# What is the most times you've watched a movie (and what movie was it?) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 1, 2003, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-times-youve-watched-a-movie-and-what-movie-was-it/152077 "2003-02-01T09:01:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![the\_O-man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9f8e36/32.png) [@the\_O-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_O-man)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-times-youve-watched-a-movie-and-what-movie-was-it/152077/21 "2003-02-01T15:25:46Z")
I lost count of how many times I’ve seen **The Rocky Horro Picture Show** , probably in the neighborhood of 50 times. I’ve seen **The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert** over 30 times, I’m sure. After I bought the laser disc version, I was watching it once a week for quite some time. I can only venture a guess as to how many times I’ve seen **The Wizard of Oz**. 20? Including a couple of times with the Pink Floyd synchronization experiment. ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-times-youve-watched-a-movie-and-what-movie-was-it/152077/22 "2003-02-01T15:34:58Z")
Star Wars, hands down. Saw it some forty or fifty times in the theatre, the summer after it came out. There had just NEVER been anything like it before. I was thirteen. You could get into an air conditioned theatre for a buck, and sit through as many showings as you liked. My friends were there. Put all the pieces together, and you have a bunch of teeners in the balcony, all reciting the dialogue in unison with the actors… to this day, I can STILL quote large chunks of dialogue in perfect tempo with the movie… (although the Special Edition threw me off pretty badly). ---
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**Dirty Dancing** was on a loop once for 5 days straight at camp in a roomful of snowed in pre-teen girls. I probably managed to watch the whole thing through at least 20 times, not to mention the dozen or so times I’ve seen it before and the dozen or so I’ve seen it since. ---
**Author:** ![uranatis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9e8a1a/32.png) [@uranatis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/uranatis)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-times-youve-watched-a-movie-and-what-movie-was-it/152077/24 "2003-02-01T16:02:33Z")
superman about 20 times(now i hate it) starw ars about the same the big picture maybe 5 back to the future perhaps 7 ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Dung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc348/32.png) [@Doctor\_Dung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Dung)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-times-youve-watched-a-movie-and-what-movie-was-it/152077/25 "2003-02-01T16:17:25Z")
I’m sure of any numbers, but starting when I was 8-years-old I’d watch “Little Shope of Horrors” almost everyday after school. I did this until I wore the tape out. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Asbestos\_Mango](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@The\_Asbestos\_Mango](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Asbestos_Mango)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-times-youve-watched-a-movie-and-what-movie-was-it/152077/26 "2003-02-01T16:19:51Z")
Another vote for _Star Wars_- I’ve seen it at least sixty times. _Empire_ and _RotJ_ probably upwards of forty times each. _Monty Python and the Holy Grail_, I’ve probably seen a dozen times, ditto for _Life of Brian_. I’ve seen _Brazil_ maybe eight or ten times and _Alice’s Restaraunt_ about five- it was a Thanksgiving tradition with the crowd I hung out with right after high school. ---
**Author:** ![dead0man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/edb3f5/32.png) [@dead0man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dead0man)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-times-youve-watched-a-movie-and-what-movie-was-it/152077/27 "2003-02-01T16:20:45Z")
Spaceballs ~25 Monty Python’s Holy Grail~30 Raiders of the Lost Ark~25 Temple of Doom~18 A New Hope~12 Empire Strikes Back~15 Return of the Jedi~6 Phantom 5 Clone Wars 5 Shawshank Redemption ~10 Clerks~12 Mallrats~10 Chasing Amy,Dogma and J&B Strikes Back maybe 4 times each Ive seen/listend to Toy Story and A Nightmare Before Christmas probably 200 times each. My oldest son played them pretty much non-stop for 2 years. ---
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Clerks - 15 or so The Godfather - 12 or so The Godfather Part II - 10 or so Mallrats - 10 or so The Big Lebowski - 8 The Wall - 7 or 8 O Brother, Where Art Thou? - 6 … Toy Story - 15, 12 in a one-week period. I was on vacation with my cousin (who has autism), and every few hours he’d say… “Watch…Toy Story?” ---
**Author:** ![Flowerchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/858c86/32.png) [@Flowerchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flowerchild)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-times-youve-watched-a-movie-and-what-movie-was-it/152077/29 "2003-02-01T16:38:27Z")
Emire Records- about 20 times That thing you Do!- about 21 times Fame-25 times Back to the future I -15 times Back To the Future II - 10 timed Back to the future III - 9 times The Breakfast Club - 17 times Heathers -10 times Last but certainly not least is … Grease 2 -35 times ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-times-youve-watched-a-movie-and-what-movie-was-it/152077/30 "2003-02-01T16:54:03Z")
Another Rocky Horror fan here, but I didn’t stop counting until I hit 300. Movies I’ve seen five or more times: Princess Bride Diggstown It’s A Wonderful Life Christmas Story The Grinch (original cartoon one) Ever After To Kill A Mockingbird Desperado Threesome A Few Good Men Breakfast Club Wizard of Oz Halloween It’s My Party Lethal Weapon Kenneth Branaugh’s Hamlet I am not counting Disney animated features, which my daughter played in constant rotation from 1993-1998. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-times-youve-watched-a-movie-and-what-movie-was-it/152077/31 "2003-02-01T17:05:23Z")
\*\*Pride and Prejudice \*\* Colin Firth version. Ohhhhhh yes, at least 25 times. (have dvd) \*\*Buckaroo Bonzai \*\* over 30 times. (has VHS) \*\*Harry Potter 1 \*\* seven times. ( own DVD.) \*\*Radio Days \*\* 20 times, at least. \*\*George of the Jungle \*\* 15 times. Hubba hubba. ---
**Author:** ![Flowerchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/858c86/32.png) [@Flowerchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flowerchild)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-times-youve-watched-a-movie-and-what-movie-was-it/152077/32 "2003-02-01T17:12:43Z")
I forgot all about Rocky Horror! I must have seen that movie 350 times! how could I forget that! ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-times-youve-watched-a-movie-and-what-movie-was-it/152077/33 "2003-02-01T17:19:04Z")
Another **Pride & Prejudice** watcher here ~ 5 times. **Sense and Sensibility** ~5 times **When Harry Met Sally** ~ 5 times **Last of the Mohicans** ~ 4 times **Breakfast Club** ~ 6 times \*\*Almost Famous \*\* ~ 3 times and twice with the commentary **Pretty Woman** ~ 3 times **This is Spinal Tap** ~ 3 times **Gone With The Wind** ~4 times **Wizard of Oz** ~10 times cause I watch it with the kiddies **Sound of Music** ~10 times **Seven Brides for Seven Brothers** ~5 times **Grease** - countless times ---
**Author:** ![dogchow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e495f1/32.png) [@dogchow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogchow)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-times-youve-watched-a-movie-and-what-movie-was-it/152077/34 "2003-02-01T17:19:52Z")
Movies I’ve seen waaay too many times: Little Mermaid (give me a break! I was 5! my mom still hates that movie because I played it so much) Monty Python and the Holy Grail Shrek A Christmas Story ---
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Oh, and Forrest Gump. My sig line proves it. ---
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15+ viewings: Animal House, Star Wars, Empire S.B., Casablanca, Arthur, Monty Python & the Holy Grail; Withnail & I, The Wicker Man (including both the 88-min. & 99-min. cuts), A Fish Called Wanda, While You Were Sleeping, Sabotage, Shadow of a Doubt, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Midway, A Room With a View, Carrington, The Sound of Music, The Wizard of Oz, Spartacus, Aliens, Jaws, Annie Hall, The Ninth Gate. 10-15 viewings: most of the other James Bond movies; about half of Hitchcock’s; Monty Python’s The Life of Brian & The Meaning of Life; The Hunt for Red October, The Raiders of the Lost Ark, Alien, The Terminator & T2, Apocalypse Now (original version); Network, Tootsie, Four Weddings & a Funeral, Bridget Jones’ Diary, Independence Day, Godfather I & II, Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid, Out of Sight, Diner, Breaker Morant; Cousins (the American re-make); Hannah & Her Sisters; Breakfast At Tiffany’s; Some Like It Hot; Trading Places. 6-9 viewings: most of the remaining Hitchcocks, many of Clint Eastwood’s star vehicles, Ran (Akira Kurosawa), Lawrence of Arabia, Ben Hur, some action flicks (Die Hard, Bullitt), Body Heat, Dead Ringers, Out of Africa, Re-Animator, Rushmore, Office Space, A Beautiful Mind; Fight Club, Shogun miniseries (various lengths) & novel reads & re-reads; The Blues Brothers; Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, & The Return of the Jedi; Outland; The Invasion of the Body Snatchers (first two versions); The Sting; Heathers; The Breakfast Club; Pretty In Pink; Desperately Seeking Susan; Working Girl; High Fidelity; Batman (both the 60’s movie and the Tim Burton revival); Sex, Lies & Videotape; Gladiator; and many of the rest by Woody Allen (Bananas, Sleeper, Everything You Always Wanted To Know…, Interiors, Manhattan, Crimes & Misdemeanors, Husbands & Wives); Caddyshack, Cliffhanger, It’s a Wonderful Life; Superman; Being There; Pelham, One, Two Three; Charley Varrick; Chinatown; The Pink Panther; Apollo 13; Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown; Scenes From the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills; The Big Easy; Crocodile Dundee; A Clear and Present Danger; The Awful Truth; My Favorite Wife; The Third Man; The Scarlet Pimpernel ('36); King Kong. ---
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**Wizard of Oz** and **Miracle on 34th Street** are the only films that I’ve seen enough to reach double figures. Maybe also **Ghost Chasers** a really dismal Bowery Boys comedy that channel 9 in New York seemed to run every Saturday. There are too many new movies to keep seeing the same ones over and over. ---
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**Benny & Joon**. I don’t know how many times I’ve seen it. “You’re out of your tree.” “It’s not my tree.” ``` :) ``` ---
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[riffraff] It’s astounding…[/riffraff] [sub]no idea how many times, since I’ve never seen it sober.[/sub] ---
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The record holders for actually seeing them in a theatre are: Robin Hood - the '73 Disney version. I saw it at the Columbia seven times when it first came out. Hey, I was twelve! Grease - again, when it first came out, in '78. I think my friends and I went six times. Might have been seven. I’ve watched it many times since on TV. I wanna be Rizzo! I guess I’ve seen certian Disney videos dozens of times, between my own kids and my friends. In particular, The Jungle Book, The Aristocats, Beauty and the Beast and Lady and the Tramp come to mind. I watch these ones every time they come on TV. Viewings are probably in the dozens. Gone With Tthe Wind The Big Sleep Angels With Dirty Faces To Have and Have Not Casablanca Robin Hood ('38 version) Dark Victory Captian Blood The Maltese Falcon Arsenic and Old Lace Golddiggers of '33 Forty-Second Street Anyone care to guess my favorite studio?! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-times-youve-watched-a-movie-and-what-movie-was-it/152077.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-times-youve-watched-a-movie-and-what-movie-was-it/152077.md?page=3)