# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![CyberPundit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@CyberPundit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CyberPundit)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-times-youve-watched-a-movie-and-what-movie-was-it/152077/41 "2003-02-01T19:28:53Z")
I don’t rewatch films too many times. I have only seen a few films 4-5 times: Casablanca LOTR:FOTR Princess Mononoke His Girl Friday It’s a Wonderful Life Third Man ---
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Movies I have watched the most are movies that cheer me up when I’m depressed. Those are (in no particular order): **Pride and Prejudice** (the Colin Firth Version of course) **JWhile you Were Sleeping** **The Replacements** (it’s really quite funny _and_ it stars Keanu Reeves) **Dirty Dancing** ---
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Dunno how many times, but lots and lots: The Princess Bride Its a Wonderful Life Miracle on 34th St. (the original) ---
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I don’t think I’ve ever seen any movie more than 3 times in a theatre. Counting video/TV, though … More than 10 times: Wizard of Oz, It’s a Wonderful Life, and maybe A Christmas Story. 5 to 10 times (not counting listening to DVD commentaries): Goldfinger, Dr. No, Psycho, The Birds, North by Northwest, Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, King Kong, The Adventures of Robin Hood (Flynn, not Costner), The Ten Commandments, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Star Wars, Fantasia, 2001, Citizen Kane, Duck Soup, The Sting, Annie Hall, Local Hero, Groundhog Day, O Brother Where Art Thou, Fellowship of the Ring. 2-5 times: Too many to count! ---
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> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Flowerchild \* > \*\*Last but certainly not least is … > > Grease 2 -35 times \*\* Hahahah, I bet you had HBO around 1985. I swear that the only two movies they used to play were “Grease 2” and “F/X”. ---
**Author:** ![thi6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e99b99/32.png) [@thi6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thi6)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-times-youve-watched-a-movie-and-what-movie-was-it/152077/46 "2003-02-01T21:44:41Z")
I haven’t been keeping track of how many times I watch a movie, but I’ve watched every movie I own multiple times. Lately, I’ve been watching Titus with Anthony Hopkins over and over. I also just got my special edition FOTR, so that’s been in my DVD player constantly. The Usual Suspects and Snatch are the other most recent movies I’ve been obsessing over. thi6 ---
**Author:** ![ceyjen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3bc359/32.png) [@ceyjen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ceyjen)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-times-youve-watched-a-movie-and-what-movie-was-it/152077/47 "2003-02-01T22:03:47Z")
At least 20 times– The Breakfast Club Star Wars IV-VI The Indiana Jones trilogy Princess Bride Disney’s Cinderella A Bug’s Life Pulp Fiction Forrest Gump Braveheart Dances With Wolves 3000 Miles to Graceland The Secret of NIMH Disney’s The Little Mermaid Splash Romancing the Stone When Harry Met Sally Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail Christmas Vacation Dumb & Dumber The Money Pit Steel Magnolias The Firm Top Gun Mission Impossible 1 & 2 The Hunt for Red October Dirty Dancing Alien Aliens Alien3 Interview with the Vampire LOTR: Fellowship Extended DVD Spaceballs Real Genius The Last Unicorn Labyrinth Wizard of OZ Gone with the Wind The Shawshank Redemption Raising Arizona 10-19 times– Sleeping with the Enemy Sense and Sensibility Scream American Beauty Reservoir Dogs A League of Their Own Truth or Dare Home for the Holidays Disney’s Lady and the Tramp Independence Day Shrek The Mexican Jerry Maguire Castaway many many many more… 5-18 times– way too many to mention… ---
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I’ve seen **Withnail & I** at least 30 times. It just never, ever, gets boring ---
**Author:** ![Caesar\_s\_Ghost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/73ab20/32.png) [@Caesar\_s\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caesar_s_Ghost)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-times-youve-watched-a-movie-and-what-movie-was-it/152077/49 "2003-02-01T22:07:33Z")
I have seen _Moulin Rouge_ an amazing amount of times. Whenever it’s on TV (on MOMAX a lot and HBO now), I watch it. I have both DVDs\* and at one point I was watching it every day…not so much anymore, but still. I just love that movie. Also, _A Knight’s Tale_. I don’t know why. I don’t like it any more than any other movie, really, but it used to be on HBO a LOT and whenever it was, someone would flip to it. So I ended up seeing it a lot. I think I can quote dialogue. \*the first one, and then the Baz Luhrmann Red Curtain Trilogy set ---
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Seen too many times to count: **Rebecca** **The Ghost and Mrs. Muir** **Thunderheart** **The Ninth Gate** **Office Space** \*\*The Screaming Skull \*\* (MST3Ked) As a kid I had an unspoken contest with my brother to see who could see **Help** the most times. I think I beat him at 11 back then, though he has no doubt caught up and surpassed me. ---
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Movies I’ve watched at least 25+ times each: Jaws Star Wars Tombstone LOTR: FOTR Groundhog Day So, I Married an Axe Murderer LA Story Tremors ---
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I don’t really keep count, but I think the movies I have watched the most are: _Office Space Undercover Blues Moulin Rouge Die Hard Lethal Weapon Mary Poppins Mulan Lilo & Stitch Beauty and the Beach Footloose_ and… Strangely enough, _Annie_–because when my sisters were little, they watched Annie at least one a day, every day, for about a month…and guess who had to keep an eye one them. ---
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I’ve seen THE WIZARD OF OZ probably forty or fifty times, and GONE WITH THE WIND maybe thirty times (ten or so of those times in cinemas for GWTW). But I can’t begin to count the number of times I’ve seen Doris Day’s CALAMITY JANE. Not by choice, although it’s a pleasant enough movie. It was my ex-cohab’s favorite film and he popped it in the VCR at least once a week. Sometimes he would fast-forward through the musical numbers. I’d ask why. He’d say, with complete sincerity, “To get back to the story.” (I’m sure that any of you who have seen this film will find that statement odd. Oh, well. It takes all kinds to make a world.) ---
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_Return of the Jedi_ by a long shot – probably twelve times or so, though only once since adolescence. I’ve seen _The Graduate_ and _Pulp Fiction_ at least six times each, and I may have seen Branagh’s _Much Ado About Nothing_ more times than that, but I haven’t really kept count. ---
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Natural Born Killers at least 40 times The Doors (I was in a windy spiritual phase and totally id’d with Mojo’s angst) who knows how often? twice/thrice daily for months? JFK 15 At least…geez guess who my fave director is Alien Trilogy…1&2 at least 10 times Citizen Kane 10 Apocalypse now 10 ---
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I frankly don’t remember. There are very very few movies that I want to watch again. Most of the times if I’m watching a movie again, it’s on TV/cable. That said, I suppose the gist of your question is to know what movies do I find that can last multiple viewings. in no particular order : 1. _Bangkok Hilton_, Australian miniseries 2. _Where Eagles Dare_, entertaining war movie. 3. _Run Lola Run_, fun German movie 4. _Dr. Strangelove_, Kubrick’s only satire. 5. _Sound of Music_. although usually on cable. 6. _House of Cards, To Play the King, Final Cut_, brilliant British series with a Machievelli feel to it. I can’t remember others and the rest are Hindi movies. ---
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**The Bounty** –not just for the cast and the more accurate version of the events than had been done previously–but because of my nautical obsessions. Probably over 20 times. **Ladyhawke** , 15 times or so. **Ed Wood** , a dozen times or more. **Pulp Fiction** , 10 times or so. **Ferris Bueller’s Day Off** , at least a dozen times. Those are the top five. ---
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**Jungle book**. As a kid, I used to watch it, then rewind it, then rewatch it. I probably watched it about a hundred times. ---
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**Monty Pythons Life of Brian** about 40 times. ---
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Well, like others I’ve seen **The Princess Bride** more times that I could think of. I’d guess 40-50 ish. I work at a single-screen movie theater that’s been showing **Chicago** since Dec. 27th. I have worked all but a meager few of those days, and there’s nothing to do between shows but sit in the lobby where you can hear the entire film. Plus I’m the manager and I have to go in and check things out in the auditorium. And I had seen it a couple of times before we had even gotten it. So, my count is that I’ve seen/heard this film **110 times** in just over a month. It’s just driving me a little nuts, is all. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-times-youve-watched-a-movie-and-what-movie-was-it/152077.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-times-youve-watched-a-movie-and-what-movie-was-it/152077.md?page=4)