "look back"
Just when I think you can't top it anymore, another film review comes around and it's better than the previous one.
_”Blood soaked imagination”_
Thank you Peter K. Rosenthal, for yet again, another brilliant Peter K. Rosenthal review.
I love you Peter Rosenthal.
Half a billion? I can't wait. That will be such a good movie. Maybe as good as Dirty Dancing or Cocktail.
Or even....dare I even wish it
*DIRTY COCKTAIL DANCING!!*
Well, it looks like we are working very hard on that next classic masterpiece.
A well-spoken, if not exactly genius moment, which recognizes that yes, sometimes the sweetest and most precious treasures of a generation are only realized when set against the backdrop of the horrors of such things which can take those gifts away from the world.
9/11 should have been good for at least an operetta, something in the style of Gilbert and Sullivan perhaps...we could have Bush and Cheney singing that little ditty, "Mission Accomplished"..."Don't cry for me Osama"...oh, the possibilities!
I'm sorry, but 2000 people dead is really insufficient to inspire quality production, Osama really dropped the ball on that one
I loved 'The Sound of Music' as a kid and I still do. One of the all time great movies. Truly magical. I appreciate the humor you're going for here but this movie is one of the few that will always be a classic. One thousand years from now the three limbed Frogmen that inhabit the nuclear remains of the Earth will gather about the fire and heartily croak the songs found in this great movie.
Man, that Rosenthal sure knows how to use his charm. He's got that atomic sense of humor and rapid-fire eloquence that just draws me in. I wonder if the Onion would ever consider appointing him to host mass film critic rallies.
The hills are alive with the sound of gunfire!
Aswell as despair and chaos
With the world population over 7 billion these days, 60 million deaths is a drop in the bucket. There would need to be at least a billion deaths for the actor/singers to even get up in the morning.
Thank you so much for the production that allowed those words to penetrate my willing, and ever so accommodating, ears and mind!
Holy fuck was that dark. I love it
This aged well
I show this video to people every couple of years, then remember halfway through how graphic it is and why I told myself to stop showing it to people.
We should never forget the horrors of war.
I am so impressed he stayed in character.
2:27 --- This.
I sh*t myself laughing.
Thumbs up for 60 million dead.
Sick and twisted but oddly thought-provoking.
This is totally frustrating. This is one of my favorite TH-cam streams that I look forward to yet, it happens very rarely. Maybe onion, if you're listening, make a couple more of these. This is an unrivaled channel. And thank you for all of the other great content that you put out. This channel rocks!
every middle school kid watches this in band elective or choir elective at least five times
I've always felt nukes got an unfair bad rep in the media. Same thing with heavy narcotics, like heroin and crack. We should promote the use of both, combined!
I want more of this guy looking back at movies. Hilarious! His flustered rage was amazing on It's a Wonderful Life. :D
Might I suggest Dr. Strangelove? I wonder what he would say on the chaos that happened in that film.
Fantastic delivery!
It really couldn't be any better than this!
The things I feel right now are unspeakable.
Peter's best review since Saving Private Ryan; his analysis of Ryan's amazing opening sequence is second to none.
This is the first time a cut to a mushroom cloud made me laugh out loud.
Damnit, I love you Peter.
Wow! Best review ever of such a classic!
Peter points to the universal truth that only with great sacrifice can great art be born. Now All of us have had those moments of selfish existential questioning when in our hour of gloom we think "Why is this happening to me?" Now we know, that perhaps there is a greater purpose at work here than the inconvenience of house fire or accidental drowning, something more profound than simply turning of the pages of another painful chapter in our life. Maybe, just maybe it is the start of some momentous muse of misery that will inspire some show tunes professional in their one room apartment in New York City to create a catchy number that will cause all of humanity to stand up in our seats and call for an encore! Thank you Peter for always reminding us that everything always happens for a reason.
Peter and 47 Republicans know that the next great Renaissance can only be born from the ashes and rubble of TOTAL War......like a Phoenix.
Corpses and carnage and red bloody mittens, murderous owls and zombified kittens, lots of small children all strung up with strings, these are a few of my favorite things!
Sharp as always, Peter.
Peter always nails it !!
Brilliant review.
2:42 this really got to me. LOL
Welp... Definitely adding that line to my book of Philosophies...
Wow...
Good one.
"Horror, my friends, is the furnace in which the gold standard of cinema is forged." So true.
Amazing.
Incredible video!
This is incredibly accurate.
As a former aspiring filmmaker and a lover of the cinematic arts, I can't help but agree. The only way film as an art form can retain it's former glory is if there is a catastrophic war that spares absolutely no one of it's horrors.
This is actually the entire Friedrich Nietzsche phylosophy in a nutshell: only war and human suffering can bring us true beauty - therefore war and human suffering are very good things (in Nietzche's opinion).
i love u peter (as always)!!! this is the only musical i can tolerate frm beginning to end n Peter's perspective just gave me pause! i literally chuckled, nervously, when the way images popped up! how do u blend humor w agony??! Peter did it...n so does this film. fkn genius.
Truly an amazing critic
He's right! I don't feel the same way and I really haven't seen The Sound of Music! GET OUT OF MY HEAD PETER ROSENTHAL!!
This is why I love The Onion!
Peter K Rosenthal... what a dream. I need to legally change my last name to Rosenthal.
thanks
brilliant
I fucking love this guy.
Wonder how he reviw United 93
I love this guy.. when i see which movie he reviews, i'm always wondering what topic he'll chose to amaze us :)
The perfect revue of a film that been turning stomachs for decades now.
tRump: "Hold my beer."
But Peter, wouldn't you want your son to get an Oscar for his performance instead of dying to create it?
I never thought such perfectly placed horrific photos would make me laugh out loud that hard. Holy Lord Onion. Kudos.
This is sooo good
It to an extent is true; the exact same thing is supposedly said about "the pleasantness" of Mark Rothko paintings.
LOL! Totally spat out my drink via zee nostrils at the 02:26 segment's punchline @ 02:41 =D
More reviews please Peter, thanks! I highly recommend Kung Pow (2002) =D
Brilliant
Brilliant!
1:00 I've never laughed so hard at the sight of a real dead body!
that angle is just to much and so out of nowhere lol great stuff
Did anyone else get an actual Sound of Music ad before this?
Nice video quality
He's right on with this one. No joke.
OMG I laughed so hard at 2:19
he cant keep a straight face at the end.. hahaha
Nice one.
We'll have one soon enough, don't worry.
Dark. Love it.
Just curious - what was the precursor to Star Wars ?
How many impeccably executed musical numbers with joyous, singing families are in Star Wars? Exactly. Case closed.
i lost it at 2:42
God, I love this actor. He can pull of these stories with a straight face, fuck, I would have died laughing already.
btw, Look at all the fucks I give.
Consider this. To all the people who cite the "good ole' days" while depicting nostalgic old photos, movies, and media as evidence that life was better "back then" - life really wasn't better back then. People went through hell back then. This video jabs at the people who are so focused on saying life should be more like what it used to be that they lose sight of the fact that in reality, life is better for most people now socially and otherwise than ever before.
Where are the new onion vids Onion?!?
i am pleased as punch with this.
This is wrong on so many levels and so hilariously funny!
It's like how the second Congo war gave us Who killed captain Alex.
*_Cry 'Havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war!_*
Thank you Marc Antony.
***** _What a character!_
Apropos line that
(Julius Caesar-Act 3, Scene 1, line 273)
-delivered by *Christopher Plummer*
as Klingon _General Chang_
(Star Trek VI-The Undiscovered Country)
ツ
Peter is a true devotee of the cinema.