This is just the highlights-- I will probably come back with other movies I forgot about:
The Wizard of Oz
Gone with the Wind
Star Wars
Victor/Victoria
Alien
Aliens
Without a Trace
Way Down East
Nosferatu (I have seen both versions more than once in a theater)
Metropolis
Strangers on a Train
Vertigo
Rear Window
Psycho
The Philadelphia Story
You Can’t Take It with You
It’s a Wonderful Life
Arsenic and Old Lace
Night of the Hunter
Fury (the Spencer Tracy movie)
My Brilliant Career
Housekeeping
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
The 4 Adventures of Reinette & Mirabelle
Return of the Secaucus 7
Creature from the Black Lagoon (in 3D)
Plan 9 from Outer Space
Ed Wood
Eleni
Lianna
Desert Hearts
3 Men and a Cradle (the French movie)
The Story of Women
Blue Velvet
Children of a Lesser god
A Room with a View
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
Camille Claudel
Shirley Valentine
Stranger than Paradise
Mystery Train
Night on Earth
Maurice
Something Wild
Insignificance
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Planet of the Apes
Proof
Shallow Hal
Roger and Me
JFK
It Happened One Night
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
The Blair Witch Project
Queen Kelly
Escape to Witch Mountain
Snow White (the animated Disney version)
Fantasia
Raiders of the Lost Ark
She’s Gotta Have It
Heatwave
High Tide
Hannah and Her Sisters
Radio Days
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Beyond Rangoon
Apollo 13
Dead Man Walking
I saw Dances With Wolves eight times in the theater.
More recent movies I saw twice:
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[li]Open Range (I really don’t have a thing for K. Costner; in a small town that had a theater and I had nothing to do but see this movie again – it’s really quite good)[/li][li]Revenge of the Sith[/li][li]Iron Man[/li][li]Captain America[/li][li]The Avengers[/li][li]Cabin in the Woods[/li][li]Guardians of the Galaxy*[/li][li]*Insidious *(as I’ve mentioned in previous threads, I had to confirm that I saw what I thought I saw)[/li][li]Need for Speed (absolutely mindless but fun, and I found myself in another unfamiliar small town with nothing else to do than go see a movie I’d already seen)[/li][/ul]
This should really be broken down into “pre VCR/DVD” and “post VCR/DVD”
I saw “Enter the Dragon” 23 times in a theatre - simply because that was the only way to see it at the time. Had it been available for home viewing, that number would have been far less.
Post VCD/DVD there are very few. A big reason is not because the movie became available on tape or DVD, but also once it did, it was never shown in the theatres again.
Sleuth
The French Connection
Both because the girl I was dating had never seen them.
The Stunt Man – I had to see this twice because the first time I watched it, they played two reels out of order. The movie made no sense until I realized this (Cameron repeated something as a lesson from Eli Cross before Cross told him). I mentally switch the reels in the right order. Later, I went to another theater. There was a short break where the wrong reel should have gone, and then the movie continued the way it was intended to. I think the theater (a small art house) realized the problem and fixed it.
If you count things I saw as film series, some are Stagecoach
Jaberwocky
Children of Paradise
The Gold Rush
Jurassic Park 11 times, the 3D reboot made it to 12. I also went to Fellowship twice, once with my wife and again with my buddy. Nothing else comes to mind (I’m repressing my memories of Episode 1, which I immediately regretted viewing twice)
Oh yeah, saw Jurassic Park twice in the theater, Children of Paradise, to, and Cinema Paradiso, and Kolya.
There are a lot of movies I know I have seen more than once, and I know I have seen in a theater, but I am not sure whether I have seen them in a theater more than once, like Cabaret, and Repulsion.
WALL-E. I was dating that summer, and for whatever reason, all the guys thought that would be a great movie for me. The f-buddy, the two Indian guys (who chaperoned for each other, apparently…), and the one I ended up marrying.
I’ve seen every Star Wars in the theater at least 3 times (well, the main 6 anyway, only saw Clone Wars once).
Others I remember seeing more than once, Batman (89), Demolition Man, Spider-Man 1 and 2 (Raimi), I’m sure there are some more, these just com to mind.
These days I rarely manage to get to the theater enough to see things once, let alone more than that. Not to mention how bad the prices have gotten. Just not worth it to pay that much for a 2nd ticket; if you really like it better to save the money from a 2nd viewing and apply it to the cost of the Bluray that’ll be out before you know it.
I re-read books too. You get a lot more out of them, really.
Gonna forget a number of movies but here goes my list:
Titanic - 6 times, 5 times on first-release, once on the 10-year anniversary.
Pulp Fiction - 4 times.
Hook - 2 times. Really embarrassed about this one - saw it once because it was SPIELBERG, saw it the second time because the other choices completely sucked and my fiancee and I were in the mood for a movie. And she was a big Julia Roberts fan at the time, and, you know, I like getting laid.
ET - 3 times.
The Incredibles - 2 times
Unforgiven - 2 times
The Dark Knight - 2 times
Star Wars/ESB/ROTJ - more than once, but how many times… I can’t remember. At least 2 times each.
Now going through the top movies via Boxofficemojo to stir my memories…
Raiders of the Lost Ark - 2 times.
Scarface - 2 times, maybe 3.
Gremlins - 2 times.
Back to the Future - 3 times.
Romancing the Stone - 2 times.
Roger Rabbit - 3 times at least.
Batman - 2 times.
T2 - 2 times.
Silence of the Lambs - 2 times. (This makes 3 of the top 6 films of 1991 that I’ve seen multiple times in the theater, along with T2 and Hook.)
Forrest Gump - 2 times.
Independence Day - 2 times.
Twister - 2 times.
Saving Private Ryan - 3 times, maybe 4.
Kill Bill vol. 1 & 2 - 2 times each.
The Polar Express - 2 times (my daughter loved (and still loves) this movie. Watching TPE is a Christmas event at our house.)
The Fantastic Four - 2 times (the kid factor, again.)
Cloverfield - 2 times, kid factor.
Avatar - 2 times.
Inglorious Basterds - 2 times.
Super 8 - 2 times (again, kid factor)
First “Hunger Games” movie - 2 times
World War Z - 2 times (this and previous movie were because of, yes, Da Kid.)
Contact
King Kong (2005)
Ghostbusters
War of the Worlds (2005)
Woodstock
Tommy
The Kids Are Alright
2001
Close Encounters
Moonrise Kingdom
A Hard Day’s Night
Excalibur
Deliverance
You get a lot more out of them, really.