C’mon! There’s no way you’ve watched Wizard of Oz mire times than anyone in the world. I mean that term literally!
I’ve probably seen Trainspotting at least 2-3 times a year since it came out in 1996. I never get tired of it. Besides that… I worked at a video store in the mid 90s and for at least six months, one of the main girls I worked with and I usually watched Clue, The Princess Bride or Better off Dead every night, quoting all three back to each other as we worked.
After reading about it for years, when I finally got my DVD of Versus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versus_(2000_film) and watched it at least once every day for over two weeks, so probably 25-35 times during that period.
Come on, someone’s got to be a Rocky Horror Picture Show fan and went to dozens or more midnight showings.
Those are all 3 great movies, but I’m super jealous of the Ebert thing! Tell us more about that sometime!
I’ve seen “Miller’s Crossing” more times than I can count.
However, I can count on one hand the amount of people I’ve talked to about movies who has ever heard of the film.
I have seen Harold and Maude a gazillion times and hope to see it a gazilion more.
I don’t know if there’s any film I saw more than anyone else, but there definitely are some films I’ve seen a LOT of times.
Chief among these has to be King Kong, which I first encountered on New York independent television stations, chiefly WOR Channel 9. I think the first film I ever encountered o TV was the sequel, Son of Kong, which impressed me because it had dinosaurs. But the original , which I found shortly after that, had more and better dinosaurs.
It ran frequently on Million Dollar Movie. It was run twice in a row many Saturday mornings. They ran it a LOT.
any this was before they started running it (along with Son of Kong and Mighty Joe Young in a Merian C. Cooper-Willis O’Brien Giant Ape Trifecta) every Thanksgiving.
When I went away to college they showed it countless times at Old Movie and Nostalgia Events. Then the Restored Version became available. Then it showed up on VHS tapes, then DVD. It got colorized. I own multiple copies in various formats.
Certainly there are many other movies I’ve seen dozens of times, and long ago lost count of – * Son of Kong, Mighty Joe Young, Godzilla, Rodan, The Wizard of Oz, Frankenstein, Dracula*, all the Universal Horror films of the 1930s and 40s. Forbidden Planet, The Day the Earth Stood Still,, the original three Star Wars films… But I’m sure I’ve seen the first King Kong more than any other. Although I’m certain there are people who have seen it more often than me.
I have four “special” films on an ancient videotape:
Sins of the Fleshapoids, a Mike Kuchar film in which all the dialogue is in huge word balloons.
Its sort-of sequel, Ascension of the Demonoids, about homosexuality… or is it?
And Cobra Woman, in which Maria Montez does a pseudo-sexual dance with a live cobra. “I haff aspoken!”
And of course, The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
I have seen “Caddyshack”, “Stripes”, “The Blues Brothers” and “Animal House” at least 40 times each, and “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” and “12 Monkeys” both 20+ times.
In the past 10 years, I have probably seen less than 10 new releases, total 5 or 6 of them just in the past year or so. (I just got married and my wife likes movies, so I started going with her)
When I really love a movie, I watch it ten to twenty times, and that pretty much runs its course for me. There are a number of movies in that category for me, so I won’t even bother trying to list them.
I don’t watch movies over and over except when I’m forced to by children…
I too watched the Wizard of Oz every year as a kid (born in 61) and then watched it with my kids every year. I recorded it on VHS one year and it became my son’s go to movie one summer (he was 2-1/2). He watched it at least once a day. Then my grandkids came along and I recorded it on the DVR. I must have watched it at least once a week with them.
The above is also true for Rudolph.
Besides The Wizard of Oz & Rudolph the other movie kicks my son had were:
The Beastmaster
The Dirtbike Kid
Rad
Laurel & Hardy (all of them!)
A Christmas Story
Wayne Gretzky: Above & Beyond
I also watched them way too many times to count.
Around ages 12-14, I watched Excalibur(1981) countless times. My friends and I would even run it as background noise.
Eta: hilarious. I can’t believe how many big names were in that movie. Totally lost on my 13 year old self.
When I was a kid we had a VHS tape with Star Wars, The Princess Bride, and Raiders of the Lost Ark. I watched that tape every day on summer vacation for years. They were taped off the TV broadcast, at EP speed, so the video and audio quality was very poor and they still had all the commercial breaks. I still expect the commercial breaks to come on when I watch those movies to this day.
I’m sure you’re right. But there was a point in time that I (and my kids) knew every freaking line of dialogue in that movie.
I was an extra in The Dirtbike Kid. Working title at the time was Crazy Wheels.
Mine is Design for Living with Gary Cooper, Fredric March and Miriam Hopkins. Written by Noel Coward, directed by Ernst Lubitch. Probably seen in 10 or 15 times and it’s fairly unknown these days. Impossible to believe it’s about a threesome, in 1933. Also very funny. Everyone is really good but Miriam Hopkins is amazing. Edward Everett Horton has a great part. Yes, I’m trying to talk everyone into seeking this film out.
The only movies I’ve repeated to unhealthy levels is Star Wars. I couldn’t even tell you how many times. It’s basically my religion. Sadly, I’m sure there are many people that have seen them many more times than me.
We got cable and HBO in 1977. I begged my Dad to get HBO and I was going to watch everything they showed, even if it meant watching Checkered Flag or Crash every day! This was long before HBO original content and they had maybe a couple of dozen movies that wouldn’t change until the next month, with some movies carrying over for another month. The even had a documentary about the how they made the pre-CGI rotating HBO logo. That was actually really interesting.
I’m tied with those who’ve seen it 0 times! 