# What movie have you seen more times than any other human, living or dead? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 8, 2019, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-more-times-than-any-other-human-living-or-dead/833669 "2019-05-08T17:05:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2019, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-more-times-than-any-other-human-living-or-dead/833669/21 "2019-05-08T22:34:23Z")
If we’re counting Christmas movies, then I’ve probably seen **A Child’s Christmas in Wales** (with Denholm Elliott) at least more times than anyone on this board, as it’s been in the yearly rotation since about 1995. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2019, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-more-times-than-any-other-human-living-or-dead/833669/22 "2019-05-08T22:39:21Z")
I’ve seen [_Hrútar_ (_Rams_)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rams_(2015_film)) twice. I think it’s a magnificent film and I’d watch it again, but let’s be honest, I probably already hold the record for viewing frequency when it comes to this movie. It is, shall we say, a bit niche. (I.e., bleak, sad, almost entirely about sheep.) ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-more-times-than-any-other-human-living-or-dead/833669/23 "2019-05-09T00:04:13Z")
Probably Tombstone. I saw it somewhere around two dozen times between regular theatres and dollar movies back in the day and innumerable times on DVD and streaming since. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-more-times-than-any-other-human-living-or-dead/833669/24 "2019-05-09T00:07:14Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > So he’d be perfect. Nice 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-more-times-than-any-other-human-living-or-dead/833669/25 "2019-05-09T00:25:48Z")
I’ve seen [Escanaba in da Moonlight](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escanaba_in_da_Moonlight) at least 20 times, because I always play it for my hunting buddies when they come over to hunt. There’s a very obscure short film called [The Paraclete](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371866/) that I’ve seen a couple dozens times. It was a master’s thesis for a film student. I have it on DVD, but it’s [now on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbciKW7cCU0). _ **Very** _ well done, IMO. ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-more-times-than-any-other-human-living-or-dead/833669/26 "2019-05-09T00:28:31Z")
I watch [The Best of Times](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090713/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1) at least once a year. I’ve only met one other person who loves it as much as I do. ---
**Author:** ![WildBlueYonder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WildBlueYonder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildBlueYonder)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-more-times-than-any-other-human-living-or-dead/833669/27 "2019-05-09T01:20:52Z")
Rob Roy, I love me some Liam Neeson ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-more-times-than-any-other-human-living-or-dead/833669/28 "2019-05-09T01:23:10Z")
I watch event horizon when I go to bed most nights. So I’ve seen it, or at least the first half hundreds of times. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-more-times-than-any-other-human-living-or-dead/833669/29 "2019-05-09T01:29:17Z")
Anybody here ever heard of 1988’s _The Blue Iguana_ ? If not, then I claim that one. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-more-times-than-any-other-human-living-or-dead/833669/30 "2019-05-09T01:30:39Z")
Joe VS The Volcano - I love it, everyone else is wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-more-times-than-any-other-human-living-or-dead/833669/31 "2019-05-09T01:32:05Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > So he’d be perfect. Funny thing, I actually watched Ice Pirates a few months ago. Found it online somewhere. Doesn’t really hold up, of course, but there are some funny moments still. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-more-times-than-any-other-human-living-or-dead/833669/32 "2019-05-09T01:33:12Z")
> [@Sefton](#): > > I watch [The Best of Times](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090713/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1) at least once a year. I’ve only met one other person who loves it as much as I do. That movie is awesome. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-more-times-than-any-other-human-living-or-dead/833669/33 "2019-05-09T01:50:49Z")
From the ages of four to five my little brother played **Short Circuit** and \*\*Flight of the Navigator \*\*every.single.day. I’ve seen them each a hundred times easily. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-more-times-than-any-other-human-living-or-dead/833669/34 "2019-05-09T01:51:53Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > Funny thing, I actually watched Ice Pirates a few months ago. Found it online somewhere. Doesn’t really hold up, of course, but there are some funny moments still. Oh, I’m sure it doesn’t which is why I’ll never watch it again! ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-more-times-than-any-other-human-living-or-dead/833669/35 "2019-05-09T02:02:50Z")
We weren’t allowed to watch much TV when we were kids, but every time _The Wizard of Oz_ was shown on TV, we watched it. (Maybe once a year? I can’t remember.) Then when our kids were little, we bought the [Wizard of Oz 50th Anniversary DVD](https://www.amazon.com/Wizard-50th-Anniversary-Video-Book/dp/B0009PEEMG). We then proceeded to watch it at least twice a week for the next 5 years. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-more-times-than-any-other-human-living-or-dead/833669/36 "2019-05-09T02:10:16Z")
As a kid I must have watched Mary Poppins easily a couple of hundred times, but I think I might not be the only one. It’s easy to stack up the numbers when you watch it nearly every day. The Waterbabies was my other less common love, and I might well be the only one who’s watched that a couple of hundred times. The other day I watched the Terminator for what I think is quite possibly the hundredth time. More than 30 years of owning it in various formats watching it at least four times a year except for the years when I had no TV = over 120 times, probably more like 160 or 170 because I rewatched it more often in the first few years. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-more-times-than-any-other-human-living-or-dead/833669/37 "2019-05-09T02:11:10Z")
I bet I’ve seen _The Adventures of Ford Fairlane_ more than anyone else. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-more-times-than-any-other-human-living-or-dead/833669/38 "2019-05-09T02:35:23Z")
> [@WildBlueYonder](#): > > Rob Roy, I love me some Liam Neeson It’s great, perhaps the best villain in all cinema. But it is sleazy gross in parts. Even the loving scenes with Liam and Jessica Lange. ‘I want to weave a silk purse in your quim, my darling’. Eww… ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-more-times-than-any-other-human-living-or-dead/833669/39 "2019-05-09T02:39:31Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > I’ve seen [_Hrútar_ (_Rams_)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rams_(2015_film)) twice. I think it’s a magnificent film and I’d watch it again, but let’s be honest, I probably already hold the record for viewing frequency when it comes to this movie. It is, shall we say, a bit niche. (I.e., bleak, sad, almost entirely about sheep.) Well that seems very interesting. One of these evenings when I have a screen to myself, I’ll try to watch it half as many times as you. If I can find it streaming, that is. ETA- appears to be on Netflix. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2019, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-more-times-than-any-other-human-living-or-dead/833669/40 "2019-05-09T03:04:25Z")
Ok, so sue me. My three favorite films of all time are “2001: A Space Odyssey,” “Citizen Kane,” and “The Third Man.” Of the three, my favorite is “2001,” but I will only see it in a movie theater in 70mm, so I’ve only seen it six times. I first saw “Citizen Kane” in high school in 1968, as part of our American History teacher’s lesson on yellow journalism. I was so blown away by it at 16 years old I watched it three times over two days. And this was before I’d seen “2001” in a movie theater. In the last 50 years, I guess I’ve seen “Kane” 20 times, three times in a movie theater. I didn’t see “The Third Man” until 1978, on television, but fortunately it was on my local PBS affiliate as a classic film, shown with no commercials. Christ, in the last year alone, I think I’ve watched “The Third Man” three times. I’ve seen a pristine print in a movie theater three times. In the last 40 years I’ve watched it three or four times each year. I’ve lost count, but I know I’ve seen it at least thirty times - maybe forty times. I’ve sat with Roger Ebert as he did a frame by frame analysis of the picture. (I’ve also sat with Ebert as he did a frame by frame analysis of “2001” and “Citizen Kane.”) When I watch “The Third Man” I can pretty much recite the entire script from memory. (Yes, I’m a total pain in the ass to with the picture with!) And each time I see it I find something new! You asked what time it is and I’ve told you how to build a watch. But the answer is “The Third Man.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-more-times-than-any-other-human-living-or-dead/833669.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-more-times-than-any-other-human-living-or-dead/833669.md?page=3)