The Secret Garden is an ICONIC 90's film | first viewing and reaction 

That explains why the original trailer features the same soundtrack as Edward Scissorhands.

That’s explains why I thought of Tim Burton when I heard the music with the opera in it.

that explains why they are all such good movies

time for some rabbithole-digging...

also Homeward Bound!

Oh my god THE 2020 VERSION 😫

I don't even want to know. The Secret Garden is one of my favourite childhood books. Knowing there's an adaption that massacres the story makes me sad.

Love the dark elements of the movie

It’s dark but it’s also light and beautiful. Some years ago, my then-boyfriend noted that his go-to escapist entertainment was The Office series and mine was this movie. We both struggled with chronic depression. It helped me get out of my holes 🕳️. At least while it played.

Mysterious, expressive, it's easily one of the top two original scores I've heard for this channel.

I was like are we going to discuss how she can't cry no well that's a huge part of the magical story completely cut out.

I find a lot of movies now are like this they miss the earthy feel , really miss the mark , they think by adding special effects it makes it even more whimsical but it really takes it away . I love practical effects used when they can be !

Very much agree!

I had them both on a double feature DVD set

Both of the books those films were based on were written by the same author :)

Thank you! Childhood movies really do creep up on you like that

Haha, that's amazing! 🤣

I was taken aback by how much this movie affected me! I'm glad you enjoyed it too!

Thank you!

😂😂

I'm glad you enjoyed!

I like how it's a movie about taking your time, letting things grow, change, and heal. I think it's a worthwhile lesson.

It is a hauntingly beautiful film, no doubt

Also, I agree with the child acting in this.

I unfortunately didn't love the 49 version, but the ending was magical.

Thank you! It's a great movie

Thank you! It's for the best that you didn't watch the 2020 version. Whether as a fan of the book or the 90's film, the 2020 adaptation makes a *lot* of questionable decisions.

The John Wick joke fcking KILLED ME ☠️

Haha, I'm always amazed how many spin-offs and adaptations of The Secret Garden are out there. I get recommended a thousand versions I had never even heard of! 😵

Ray is on a long list of filmmakers I am considering for the channel, alongside... Nicholas Ray...

By the way, i love your reaction, i had suprises tears too at the end ^^

It just all hit me so suddenly, how powerfully stories can condense and alleviate all these really difficult weights we all carry. Adults, children. Brought a flood of emotions 😭

I haven't! I was contemplating doing a vampire series in the far, far future, and that might fit into the gothic horror theme. Thanks!

@@pillboxmovies sounds good! I hope you decide to do the series, I'll be patiently waiting 👍😁

For the intro? It's "Cuckoo" by Benjamin Britten

@@pillboxmovies Thank you, great review!

It's on Netflix, A. Prime, I think it's pretty easily accessible

Oh, and also A Little Princess. But Black Beauty first cuz the animal "acting" is so much better those days before CGI.

That's wick 🌿

It wasn't really a 'love triangle' 🤣. They are small children. They're limited on the knowledge of how to accurately express themselves lol. Collin doesnt want to be abandoned by Mary, like his mother and father did to him. She is aware that she wouldn't, and isn't going to marry her cousin. He knows that logically as well. But his tantrum throwing (and proposal) are him trying to keep her closer to him, than to Dicken. So she doesn't go off and abandon him too. Because Mary is all he truly has, before he and his father are reunited. Collin doesn't know any other kind of love, than a man who deeply loved his wife.. aka his father and mother. That is what he knows, so that is how he expressed his love for Mary. He is a literal child whos never been outside of his own bedroom.. and hasn't seen any other forms of love displayed around him, and doesn't know any better lol. He's never even seen friendship portrayed lol, because all he has are servants, and a father that hes quite literally never seen one single time, in his entire life. But who he also lives in the same house as. It was clear to me even as a child... that Collin wasn't actually romantically in love with Mary lmao. She was just the first person to treat him like a normal person, and not like a fragile piece of glass.. and he didn't want to lose that. The fact anyone is making it out to be creepy or weird is just being ridiculous, or just isnt paying attention.

You do realize children feel innocent love right?

I get you. The attachment to an actor's most iconic role is really hard to shake. I don't remember if book Medlock ever strikes Martha, but she is just as, if not more neglectful and disdainful of Mary. She goes full Dursleys 🤬

It's definitely a bit shocking to see, especially in a movie that's primary audience was children but I think it's very accurate to the time period, late Victorian/early Edwardian era. Especially because Martha expresses to Mary that she was taken on as a servant as a favor. She's someone born to poverty with little to no standing at all, which is quite sad but does provide the context as to Medlock's authoritative behavior towards her.

Oh no, haha! What do you dislike it so intensely?

Same and the fact that two of them are cousins 😭