I saw Pulp Fiction 4 or 5 times in the theater.
I see about 40 movies a year in the cinema. I suppose out of all those hundreds of visits I have seen the same movie twice maybe 2 or 3 times. I think on every occasion I have been going to the movies with someone who only wanted to see one thing that was on current release.
Actually I realize I’m a liar. I saw Suspiria in 1978 and only days later went back with anyone I could drag along. And I think I did the same with Blazing Saddles and Airplane because no-one I knew had seen any of them.
I saw the first Star Wars film perhaps a dozen times in the theater, partiallt because it was released in the pre-VCR days. I saw it twice in a row the day after it came out, then at least twice more that summer. I took my parents to see it when it was re-released, and saw it again myself. I saw it as part of an “entire trilogy in one day” thing (that was independent of the nationwide release that way) in Salt Lake City, and saw it in various second-run cinemas (when those still existed). Then I saw the Lucas “Special edition” re-release.
I knew a guy who claimed he saw it 39 times the summer it was first released.
I also saw a lot of the James Bond films multiple times in the pre-video days, although I couldn’t tell you which ones or when. Suffice it to say that I saw Thunderball, Goldfinger, From Russia with Love, You Only Live Twice, and On Her Majesty’s Secret Service a lot more than twice in the late 1960s and the 1970s.
2001 and The Road Warrior, three times each on separate occasions. Several other films I’ve seen twice, but usually just by staying for a second showing on the same day.
Now, if we include a more-or-less public setting, not just a theater, I’ve seen, er, Showgirls about 40 times. Well, 40 different short bits of it, actually. It was one of about three movies available on an offshore oil rig I was working on, and it seemed to be on all the time when I came off shift. So I’d watch about ten minutes of it before crashing, and over the course of a month or so, I’d watched enough ten-minute chunks to piece the whole thing together. To this day I don’t think I’ve seen the whole movie in one go.
I saw The Lion King one-third time in the theater. My daughter (quite unusually) decided not to sit still for a movie, so she and I got to explore the lobby while my wife and the other kids saw it. I still hold a tiny grudge against her for it, as it’s one of my favorite movies and I would have loved to see all of it on the big screen…
The Thin Red Line, four times. Many more times since.
“Enter the Dragon” 20+ times (I even kept ticket stubs for the first 20)
“Chinese Connection”, “Fists of Fury”, “Return (Way) of the Dragon”: 10+ times
“Game of Death”: ~5 times
“The Big Brawl”: ~ 5 times
“Billy Jack”: ~5 times
“The Trial of Billy Jack”: 3 times
“The Kids are Alright”: ~10 times
“Quadrophenia”: 5 times
The 1989 Batman, saw it five times. I’ve seen several other movies four times, but I have consciously left Batman in that first-place spot, now mostly out of nostalgia.
I forget how many times I saw American Beauty. I think it was 10. I do remember that one time I saw it twice in a row! (I just went into another showing that was starting when the one I was in let out.)
**LA Confidential **- 5 or 6 times.
And a handful twice, although not that much in recent years. The last few films I’ve seen twice were **Gravity **and **The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey **(in IMAX and then HFR.)
I’m your dad. I can think of Amy movie I’ve seen more than on e in a theater. Frankly, it wouldn’t occur to me. Looking at what’s playing, I pass over what we’ve already seen. We only go to the movies two or three times a year, I’d like to see something new each time. Maybe I’ll try it. I imagine the experience is a little different if you already know what’s going to happen.
Wow, y’all sure do like movies!
I saw 2001 three times in the cinema. Twice In Cinerama and once on re-release.
I saw Star Trek - The Wrath of Khan five times (I think).
And, of course, I, like many of my cohort watched Rocky Horror more than 50 times all in a cinema.
It sounds dumb now but I saw The Emperor’s New Groove more than thirty times in theaters. I simply fell in love with it.
I was in college at that time with lots of free time and had one of those cards where you would pay a monthly sum (20 euros?) and could see all the movies you wanted without restrictions.
I’ve seen many movies twice with different groups of friends.
I’ve seen a movie I actively don’t like, three times: Avatar. Twice with different friends, then once of the extended version with my wife. It didn’t get any better.
I saw the Avengers twice (once with family, and dragged again with my friends)
I saw Star Wars seven or eight times during the first year of its release. There were a few extenuating circumstances, however. I was a college student with disposable income and I went to the movies once or twice a week, and many weekends there just wasn’t anything else in theaters that was appealing. Star Wars was in theaters for an entire year, so it was always available. Also, on some of those repeat viewings, I was accompanied by someone who hadn’t yet seen it.
No way I’d do this now. One viewing in a theater, max.
I have a friend who refuses to see films more than once, and the rationale he always uses is “I already know how it ends.” One time that he said this, I sarcastically replied that I was going to throw away my CD of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, because I already knew that it ends on a C major chord.
I think it’s fair to point out that some of the repeat viewings that people are citing are from 30+ years ago, before videotapes and HBO. If you really wanted to see a movie again you dragged yourself to the theater, because the only alternative was to wait years for a chopped-up, commercial-laden TV broadcast (and hope that you weren’t busy the night it was shown).
Now, I’m more like you … I only see movies in theaters a few times a year, and if I really want to see something again I can just wait a few months and rent it (or buy it or stream it or whatever).
Um, what? Did you mean Heaven Can Wait?
Roddy
Raiders Of The Lost Ark - 18 times. To this day I can still recite pages of dialogue. 
In 1987 when I was going through a particularly difficult time in my life I saw The Princess Bride six times in two weeks. I think I frightened the girl in the ticket office. The movie was the only thing that gave me any happiness and any hope that things were going to get better.