The Onion Looks Back At 'The Sound Of Music'

The Onion's movie critic Peter K. Rosenthal looks back at 'The Sound of Music' in this week's Film Standard.

[improveverywhere]

Peter really goes much deeper than the average critic.

[Busto]

"Horror, my friends, is the furnace of which the gold standards of cinema are forged."
Poetry. Pure poetry

[LouisDTV]

I start laughing the second Peter's face shows up.

[drumslife]

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.

[tarastrong]

Roses are red
Violets are blue
The great Sound of Music?
Thanks! World War II

[FoxEatingBamboo]

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.

[Nerdist]

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?

[cracked]

The Onion Movie Reviews are the best pieces of satire in media!

[APPLEPIE]

Really caught me off guard when they showed actual pics of the Holocaust, gave me an "O SHIT" moment. Man these guys got balls. 

[QueenArielViolet]

Watching this in 2022....Peter's wish may come true.

[TheWindWaker]

Art is suffering therefore all must die. Not only could that give us another "The Sound of Music", we might even get another Beethoven!

[guyonacomputer]

Fear not my friends, North Korea will save cinema.

[CamTroid]

C'mon Iran, North Korea, China, and Russia. Let's start WWIII so we can have another great musical.

[MyDamnChannel]

Peter K. Rosenthal should run for president in 2016.

[something]

But Peter, wouldn't you want your son to get an Oscar for his performance instead of dying to create it?

[eVmedien]

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

[kernellbcn]

"...well, I'll tell you why: I lol'd

[fjdkfdfjdf]

You can put "Casablanca" into this category. Genius!

[something]

It's like how the second Congo war gave us Who killed captain Alex.

[SmartK]

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.