As a kid, The Hobbit (1977)
Now, The Thing (1982)
There are lots of movies I have watched lots of times.
The movie I have seen the most times is Die Hard. It’s my favorite and sometimes I just have it on in the background while I’m doing other things.
Bullitt. Since 1968 I’ve seen this film at least 60 times.
I’m not going to count movies on TV or on DVD/VHS - too hard to count; many times I only catch a piece of the movie - doe that count? So I am only going to count movies I’ve seen in a theater:
Amadeus I saw five times during its original release.
The original Star Wars I saw three times, again during its original run (which lasted over a year).
Rocky Horror Picture Show probably four times, spread out over many years.
Many others that I saw twice…
Oh, if we’re talking in a theatre, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a movie more than once in a theatre.
I don’t keep track, but probably Back To The Future. Possibly Ever After. Might be Finding Nemo. I also have watched a lot of Star Wars, as I am definitely a big fan, but not as often as you might think. I treasure them so much I don’t want to dilute the experience.
Boondock Saints 1 & 2
BTinLC
Tombstone
The Great Santini
And lastly, Aladdin from when my son was small.
All a minimum of 10 times.
I was also a video store clerk in the late 80s- mid 90s (spent way, way too long at that job). Better Off Dead was in our top 5 but the top of our list was Clue (followed closely by The Princess Bride). Real Genius was another popular one but Clue & The Princess Bride happened several times a week (sometimes twice a night).
That was, until the video store powers that be decided we would have to watch endless preview trailers instead of a single movie which managed to suck the last bit of good out of that soul crushing job.
For my “real life” list :
Trainspotting
Lonesome Dove
The Godfather
Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock- not the rapper one)
Star Wars
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Shawshank Redemption
Clerks
I’m not sure I understand. You’re saying you put on a DVD and then only “catch a piece of it? “ How does that happen?
For me, I will often put in the DVD of a favorite movie while I’m doing housework or doing other stuff around the house. It’s on for background, kind of like music. I don’t sit and watch it, so I really only catch bits and pieces.
I’m not sure what my most watched is, but here’s my list.
Hooper (probably my most watched)
Harley Davidson & Marlboro man
Blues Brothers
The winner amongst these has to be over 150-200 veiwings
When I was a kid, HBO played the same movies on rotation, day after day. So I watched Flash Gordon day after day and loved every minute of it.
The Big Lebowski
Escanaba in da Moonlight
Back when Spain was new to the concept of having more than two TV channels, my family had a handful of movies which got trotted out any weekend afternoon there wasn’t anything on TV.
The menfolk went mainly for war movies: Los últimos de Filipinas, Raza, Sergeant York.
The womenfolk preferred old comedies: A Philadelphia Story got so much mileage it’s a miracle there’s any Philadelphia left.
And then there was a sprinkling of musicals: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Some Like It Hot, An American In Paris, Singin’ In The Rain… and Westerns: Dad loved Stagecoach and High Noon, I preferred The Big Country and Sergeant Rutledge.
*Spirited Away *for me, no question.
Back in the 1980’s, I was an assistant manager at a movie complex. I was also the only one they would trust upstairs, so my tan was limited. Beverly Hills Cop was in cinema 10 for 36 weeks. 36 weeks of 5 shows a day. Ghostbusters lasted 34 weeks. Terminator was over a half year.\
I’ll never eat popcorn again.
Back in college we had a videotape of The Godfather. I am sure I watched it at least twenty times. Weird thing is there are still some parts of the plot I am not sure about.
Later I raised three kids, so I’ve seen the all the big Disney films multiple times.
The original Star Wars trilogy, first in the theatres a few times, then multiple viewings at home.
It’s any one of the Star Wars movies, Pulp Fiction, or The Big Lebowski. There is almost certainly not a movie I have seen more times than any of those.
Read the whole sentence - “I’m not going to count movies on TV or on DVD/VHS.” Channel surfing, see movie I like, stop and watch for a while. Or someone else is watching on DVD and I wander by. Pedantic much?
Runners-up are Duck Soup, for obvious reasons, and The Bride of Frankenstein, because I think it’s Boris’s greatest performance and because I love Ernest Thesinger, and Doctor Praetorius is his juiciest Hollywood role. I’m listening to the soundtrack as I type this.
First place goes to The Island of Lost Souls. I can’t get enough of Charles Laughton chewing the scenery, the Panther Woman, or the House of Pain. And the brilliantly quotable quotes…
“The natives ARE restless, tonight…”
“What is THE LAW?!?!”
“Not to schpill BLOT, THAT IS the Law!! Are we not MEN???”
I was a happy man when the Criterion Collection decided to release this pre-Code classic.