# What's the highest number of times you've seen a movie in the theater? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 13, 2014, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-highest-number-of-times-youve-seen-a-movie-in-the-theater/678709 "2014-01-13T21:21:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-highest-number-of-times-youve-seen-a-movie-in-the-theater/678709/1 "2014-01-13T21:21:28Z")
Last Wednesday, my wife went to see the Alfonso Cuarón movie _Gravity_… …for the eighth time!!! There are a few of my favorite movies that I’ve seen eight or more times, but always on TV or DVD; the most times I’ve ever seen a movie at the theater is twice. My wife says she loves everything about _Gravity_, and particularly loves the immersive experience of watching it on the big screen. I couldn’t imagine going that many times, especially not in the space of about 6 weeks. So, what’s your record? What was the movie, and how many times did you see it? And why? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-highest-number-of-times-youve-seen-a-movie-in-the-theater/678709/2 "2014-01-13T21:22:41Z")
I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a movie more than twice in the theater - usually when I’ve already seen it with friends but my dad still wants to catch it. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-highest-number-of-times-youve-seen-a-movie-in-the-theater/678709/3 "2014-01-13T21:23:52Z")
Rocky Horror Picture Show, four times. Why? Four girls. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-highest-number-of-times-youve-seen-a-movie-in-the-theater/678709/4 "2014-01-13T21:35:17Z")
I know there a couple of films I’ve seen twice. I think that’s it. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-highest-number-of-times-youve-seen-a-movie-in-the-theater/678709/5 "2014-01-13T21:37:17Z")
> [@Rhiannon8404](#): > > I know there a couple of films I’ve seen twice. I think that’s it. Same here. I’m struggling to think of what movie(s) I may have seen more than once in the theatre, but there must be at least one. ---
**Author:** ![shiftless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@shiftless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shiftless)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-highest-number-of-times-youve-seen-a-movie-in-the-theater/678709/6 "2014-01-13T21:38:20Z")
Rocky Horror Picture Show: 14 times, give or take a few. It was a thing back in the late 70’s. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-highest-number-of-times-youve-seen-a-movie-in-the-theater/678709/7 "2014-01-13T21:43:16Z")
I saw Marvel’s Avengers four times in the theater. Once by myself, because I really wanted to see it. Later I took the kids and my nephew. Then a few weeks later my wife and I went out with another couple and they all wanted to see it, and I didn’t mind seeing it again. Then about two weeks later I was on a business trip walking through the city and I passed a movie theater and I decided to go see whatever was about to start – and it was _Avengers_ again, so I went with it. Other than that I can’t recall seeing any movie more than once in a theater, although there was one summer I watched _Better Off Dead_ thirty-two times on VHS. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-highest-number-of-times-youve-seen-a-movie-in-the-theater/678709/8 "2014-01-13T21:45:59Z")
Embarrassingly, the only film I can absolutely remember seeing more than once in the theater is “The Mummy.” I saw it twice. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-highest-number-of-times-youve-seen-a-movie-in-the-theater/678709/9 "2014-01-13T21:49:48Z")
Summer of 1986 (?) I probably [del]saw[/del] attended showings of Top Gun at least ten times. There wasn’t a lot going on in our small town, but you could always start looking for it at the movie theater. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-highest-number-of-times-youve-seen-a-movie-in-the-theater/678709/10 "2014-01-13T21:50:11Z")
_Titanic_ and _ET_ both got 5 theater viewings from me. ---
**Author:** ![jrsone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jrsone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jrsone)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-highest-number-of-times-youve-seen-a-movie-in-the-theater/678709/11 "2014-01-13T21:55:47Z")
Lord… I saw the sequel to the Blair Witch Project…which is an awful movie, maybe 4 or 5, maybe more times with different friends, my girlfriend at the time, etc. at different times. They all wanted to see it despite my warnings. I could practically recite it word for word then. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-highest-number-of-times-youve-seen-a-movie-in-the-theater/678709/12 "2014-01-13T21:55:58Z")
I’m hard-pressed to think of anything I saw more than twice in a theater, and that’s counting drive-ins and “art theaters” along with standard theaters. Most likely the multiple viewings would have been pre-TV which for me was mid-1950’s. Big-screen stuff like Cinerama and I-Max was a one-time experience for me. But CinemaScope may have been the sort of thing I’d have seen more than once. Maybe _Rebel Without A Cause_ or _East of Eden_, but not _Giant_. Maybe _A Streetcar named Desire_. I’m sure I saw _Lawrence of Arabia_ twice in a theater. It’s a tough test for my memory. That’s for sure. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-highest-number-of-times-youve-seen-a-movie-in-the-theater/678709/13 "2014-01-13T21:56:46Z")
I’m really unsure of how many times I saw Rocky Horror or the Wall so discounting the midnight movies, it would be between Star Trek IV (The Whale Movie), Roger Rabbit or Little Shop of Horror. I think it was 4 times for each of them. I did see Ghostbusters twice the same day. Star Trek IV is saw opening day, went with different friends to a Drive-In, then 2 more times over the next few weeks. It helped my ship was the ship that stood in for the USS Enterprise CVN-65. So my fellow ship-mates were invested in seeing this movie and it was a great movie. Roger Rabbit, I’m not sure why I saw it so many times, I really enjoyed and through our Special Service department tickets were only $2.25 so it was easy to keep going. Little Shop of Horror kind of was like a Rocky Horror experience for a small group of friends of mine. They went 10+ times, I only went 4. ---
**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-highest-number-of-times-youve-seen-a-movie-in-the-theater/678709/14 "2014-01-13T21:57:43Z")
First Star Wars - 7 times. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-highest-number-of-times-youve-seen-a-movie-in-the-theater/678709/15 "2014-01-13T21:58:12Z")
_Star Wars_, 6 times. Twice during its original release (I was 12, and convincing my parents to let me see a movie _again_ took a lot of lobbying), once when it was re-released into theaters a year or so later, and three more times when the Special Edition came out in 1997. A friend of mine, who was in his early 20s when _Star Wars_ was first in the theaters, and who did not have much of a social life at the time, went to see it every day after work for a month in the summer of 1977. 😃 ---
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I saw _Jurassic Park_ seven times over the course of its first run in theaters, and then when they put it out in 3D I saw it again. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-highest-number-of-times-youve-seen-a-movie-in-the-theater/678709/17 "2014-01-13T22:01:09Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > I’m really unsure of how many times I saw Rocky Horror Eeek, forgot about Rocky Horror. My group of college friends would go to the midnight showing fairly regularly for a year or two; I’d guess I’ve seen it in a theater at least a dozen times. ---
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> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Rocky Horror Picture Show, four times. Why? Four girls. I stopped counting at 35 ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-highest-number-of-times-youve-seen-a-movie-in-the-theater/678709/19 "2014-01-13T22:04:16Z")
I saw Dark Knight three times in theaters. It’s not that I thought it was the greatest thing ever or anything (though I do like it quite a bit), it just turned out that way, seeing it with different people each time. ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-highest-number-of-times-youve-seen-a-movie-in-the-theater/678709/20 "2014-01-13T22:09:55Z")
My wife saw Titanic in the theaters 10 times. I think I’ve seen the same movie twice in theaters - I’m not sure though and I definitely couldn’t tell you what it was. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-highest-number-of-times-youve-seen-a-movie-in-the-theater/678709.md?page=2)