Oh definitely. I’ve seen it more than four times in full, and sometimes I just watch the ballet scene from the orchestra dungeon. Because it’s awesome. I will say, though, that it’s one of the few musicals that would be improved by taking out most of the songs (the actual songs, not the dance numbers). Some of them really drag.
I’ll also add - although I doubt I’m even close to a world record here - Singin’ in the Rain. If it’s on television I must watch it, and I have the DVD too. “A Rose is a rose! A Nose is a nose! A Toese is a toese! Hupidubidu!”
One of my housemates in college had a VHS of The Godfather and we watched it over and over. I don’t get the record because he watched it more than I did.
Weird thing, there are still parts of the story I don’t understand. But it’s a great film anyway.
I worked in a daycare that had two movies to watch during nap time, Cinderella and Ernest Goes to Camp. I’m sure there are plenty of people who have seen Cinderella more but I’m probably close to the top of the list for Ernest Goes to Camp.
One of my kids loved Inspector Gadget 2 as a kid, as a result I have watched it so many times.
Not for myself – I pretty much don’t “do” films – but, a submission on behalf of a one-time friend of mine (we lost touch with each other many years ago).
I knew this guy via a shared interest of ours – in railways; but he was, also, probably the most all-consumingly dedicated film / movie buff, with whom I’ve ever been acquainted. At times for him, the two passions coincided. There’s a rather charming British film, first shown 1953: one of the Ealing comedies, directed by Charles Crichton – The Titfield Thunderbolt. It concerns an English rural branch railway line, condemned by a heartless nationalised bureaucracy, to be closed down, because it is losing money; and the local inhabitants taking the alternative initiative of running the line themselves, and the sundry capers which ensue. It’s a delightful thing: I’ve seen it probably five or six times – but quite frankly, if I never see it again in my life, that won’t greatly bother me.
However; Bob, my friend-as-was: when I knew him, we were in our mid-forties – I remember him saying that as at then, he had seen The Titfield Thuderbolt 32 times; and hoped to do so many times further. Trying to do the maths, with much guessing – with him, like myself, now being aged approx. seventy: I see him having by now (if he’s still with us) seen the classic film about the “Thunderbolt” and attendant carryings-on, at least 60 times – and hoping to do so a fair few more times, before he shuffles off this mortal coil. As for the after-life: for sure, any such which did not involve an unlimited supply of films throughout eternity (including all those cinematic wonders which might have been made on this Earth, but for whatever reason weren’t) – would, for Bob, be not worth having.
I’ve probably seen each of these movies about 4-6 times
5,000 fingers of Dr. T
Fantastic Planet
Dark star
Allegro non Troppo
and probably 8-9 times for the Muppet movie.
But most of those are standard cult classics.
For obscurity I would have to go with
“The Curious Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird”
Which the missus got at on DVD at a dollar store shortly after we got married. The nice combination of good animation, and sweet romance made it our theme movie. I’ve probably watched it 5-6 times over the years. Alas her hearing isn’t so good these days and there is no closed captioning on the DVD so its been a while.
Nah, I saw that several times back when it started running on HBO or a similar station in the 80’s, and also the TV edit a few times.
How about Howard the Duck? I’ve seen that Lea Thompson movie 4-5 times at least.
Of course the movies I’ve seen most I have no chance believing some nerd out there hasn’t seen them more. Maybe I watched Star Wars so much one summer that I could practically recite the entire thing word for word, but you know there’s someone who’s seen it more. Ditto Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. And to lesser extents Terminator 2 and Romero’s Dawn of the Dead (which I watch at least every Halloween ever since getting the DVD set).
Aw, man, I love “Allegro non Troppo”. I’m not sure I could watch “Fantastic Planet” more than a few times without a lot of alcohol or other mind-altering substances though.
I doubt if I’ve watched these movies more than anybody, butb I’ve probably seen them more often than most on this Board:
I think WPIX’s Chiller Theater must have owned these awful low-budget films, because they showed them so often. Several were shown in the original opening montage (that preceded the six-fingered animated hand opening):
The Cape Canaveral Monsters
The Curse of the Faceless Man
Voodoo Island (with Boris Karloff!) The Ape Man (with Bela Lugosi!) Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman
The Cyclops
The Neanderthal Man
The Monster of Piedras Blancas
Plan Nine from Outer Space
Bride of the Monster
the Black Sleep (the last three with Lugosi, again)
On other NY Indie stations I watched, over and over:
The Monster that Challenged the World
Carnival of Souls
The Manster
The Giant Behemoth
Giant from the Unknown
Terror from the Year 5000
Beyond the Time Barrier
World Without End
Queen of Outer Space
The Amazing Transparent Man
Monster on the Campus
Invasion of the Saucer Men
I was one of those kids who would obsessively watch a small rotation of favorite movies over and over again ad nauseam. I’m fairly certain that I pretty much spent the 80s curled up in front of the Betamax as even when I was an older child I had scant memories of my first few years in terms of my actual life but always had tons of vivid memories of the entirety, or near entirety, of the movies that I obsessively watched in those early years.
I’m a pretty good contender for Most Obsessive Viewer of D.A.R.Y.L. (1985) and Flight of the Navigator (1986) but for something more obscure, I’d say no one else would ever have watched C.H.O.M.P.S. (1979) or Sammy’s Super T-Shirt (1978) more than me. As I grew up, I actually forgot the title of these two but still had vivid memories of most of the films, which I was able to confirm when I finally tracked them down on DVD or Youtube and even though it had been more than 30 years since I’d seen them, they were just as I remembered them. I figure it takes a lot of repeat viewings to remember most of a film unaided for over 30 years.
I’ve seen Cutter’s Way about 30 times. Have a photo from the set with jeff Bridges and John Heard, signed by Bridges to Mike (but not me personally, it was a Christmas present).
