Rocky Horror Picture Show
Casablanca
Raider of the Lost Arc
Return of the Jedi
All twice. Part of me wants to say North by Northwest but I think it was only once on the big screen.
I’ve seen only two movies more than once in the the theater. One of them I saw twice and the other I saw three times.
The first was I Know What You Did Last Summer. I saw it first on my birthday. My family wanted to take me out to the movies and that was the movie I most wanted to see at that time (that was currently playing).
Then, that same night (so…still my birthday, mind you) my friends wanted to take me out to see a movie. I told them I had just seen IKWYDLS earlier that day and they asked me how it was. I said I enjoyed it, so we all decided we’d see that, since my friends hadn’t seen it yet.
The other one (that I saw three times) was Titanic. I saw it first by myself and loved it, so then I treated my best friend to it a week later.
And then, two weeks later, I visited family in NY. I saw my sister and niece/nephew…and one day we all went to the theater. Well…Titanic was still playing (obviously, since it had only been a month since it came out) and nobody had seen it in the group of us except for me. So we went with that.
Back in my college days the two that I saw numerous times (every chance I got) were Fantasia and Yellow Submarine. Not sure how many times – it was back in the 70s and, well, you know. I also remember seeing W.C. Fields’ The Fatal Glass of Beer at least twice; that was a popular pairing with Marx Bros. movies and the like.
*Pulp Fiction * 4 or 5 times.
I’m pretty sure I saw Aliens twice.
at college they had a theater that showed old (i.e. not currently in theaters) movies sometimes
The Big Lebowski is the only one I saw twice. If I had an opportunity to see something I like I might go more often
I’ve never seen a new movie in theaters I liked enough that I wanted to see it twice
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When I was in college I used to see movies more than once all the time. I’d see it once with my friends, then again on a date and then maybe again if I went on a date with another girl. Then maybe a second time with friends if there was nothing else out worth seeing.
Not much anymore since we had kids, but I have seen The Winter Soldier three times and Guardians of the Galaxy twice recently.
The most times I saw a movie in theaters?
Probably a tie between Tombstone and Jurassic Park. Both played in the dollar theater for extended periods of time and I wound up seeing each about a dozen times in the theater.
Not many. Let’s see…
Batman (1966) (I was a little kid and it was really, really colorful)
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Road Warrior (four times; I was utterly fascinated by the camera setups and editing)
The Matrix
I saw Fellowship of the Ring 8 times, Two Towers 5, and Return of the King 3 or 4.
I don’t go to the movies often, but I’ve bothered to see Gone With the Wind twice in the theater. Gone With the Wind belongs to the big screen.
Before the advent of affordable VCRs I used to sometimes see a movie that I liked and would then drag others along to another session. This is because I have always gone to the cinema far more often than my friends. I think I did this with several Mel Brooks movies and Suspiria.
Nowadays I only do it if I see a movie alone that I really like and I am going out with my son or my girlfriend and that movie is the only choice available. I saw Whiplash last week and will probably see it again with one of them.
A big YES to this!
During my mid-20s, I was in the DC area, this was in the late 1970s and early 1980s. There were repertory movie theaters like the Circle and Biograph that showed a mix of old classics and more recent art films, with the movies changing two or three times a week. They’d print up their schedules for a couple months at a time, so you could look ahead and circle which movies you wanted to see. The Circle Theater, on Pennsylvania just east of Washington Circle, always showed twin bills, and while the regular admission was $2, they offered books of 10 tickets for $10, which us regulars would always buy. Since the Circle always had a fair amount of overlap between one schedule and the next, you could count on, say, that twin bill of King of Hearts and Harold and Maude returning on a regular basis.
Also a shout-out to college cinemas, specifically (for me) Cinestudio at Trinity College in the early to mid 1970s, and Movies at Wilson Hall at U.Va. in the early to mid 1980s.
Back then, I saw a metric ton of movies on the big screen more than once. Like Cal said, it was the only way. (Well, not entirely: even in the pre-cable era, TV stations would play old movies at times when viewership was low. But you could only see so many movies this way.)
The movie I’ve seen most often on the big screen was the Rocky Horror Picture Show, because it was more an event than a movie. 8 or 9 times, I think.
Other movies I remember seeing multiple times on the big screen: a bunch of Bogart (Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, To Have and Have Not), a slew of Marx Brothers movies of course (The Cocoanuts, Monkey Business, Horsefeathers, Duck Soup, A Night at the Opera), a few Mel Brooks movies (Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie), Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Star Wars, Rocky, the aforementioned King of Hearts/Harold and Maude twin bill, Brother Sun, Sister Moon, The Great Escape, Patton, MAS*H, Airplane!, Animal House, Bananas, Play It Again, Sam, American Graffiti, Sleuth, and a host of others that I don’t remember right now.
I saw Eyes Wide Shut twice, but dammit, it wasn’t my fault!
I have a thing. If I see a movie to a certain point, I have to see the end of it, even if I feel it will be painful.
I went with a small group of people to a late showing of Eyes Wide Shut and was not really enjoying myself. But several of the ladies in the group had fallen asleep, awoke, and decided they wanted to leave. We had a bout 40 minutes left of the movie, but we all left and I drove them home.
I had to go back and see the last 40.
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Actually you can frequently ‘catch’ something that you didn’t notice the first time. Or sometimes you see it with a good audience that laughs a lot and you laugh more. Or maybe you’re seeing something again decades later, you are a different person and you’ll have a different reaction to seeing it.
I used to work in movie theaters and in the movie business. (I swear I’ll get that in the mail sometime) So I’ve seen 100’s of films multiple times. (when it’s free, it’s not a big deal) Rocky Horror… Well I hosted the weekly show for over two years but the movie I paid to see the most times was Empire of the Sun.
I forgot The Sting(twice) and Lawrence of Arabia(three times)
If a movie comes out in theaters now, it will most likely be available for blu-ray/DVD in a few weeks. Maybe a little longer for streaming services. When movies came out pre-VHS, you didn’t know when you’d see them again. If it was an ok movie, you might see it on TV in a year or two. Provided you checked TV guide. Provided you were home to watch it. If it was a great movie or risqué, you’d have to wait and see if it got re-released in a couple of years. Which was too bad, so sad if you lived in a smaller town. So movies like The Way We Were or Kentucky Fried Movie or Star Wars, we went and saw again and again because once it was gone, it was gone.
The first VCR I ever saw was in 1980, top loading, and it weighed about 15 lbs. It was at a restaurant where I worked in college and we had approximately 12 movies. Again, the really good movies weren’t released to home media for awhile. Like years. If you rented a video it was around $3-5, plus most of us had to rent the video player and leave a $150 deposit. We got our first VHS in 1986 and it was a Sharp/Sears 4 head for around $450. You still had to buy a video membership or leave a deposit check to check out movies so we didn’t very often. Mostly we taped cable movies and suffered through commercials and cuts.
So, yeah, if I liked a movie, I’d go watch it two, three, four times.
Remember the good ol’ days? They absolutely SUCKED. My middle-aged ass will be parked on the couch tonight streaming Halloween movies that I can watch whenever I want, don’t have to fetch, don’t have to shell out a paper check for, rewind, remember to return, or any of that other nonsense.
I gather you only had sex with your partner once.
A River Runs Though It. I lived next to a second-run theater that only charged $5.00 for movies that were six months or so old. I saw a lot of movies then; this one is one of the few movies that is almost as good as the book. And the book is a classic of American literature.
(I tricked my roommate into going to see it by telling him that Brad Pitt had a nude scene…)
Let’s see…
Fantasia (about 14 or so times, I loved that film in college)
Star Wars (3 or 4 times)
Grease (3 or 4 times while I was dating)
Marvel’s The Avengers (twice)
Pirates of The Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (3 times, buck theaters, at the time it totally enthralled my grandson)
None of which I regret. However, there is:
Roller Boogie (4 times) Madame P. and I were just married, and for some reason she loved it. It was on TV some months back, and she couldn’t make it halfway through. I feel vindicated.
Off the top of my head:
Star Wars
The Gods Must Be Crazy
Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Song Remains the Same
Heavy Metal
The last 3 having been ‘Midnight Movie’ staples.